2011年11月29日星期二
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2011年11月27日星期日
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2011年11月24日星期四
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2011年11月23日星期三
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Facebook Climbs To No. 3 Video Site In U.S. | TechCrunch. Facebook is already the largest photo site in the U.S., and now it is climbing up the charts for online video. Facebook now ranks as the third largest video site on the Web in terms of unique viewers according to comScore, with an estimated 51.5 million people on Facebook watching a video during the month of July. The month before it was No. 6. It passed Microsoft, Yahoo, and Viacom. Only Vevo (with 62 million monthly viewers) and YouTube (158 million) are bigger.It is only a matter of time before Facebook passes Vevo, but can it ever take the crown from Google/Youtube? I'm not sure that will happen any time soon. ComScore estimates there were 3 billion viewing sessions on YouTube in July versus 186 million on Facebook. (Note that "viewing sessions" is different than "views" or "plays" and can include multiple videos watched). YouTube still accounts for 43 percent of all viewing sessions in the U.S. Hulu stayed at No. 9 on the list of most-watched video sites, with unique viewers slipping 8.6 percent to 24.4 million viewers in July. Viewing sessions diablo 3 power leveling, however, increased 2.5 percent to 161 million and Hulu served nearly 1 billion video ads diablo 3 gold, more than any other online video ad network. Crunchbase FACEBOOK YOUTUBE Company: Facebook Website: facebook.com Launch Date: January 2, 2004 Funding: $2.34B Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over 500 million users.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for the term... Learn more Company: YouTube Website: youtube.com Launch Date: November 9, 2005 Funding: $11.5M YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube is the leader in online video, sharing original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky... Learn more. Facebook Climbs To No. 3 Video Site In U.S. | TechCrunch.
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2011年11月22日星期二
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Founders Den: A Private Clubhouse For Entrepreneurs Opens In San Francisco | TechCrunch. Over the past several months, there's been a shift happening in the Bay Area. Whereas a lot of startups used to be centrally located in actual Silicon Valley diablo 3 power leveling, near the tech giants, Stanford, and the venture capitalists, they're increasingly moving north, to the city of San Francisco. (Technically diablo 3 gold, TechCrunch was one of those startups,?we moved to the city in June from Palo Alto.) So it should be no surprise that a number of incubators are popping up in the city. But Founders Den, which is opening its doors today, is attempting to be a bit different.Founders Den isn't actually an incubator at all. Instead, it's a shared office/club for?entrepreneurs?— all types of entrepreneurs, from experienced ones who have sold companies, to those just starting out. The idea is for them to all come together in this new, large 8,500 square foot space in the SoMa area of San Francisco. We got a chance to tour the place last week — it's very, very nice (check out the video below).But it's a private club. You have to be invited to join. The idea there is so it's a comfortable environment for all those who are there.So who is there?Well the Founders Den is the brainchild of four entrepreneurs: Jason Johnson, Jonathan Abrams, Michael Levit, and Zachary Bogue. Given the amount of experience between the four (and they're all working on new startups themselves), they were able to pull together an impressive list of advisors who will also regularly be in the Den. These include people like Drew Houston, Elad Gil, Ethan Beard, Gil Penchina, James Hong, Jay Adelson, Justin Kan, Keith Rabois, Michael Birch, Michael Marquez, Philip Kaplan, Rick Marini, Rusty Rueff, Shervin Pishevar, and Tim Ferriss.This is the perfect spot for a joke about the Founders Den having more Angels than Heaven.The Den will also feature four initial sponsors: DLA Piper, Norwest Venture Partners, SecondMarket, and Turnstone/Steelcase. Each of these companies are free to come and go from the Den as they please as well. The money they contribute to the Den will go towards paying the rent and putting on events.But the key to the Founders Den may the actual startups that are able to get inside. Already, there are ten such pre-launch startups that have moved in and are working in the space:Bionic PandaDotCloudInporiaiSpeechJungleCentsOpenAppMktProximityWareRethink BooksRevel SystemsSpigotEach came by way of referral from the network of the individuals listed above. That's how you get in: referral. There's no strict application process — someone with clout in the Founders Den just has to vouch for you.And if you get in, you'll have about 6 months to work on your startup while paying a low rent and getting access to all the?amenities: the space, the people, and the events. Typically, startups working out of the Founders Den will be post-seed funding but working on raising their first proper round. And while there is no formal funding policy, with that many angels regularly hanging around, you can bet there will be a lot of action going on.Learn more in our video below.. Founders Den: A Private Clubhouse For Entrepreneurs Opens In San Francisco | TechCrunch.
" Systrom says. "I'd imagine photos you take with Instagram will get sync'd as well
At 5 Million Users, It's Hard Not To View Instagram Through A Rose-Colored Filter | TechCrunch. When we first previewed Instagram nine months ago, most of theinitialcomments predicted it would be dead on arrival. To say those people were wrong is a vast understatement. And Instagram now has five million ways to prove it.Yes, Instagram now has five million users. That's 625,000 users for every month they've been in existence — with the growth accelerating. Just this past weekend they added 100,000 new users, for example.Even more amazing, there are now 1.25 million users for every one employee of Instagram.I got a chance to catch up with Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom this morning to talk about the milestone and the bigger picture for the service. Beyond the five million user mark (which they actually hit yesterday), Instagram is about to hit another huge milestone: 100 million photos. They're at 95 million right now, and they're adding roughly 860,000 a day. In other words, by the end of this week diablo 3 gold, the total number of pictures should cross 100 million.For comparisons sake, it took Flickr two years to hit 100 million photos. Again, Instagram, just eight months. If you still had any doubts that a mobile photo revolution is happening, there you go.As for the burgeoning Instagram ecosystem, Systrom says that there are now 2,500 unique apps out there accessing their APIs. Remarkably, they are also seeing some 350,000 connections across their API, meaning that some of the apps connected are massively popular. Which are the most popular? Webstagram and Flipboard were the top two the last time he looked, Systrom says. There are also now applications pushing photos into Instagram — not through the API, but through more creative means.The emergence of Webstagram, which is a web-based viewer for Instagram photos, leads to the question of when Instagram might finally release their own web app? Systrom declined to comment on that, but did confirm that work continues in that area. As for the all-important Android question, same deal — nothing to share yet, but work continues.Systrom will say that the top priorities right now are to scale the service, scale the team, and improve the core parts of the existing iPhone app.One of the most remarkable things about Instagram is that they'veachievedsuch success while only being on one platform: iOS. There is no way to sign up on the web. No way to sign up on Android. They're currently a mainstay in the top social networking apps list in the App Store. And that's big because they're not spending anything on marketing, and Apple has only promoted them a few times. In other words, the growth and traction has been largely organic.Instagram has scored some deals with partners to help promote the app. But in terms of bringing in revenue, "We're much more interested at growing the ecosystem right now," Systrom says. And they have plenty of money in the bank from nice funding round this past February to continue growing for some time.He also says that they have a lot more work to do on the current iPhone app. "Lots of very cool new stuff coming soon," is all he'll vaguely say. Though I did get him to admit that yes, more filters, are in the works. He also says there will be some "fundamental shifts in the underlying technology," coming soon."We want to give people the tools to tell the story of their lives in a visual way — we're working hard on making those tools top-notch," Systrom says.Giving their size and the rate at which they're growing, Instagram clearly has a lot of competitors gunning for them. So far, most have failed to gain any meaningful traction. But Twitter just recently put themselves in the photo-sharing game in partnership with Photobucket. Given that Twitter is such an important social discovery mechanism for Instagram, does this worry Systrom? "I'm excited to see how a more first-class experience of photos on Twitter will allow people to have a better Instagram experience within Twitter," he says. In other words diablo 3 power leveling, he think the rising tide will boost all boats, including his.There are also a number of apps popping up that areattemptingto be the "Instagram of video". That's interesting since Instagram does not currently support the sharing of videos — might they move in that direction? "I still think it's early — mobile video will always be slower to download and consume than photos," Systrom notes. "Instagram is about fast, beautiful experiences. Short snippets of friends' lives," he continues.At the same time, "video is something that I think fits naturally into our roadmap — just not at the moment," Systrom says.Earlier, I alluded to the fact (with math!) that despite their size, Instagram still has only four employees. That's insane. "Hiring great people is a top priority for me right now," Systrom says. "We clearly have something special, and we want to make sure to have the best of the best to help us to the opportunity," he continues.But they're not going to rush. "The thing we don't want to do is to hire just because we're big.Building a company is about building a product, but it's also about building a team.They're both very important to us," he says.Given that Instagram is still iOS-only, surely they must have some thoughts about the just-announced iOS 5. "iOS5 provides some really awesome new tools for Instagram users. Twitter integration makes it easier than ever for users to share their photos with their followers," Systrom says. Since they have no need for DM access, Instagram should be one of the key apps helped by the new, deep iOS Twitter integration.When I pointed out that I saw Instagram make a few appearances on stage during the keynote (in the background in demo images), this clearly made Systrom happy. "It was awesome to see Instagram on stage behind Steve during the keynote. It's humbling to think that we only started 8 mos ago and Instagram is now part of the de-facto set of apps that people use on the iPhone."It's pretty well known as this point that Apple executive Phil Schiller is a big time user of Instagram. But we've heard other Apple executives are hooked on the service too — though more under the radar."It's not surprising that notification demos featured Instagram — we send over 10 million Push Notifications per day," Systrom says. "And I think having a home for all those pushes to be out of the way and usefully grouped makes total sense," he says of the new notifications system in iOS 5.As for Apple's new Photostream feature (which shares pictures you take on your devices automatically with your other devices over iCloud), "Photostream is really awesome. I think there was a big focus on unity between your Apple devices this year.So it totally makes sense for photos to sync between devices," Systrom says. "I'd imagine photos you take with Instagram will get sync'd as well, but I'm unaware of exactly how it works," he continues.Assuming that Instagram's huge growth keeps up, they could very well hit 6 million users before the end of June. And 10 million before the end of the year looks like a shoo-in. And none of that is taking into account the possibility of an Android app before the end of the year. Let's just hope Instagram finds a fifth employee before then. Crunchbase INSTAGRAM Company: Instagram Website: instagr.am Launch Date: October 1, 2011 Funding: $7.5M Instagram is a photo sharing application for the iPhone. It allows you to quickly take pictures, apply a filter, and share it on the service or with a number of other services.The team behind it is also behind Burbn, a location-based service that works with HTML5-compatible web browsers. Learn more. At 5 Million Users, It's Hard Not To View Instagram Through A Rose-Colored Filter | TechCrunch.
it's also about fixing what's long been broken.You see
With OS X Lion, Apple Touches Upon The Next Decade Of The OS | TechCrunch. Ten years ago, I was not a Mac user. I had never owned a Mac. I thought I probably would never own a Mac. I was a Windows guy all the way. Sure, Windows Me sucked, but Windows 95 and 98 were solid. And we were on the verge of Windows XP. The Mac was something I was forced to use at school.Then, on March 24, 2001, OS X hit. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It was beautiful.I was a freshman in college at the time. I recall riding my bike to the engineering school to see a demo of the new OS that was being put on by Apple. I stood and watched a few demos, but mostly I just played with the new OS. And I remember thinking that I really wished Windows looked like this.But I wasn't entirely sold. This initial version of OS X Lion called "Cheetah" seemed buggy, and slow. And it was. By September, Apple has already rolled out the first big upgrade, OS X 10.1 "Puma". I recall going to check the new version out at a CompUSA. Much better. Still wasn't sold though, Windows XP was coming out the following month.I bought Windows XP the day it came out �� exactly one month after Puma �� October 25, 2001. I got a free MP3 player with my purchase at Best Buy. It was an Intel one. It sucked, but it was free. The iPod was announced just two days prior, but it wouldn't launch until November.Even ten years ago, it was a different time.I basically didn't think about Apple, OS X, or even the iPod until almost three years later when I broke down and bought a 40 GB iPod so I would have all my music with me on a drive out to California. It was the first Apple product I had ever bought. It would not be the last.A few months later, I was working in California, in Hollywood. In case you couldn't tell from popular television shows and movies, Hollywood is a Mac-dominated town. I had a job on Warner Bros' lot, where the computer at my desk was a Mac. After a few weeks of using it on a daily basis, I bought myself one �� the cheapest iBook I could find. It wasn't for the hardware, which I found slow and outdated compared to my relatively decked-out Dell laptop. It was for OS X �� 10.3 "Panther" at the time, to be exact �� I was addicted.Fast forward to today. Here we are a full ten years after the launch of OS X. And now the latest version is upon us, OS X Lion (or "10.7″ in the old parlance) �� the big cat nicknames have now been formalized. And it shouldn't be surprising that Apple chose to name this version after the king of the jungle. It's both the pinnacle of OS X as we've known it, and it points to what's coming in the next ten years.A Touch Of LionWhen Apple first unveiled OS X Lion last fall, it was billed as "OS X meets iOS". The truth is that it's still much closer to the OS X side of things, but it's a newer flavor of OS X. It's a flavor that favors notebook PCs and touch/gesture-based environments.This shouldn't be the least bit surprising considering that nearly three-quarters of Apple's Mac sales are now notebooks. And the iOS devices, themselves built entirely around touch/gesture based environments, now far trump Mac sales. This is how the majority of users now interact with and experience Apple products. OS X needed to catch up or get out of the way.With Lion, OS X does catch up. As a heavy iPad user diablo 3 power leveling, I feel much more at home switching between that device and a laptop running Lion. Whereas the iPad/computer switch used to break my brain, the smallest little tweak has fixed it: inverted scrolling.It's funny that what is really one of the smaller tweaks to the OS is the one that's going to be talked about the most and will have some users totally up in arms. Yes, scrolling has been reversed in Lion. But as much as it is about matching iOS, it's also about fixing what's long been broken.You see, it used to be that on small screens with windows (lowercase, not necessarily Windows), you were really using a mouse to move the viewport. When you think about it, that doesn't make a ton of sense �� but it was the only way because you had to move the scrollbar. Now we can actually moving the content.Yes, it will take users a little bit of time to get used to this. But it does feel more natural once you are used to it. It took me maybe 15 minutes, and I was set. Of course diablo 3 power leveling, switching back to an older OS X Snow Leopard machine now drives me absolutely insane �� the lengths I go to in order to review products. Luckily, that won't be an issue after today.And yes, if you really, really hate it, there is an option to go back to the old way (but the new way is the default in Lion).Backing up slightly for a second, another big aesthetic change you'll notice in Lion is that there are no more scrollbars in windows where you'd normally see them. Again, this is a relic of the past. Fluid scrolling didn't truly come about until the 1990s, so scrollbars were still needed to fully see content (again, really by moving the viewport). But now, with multi-touch and gestures, we rarely use them. So they're not there until you need to see them in Lion. And that's basically just to orient yourself on a page (though you can still click and scroll them manually). When you are done scrolling, they disappear again. All content, whether on the web or elsewhere, just looks so much better this way.The Lion's FeaturesApple says that Lion has over 250 new features. Of course, the majority of these are smaller things that many users will gloss over at first, but eventually grow to appreciate. At WWDC, Apple chose to outline ten of the bigger ones. If you've been excited for Lion, you likely already know them, so instead I thought I'd talk a bit about actually using a few of them and more generally about what it's like to use Lion as a daily user of OS X for the past six-plus years.First of all, as a person who mainly uses a notebook, I love full-screen apps. I wasn't entirely sold on this concept when I first heard about it because there have long been apps with full screen mode �� Google Chrome, for example �� and I never got into using the feature. But because it's fully baked into Lion, making transitions in and out of full-screen apps seems much more natural, and it feels like a well-thought-out part of the entire environment instead of a tacked-on feature.The iPad/iPhone has also likely made me more appreciative of full-screen app usage. There are many cases where having multiple windows open is still preferred, but full-screen apps plus multi-touch gestures to quickly switch between various running programs now seems ideal to me in many circumstances.Speaking of multi-touch, that is really at the core of OS X Lion. Multi-touch and gestures have gradually become a part of OS X as Apple has continued to expand the size of the trackpad on MacBooks. And now these gestures are finally vital to the system.Getting access to all of the content running on your system is now as easy as swiping three fingers up on the trackpad. This launches Mission Control, which is more or less a "bird's eye view" of your system. It's like a more robust version of the longtime OS X feature, Expose.Mission Control does take a little getting used to, but once you do, you won't want to manage your running apps any other way. In fact, it will be awesome when you can manage iOS apps in a way more like this.The one element of Lion that is most iOS-like has to be Launchpad. This is essentially an overlay screen that shows you all of your apps and allows you to click on one to run it. It essentially gives your Mac an iPad home screen interface.Again, this took some getting used to �� I kept looking for my Applications folder (which isn't installed by default). But once you get the four-finger pinch down (the gesture that launches Launchpad), it's great.AutoSave and Versions are the types of features that are so obvious, you can't believe they haven't been in place for years. There's long been this inherent fear of even simple computing like word processing because you think you'll forget to save something and lose all of your work �� or worse, that you'll overwrite something you did not mean to. It has happened to all of us. These features remove that fear.One reason why something like this hasn't been more commonplace is because the idea of versioning is complex to users. OS X Lion attempts to get around this by giving Versions a Time Machine-like interface. It works pretty well, though I've found performance to be a bit of an issue. Often while in Versions for Pages, my machine's fan would kick into overdrive. A few times, I was able to lock up the system for a couple of minutes simply by clicking around.More often than not, Versions worked as expected, but users on older machines should still be careful about entering this state. I was using a brand new machine when I ran into some trouble (though I did have several other apps open, to be fair).Those concerned about AutoSave and Versions taking up too much space on your hard drive shouldn't worry. OS X Lion is smart enough to only track and record the changes between different copies of documents. This means that 400 full copies aren't saved, just the partial changes from version to version.Along the lines of the fears of computing, Resume is a feature that allows you to pick up right where you left off in every app after you've restarted your machine (either on purpose or by force). To be honest, I'm still getting used to this feature. I'm a person who likes to start up anew when I turn on my computer each day (and if I don't want to, I just leave it on). Of course, a simple check-box at shutdown dialogue gives you this option too.AirDrop sounds like one of the cooler, subtle features of Lion. Because I only have one Lion machine right now, I couldn't fully try it out. But I saw a demo of it working perfectly. The best part about it is that none of the parties making a connection need to be connected (or even near) WiFi to transfer files. It's all peer-to-peer from the local machines themselves using WiFi radios.Thinking back to my Windows days, there's also a new Windows Migration tool that sounds useful. I didn't try it out since I no longer use Windows, but again, it sounds great.The Lion FeelOkay, but all of this?sounds great. How does it actually feel to use Lion versus the other versions of OS X? Again, a few of the features take some getting used to, but once you do, it's a more graceful experience than ever before �� and that's especially true if you're an iOS user (which most Mac users likely are by now).As I suspected, Lion really does seem as if it's the beginning of a major transition from point & click to flick & swipe. That is to say, the move away from the mouse and towards the trackpad. While OS X Lion will work with a regular mouse, I would suggest that you at least get a Magic Mouse (with the multi-touch top) to take advantage of many of the navigational features.And the truth is that the Magic Mouse is also not quite as robust as something like the Magic Trackpad will be with Lion if you're using a desktop machine. (Really, it's just different since one-finger touch on a trackpad is the same thing as moving a mouse around �� but the trackpad offers more surface area for gestures.) But again, the vast majority of Mac users now have notebooks, and those notebooks have multi-touch trackpads already built-in.Perhaps my favorite Lion-based gesture is swiping between screens (with three-fingers or four) to quickly jump between "Desktops" and apps. You used to be able to switch between Spaces in the previous versions of OS X, but this linear mode that heavily relies on multi-touch makes more sense in an iOS world. iOS 5 will bring similar functionality for the iPad as well.Even Dashboard has been made into it's own vertical space in Lion �� all the way to the far left (sort of like Search in iOS). I suspect this has to do with the fact that it used to be an overlay and now that Launchpad is an overlay, that would be confusing. But you can still change the settings to make Dashboard into the overlay if you wish.Swiping comes into play in the latest version of Safari within Lion too. You can now seamlessly swipe back and forth between webpages to peek at other content. It's one of those tiny attention-to-detail features that makes Apple products, Apple products.In terms of stability, OS X Lion seems solid. I was not able to find any of my old apps built for OS X Snow Leopard that wouldn't run on Lion. There were a few that had small bugs (Twitter for Mac's tray icon isn't clickable when you're in a full-screen mode app, for example), but nothing major.The bigger issue will likely be apps like Quicken, which won't work on Lion because app makers like Intuit haven't updated them in years.Overall, the OS itself seems polished. Some developers complained that early builds of Lion were filled with bugs and bogged down by slowness, but this final version feels snappy and mostly trouble-free. Yes, there are a few tiny bugs here and there (such as the dock getting stuck sometimes when transitioning between full-screen apps and Desktops, for example), but I haven't found any bug that would make me tell people to hold off until the first update.OS X Lion optimized apps are already hitting the App Store. One I know about and was able to test is the email client Sparrow. It now has a very nice, Lion-optimized full-screen mode, for example.The Lion's ApproachAlso notable about OS X Lion is the way it's being distributed. Whereas the last seven versions of OS X all were delivered via the standard optical disc. OS X Lion will be available in the Mac App Store only. This mean that users of OS X Snow Leopard will need to make sure they have the latest version of the software with the App Store included. And OS X Leopard users will have to install Snow Leopard first, in order to install Lion.That is a bit inconvenient, but it's a relatively small subset of users who would be affected, I'm told. Also, while Apple isn't really playing it up, users will be able to take machine into Apple Stores to get Lion installed for them (undoubtedly for a fee).Also interesting: I'm told there will be a USB version of OS X Lion available in August. Apple declined to give more details except to suggest that the pricing is still being worked out for that. Some of you may recall that last year's MacBook Airs came with a USB restore key rather than an optical disc (since the Air has no optical drive). This is a similar idea.Yes, like it or not, Apple really is going all-in on the optical-disc-is-dead thing. As regular readers will know, I'm all for that. (Also, told you so.)But how do you restore your computer? When installed, Lion creates a recovery partition on your hard disk that will allow you to do limited things in the event of a system failure �� things like fix your system, and yes, even get to a web browser. OS X Lion pre-installed on newer Macs will go even further, because they'll be able to talk to the cloud to automatically re-install Lion as need be, I'm told.In order to install Lion, you'll have to have at least an Intel Core 2 Duo system. In other words, you'll need a 64-bit Mac. You'll also need at least 2 GB of RAM and 7 GB of hard disk space. Lion itself is only a 4 GB download �� which is roughly the size of an HD movie �� but you'll need a bit more for the install itself.To install Lion if you have Snow Leopard with the Mac App Store, all you'll need to do is click on the Lion link in the Mac App Store, pay $29.99, and wait for it to download. It can install as-is, without being burned to a disc or any of that nonsense. And the $29.99 price will allow you to install it on all of your machines �� yes, no more family packs needed.A Proud LionWith all the changes based around touch, one can't help but feel that OS X Lion could be the last of its breed in the OS X family. OS X Lion still feels like OS X, but I'm not sure the Mac OS that comes next will. That's not a bad thing, it's just inevitable as mobile, touch-based computing increases in popularity.If that's the case, OS X Lion is a great send-off for what has been a fantastic OS. And it's also an appropriate first step towards the next decade of what will likely be seen as "traditional" computing. Touch and gestures are ready to hit the mainstream.Update: OS X Lion is now live in the Mac App Store. You can find it here. Crunchbase APPLE Company: Apple Website: apple.com Launch Date: January 4, 1976 IPO: October 1, 1980, NASDAQ:AAPL Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computers to consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007.Among the key offerings from Apple's product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), Apple TV, the Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, the iPod (offered with... Learn more. With OS X Lion, Apple Touches Upon The Next Decade Of The OS | TechCrunch.
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Ghostcrawler on the success of "bring the player not the class". You have heard Blizzard's motto for raiding in Wrath of the Lich King, "bring the player not the class." The intent is to steer away from strict raid composition and shake things up. Encounters are being designed so that no one single class is necessary, although the 25-man Razuvious fight currently requires at least one priest, preferably two or three, with at least one specced shadow. Classes are being designed so that many necessary buffs, such as Replenishment, can be acquired through a variety of classes, rather than just one. The rigidity that came with Sunwell is one of the reasons that development has taken this direction. The motto sparked high hopes, and not all players are convinced that the implementation has been successful. In response diablo 3 power leveling, Ghostcrawler points out that just like everything in WoW, it is a process. It's not going to be perfect diablo 3 power leveling, because things are always changing.In fact, the development teams learn a lot about class balance by watching us play the content. GC mentions that they expect Ulduar, specifically in heroic mode, "to shine a much harsher light on class balance." This equates to admitting that they do not intent for content to be perfect on first release. It should work bug-free, ideally, and be balanced fairly well, but new raid content liek Ulduar is also an opportunity for study. GC expects "great debates" about the necessity of various buffs, debuffs, classes and specs, and while it will be "interesting, perhaps a bit rocky...we're also prepared to make whatever changes we need to make." I don't know about you, but this has renewed my excitement for patch 3.1 and Ulduar's release. This sounds tough, challenging, and our own performances will directly affect class balance and raid composition. On the bright side, Ghostcrawler confirms that there is no current trend where certain classes are being shunned out of raid slots, and that classes that used to be ignored by raid leaders in BC are now working competitively alongside their raidmates.Finally, he reminds us that the motto "does not mean class is irrelevant." What it does allow for is increased flexibility and creativity. Raid composition shouldn't be an exact science. Patch 3.1 brings us Ulduar, dual specs, significant changes to all the classes, and more! We've got you covered from top to bottom with our Guide to Patch 3.1.Email This. Ghostcrawler on the success of "bring the player not the class".
— and for a security/emergency-management app
Guardly Watches Your Back, From The Mean Streets Of Toronto | TechCrunch. I can't help but be amused that the personal-security platform Guardly, which launches today, was born in virtually-crime-free Toronto, where I live, and where I've never encountered anything more fearsome than bad weather. (Q: How do you get 20 Canadians out of a pool? A: "C'mon, guys diablo 3 gold, get out of the pool.")Security is a big market, though: there are a lot of people out there who do have reason to feel unsafe. For instance, a few years ago I visited a friend who had to vary her routes to and from work every day, and check in with security by radio every night, for fear of kidnapping—because she worked for UNICEF in troubled Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A personal-security app that integrated into UNICEF's systems would have been a big help. I expect NGOs and multinational corporations would be eager to deploy such a system for staff in crime-ridden cities like Nairobi, Port Moresby, and (God help them) Oakland.Guardly is both platform and app. The platform will let authorities and a person's "personal security network"—maybe friends and family, maybe corporate security—collaborate with them in real-time during an emergency situation; the app lets you alert both groups with the push of a button when something goes wrong. You can also use it to message your? emergency contacts, and share photos or other media with them. (Yes, that's right, it's both YAGMA (Yet Another Group Messaging App) and YAPSA (Yet Another Photo Sharing App). Would someone please write some common protocols for the YAGMAs and YAPSAs? This is getting ridiculous.) The iPhone version is available now, and Android and Blackberry are on tap shortly.The platform is more interesting than the app: it makes sense not just for personal security, but for medical crises, natural disasters, and the like. (The vast majority of those rescued from the terrible earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 were saved by friends, family, and neighbors, not emergency responders.) Their freemium app model probably won't sell like hotcakes in Toronto… but Guardly are wisely planning to internationalize to places like Mexico and Venezuela. Personal security networks—and apps—suddenly make a lot of sense in nations where the wealthiest 10-15% of the population have First World income and Third World security concerns, including corrupt and/or incompetent police.Guardly are funded by a seed round raised from made-in-Canada consortion of Extreme Venture Partners and seven angel investors. Competitors: SOS Link (created in response to Vancouver's nonstop random violence), Rave Mobile (spawned from the brutal gunplay of Framingham, Massachussetts), and JTrek (born of the bloody suburban horrors of Barrington, Illinois) all play in this space too. Guardly seems to be working hardest to integrate their app with security agencies, police services, the National Emergency Number Association, and corporate/university operations around the world, though?— and for a security/emergency-management app, that integration is the killer feature. So to speak.. Guardly Watches Your Back diablo 3 power leveling, From The Mean Streets Of Toronto | TechCrunch.
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