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Tim Hwang Isn't A Lawyer, But He Plays One Online
www.fastcompany.com
When he’s not ROFLing or being Awesome, this 25-year-old is serious about shaking up the legal profession--with an army of robots.Tim Hwang founded faux-law firm Robot Robot & Hwang in 2010 as “a legal startup” having a single human partner. While the site is a joke, Hwang’s declared mission--opening new...
SERIOUS QUESTION: How Are Lower Taxes Going To Fix The Jobs Problem?
www.businessinsider.com
There are two main problems in the U.S. economy: There are too few jobs Most of the jobs pay too little This state of affairs has left the most important customers in the U.S. economy--the formerly financially healthy middle class--starved for spending money. As any business executive will tell you,...
Keith Rabois: Why Square’s handcrafted approach to payments can win
gigaom.com
Mobile payment start-up Square has built a huge following in part by appealing to artisans and creators of hand crafted products. But the company is not just serving those merchants, it’s almost built in their image. The company has pushed a very design-focused product that has an almost artistic approach...
A copyright proponent's wish for presidential debate (Q&A)
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Robert Levine wrote a book critical of what he sees are attempts to weaken the ability of creators to earn a living. He wishes Washington could engage in serious debate about Web piracy. That's unlikely, he thinks. [Read more]...
LOLs Acquired: Here Are YouTube's Next 16 Comics
techcrunch.com
About a month ago, YouTube put out a request to its creators, asking for the funniest among them to apply and be considered for the newest version of its YouTube Next Creator program. While YouTube has previously sought creators in health and fitness, cooking, and vlogging categories, this time around...
Fast Company Vs. The Throwbots [Video]
www.fastcompany.com
iRobot, makers of the Roomba, just stopped by Fast Company's offices. They let us play with their new surveillance robot that you operate by throwing. Here's what happened. Boston-area firm iRobot is best known as the creators of the Roomba, the beloved floor-cleaning robots found in middle-class homes worldwide....
'Super Meat Boy' creators announce 'Mew-Genics,' a strange new game involving cats
www.theverge.com
The creators of the popular and infuriatingly difficult Super Meat Boy have announced a new title, Mew-Genics. The game is currently in development, and while the creators aren't yet ready to reveal gameplay or screenshots, they say that Mew-Genics will be randomly generated, involve cats, and is "by far...
Dark Sky Proves That Even The Weather Report Is Being Disrupted By Mobile Tech
www.fastcompany.com
Jack Turner and Adam Grossman were sick of getting stuck in the rain, so they created an app that predicts rainfall in hour-long intervals. For the creators of Dark Sky, having a TV meteorologist predict the week's weather wasn't good enough. They needed something more personal. They needed something...
Angry Birds Star Wars, Netbot for App.net, GAME, Discovery Channel HD, more
9to5mac.com
Angry Birds Star Wars: Rovio has been teasing the Star Wars edition of Angry Birds for a few weeks now, but today we get our first look at gameplay from the new title. The game appears to be just a Star Wars themed version of the traditional Angry Birds...
Oracle asks judge to throw out Google’s strongest evidence in Android trial
venturebeat.com
Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android. Schwartz was Sun’s CEO. Sun owned the Java programming language, which is used heavily in Android. Oracle bought Sun, acquiring Java in the...
Korean artist deconstructs ads to create abstract installations
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Equipped with the mentality that people have become numb to the overpowering presence of advertisements, Korean artist Shin il Kim has created a series of installations to promote a more active form of information consumption. As explained by The Creators Project, "Active Anesthesia-the Full of Square" displays commericals on...
Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes
allthingsd.com
Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened. Now there’s at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners and advertisers warm to the format. So why have podcasts disappeared from the new version of iTunes...
Club Jameco borrows from Etsy and Kickstarter, lets DIYers design, sell and buy project kits
www.engadget.com
Though electronics hobbyists may not have the same resources that the Maker Sheds of the world have to design, package and sell do-it-yourself kits, electronics component distributor Jameco plans to change that. With Club Jameco, enthusiasts can pitch their kit ideas to the electronic component wizards in Belmont, CA...
When Games Allow Mods, Beautiful Things Can Happen
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Recently, Mike wrote about the importance of externalities and spillovers in economics, and the fact that it's often best to allow other people to capture pieces of the value you create and build on top of it. Not only does this benefit the economy as a whole, it benefits the...
Rock The Post And CrowdHut Are Trying To Solve Two Of Crowdfunding's Biggest Pain Points
techcrunch.com
Entrepreneurship is one of the few non-partisan issues these days. As a potential engine of job creation, both sides tend to idealize startups and SMBs as the cure-all for a laconic economy and unemployment. Of course, to grow and create those jobs, startups need capital. And traditionally, the businesses that...
YouTube automatic captions now available in Spanish
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Cross posted from the Blog de YouTube en Español Last year, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views, or about 140 views for every person on earth. As the world tunes in to YouTube, we want everyone, in every language, to have the same opportunity to enjoy YouTube. So today,...
Super Angry Birds USB controller puts the sling back in your shot (video)
www.engadget.com
Yeah. We know. There are pretty much as many ways to play Angry Birds, as there are people who play it. That's a lot. However, the Super Angry Birds controller you see above speaks to us. Why? Because it's not just a sling shot, or a fudged use of...
Groupon Picks Up Breadcrumb For A Little POS Magic
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Groupon just announced via its blog that it has acquired Breadcrumb, the creators of an affordable point of sale system and iPad app that targets local restaurants. While the terms of the acquisition have not yet been disclosed, Groupon has made a run of acquisitions over the last six months,...
Appetite.io Detects Apps On Your iPhone's Homescreen So You Can Share Them With Others
techcrunch.com
Have you ever been curious about what apps other people are running on their iPhones, and specifically those which they’ve deemed awesome enough to warrant a coveted spot on their homescreen? If so, then you’ll probably get a kick out of Appetite.io, a new project from the creators of the simple...
Day one at Campus Party Europe - crowdfunding, cyborgs and Paulo Coelho
venturebeat.com
Campus Party Europe has begun with a bang, with Europe’s biggest tech party hosting the who’s-who of the tech, startup, science, design, software and robotics scene. VentureBeat syndication partner VentureVillage is here in Berlin all week checking out our pick of the speakers and workshops and getting in touch with...
Mightybell continues push into creative spaces, adjusts features based on users, lots more on the way
thenextweb.com
Mightybell launched in 2011 with the ambitious aim of creating user-generated pages full of useful content that could be shared by individuals, and grow with user participation. Mightybell at the time also touted ideas like guides creators could sell, item lists that would be monetized, analytics and more. However, nearly...
Mightybell continues push into creative spaces, adjusts features based on users, lots more on the way
Beat up Obama, Romney in 'Infinity Blade' creator's new political game
www.theverge.com
The next game from the creators of Infinity Blade will allow players to assume the role of a cartoon Barack Obama or Mitt Romney and beat up their opponent in a political debate using weapons, not words. The free iOS game Vote!!! awards players with a score that can...
3 Ways To Fix Google Play
www.fastcompany.com
It's not the lack of app that hurts Google's Play Store. It's the finding, rating, and fixing of them. Here's what developers and analysts see as Play's must-fix items.The week of June 18-22 was not a happy one for the creators of YouMail, a voicemail and call-screening service for Android...
Interactive sheet music app Tonara takes on a $4 million Series A
thenextweb.com
Today Tonara announced that it has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding led by Carmel Ventures, and participated in by the investors of its seed round, in which the company raised $750,000 in 2011. Tonara is an iOS application that displays sheet music, and follows users as they...
Which is Worse -- Sharing With Attribution, Or Plagiarism Without?
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At the end of last year we wrote about the case of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Federal Minister of Defense in Germany, who lost both his post and his doctorate when it turned out that he had plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis. Now the journal Science is reporting another...
Funding sought for Elite remake
www.bbc.co.uk
One of the creators of Elite is turning to Kickstarter to raise cash to produce an updated version of the classic video game....
Hatch for iPhone: a Tamagotchi pet for the 'Tiny Wings' era
www.theverge.com
Clear to-do app creators Impending and Realmac today announced Hatch, a Tamagotchi-esque digital pet for the iPhone launching this Spring. It's a radical departure from the two companies' previous collaboration, a colorful and innovative to-do app, but Hatch's sensibilities are similar. Just as Impending and Realmac redefined interactions on...
Blip launches studio focused on branded content
paidcontent.org
Blip, one of the more successful platforms for distributing online video through YouTube, is launching a new L.A.-based production studio focused on branded entertainment. Steve Woolf, previously VP of content for New York-based Blip, will run the new studio operation from his newly minted position as senior VP of content...
Quick List Of Successes In Which Copyright Didn't Matter
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There's sort of an odd back and forth that happens at Techdirt, where we spend a great deal of time highlighting all the success stories of artists and creators that managed quite well without operating under the stringent guidelines of intellectual property laws. Glyn Moody recently covered one such story...
Valve plans to sell apps via Steam ranging from "creativity to productivity"
thenextweb.com
Everybody wants their own app store and cloud, and Valve is no different. The source of many of the greatest games in the past few years (Portal 1 and 2, people!), Valve’s Steam game platform has become renowned for its ease of use in buying games and the Source game...
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