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With $1.2M Of Seed Funding, A SoMoLo App For Augmented Reality Fans: Wallit
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From Foursquare to Pinwheel and Highlight and many, many more besides, we’ve seen a lot of apps created for users to share location, information and pictures with friends and like-minded people. So it seems inevitable that to help set themselves apart from the pack, newer launches will start coalescing more...
After A Rough Year, Startup Entrepreneur Decides To Spend 5 Days In Total Silence
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Being an entrepreneur is no easy task. After having a rough year, entrepreneur Brenden Mulligan needed some time to process what happened and find a way to come to peace with it. "The most important relationship of my life came to an end and dealing with the pain and grief...
Want to be a reporter? Learn to code
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Prospective journalists need to do more than dig up dirt and craft a good lead. They need to know to program, according to Miranda Mulligan, executive director of Northwestern University’s Knight News Innovation Lab. But journalism students show what she sees as a lack of desire to learn JavaScript, HTML,...
Callaway upro mx+ will show you a real view of the golf course, won't give you a mulligan
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While Callaway has been helping you navigate the golf course for awhile, all its imagery has been abstract; that's not much help if it turns out a patch marked "rough" on one hole is really shorthand for "crocodile-infested swamp." To that end, Callaway is launching the upro mx+, an...
Dirty Pillows: The Unsolved Problems Of Sharing Services
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[Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.] When my wife and I travel, we rarely stay in hotels. We usually either stay in hostels or apartments. The apartments...
This developer won’t quit until he has built the best version of Instagram for the web
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Good things come to those who wait, as we learned with Instagram’s massive Android success. For those of us who still use laptop and desktop computers (crazy, right?), there still isn’t an official way to brose the beautiful photos on Instagram, other than one at a time. For developer Brenden...
How To Find Out Who Facebook Thinks Your Best Friends Are
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Facebook has never revealed the exact formula it uses to determine who your best friends are--and of course, it's changed over time. But hacker Jacob Mulligan has found a way to figure out who Facebook thinks you're closest to. As Mulligan writes, Facebook likely does this by analyzing recent social...
Newly Redesigned Cluster Makes Photo Sharing Among Small Groups Simpler, More Personal
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Despite the ubiquity of smartphones and the insane number of photos we now save and share, surprisingly, no one has yet to figure out how to shift more personal and private photo-sharing away from old school methods like SMS and email, and into a dedicated mobile application. A number of startups, however,...
Opinion: The problem with software patents? They don't scale
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Timothy B. Lee, a regular contributor to Ars Technica and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, has joined forces with Christina Mulligan, a postdoctoral resident fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, to research a key problem posed by software patents: the cost of finding...
Onesheet On-The-Go: Music Service Now Lets Artists Connect With Fans Across Mobile Devices
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If you’re in a band and you don’t know Onesheet, you should check it out. For those unfamiliar, Onesheet is, as its name would suggest, a one-page dossier for bands. We originally referred to (and have continued referring to) Onesheet as the “About.me for bands/musicians,” but that analogy is annoying...
ClearStory Data raises $9M and might actually make data your friend
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ClearStory Data, the much-hyped Palo Alto, Calif., startup trying to make easy work of complex analytics, plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised a $9 million Series A round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures as the company inches closer to general availability in...
Fly Or Die: Highlight
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Opinions on the new break-out social location app Highlight certainly aren’t in short supply. Alexia thinks that friend-of-friend notifications should be customizable and that women may have trouble getting on board with the idea of constantly broadcasting their location. Eldon thinks that Highlight goes past social networking to be...
CoCoon, The Newest Home For Startups In Hong Kong
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Editor’s note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. I recently returned from a trip where I embedded myself in a few Asian cities and worked as if I were...
Fast Talk: Elle Luna's Holistic Vision Of Design
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Meet Elle Luna, a former IDEO designer who believes design plays a role at every stage of the process--even before teams start to think visually.Elle Luna calls herself a "designer, storyteller, and startup advisor." As a mentor at the Designer Fund, which believes designers should be startup founders rather than...
There's One Glaring Way Path Is A Better Mobile App Than Facebook, Twitter Or Instagram
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Entrepreneur Brendan Mulligan is impressed by Dave Morin's mobile social network, Path. He publicly proclaimed on TechCrunch, "It's one of the best mobile products I've ever used and possibly the best true social network I've ever been a part of." Mulligan compares Path to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Path, he...
Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA
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Oh, EA. I would imagine that there are more than a few execs and PR people who are hoping their employer is siphoning off a bit of its $5 billion market cap and putting it towards time machine R&D. With this post-facto mulligan tearing a new hole in the spacetime...
Avid Gamer (And Minnesota Vikings Punter) Chris Kluwe Does The Math On How Much EA's SimCity Debacle Cost EA
Why It's Mathematically Impossible To Avoid Infringing On Software Patents
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In 2008 James Bessen and Michael Meurer came out with a truly excellent book, Patent Failure. It's chock full of excellent information and a pretty wide survey of the research showing just how much patents harm innovation. While I don't necessarily agree with the "solutions" proposed, the key thesis of...
The Social Networking Patent Thicket Consists Of At Least 30,000 Patents
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M-CAM's analysis of the Yahoo/Facebook patent nuclear war has some interesting points. It's worth checking out the full thing, but I wanted to call attention to two them. First, in showing just how ridiculous the patent situation is in the social networking space, M-CAM looks just at the 10 patents...
This Woman Has The Midas Touch And Now She's Solving A Big Problem With Big Data
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ClearStory Data is a big data startup launched this week that has lot going for it: its founders, its VC backers, and its cool technology. ClearStory uses technology from Google to help companies make sense of the massive amount of data they already have stored in many different systems....
After Everyone Points Out iPhone Will Be Cheaper Than Galaxy S4 On AT&T, Carrier Claims A Mulligan
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AT&T has issued a clarification on its Galaxy S4 pricing via the unique method of a small statement in a footnote to an earlier post. Previously, AT&T had announced via its consumer blog on March 28 that it would be offering the Galaxy S4 starting at $249.99 with pre-orders beginning...
ClearStory Data raises $9m from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures and others
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ClearStory Data has raised $9 million through a Series A funding round to continue its big data solution, which is designed to help businesses combine and analyze data from corporate and third party sources. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers were involved in the funding round, along with Andreessen Horowitz and...
Has Uber fixed its surge-pricing problem?
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Last year during certain major events — Halloween and New Year’s Eve — Uber introduced surge pricing to deal with high demand for its cars. The thinking was that by increasing rates, it would have a greater supply of drivers, because they would be more likely to work if they...
New Book Makes The Case For Why Copyright Needs To Be Reformed
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I've argued in the past that copyright is a non-partisan issue, in that the concepts behind fixing a broken copyright system shouldn't be specific to either major political party. Unfortunately, historically, that's meant that there's been bi-partisan interest in helping Hollywood expand the system over and over and over and...
Why Highlight Wasn’t A Breakout Success At SXSW
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[Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.] Highlight is one of the most talked about apps out there. It was touted to be the breakout app at this year’s...
How Apple And Google Could Make QR Codes Mainstream
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Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. QR codes are everywhere. Frustratingly everywhere in my opinion. Countless companies put them on marketing materials, but not a single person I know...
Path's Consistency Of Tone
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Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. Admittedly, I have a negative bias towards overhyped startups. If a company gets a lot of attention before they do anything significant, I’m...
Avoiding Unnecessary Charges While Traveling Internationally With An iPhone
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Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an avid traveler and entrepreneur who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. In my opinion, the smartphone is the greatest travel tool ever created. They enable you to be in a completely foreign place, yet immediately have access...
Munchery Is Trying to Reinvent The Personal Chef, And Early Signs Are Promising
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Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. There are plenty of people who can make great home cooked meals (ex: homemakers) and plenty of people who would probably pay a reasonable priced for someone to cook...
TipList Wants To Replace That Ubiquitous Travel Tips Email
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From the one man team that brought you Photopile and Onesheet comes another drop dead simple app, TipList. Deciding to take a trip around the world with his wife Elle last summer, creator Brenden Mulligan received a deluge of “City Tips” emails, or those emails full of must see sights,...
Highlight Post-SXSW
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Highlight Post-SXSW: Some good thoughts on Highlight (a CrunchFund portfolio company) by my good friend Brenden Mulligan. I wrote up my thoughts leading up to SXSW, Brenden’s thoughts are obviously post-SXSW. I’m with him that SXSW was far from an ideal place for the app to fully break out for a...
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