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Thursday, 3 October 2013
Adobe says attackers compromised 2.9 million accounts, stole source code
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Target's Prepaid Wireless Service and Other News You Need to Know
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Samsung 's HomeSync Android TV box hits stores October 6th for $299
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Google applies for patent on gesture-based car controls
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With An Eye On Revenue, Snapchat “Experiments” With A Click-To-Buy Button
Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel has kept quiet about how Stories, the app’s new 24-hour timeline play, might turn into a monetization route. However, the team has partnered up with a number of bands to bring Stories to life, in quick commercials that show how a band (or a regular user, perhaps) might use Stories to connect with others over the course of a day.
Yet, despite the lack of monetization talk, Team Snapchat (Snapchat’s version of @Twitter on Twitter) has just sent out a message with one of the music videos inside, from Smallpools. At the end of the commercial, the user returns to the inbox, but instead of seeing a line of text under the snap that says “opened” it instead says “Double tap to listen.”
Users who double tap the message will instantly be sent to the Smallpools iTunes page.
If that’s not a step toward monetization, I don’t know what is.
“If anything, it’s a little experiment,” Spiegel told TechCrunch. “We wanted to work with LA bands, celebrate Los Angeles, and we thought working with them was a fun way to educate people about what stories are. Plus, it’s a good way for users to hear their music.”
It certainly is a good way to get Snapchat’s entire user base a direct link to purchase music they’ve just heard, sent directly to them from Snapchat itself.
In a conversation with The Verge, Spiegel reportedly smiled at the idea of music artists having the ability to share their days with users, as you have the option to share Stories with just friends or everyone. Furthermore, Snapchat users have the option to choose what goes into their Story and what remains a private, instantly disappearing message.
With the double click to listen feature, artists would have the opportunity to be personal with their fans and then leverage that personal connection into a sale almost instantly.
It’s still unclear whether or not Snapchat itself will be administering the click-to-buy functionality (through Team Snapchat), or if brands and artists can pay for the ability to add a “double click to listen” link under their own messages. For now, it seems that Snapchat is testing out the feature through the Team Snapchat username.
There are two sides to this, though. Team Snapchat hits the entire user base of Snapchat, which currently sends 350 million snaps per day, whereas individual artists must be added manually. Users who specifically follow artists may be a more valuable consumer of that Snap Story, and thus more likely to make a purchase at the end. With Team Snapchat versus individual artists, it’s quantity over quality.
When asked about the potential for brands to get their hands on the “double click to listen” feature, Spiegel said that Snapchat “has not thought that far down the road yet.”
Where Stories are concerned, Spiegel explained that the service is meant to be a representation of your actual life, rather than your digital life alone. That’s why everything is chronological, something he expressed as important back at Disrupt SF during an on-stage interview, and that’s why videos and photos are combined. “That kind of excitement and movement that you feel is something we hadn’t seen before in broadcast social media,” said Speigel.
The CEO said that soon, users will have custom control over who can see their stories, rather than offering just the two options of friends and everyone. He also noted that users can always see who is viewing their story, the same way Snapchat shows you when someone has opened your snap.
The idea here comes back to digital dualism, or the idea that our digital lives are separate from our real-world lives, something Spiegel loathes.
“We noticed that, even though one person is paying attention to another person’s social feed, they’ll pretend that they haven’t been paying attention in real life,” said Spiegel. “We wanted to make that real life interaction less awkward and more transparent.”
If you want to learn more about Snapchat’s re-invention of the timeline with Stories, check out earlier coverage here.
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Samsung Takes On Sonos With Simple Whole-House Audio System
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Samsung intros 'Shape' wireless audio system, starts at $400 for one speaker
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ZTE Nubia 5 and Grand S coming to US as unlocked devices October 16th
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France approves law stopping Amazon from shipping discounted books for free
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Memoto is now Narrative Clip, shipping November 1st
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British highway to become internet-connected 'network of sensors' over 50-mile stretch
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Intel launches Galileo, an Arduino-compatible development board
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Pursway Raises $7.2M To Help Marketers Find Social Influencers
Influencer marketing company Pursway is announcing that it has raised $7.2 million in Series B funding.
Pursway says that it takes a unique approach to helping businesses reach the people most likely to drive sales — an approach it describes as “socializing data.” The company has built a database (pulled from online sources like alumni lists, event attendees, and employment history) mapping the social relationships of more than 100 million US consumers.
By overlaying its data on each business’ customer and sales database, it can supposedly “reveal who is a friend of whom and identify purchase influence.” The business can then target its marketing efforts at the people who, thanks to their online influence, are most likely to convince others to buy the marketer’s products.
“For us, influence is about one person having purchase influence over others, i.e. making others actually spend money, not about how many social media friends and followers they have,” a company spokesperson told me.
Sony Card Marketing & Services Company (part of the larger Sony Corporation of America) has seen a 300 percent increase in results and conversions in its prospecting campaigns, according to senior vice president Steven Fuld (who’s quoted in the funding press release).
To build Pursway’s technology, the company says CTO and founder Guy Gildor drew on his seven years of experience developing data mining software for the Israeli military.
The new funding comes from Battery Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners, who both previously invested. (Pursway raised a $6 million Series A.) Pursway told me there were other investors interested in the deal, “but we chose to keep things simple and stay focused on operational execution.”
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Koality Closes Its $1.8 Million Seed Round From FF Angel And Others
Shortly after taking the stage at Disrupt SF, development startup Koality just announced that it has closed its seed round. The $1.8 million round was led by FF Angel‘s Peter Thiel. Other angels and small funds participated as well.
The two founders used to work at Palantir where they initially met Peter Thiel. When I last talked to Koality co-founder and CEO Jonathan Chu, he told me that Thiel was very encouraging and really wanted them to start and build a new startup. The funding confirms that.
As a reminder, Koality is a seamless server-side application that sits between your startup’s repository and your engineers’ computers to improve code changes. You don’t have to change your workflow — but instead of pushing code to your repository, your patches will first go through Koality. The server will then run test suites before submitting to the repository. If there is something wrong with your code, you will receive a notification. Koality effectively ends broken builds and countless wasted hours.
Another advantage of Koality is that it can greatly speed up testing times. It runs tests in parallel on multiple replicas of your environment. Moreover, you don’t have to leave your computer open to run the tests because everything happens on the servers.
While Chu didn’t go into detail, he told me that the company already has very high-profile clients. Most of the teams that use Koality have 15 engineers or more. The product gets more expensive with bigger teams. That’s why the startup could expect significant revenue from startups over 100 engineers.
Webb Investment Network, Index Ventures, Felicis Ventures and UJ Ventures also participated in today’s seed round. Angels such as Kris Duggan, Raymond Tonsing and Tien Tzuo put some money as well.
The software testing platform is just a first product for Koality. While there is still some work to do to polish its existing offering, the startup plans to release other development products to help engineering teams and make their work easier. Testing was the biggest pain point and needed to be taken care of. But there are many other opportunities for the future.
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Rdio Launches Free Music Streaming for iOS and Android
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Samsung may have spied on sealed Apple-Nokia documents to aid patent deals
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How to Find Creative Commons Video Assets
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Rdio launches free mobile streaming for users in the US, Canada and Australia
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LG to Launch Smartphone With Curved Display in November [REPORT]
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Avances en higiene dental: cepillarse todos los dientes en seis segundos
Este cepillo de dientes de Blizzident es básicamente un mordedor o férula dental llena de cerdas. Para simplificar el proceso de fabricación se utiliza una impresora 3D. Bastan seis segundos mordisqueando la pieza para limpiarse todos los dientes. VÃa Mashable.
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El radiotelescopio ALMA ya tiene todas sus antenas
100 toneladas de antena a lomos de Otto
He escrito un artÃculo para RTVE.es acerca de como con la entrega por parte del consorcio europeo AEM de la antena número 25 de las que se habÃa comprometido a poner Europa el radiotelescopio ALMA recibe su última antena .
Esperan que a finales de año esté a pleno rendimiento, ayudándonos a aprender más del origen de nuestro universo.
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I.T. Crowd, último episodio
I.T. Crowd (en España: Los informáticos) terminó definitivamente hace una semana con la emisión de un último episodio «especial» de doble duración, un cariñoso cierre para una de las series británicas más divertidas y geeks de los últimos tiempos.
En este especial se reúnen todos los personajes de nuevo, incluyendo al trÃo protagonista (Roy, Maurice y Jen) junto con algunos otros que han ido ganando peso temporada a temporada como Reynholm, el jefazo de la empresa «que no sabemos bien lo que vende» o Richmond, el oscuro y gótico personaje que surgió de las cavernas del centro de datos en las primeras temporadas.
La serie tiene sus situaciones absurdas y divertidas más o menos convencionales; además mete a los personajes en algún gran lÃo debido a ese invento malévolo llamado… Internet. Algunos acaban de protagonistas en los vÃdeos virales callejeros del año (¡y con SVV!) o la cagan cual polÃtico torpe en Chitter.
Ahora bien: ¿qué sucede cuando Jen intenta solucionar el caos que han producido con una solución drástica como es… apagar la Internet? Hay que ver el episodio para descubrirlo. Un digno final para una gran serie.
{Este episodio anda rulando por ahà con dos tÃtulos diferentes: The Internet Is Coming y The Last Byte; en algunos sitios lo llaman el episodio 05x01 (primero de la hipotética quinta temporada) y en otros simplemente el #25 o el «especial de la temporada 4».}
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Televisores viejunos
Asà eran los televisores japoneses en 1971
Este curioso artÃculo sobre artefactos efÃmeros en Dark Roasted Blend tiene algunas fotografÃas de televisores antiguos, entre otros artilugios viejunos dignos de mención, de épocas más o menos remotas.
La más llamativa es tal vez la imagen de 1971 en la que algunos modelos de televisor japoneses parecen sacados directamente de 2084 de algún episodio de Los Jetsons.
Esta otra de tampoco está mal:
Televisor miniatura T-54 (1941)
La llamaban Televisor miniatura y lo fabricaba Hallicrafters, una empresa «especialista en alta frecuencia y equipos de alta precisión».
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Snapchat's new Stories feature provides an evaporating recap of your day
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Una mesa que levita magnéticamente
Esta mesa formada con bloques de madera «magnetizados» utiliza varios trucos: los bloques en realidad tienen en su interior poderosos imanes de neodimio en su interior que se repelen. En el vÃdeo se puede ver lo gozosa que es a partir de 00:15.
¿Y cómo se hace para que no salgan volando por ahÃ? Unos pequeños hilos de acero los mantienen unidos en las posiciones adecuados.
El equilibrio y gracejo de la mesa aun asà tiene su truco y necesita de ajustes, por lo que cada mesa ha de ser fabricada y ajustada a mano.
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