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trendspotteron Snow Fail: The New York Times And Its Misunderstanding Of Copyright

The story was picked up buy Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-york-times-versus-scr...

trendspotteron The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home

Your last point is sadly spot on. BTW Upcoming smartphones with Qualcomm chips will also have a always-on listening mode called "Snapdragon Voice Activation". http://www.qualcomm.com/media/blog/2013/02/20/snapdragon-wak...

P.S. Here are some voice commands for the Xbox One http://www.stuff.tv/news/computers-and-consoles/news-nugget/...

trendspotteron Yahoo aquires Tumblr

First ever acquisition announced by animated gif :) https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336453536298717184

trendspotteron Amazon launches virtual currency Coins

Sorry, haven't seen this and the older developer announcements. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698681

trendspotteron Announcing a new GV general partner: MG Siegler

That is why Bill Maris, the managing partner at Google Ventures, wrote: "MG Siegler is joining Google Ventures as a general partner (...) we’re thrilled to add his unique perspective."

trendspotteron [dead]

Thanks.

trendspotteron The Galaxy S4 has a Barometer

Sorry, this is nothing new at all. Here is a list of smartphones which have a build-in barometer sensor to measure atmospheric pressure to improve the location services: Google Nexus 4, Samsung Ativ S i8750, Samsung Galaxy Nexus i9250, Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300, Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305, Samsung Galaxy Note (N7000), Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (N7100), Simvalley Mobile XT-710 Apogee, Takwak tw700.

trendspotteron The world's smallest ARM chip announced, designed for swallowable computers

Interesting. Freescale's original press release didn't mention that the chip was designed for swallowable computers: http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol...

trendspotteron Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

It looks like you have to pay for it so I guess they pay others to get that feedback?

http://www.pickfu.com/pricing

trendspotteron Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

Before I found this overview and your comments here today, I started two other similar overviews. One on Quora and the other on Bestvendor. Here they are:

http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-some-notable-startups...

http://www.bestvendor.com/lists/startup-tools-for-startups

Here is a copy of my older post on Quora, please take a look at my newer BestVendor list (see link above) as well:

- SETUP

http://www.getdash.com/ (currently down or pivot)

- Claim your brand name

claim.io

Trademarkia

- Workspace and office space

Loosecubes

LiquidSpace

42Floors

- MANAGEMENT

- Business Analytics

Geckoboard

Chartio

- Cloud Aggregation and Unified Activity Streams

Hojoki

Flowdock

Zapier

Otixo

Cloudbot

Refinder

dispatch.io

busyflow.com

300.mg

cloudsnap.com

manybots.com

tractionstream.com

clutchapp.com

jaconda.im

- Business Intelligence

GoodData

- Contractor Management

oDesk

Elance

- Communication

Yammer

Salesforce Chatter

Socialcast

- Coordination, Collaboration

Zoho

Podio

Asana

Trello

Basecamp

Huddle

Planbox

Teambox

Dropbox

- Resource-Planning

Erply

- Human Resources (HR)

Workday (software)

- Social CRM

NimbleCRM

capsulecrm.com

Batchbook

- Cloud integration

SnapLogic

- Expenses

Expensify

- Invoicing

Tradeshift

FreshBooks

- Time Tracking

getharvest.com

toggl.com

- Customer Support

Assistly

Zendesk

Olark

SnapEngage

- Feedback

UserVoice

Get Satisfaction

Intercom

- Content Management

Acquia (Drupal)

- Wiki

MindTouch

- BACKEND

Cloud Hosting

Heroku

Engine Yard

- Database

Cloudera

- Virtualization Skytap

- Storage

Pure Storage

- Mobile Backend

Urban Airship

Parse

- WebSockets

Pusher

- Cloud Telephony, SMS

Twilio

Tropo

- Payments, Billing

Stripe

Recurly

Zuora

Spreedly

Chargify

- Code repository

GitHub

Beanstalk

- API Management

Mashery

Apigee

- DEVELOPMENT

iOS Testing

TestFlight

- Issue Tracking

Pivotal Tracker

Sifter

lighthouseapp

- Monitoring

New Relic

Airbrake (iOS Bug tracking)

Crittercism (iOS Bug tracking)

- DESIGN

Mockups/Wireframes/Workflows

Balsamiq

InVisionApp

Mockingbird

Axure RP

Mockflow

OmniGraffle

Mockup Builder

HotGloo

- MARKETING

- Email

MailChimp

SendGrid

Mailjet

- Social Media

Buddy Media

Sprout Social

- Beta Invite / Landing Page Management

LaunchRock

Prefinery

KickoffLabs

- Pre-Launch

UsabilityHub

- Video

Vimeo

Ooyala

- Analytics

Chartbeat

Mixpanel

Optimizely

App Annie

Distimo

- Infographics

Visual.ly

trendspotteron Just.me - A stealth messaging app that can replace email, MMS and SMS.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/741025just-me-ios-beta/

http://allthingsd.com/20130123/just-me-app-wants-tobe-a-swit...

http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFVW00020130123e91nrkd7...

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/23/just-me-launches-in-beta-is...

trendspotteron Facebook launches free calling for all iPhone users in the US

Telcos celebrate this day with joy :D

trendspotteron Introducing Graph Search

The Facebook default sharing (just some timr ago, or still) is that share to your friends of friends. Or at least you could see the images of friends of friends.

trendspotteron Introducing Graph Search

So far you can only search entities related to the friends of your friends. A journalist who was at the FB live event said.

trendspotteron Introducing Graph Search

The video created by Facebook that explains their new "Graph Search" feature.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200156514653891

trendspotteron Introducing Graph Search

It is (or was) live for me. I can take a screenshot for you guys.

trendspotteron Why are dead people liking stuff on Facebook?

Interesting story. Here is the duplicate on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904352

trendspotteron Is Facebook down?

Webmon says: "19 errors in the past 14 minutes"

trendspotteron Is Facebook down?

Now webmon shows erros for Facebook, see here:

https://webmon.com/#monitors/f/7

trendspotteron Is Facebook down?

Doesn't work for me. Facebook still not loading in Germany.

trendspotteron Is Facebook down?

Facebook is still down here in Germany.

trendspotteron Verizon to offer daily deals based on tracking your phone data

GigaOM has a story about this phone-tracking twist: http://gigaom.com/mobile/att-verizon-offer-daily-deals-with-...

trendspotteron Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution

As I wrote here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4872853) please fix the issue of enabling the user to edit posts after submission (in a time frame like 1 hour or 1 day). And enable users to delete their own submissions.

trendspotteron Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution

I was able to sign-up via Twitter without that or any problem.

trendspotteron Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution

And the rewards are not even for this website, they are managed by "BigDoor" - a gamification startup Brad Feld has invested in: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2010/06/fun-and-games-with-b...

trendspotteron Brad Feld created a Hacker News-esque site, Startup Revolution

So far Startup Revolution is crap. I was neither able to edit my submission there (title,description) after posting, nor was I able to delete my own submission. And when posting the same link again, it wasn't detected as a duplicate and organized in such a way.

trendspotteron JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules

I agree. Like with investments in startups there could be a "spray and pray" strategy. Maybe "they" are just happy to spray very basic life forms like DNA around the universe and watch evolution happen, like how we in our labs like to watch experiments develop.

trendspotteron JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules

"Assuming the above is true, then why do we not see any sign of these probes?" Because for example these probes are as tiny as a nano-meter? Hey it is the year 2012 here on earth. In the last decades we have already shrunk computers from the size of a entire room to fit in our pockets and soon our blood. And we ourselves can already build nano-technology, despite not being able to travel around our galaxy. What tells us that intelligent life has to build "probes" so big that we are able to detect them. Maybe these probes are just as large a nanometer and are already flying towards us or were near us or are already on Pluto. Or maybe other life forms shrink themselves to fit into a trillionth of a trillionth of the diameter large spaceship to be able to travel around space faster than light. All of the theories are just expanding from current knowledge as of today, not factoring in any stunning surprises of how the universe might really work :)

trendspotteron JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules

When I'm visiting Japan I don't have to "probe" them. It es enough to take some pictures and leave. Like Star Trek, maybe they had some guidelines on their journey to us that stopped them from interfering with the history of our planet. And maybe they didn't even need our resources or "probe" the entire universe in the first place, because they invented a new way to create materials directly out of matter and anti-matter, without the hassle of mining the universe. The 'self-replicating probe' factor is just a theory by a human scientist from earth. Just because evolution may happen someplace else, that doesn't have to imply that all intelligent life ticks and reasons ultimately the same. Everything is just a big 'if this than that' logic, where every part of the theory can be trashed. Until now the human race can only reason with our own brain. More advanced life forms could reason with endlessly intelligent A.I. and could come to completely different conclusions. For example if it is a good strategy to visit or be detected by primitive animal life forms like us. Maybe they want just obverse us, like Bostrom mentioned.

trendspotteron JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules

I think Nick Bostrom should have focused more on the time and randomness factor. Maybe there was life in our galaxy, but they visited us before humans have lived. Or we have been visited (think peruvian desert drawings [1]), but before we as human race were as advanced as we are today and they left our boring planet to visit another galaxy. There are probably more than 170 billion (1.7 × 1011) galaxies...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines