2011
Watch Livestream’s Commercial-Free Broadcast Of NYE In Times Square
At home and want to watch the classic New Years Eve celebration in Time Square commercial free? Well, here you go. Livestream has partnered with the organizers of the Times…
Facebook’s Mobile App Has A Big Holiday Week On iPhones, Bigger On Android
Millions of new iPhones and Androids got activated during and after Christmas this year — and what have people done with their new devices? They’ve downloaded Facebook’s mobile apps, of…
Nearly 20 Million People Read Google’s Blog In 2011; @Google Now Has 4 Million Twitter Followers
In terms of regularly posting news, Google has been one of the more frequent bloggers out of most of the major technology giants, often forgoing releasing press releases in favor…
Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Further.
In order to get startups and entrepreneurs thinking about the most effective ways to pitch their businesses, Adeo Ressi of Founder Institute has been encouraging his founders to boil their…
Making Jony Ive a Knight sends UK Gov signal: 2012 is the year of tech
Honours and medals from Queens and Kings may be an alien concept in Silicon Valley, but they are a delightfully steam-punk tradition, still continued in a Britain which long ago…
Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily the best at two core functions: selling…
Late-Stage Web Companies Took In The Largest Tech Investments Of 2011
One of the defining trends of modern web companies is that the top ones have been choosing to raise giant, private late-stage funding rounds instead of going public. Look at…
Gillmor Gang 12.31.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — wound up the Old Year and previewed the next one. In fact, we are…
My Last Death Threat In 2011
I got this email the other day: “Just saw you on CNBC. Shocked! I thought for sure I read you had hung yourself. Well, now I have a new wish…
Freight Train Kept A-Rollin’
2011 was the year of Android. A little over a year ago Andy Rubin tweeted that 300,000 Android devices were being activated each day. In January we reported that Android…
Knight Of The Round Tablet? UK Gov Honour for Ive Heralds New Year Of Tech
Honours and medals from Queens and Kings may be an alien concept in Silicon Valley, but they are a delightfully steam-punk tradition, still continued in a Britain which long ago…
Keeping Up With The Normals
The holidays for most people who read this site involve answering a cornucopia of tech support questions for their relatives. Honestly, I’ve watched friends field the most frustrating 45 minute…
Apple’s Terrific And Tumultuous 2011
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Those words seem to encapsulate Apple’s 2011 perfectly. The year saw the company both became the most valuable…
RED Sues Arri Over Email Hacking, False Advertising In HD Camera Dust-Up
Upstart digital cinema company RED, which has been the bane of many established camera companies for several years now, has filed suit against Arri, a leading camera manufacturer. They allege…
Aol Employees Make Zombie Video About Talent Exodus
In case you haven’t noticed ;), it’s an especially slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow time for the tech industry. So slow that some Aol employees — the only one I recognize is Sol Lipman –…
It is remarkable to think that we’re in the early days of the app era, when there are already close to 600,000 iOS applications and nearly 400,000 on Android. The…
A New Era For Social Interest Sites: Twitter, Tumblr And Pinterest Go Big In 2011
One of the most interesting trends in comScore’s 2011 social networking report is the new growth of social sites that cater to users’ interests, rather than their real-life social graphs.…
Damn It Google, Where Are My Magic Android Lightbulbs?
Back at Google I/O in May, members of Google’s Android team unveiled a new initiative that’s going to extend the mobile OS beyond smartphones and tablets — and take us…
Verizon Wireless Cancels Plans To Charge $2 “Convenience” Fee
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after word got out that Verizon Wireless planned to introduce a painfully ironic “convenience” fee of $2 for anyone paying their…
HTML5 idiots are confusing meatballs with spaghetti
This is a guest post by Richard Holdsworth, Wapple CEO. Flash is on the endangered species list, already extinct on mobile, and Silverlight has been all but aborted. HTML5 is…
Shock horror! Berlin VC invests in Italian startup. Is this the start of something?
Point Nine Capital has made a seed investment into Cibando, an Italian startup which operates a popular iPhone application that makes it easy to find the best restaurants in Rome,…
AngelPad Looks Back: 37 Companies, 31 Funded, $25 Million Raised
AngelPad, the startup incubator launched by seven ex-Googlers in August 2010, is taking a look back at how far it’s come in the months since and the lessons they’ve learned…
2011: The Year In Tech
Okay, last workday of the year. It’s nostalgia time. Let’s take a quick glance in the rearview mirror at the year in Tech, before we speed forward again in 2012.…
Keen On… Marian Salzman: What Were The Top Trends in 2011?
It’s the last Friday in 2011 and the new year is imminent. So what were the top technological, cultural and economic trends in 2011? What shaped a year that some…
LG To Debut Second Intel-Powered Smartphone At CES 2012
“If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” It looks like LG and Intel have taken that old adage to heart, if a new report is to be believed.…
Gillmor Gang Live 12.30.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor – are recording live at 9am PT. Recording has concluded.
Insync (“Dropbox For Google Users”) Gets Major Revamp, Goes Free
File synchronization and sharing platform Insync has been around for over a year now, and today, the eponymous startup has rolled out a totally revamped version of its “Dropbox for…
Startups: Give Us Your Best One-Sentence Pitch
If you had to describe your company’s mission in a single sentence, what would your pitch read or sound like? One good way to summarize what you do and boil…
As Millions Of Consumers Unwrapped Kindle Fires Over Christmas, Mobile Ad Impressions Spiked 261 Percent
In November, Mobile ad network Millennial Media reported that Amazon’s new tablet devices Kindle Fire, was seeing ad impressions grow at an average daily rate of 19% since its launch…
Thirty-six hours ago, the recently founded software development firm Wappwolf launched Dropbox Automator, which is sort of like an IFTTT for Dropbox. IFTTT, for those of you not up to…
