FUNKY GREEN: 11/12/13

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Google's Portable Native client lets one app run on any hardware in Chrome

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TC Cribs: Wooga, Where Addictive Social Games Are Made In The Heart Of Berlin

Last month, a number of us TechCrunchers grabbed our passports and jetted to Berlin, Germany for the first ever Disrupt Europe conference. The tech scene in Berlin is very hot at the moment, so while we were in town, we knocked on the doors of a couple of the city's startups for TechCrunch TV's Cribs series.

Now, if you were somehow under the impression that tricked-out startup offices are only found in Silicon Valley, this episode will show you just how wrong you are. The headquarters of social gaming startup Wooga in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood are just as colorful and creative as anything you might find in the San Francisco Bay Area - with the added bonus of being filled with a much more multi-lingual staff (and arguably better beer) than you'd typically find here in the States.

Check out the video embedded above to see Steve Gilmore take us on a tour to see the monsters, robots, swings, nap pods, and Neil Patrick Harris cut-outs of Wooga's HQ.

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Surprise: Apple Maps Is a Hit, Google Maps Loses Ground

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Kinect-Driven Interface Turns 3D Shapes and Movements Into Reality

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First all-in-one coffee machine that roasts, grinds and brews heads to Kickstarter

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Todo lo que querías saber sobre el retorno de una Soyuz desde la Estación Espacial Internacional

Soyuz undocking, reentry and landing explained es un vídeo de unos veinte minutos de duración basado en las lecciones que se le dan a los astronautas de la Agencia Espacial Europea sobre el proceso de retorno de la Estación Espacial Internacional a bordo de una Soyuz.

Está en inglés, pero es un inglés perfectamente inteligible, aunque también hay una transcripción.

Momentos destacables: los sonidos y sacudidas causadas por los pernos explosivos que aseguran la separación de los tres módulos de la Soyuz, el control manual de esta sobre el minuto 14:15, que parece el mando de una consola cualquiera, las sacudidas al abrirse el paracaídas sobre el 15:13, la subida de los asientos sobre el 15:45 para dar más espacio para amortiguar al aterrizaje, la expulsión del combustible y oxígeno sobrantes en el 17:17…

Aunque en general no tiene ningún desperdicio.

Me quedo, de todos modos, con la descripción que hace Paolo Nespoli del aterrizaje «suave»: «para mi fue como una colisión frontal entre un camión y un coche pequeño y por supuesto yo estaba en el coche pequeño».

(Vía @esa_es).

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Viber brings push-to-talk features to iPhone and Android in version 4.0

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Incredible video of the magic morphing table that lets you touch things

DIWire hits Kickstarter, is already doing just fine, thank you very much

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EX1 prints circuits on paper, cloth, almost anything you can imagine

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Deutsche Telekom and RSA team on hack-resistant internet connections

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Hisense's 55-inch 4K Smart TV priced at $2,000

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Airbnb Launches New Mobile Apps Streamlined for Hosts

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IDC: 21 percent of smartphones shipped in Q3 were big-screened behemoths

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Yamaha puts lightweight PES1 electric motorcycle concept on display at the Tokyo Motor Show

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41 Century-Old Predictions for Our 21st Century Socialist Utopia

Galaxy Note 3, Discount Microsoft Credit, Doctor Who [Deals]

Twitter's custom timelines let you dump your obsessions into one organized stream

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Roku will start streaming ESPN and Disney Channel content later this month

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Ask a Dev: Can You Remotely Install an App on iOS?

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Touch Board kit combines an Arduino heart with touch sensors, conductive paint

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Roku just added more live programming options to its set-top box.

Sony SmartWatch 2 Review: Better Still Isn't Good

AMD's next desktop chip lands in January, merges CPU and GPU like never before

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OUYA's streamlined new user interface arrives later this month

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BlackBerry Z30 hits Verizon on November 14th for $200 on-contract

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Gmail Now Lets You Save Attachments Directly to Google Drive

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Roomba drops the bristles for 880 model (hands-on)

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Roomba 880 Has More Sucking Power, Trouble With Obstacles

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Jacket's Sleeves Vibrate to Point Wearer in Right Direction

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Toyota FV2 Concept Car Will Read Your Emotions

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Facebook joins the GSM Association to stay in sync with carriers

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Pinterest Launches Japanese Version 18 Months After Rakuten Investment

The Japanese version of Pinterest is now live as the site ramps up its global expansion. The launch comes 18 months after Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten became an investor in Pinterest.

The localized site features subcategories that cover 100 different topics for hair styling, paper crafts, products, design, art and food popular in Japan. A Pinterest blog post says that the company took into account market research in Japan, as well feedback from a beta version. We've contacted Pinterest for more information.

Rakuten lead a $100 million Pinterest in May 2012 in a round of funding that was said to value the site at $1.5 billion. Then in October 2013, that valuation was bumped up to an impressive $3.8 billion after Pinterest raised a Series E of $225 billion from Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Valiant Capital Management. Rakuten did not return for the Series E, but Pinterest said that the proceeds would be used for corporate purposes including international expansion to build on its 125% international growth since the beginning of the year.

Pinterest's new Japanese site comes on the heels of its launch into the UK, France and Italy. It said it plans to launch in 10 more countries by the end of this year (now presumably 9, since it's checked Japan off that list). The company also added that it would continue to develop its monetization model, which began testing earlier this month, into a global program. Pinterest's Japan launch comes amid continuing questions about how the site will justify its rich valuation. Potential answers include a developing a new advertising scheme that resembles a revenue share where it gets paid dollars when its ads lead directly to people buying items, opposed to getting paid cents per impression.

Last year, Rakuten's CEO Hiroshi Mikitani told AllThingD that his company made its $100 million bet in Pinterest in part because he had developed a strong relationship with its founder Ben Silbermann.

Rakuten's stake in Pinterest also fits into its ongoing investment into U.S. e-commerce startups. In 2013 alone, it has helped fund Slice, a company that organizes commerce data by tapping into your inbox; Apcera, an enterprise IT platform; retail marketplace Daily Grommet; and luxury retail site AHAlife. It also acquired Webgistik, a e-commerce fulfillment company, to help expand into the US. All these companies may help Rakuten fuel the expansion of its e-commerce business outside of Asia and make it a stronger competitor against Amazon.

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