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Sunday, 23 February 2014
Feedback Loop: Breaking down fitness trackers, Magic Mouse alternatives, 4K projectors and more!
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Cleaning Startup Homejoy Opens An Office In New York City
Homejoy offers its home cleaning services in more than 30 North American markets, but it managed to expand without opening any offices outside of its San Francisco headquarters — until January, when it opened an office in New York City’s financial district.
It’s been almost exactly a year since Homejoy launched its services in the Big Apple, following the same system it has used in other geographies — a network of contract cleaners overseen by on-the-ground city and regional managers.
That approach makes for “an effective business model” by keeping costs relatively low, said Danny Rueda, the company’s northeast regional manager. However, this presents challenges when it comes to giving those managers “a connection to HQ, a connection to the company.” So one of the main purposes of the New York office is create “a hub” where Homejoy city managers across the northeast can meet up and share tips and experiences. In addition, Rueda said he’s hiring small teams for customer service and data science.
If he’s successful, perhaps we’ll see Homejoy offices opening in other US cities and following a similar model.
Apparently Rueda moved out to San Francisco from New York last year when he joined Homejoy, only to be sent back to the East Coast three months later for his current role. The bicoastal back-and-forth was “a little bit of a shock,” he said, but he was also “flattered” to be given responsibility over an important region to Homejoy’s business.
Asked if there are any unique opportunities or challenges in the northeast, Rueda said he couldn’t think of any. Instead, he suggested that the obstacles tend to be more city specific — Boston, for example, doesn’t have as much public transit as some other large cities, so it’s important to recruit more cleaners with cars.
Homejoy, by the way, announced that it had raised $38 million in Series A and B funding late last year. Around that time, the team also gave me a more in-depth look at the technology it has built to run the company’s operations.
[image via flickr/Sakeeb Sabakka]
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La ciencia en The Big Bang Theory
La Ciencia en Big Bang es un proyecto de Muy Interesante, la FECYT, TNT y Albireo con Miguel Angel Sabadell al frente y en colaboración con la Obra Social la Caixa que aprovecha ciertos momentos de The Big Bang Theory para hablar de ciencia.
Física, ciencias puras, ciencias aplicadas, ciencias sociales, especulación científica, ciencias naturales, astronomía e historia de la ciencia son los apartados que por ahora forman parte de este proyecto.
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Un Águila de Espacio: 1999 hecha de palitos de helado
Fer, quien en su momento hizo los planos para construir un Águila de Espacio: 1999 en papel, nos ha escrito para pasarnos un enlace que explica cómo fabricar una con palitos de helado, depresores linguales, y similares.
Es un instructable que está en Mini Space 1999 Eagle Popsicle Stick Model .
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Google and LG are reportedly working together on an Android smartwatch
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Relive The Magic Of The ATL Meetup + Pitch-Off
Oh, what a night!
For the second time in as many years, TechCrunch hit the streets of Atlanta this week to find some of the best and brightest startups that the south has to offer.
Over 1,000 people attended the event, with 15 startups giving a sixty-second pitch to a packed house.
Female-friendly wearable company Memi took home the first place prize, scoring a demo table in TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley. Meanwhile, a Plated-type food subscription service called PeachDish got second, Kanga got third, and MyCluckCluck (for organizing babysitters and nannies) took home the audience choice award.
It was a night to remember, which is why we recorded a bunch of it.
Enjoy!
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Hands-on with HP's peculiar pair of VoiceTab smartphones
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Catch our Nokia MWC 2014 event liveblog Monday at 2:30AM ET!
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Ford reportedly dropping Windows in favor of QNX for next-gen Sync software
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La ciclogénesis explosiva Petra grabada y fotografiada desde un helicóptero
Philip Plisson se subió a un helicóptero con su ayudante para ira hacer fotos de Petra , una de las ciclogénesis explosivas encadenadas que han venido afectando a la noroccidental de Europa en las últimas semanas.
Fue ayudante Christophe le Potier quien grabó este vídeo; las impresionantes fotos resultantes de la sesión están en su web y también disponibles en formato póster sobre árbol muerto.
La música es Struggle for pleasure de Wim Mertens, uno de mis músicos preferidos.
(@BeatrizMateosT vía @controladores).
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Mozilla aiming for a $25 smartphone with new chip partner Spreadtrum
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Lenovo's improved Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ launches with a new app suite (hands-on)
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Texas Instruments shrinks its HD DLP Pico projector chip down to 0.3-inches
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HP's Pavilion x360 convertible has a low price, decidedly Yoga-like design
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HP intros the ProPad 600 tablet, updates the existing ElitePad with LTE and a sharper screen
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Mad Catz C.T.R.L.i is an iOS 7 controller with Xbox heritage (hands-on)
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MEMI, Because A Purse Is Where Phone Calls Go To Die
A while ago, HTC came up with this silly phone called the Bliss, which had a little charm that hung out of a purse and notified women when they were getting a phone call or alert.
The idea — that purse-carrying females need something besides their phone, packed deeply in their black hole of a purse, to alert them to incoming notifications — wasn’t all that bad. The execution, however, was abysmal.
Which brings me to Memi.
Memi is a stylish bracelet created by Leslie Pearson that is meant to be worn by ladies with purse-bound phones. Through Bluetooth and an accompanying app, users can select certain people to “let through”. That way, when a child or boyfriend or boss calls, the Memi bracelet buzzes to alert the user of an incoming call or text message.
But it doesn’t buzz for every little thing, allowing users to “unplug,” as Pearson puts it. Memi also buzzes for calendar event reminders, and comes with three distinct vibration patterns to let you know if you’re getting a call, text, or reminder.
The Memi can hold a charge for up to five days, depending on use, and charges via a discrete micro USB port. It also packs an LED indicator light to let you know when it’s on, paired, and working.
“Other devices (namely smart watches) on the market are looking to get people more plugged into their phones,” said Pearson. “They seek to repeat as much phone functionality as they can on the user’s wrist. We are looking to help people actually unplug while staying to connected to the people that matter. We want to help women be able to focus more on the moment and reduce the noise and distraction in their lives.”
Memi beat its $100K Kickstarter goal and has gone on to raise $700k from friends and family. The company has received over 500 pre-orders, with shipments planned for the summer. The team is currently in the process of raising a seed round of $1 million.
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Hands-on with ZTE's Open C: a 4-inch Firefox OS 1.3 device
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Alcatel shows off new Firefox OS devices, including its first with LTE
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Inhabitat's Week in Green: DIY velomobile, Lego braille printer and a supercharged anode battery
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Huawei brings LTE Cat 4 to affordable Ascend G6 smartphone and MediaPad M1 tablet
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Huawei's first smartband has a pop-out earpiece for voice calls
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Huawei MediaPad X1 is the lightest and narrowest 7-inch tablet, plus it's also a phone (video)
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Tune in live for Samsung's 'Unpacked 5' event tomorrow at 2PM EST!
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