Confused drunk people make great beta testers, apparently.
Confused drunk people make great beta testers, apparently. If you really want to know if your app requires too much "cognitive overhead," just try getting this chick to play around with it.
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This Google Glass Easter Egg Will Haunt Your Dreams
Future-facing Android developers have begun receiving pairs of Google Glass and one of them already spotted an Easter Egg: an image of the entire Glass team. The "neat part," says TechCrunch is that...
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Elon Musk Is So Rich He Says He'll Pay to Widen Public Highways
PayPal billionaire, electric car zealot, and one man NASA Elon Musk has had it with his L.A. commute on the 405. But instead of just bitching about it like the rest of us plebes, he says he'll pay out...
View ArticleSecondMarket Hit with Layoffs (Again) [Updated: 40 Down?]
Barry Silbert, CEO of the firm that's allowed equity-holders of private companies to trade amongst themselves, has some bad news: it's firing time. Or as he'd like to put the layoffs, an "org change."...
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Dave Morin Thinks Stickers Are the Future
Cloud computing? Quantum photo filters? Uber for dogs? You're over-thinking the tech world, says Dave Morin—all he needs to turn his super-niche Facebook alternative into a winner is for you to buy...
View ArticleYahoo's Chairman Quits
Fred Amoroso, Yahoo's Chairman of the Board, will not "seek reelection to the board." Which is a polite way to resign. Which is a polite way to quit. Which looks bad for Yahoo. Here's the full...
View ArticleBetaworks, that company that owns Digg now, just bought Instapaper, that app...
Betaworks, that company that owns Digg now, just bought Instapaper, that app you use to read articles on the bus. This is exciting, because Betaworks has done a very nice job with Digg—but now...
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Here's How You Can Live When Your Startup Is "Worth" a Billion
Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shelhammer did something rare: they built Fab, a shopping website that's standing out from the other trillion shopping websites. Sales are up, and judging by the pictures...
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Zynga Is Clearly Paying Celebs to Pretend to Like Draw Something 2
Zynga, cruising on the highway to BrokeVille, is banking on its newest ripoff of Pictionary to be as wildly popular as the first one. Banking so heavily, in fact, that the company is just shamelessly...
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Read This If You Want to Hate SXSW and The World in General
Presented without comment, a handful of excerpts from "Spring Break for Nerds: A skeptic learns the secret to South by Southwest’s success," which for some reason just went up on The New Republic's...
View ArticleAOL Music Is Dead
Pour one out for the staff of Spinner and AOL Music—the entire operation is shuttered as of today, after 14 years. In classy, giant faltering company fashion, they were only informed of the closure...
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Uber Is the First App to Win Approval for NYC Cabs [Update]
Now that New York County Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit from the livery cab industry that was holding up the city's pilot program, e-hailing is no longer just the province of the early-adopting...
View ArticleFred Wilson Says He Prefers to Invest in Startups that Sound Stupid
Union Square Ventures chief Fred Wilson has some big notches on his bedpost: Tumblr, Twitter, and Zynga (cough). But if you look at USV's portfolio page, you'll see a lot of chaff. Bad ideas that will...
View ArticleLivingSocial Hacked
More bad news for the struggling Groupon clone: 50 million users just got their personal information jacked by hackers. How hard is Amazon regretting ever getting wrapped up in this thing? An internal...
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It would appear, based on this paparazzi shot of Zuck and P-Chan on vacation...
It would appear, based on this paparazzi shot of Zuck and P-Chan on vacation in Hawaii, that Mark wears a shirt when he's in the ocean. Throw your hands in the air if this surprises you at all. View...
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TechCrunch Forced to Reconsider Its Own Existence for 60 Seconds
As a preamble to this week's Disrupt conference in New York, TechCrunch is hosting a "hackathon"—one of those dire geek sweatshops wherein coders create small snippets of ideas, and then hawk them...
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Oh God Robert Scoble Is Wearing His Google Glasses in The Shower
And more importantly, publicly sharing photos of himself doing it, soaking and unclothed. The future is now. After human GeoCities site and Rackspace employee wrote this frothing "review" of Glass, he...
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Google Glass Has Already Been Hacked and Rooted
Though Google Glass runs Android, it's not exactly as wide open as your typical Android phone. And given its spot as the most futuristic tech available right now, you know hackers want to tinker with...
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What Do You Eat If You're an Exec at LinkedIn?
Raw meat soaked in hot fat for hours on end: either delicious or a deliciously horrible metaphor for Silicon Valley. In a new wink at LinkedIn, the company that sends you a lot of emails, Bloomberg...
View ArticleThe tech industry's attitude toward hiring women? For display only.
The tech industry's attitude toward hiring women? For display only. "I was really surprised by how many design—let alone development—firms had women as window dressing: one woman on the team, and it...
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