It was only a matter of time before an app was was built to support another app that was built for Twitter. Chart.ly is a stock charting app to be used directly in conjunction with another Twitter app, StockTwits. Chart.ly lets Twitter users upload and share stock charts via Twitter and StockTwits. It’s kind of like TwitPic for stock charts.
Chart.ly lets you upload a chart of a particular stock with stock symbol and tags, and lets you include a tweet about the chart. This is then broadcast to your Twitter account and to StockTwits, which is a community for Tweets about stocks and investments. You can also see the most popular charts that have been uploaded on the Chart.ly site. → Read More
Gamers! Target has a pretty decent promotion that kicks off this Sunday. The store will give you two (out of a total selection of four: Casino Royale, Hancock, Step Brothers and Resident Evil: Degenration) free Blu-ray movies when you buy the $399 80GB PS3. (The PS3 includes Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorstorm includes in the box.) Not too shabby if you’re in the mood for some PS3. → Read More
Whoa! A pink phone! We haven’t written about a pink phone in months. It seemed like every company on the planet was re-releasing all of their popular handsets in pink for a few months there – then nothing. Looks like LG wants to kickstart the trend back up. Because nothing makes old things new again like a fancy paint job, LG is re-releasing the six month old Renoir KC910 in head-to-toe pink. Same specs as before, including the 8 megapixel camera. Unfortunately for pink fans around the globe, this one’s a UK-only deal for now, with availability on Orange, O2, and T-Mobile. [Omio via UnwiredView] → Read More
To be quite honest, I’m surprised that it’s taken so long for someone to dig up the old patents for the Nintendo Wii Remote. Not that I’m the type to have gone digging for it, but the Wii has been out since ’06. Well, kudos to Siliconera for doing all the hard work on this one. Other patent images were found for the Classic Controller and Nunchuck, but the Wiimote seemed to have gone through most of the change. Hit the jump for a detailed image of the evolution of the Wii Remote. → Read More
Today is your lucky day! Slacker Radio is giving away one free 1 year subscription to their Plus service including: *Unlimited Skips *Unlimited Song Requests *No Audio or Banner Ads *Complete Lyrics – NEW! *Over 2 Million Songs What’s that you say? How can I win? Why were we put on this Earth? → Read More
Finally, a B&R I can stand behind. I love B&R. I love GMTs. This is like two great tastes that taste great together.
This new model is a bog standard GMT with a stationary central bezel – which means you can’t change the 24-hour markings – and a movement that will move the hour hand back and forth to show the local time as well as the time at home. → Read More
Some geeks are extremely obsessed with LEGO. You know who you are. We’re not showing these homemade LEGO flash drives for you. Oh no, we’re not supporting your addiction. This post is for the rest of us who enjoy a well-built LEGO creation, but don’t lose girlfriends over the damn blocks. → Read More
Cloudkick, a Y Combinator startup that offers a free server management system to businesses whose web infrastructure is maintained by Amazon’s EC2 or Slicehost cloud-based servers, is unveiling a nifty feature today at Under the Radar. Cloudkick has added the ability for users to migrate their Amazon Machine Images (the template for servers on EC2) on their EC2 servers to another service provider, like Slicehost (which is owned by Amazon Web Services competitor Rackspace). This lets users who are tied to Amazon’s servers be able to easily switch to a less-expensive provider. When we first reviewed Cloudkick, the company only managed the 350 servers of the 40 Y Combinator startups. Now, Cloudkick is managing 10,000 servers and increasing clients rapidly. Built off of Amazon Web Services’ API, Cloudkick gives users a single control panel where you can manage all of your servers (or instances) through various platforms. Cloudkick provides detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick’s dashboard allows you to easily add or remove EC2 or Slicehost servers with a click and then monitor an unlimited amount of instances. You can see all the servers in one place, and color-code and label each server. Cloudkick will check whether servers are alive and functioning and then alert you, via email or voicemail, if servers go down. Cloudkick also provides data on bandwith and other metrics on servers in easy to use graphs and tables, allowing you a visual snapshot of server activity. You can also access servers straight from web and can run commands through your web browser remotely, which is handy when you are trying to manage servers from another computer As we said in our earlier review of Cloudkick, Amazon offers a web-console along with their product but you cannot add servers from other cloud platform, you can’t tag or label servers, you can’t run commands on servers from the web and EC2 doesn’t offer graphing or monitoring features. Rightscale is another cloud management platform that offers similar services to Cloudkick but its a paid service. Cloudkick is part of the birth of cross-cloud applications and management tools. As technology companies roll out their cloud platforms and businesses begin to become increasingly reliant on the cloud, these management tools will become even more useful, especially when the service is free and it lets you → Read More
Still anxiously awaiting a release of the Android v1.5 “Cupcake” build sometime this month? It looks like it’s time to uncross your fingers and take a breath. We’re running out of days in April, so we were already a bit skeptical – but T-Mobile Germany has gone ahead and confirmed a May roll out. While T-Mobile US has been slightly reluctant to talk about it, T-Mobile Germany went ahead and put the information right on the G1′s product page. With the Cupcake-ified HTC Magic launching on the 5th of next month, we’ve got high hopes that everyone can get in on the Cupcake party within that first week. We’ll update you if we hear more. [Via TalkAndroid] → Read More
Flash! The Windows 7 release candidate has leaked. You can find it where you usually find such things. → Read More
After Apple announced that roughly 98% of applications that came there way were being approved within 7 days, there was a lull in the barrage of App Store submission horror stories bombarding our inbox. We thought that perhaps Apple had figured things out on their end, and that everyone was just happy; alas, it seems like everyone was just waiting for something like Baby Shaker before they came out of the woodworks. Our inboxes are once again overflowing with tales of App Store tribulation. For most of the denials we hear about, the reasoning behind the red light is blatantly obvious. Be it bodily fluids, naked ladies, or whatever else, there are just a few things that Apple won’t ever be cool with. These stories aren’t worth retelling. But today, one came in that gave us a laugh: after being denied twice for “objectionable content”, these app developers simply prettied things up a bit – and got approved. → Read More
There’s no word on price, but Nintendo is releasing a new lime green DS Lite bundle in the US with Personal Trainer: Cooking on May 3 with a chichi case to match. Yay! I wonder who this bundle is targeted at? Can we please get Virtual Console for the DSi instead of this crap? → Read More
Some numbers we published yesterday showed that while iPhone owners (not surprisingly) love to download apps, owners of other smartphones do not. As we noted, the numbers seemed a bit incomplete since the Android platform wasn’t represented. We asked Compete, which took the survey, to send those our way.
To be clear, the sample size is “very small,” but it’s somewhat interesting none the less. Sure enough, Android users do seem to enjoy downloading apps more than all other smartphones aside from the iPhone. But interestingly, there were some G1 owners who had downloaded zero apps. Even though a lot more iPhone owners showed up in the survey, there were none that said they had downloaded zero apps — whereas that was a popular number with the other smartphones. → Read More
Lenovo is “exploring” the possibility of a ThankPad-branded netbook. Such a netbook would, one guesses, be the first specifically aimed at the business crowd. Does this mean that we’re beginning to see the blurring of the line between netbooks and notebooks? One can dream, friends. One can dream. → Read More
A prominent sound engineer once told me that Etymotic was one of three headphone manufacturers in existence today that actually produces high fidelity in-ear ‘phones worth buying. That’s a pretty bold statement, but an accurate one.
Of all the Etymotic earphones that I’ve tried, I’ve never had issue with the tree tips since they provide more than adequate noise-isolation, but custom tips are always best. So, Etymotic has teamed up with Advanced Communication Solutions to provide custom-made silicone tips for the hf2 earphones, which cater to the Apple crowd with the in-line controls. → Read More
Can you pinhold camera? Is it penetrated into your Life? It costs $66. It is hidden in the TIE pattern! Check carefully and have a remote! Add to cart! 2GB memory for store video! → Read More
New firmware time, shutterbugs! It’s a big firmware for the 50D and addresses the vertical banding issues that have plagued the otherwise fantastic digicam. Plus, the new firmware updates all three cameras so they will support the AF assist beam feature of the new flash, Speedlite 270 EX, which is scheduled to be released sometime this month.
From one woodworker to another, huge props for this wooden iPhone case. I have been wanting to turn out a similar case for my BlackBerry Storm but I never envisioned the correct design; appareantly he did. These cases aren’t the cheapest at $84+ but they are certainly some of the best looking. The entire thing is constructed of wendge and finished with linseed oil. The shape of the case follows the lines of the iPhone3G. It, however, does not provide access to any of the buttons or ports on the phone. After all, it’s just a case. And it’s made out of wood. → Read More
They pulled the trigger: Owen Van Natta, who apparently is never pictured without a two day stubble, is now the CEO of MySpace and will report to Jonathan Miller, the new CEO of Digital Media for News Corp.
Van Natta is a former Facebook and Amazon executive who, until today, was the CEO of a decidedly unstable music startup called Playlist. He’s got the resume to run MySpace, but as we said yesterday there are some serious questions around whether he’s the right guy. He still owns a significant part of Facebook and he’s clearly leaving Playlist, and the executives and investors he brought on board, in a bad situation. He joined that company just a few months ago. The rumor is that they’ll now be forced to shut down, although Playlist announces in a separate release that board member John Sykes, a cofounder of MTV, will take over as CEO for now.
This has been a dramatic week for MySpace, and the situation probably couldn’t have been handled more poorly. One person close to the situation described the firing of DeWolfe and the hiring of Van Natta as resembling “retarded drunk people riding bumper cars.”
The full press releases of both announcements are below: → Read More
As regular readers know, I’m working on a book about global entrepreneurship and taking TechCrunch readers along with me. By that I mean, I’ll be blogging about cool companies I find, not that I’m actually chartering a plane for all of you. Sorry, but, you know, it’s a recession. Up next: China. I’ll be in Shanghai and Bejing May 9-22. It’s my first trip to China, and I have a long list of potential companies and investors to meet, but I want to make sure I’m not missing any gems. So if you know any such gems, local venture capitalists, angel investors or anyone with an interesting entrepreneurial story please email me at sarah(at)techcrunch(dot)com or leave it in the comments. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Friday flood of news about MySpace and Twitter. (PS: This has to be the shortest post I’ve ever written.) → Read More
