Latest news from http://rjsteinert.com/reader http://reader.rjsteinert.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Zo9_JII-bFk/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:26:51 -0800 This past weekend, I wrote a post wondering if Android was surging in the U.S. market because Apple was letting it? The main thought was that by remaining exclusively tied to AT&T, Apple was driving some users to choose Android, which is available on all the U.S. carriers. In the post, I posed a question: if it’s not the iPhone/AT&T deal, why do you choose Android? Nearly 1,000 people responded, and a large percentage focused on the same idea: the idea of “openness.... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217486 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/38kPumyqtdE/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:13:24 -0800 The market for web-based translations is estimated to be worth around $3 billion currently, and big markets tend to attract investors. One of the newer companies in that area, Tokyo-based myGengo (which we previously profiled as “Mechanical Turk for translation”), just raised a $750,000 seed round from some high-profile backers. What’s interesting is that the round was extremely international, as its total of twelve participants cover eight nationalities and currently reside... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217500 35 105 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/38kPumyqtdE/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:13:24 -0800 The market for web-based translations is estimated to be worth around $3 billion currently, and big markets tend to attract investors. One of the newer companies in that area, Tokyo-based myGengo (which we previously profiled as “Mechanical Turk for translation”), just raised a $750,000 seed round from some high-profile backers. What’s interesting is that the round was extremely international, as its total of twelve participants cover eight nationalities and currently reside... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217500 35.69 139.75 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/38kPumyqtdE/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:13:24 -0800 The market for web-based translations is estimated to be worth around $3 billion currently, and big markets tend to attract investors. One of the newer companies in that area, Tokyo-based myGengo (which we previously profiled as “Mechanical Turk for translation”), just raised a $750,000 seed round from some high-profile backers. What’s interesting is that the round was extremely international, as its total of twelve participants cover eight nationalities and currently reside... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217500 35.68 139.81 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/38kPumyqtdE/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:13:24 -0800 The market for web-based translations is estimated to be worth around $3 billion currently, and big markets tend to attract investors. One of the newer companies in that area, Tokyo-based myGengo (which we previously profiled as “Mechanical Turk for translation”), just raised a $750,000 seed round from some high-profile backers. What’s interesting is that the round was extremely international, as its total of twelve participants cover eight nationalities and currently reside... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217500 -41.3 173.27 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/U-zSckDdTGs/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:58:02 -0800 I typically hear from VCs these days when they are either doing a big, growth capital round, a follow-on funding, an investment in concert with a syndicate or.... bleeeeeeeeep (as in not at all). The rise of the "Super Angels", a trend TechCrunch Europe was first to call in 2008, seems to be putting paid to VC's involvement in early stage. Or perhaps not. Venture capital house Eden Ventures appears to be on something of a roll and has taken to co-investing with angels like a duck to water.... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217494 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/19JVrui-n5Y/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:12:25 -0800 Ok, so not only is Google Instant rejiggering how we think about search, but it is also a clever way to create instant music videos. We saw this with the official Google Instant version of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (where the lyrics on the flash cards get typed into Google and create a stream of related results). But now the same thing has been done with the “Instant Elements” song in the video above. The lyrics to Tom Lehrer’s song,... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217483 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/A9Kxe2CfIpU/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:19:47 -0800 Zynga has been taking it on the chin from the SF Weekly the last few weeks. First there was a four part series about some stickers that Zynga’s ad agency put on the streets of San Francisco – lame but not exactly Third Reicht territory. But the last two days the newspaper has focused on Zynga’s penchant for stealing game ideas from other companies. FarmVille, FishVille, PetVille, Café World, and Mafia Wars were all copies of other company’s games. That warranted a cover... http://techcrunch.com/?p=216825 37.73 -122.31 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vUXCwqn5pwY/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:00:10 -0800 TechCrunch-reading football fans may remember a nifty, free online game we wrote about last year called Quick Hit that puts you at the helm of a virtual football team. The game doesn’t involve the twitchy gameplay of gaming goliath Madden, but is instead built around strategy and play calling (though it does feature rich, 3D graphics to keep things interesting). You may also notice that the game’s logo looks a little different from last year’s: it now sports the official... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217430 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4_Ps7UBM23I/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:31:04 -0800 I don’t know why but I just can’t stop re-reading this exchange. Poor AT&T shoots itself in the head today by emailing customers and asking them to provide feedback in one centralized place. Customers promptly complied, and the tower of hate is almost overwhelming. Someone at AT&T will likely be cleaning out their desk tomorrow over this, and frankly I can’t believe they didn’t see it coming. It’ll be hard for AT&T to argue that the vast majority of... http://techcrunch.com/?p=217456