…template. Well played, fellow Interneteers. Humor can normally deflect even the most bitter vitriol. So when TechCrunch revealed their site overhaul this week, they gave their readers a handy form letter to send them saying exactly how much everything sucks now. View Image ›
Well, this is charming and fun. When Alexia Tsotsis wrote about the movie Source Code for TechCrunch, the studio wasn't happy with the result. So they reached out to Moviefone/AOL, who in turn wrote Alexia with a request to see “if any of the snark can be toned down?” Here's the result of that effort.
Don't like the new iTunes Icon? It's an easy switch. If only it were so easy to fix Ping! Click here for a bunch of other designs to choose from. View List ›
Today’s the big day. TechCrunch turns five years old. And oh, there’s a huge football – no, not ‘soccer’ – event kicking off in South Africa too. Check out all the different ways you can catch the game if you aren't in front of a TV!
In an an email newsletter yesterday Jason Calacanis, bizarrely referring to himself as Serpico (played by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie) talks about an interaction he had with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Wall Street Journal's D Conference earlier this week. Calacanis has long been over the top critical of Facebook, even recently referring to Zuckerberg as “an amoral, Asperger’s-like entrepreneur” and says “Zuckerberg is clearly the worst thing that’s happened to our industry since, well, spam.”
When it comes to slideshow presentations, few do them as well as Netflix. Last year, they released one that was sent around internally about their culture. If you read it, you probably wished you worked for Netflix afterwards. And now they’ve released one about the future of their business — it’s also fascinating.
Jack Dorsey’s Square is trying to graduate from cool party trick to global game changer. So far, the mobile payments service is far from the mark but it’s making progress. Since its launch, Square has delivered roughly 50,000 devices, according to Dorsey. The founder of Twitter has been a diligent ambassador, traveling to several parties and conferences this year (like last week’s TechCrunch Disrupt) to demo Square and answer questions on security, usability and how the tiny device will make money. Dorsey may seem like the patient salesman but he has serious ambitions for Square that include global domination.
Producteev Two lets users capture tasks, email-based action items or schedule deadlines using whatever communication channel they prefer. The product, which is free for up to 3 individual users, connects to a myriad of popular communication tools, including IM services like Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger as well as Twitter and Facebook. Watch Video ›
OK, so this is total geek inside-baseball, but Facebook convinced TechCrunch that you could send photos to your friends with the new “Fax This Photo” feature. They meant it as a lesson about getting your facts from the source before you publish a story, but all it taught me is that faxing photos would be awesome. My favorite part of the story is that only TechCrunch employees could see the feature on their pages; Facebook is creepy like that.
Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte got really, just really aggravated with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington on his Gillmor Gang podcast this week. They are so mad at each other! Watch Video ›
Cool project where the hands do the talking. Could you make Google with just your digits?
TechCrunch accidentally posted a homophobic image this morning that read, “why twitter is not lame. (or for fags),” alongside a post defending other Twitter posts. Even though it was changed in a few seconds, it still lingered in feed readers all morning, offending a number of TechCrunch readers, who wondered, “WTF?!” View Image ›
