Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/12/daily-crunch-shapes-edition/
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Daily Crunch: Shapes Edition
Yes. These Pallet Coasters Are Industrial-Strength Awesome Hela Disc: The Aerobie, Evolved LEGO Outs The First Official Minifig Flash Drive Students Make The World?s Largest Sierpinski Triangle (As Far As They Know) Porto: Denmark Creates Text Message Postage Stamp
(Founder Stories) ?Every Day, I Try To Get Rejected?
If you meet a lot of CEOs and startup founders, you will notice a personality trait that many of them share. No matter how many people tell them they are wrong or stupid, they remain unusually optimistic, almost blindingly so. In the Founder Stories video above, which is an outtake from last week's interview with Bnter CEO Lauren Leto, host Chris Dixon talks about the importance of rejection. "Every day, I try to get rejected," he tells Leto. Sometimes this requires him sending emails to Steve Jobs that never get a response. But being able to handle rejection, and even seek it out, is a crucial skill for entrepreneurs. The flip side of getting rejected over and over again, of course, is perseverance. It doesn't matter if 49 VCs pass on your startup if the 50th one hands you a check for $1 million, or if 24 engineers say No, but the 25th is a rockstar who says Yes. Getting to yes means letting the negativity wash over you.
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Will Social Media Save WrestleMania 27?
Well, maybe not ?save? WrestleMania, but help ensure it does better than last year?s edition, WrestleMania 26, which, at well under one million pay-per-view buys worldwide, was considered a bit of a disappointment. What?s different this year is WWE?s use of social media—that is to say they?re actually using it this time around. But even if this year?s edition, WrestleMania 27, which airs from Atlanta tomorrow on pay-per-view, does better than last year?s, how much of that can be attributed to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and how much of that can be attributed to the return of The Rock? Serious business, etc.
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Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look
If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You're then presented with two further choices -- a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.
There's no winning or losing, really. Each "game" usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.
The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.
All in all, it's a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you're at it.
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VEECO INSTRUMENTS VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES UNITED ONLINE
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Was Bitten by a Big Cat While Hunting Game in 2009 [Horrible]
The Best Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Hi_BldG5LBs/the-best-deal-of-the-day
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Onion Tablet now available for iPad
In spirit of April Fool’s Day, The Onion, America’s Finest News Source, released their official iPad app yesterday. Now, using the latest news-providing technologies, The Onion introduces a format that allows you to touch the news. That?s right. Swipe it, poke it, berate it, and it reacts accordingly. For those who may not know, [...]The Onion Tablet now available for iPad is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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(Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes
When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founder of the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many of the Internet's most pervasive memes, from Lolcats to Rickrolling. Moot doesn't like to do video interviews, but after much pestering, Chris Dixon got him to come on Founder Stories for a rare video appearance. We'll be running the entire conversation throughout the week, including a sneak peak at what he's doing with his latest startup, Canvas. (Disclosure: Dixon is also an investor in Canvas through Founder Collective) . In this first part, Moot explains the origins of 4Chan in the video above. Both the idea and software was borrowed from a Japanese site called Futaba channel, but 4chan took on a life of its own?a completely anonymous site where community members felt free to express themselves in all sorts of ways. One of the unique characteristics of the site is that there are no archives. The most popular images, gifs, and comments bubble up to the top, and cascade through the site like a waterfall. Every so often, a meme will develop on the site and be picked up elsewhere. In the video below, Moot talks about the evolution of memes, how they start as one thing and change over time. 
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Mobile Ad Network JumpTap Raises $20 Million
Mobile ad network JumpTap has raised $20 million in new funding, according to a recent SEC filing, out of a $27 million round. This would bring the company's funding to nearly $90 million. We've contacted the company for confirmation. JumpTap is one of the largest remaining independent mobile advertising networks, in addition to Millennial Media, Greystripe, InMobi and others. Jumptap?s data-driven technology promises highly targeted advertising and the company partners with digital and media agencies, publishers, wireless carriers and brand advertisers to serve an array of mobile advertising solutions.
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Microsoft Blames Google for the Suckiness of the YouTube App on Windows Phone 7 [Smartphones]
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