A few months ago the guys at OWLE reached out me about this new device they hoped to build and sell. They were looking for a few contacts and I was happy to make some introductions for them. Turns out it helped, their prototype and various dreams have now become a reality. In fact just yesterday one of the first OWLE units showed up at my front door. Basically it’s an add-on for the iPhone that turns the Jesus phone into a series video device. Included is a new (and AWESOME) lens, a directorial microphone and solid case to house it all. If you want to learn more about OWLE head…
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Sean Percival's Blog
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OWLE Unboxing [video]
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Twilight New Moon Red Carpet Live Stream
15 Nov 2009 | 6:32 pmMySpace Twilight Saga: New Moon Red Carpet Live Stream Yes I already know you’re crazy excited about the Twilight New Moon Red Carpet Premiere, or maybe that’s just my wife? Oh I’m so getting trouble for letting that slip. In any case, should you be into such things you’ll definitely want to check out the above live stream starting at Monday 6:00pm PST. MySpace is streaming the entire event live over on the Twilight New Moon page as well. Thankfully we are out of town tomorrow, otherwise I’m sure I would be begging MySpace PR for a spot on the red carpet for my… -
MyFeedSync for MySpace
12 Nov 2009 | 10:13 amAs I always say, there is better living through syndication. Especially today where content creators are rarely confined to just one platform. Instead they produce across several platforms, everything from Flickr to Twitter and of course their blogs. Most social savvy users also have profiles across a myriad of services, and sometimes it’s difficult to keep all these profiles up-to-date with your latest content. So for me, and I assume many others, having the ability pipe in external content into a social media profile is always a huge win. So with that in mind, I’m happy to… -
Clash of the Titans Trailer
10 Nov 2009 | 5:47 pmClash of the Titans Trailer In ‘Clash of the Titans,’ the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Sam Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Ralph Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep… -
Prince of Persia Sands of Time Trailer
2 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pmThe trailer for the new Prince of Persia movie is now out. Check it out below. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in HDTrailer Park | MySpace Video
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Manolith
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50 Cent’s Entourage Roughs Up Marv Albert
20 Nov 2009 | 5:53 pmI love this job. I’ve written things that should never ever leave a human mouth, and this would be Exhibit A in that. Backstage at Jimmy Kimmel’s show, 50 Cent’s crew mistook Marv Albert for someone important and apparently tried to beat him down. 50’s getting crazy with his beefs, mang. Marv Albert, for those of you who are unaware, could kick your ass. He’s the voice of the NBA, probably dresses in bondage gear and bites people, which means not only does he spend all day mingling with people that could kick your ass, in his off-time he keeps his pimp hand… -
QB Wins The Game With Unbelievable Pass
20 Nov 2009 | 4:53 pmI think the “behind-the-head” pass was completely unecessary, but one of the coolest I’ve ever seen. Via: Break Videos -
Photo of the Day: “Improperly Named Gloves”
20 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pmThe QA person got fired after this product was released. (Photo Via: CollegeHumor) -
Daily Link Roundup
20 Nov 2009 | 3:45 pm10 Things Your Grandfather Was Doing By The Time He Was Your Age Primer Google Is Taking Over Everything FunnyCrave Ridiculous Bus Sign Guyism 10 Underrated Superhero Movies Gunaxin Cop Gets 7-Day Paid Vacation For Tasering Child BoingBoing 50 Cent’s Newest Beef: Marv Albert? MTV 6 Best Man-cations MadeMan -
Man Only Spoke Klingon To Son For Three Years
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmThis is an interesting story to me. There’s liking Star Trek, and then there’s liking Star Trek a little too much. Like, way too much. Like, to the point where it’s detrimental to your child’s development and opinion of you. Case in point, a man in Minnesota only spoke to his son in Klingon for the first three years of his life. Star Trek only recently became actually cool, with the new release of the prequel. Before it was always borderline entertaining at best, and I say that as a Trekkie. So the motivation for d’Armond Speers teaching his son Klingon is…
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TechCrunch
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London VC: European Startups Need To Work Much Harder
21 Nov 2009 | 4:50 amThis is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I'm allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face. One of the biggest challenges for any investor (regardless of the stage/type of investment they target) and founders alike is hiring great talent. In early stage investing the team may be the single criteria upon which an investment decision is based (considering how many times when that's… -
Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense)
21 Nov 2009 | 1:55 amLast week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. and Morgan Stanley to assist in the sales process. According to the reports, AOL was looking to offload the asset for $300 million and talking to a pair of non-US companies about an acquisition (likely in a part cash, part stock transaction). Question is: who are those potential buyers? We’ve pinned down one who, sources say, has already engaged in… -
CrunchGear 2009 Gift Guide: Peripherals
20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pmPeripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don't say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you're reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on links with the mouse that came with it, and trusting your data to that 512MB USB stick they gave you at work, then you should consider accessorizing. -
This Week On TechCrunch: Real-time distractions, Indian outsourcing, rumours, layoffs and Scoble’s brave new world of tweets
20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 pmHonestly, it’s impossible to work in these conditions. I’m writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the ‘real-time’ web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I’ve been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I’ve been Tweeting from the audience, I’ve been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I’ve been living the real time dream – which probably explains why I haven’t done any actual work all day. And now I’m twenty minutes away from my… -
Getting To The SuperTweet: Speedi.ly Classifies The Real Time Web
20 Nov 2009 | 7:33 pmKeith Teare was hanging around the Real-Time CrunchUp today showing off his newest project – Speedi.ly. What does Speedi.ly do? One thing, very well and at scale. Speedi.ly takes a piece of content, or grabs the content from a URL, and analyzes it. It does this very fast and it outputs some key data. Speedi.ly tells you the language of the content, categorizes it (topics, keywords), and additional metadata. This metadata payload is exactly what Robert Scoble is talking about with his SuperTweet idea. Here’s what Speedi.ly returns for this story we wrote on the Skype/eBay sale:…
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Techmeme
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Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download (update: first impressions) (Vladislav Savov/Engadget)
20 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pmVladislav Savov / Engadget: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download (update: first impressions) — Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. -
Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What's Really Happening Now (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
20 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pmErick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What's Really Happening Now — Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What's Happening?” But if you want to know what's really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. -
YouTube pulls a Hulu - yanking API access from Popcorn Hour ... (Richard Lawler/Engadget)
20 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pmRichard Lawler / Engadget: YouTube pulls a Hulu — yanking API access from Popcorn Hour (Update: Google responds) — Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. -
Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)
20 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pmLeena Rao / TechCrunch: Seesmic Ventures Into Mobile With Powerful New Apps For Android And BlackBerry — Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. -
Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans (Tarmo Virki/Reuters)
20 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pmTarmo Virki / Reuters: Gameloft says it, others reining in Android plans — BARCELONA (Reuters) - French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google's Android platform.
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Guy Kawasaki
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The 19 bloggers Inc. thinks you should read
6 Nov 2009 | 6:20 pmInc. named 19 bloggers that you should read. We’ve aggregated them all in one place: Inc19.alltop. -
How to Get Found
4 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pmThe reality is that people and technology is getting better and better a blocking out unwanted interruptions—aka, “marketing.” Brian Halligan is the CEO of HubSpot, and he explains in my post on the American Express Open Forum “how to get found.” It’s all about creating great stuff and letting Google et al do what they do: find great stuff. -
How I tweet
2 Nov 2009 | 8:47 amBy popular demand (and some complaints), I’ve done a FAQ with myself about how I tweet. Hope this helps you use Twitter for your business too. I explain how I use ghostwriters and why I repeat my tweets among other “unusual” practices. -
Current Twitter Demo Script
28 Oct 2009 | 2:26 amThis is the set of links that I used to demo Twitter by going down through this list to show why Twitter is such a valuable marketing tool. Introduction Home page Profile page Monitor Search Guy Kawasaki or Alltop Starbucks VIA introduction Search for “Prius” or “Civic” Sell Dell Outlet Kogi BBQ Support Comcast Cares Engage JetBlue Virgin America Fandango Prospect Camaro Camaro near Palo Alto Advanced searches Surfing or skateboarding (shows how to eliminate extraneous results such as “surfing the web” How I Tweet - Find Alltop MyAlltop helped me find this. -
How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness
26 Oct 2009 | 4:24 pmOver at the American Express Open Forum blog, I explain how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are: Don’t tell other people how to tweet. Don’t tell the world that you unfollowed someone. Don’t ask people why they unfollowed you. Don’t constantly tweet mundane updates and babble. Don’t use a small picture for an avatar. To read all ten and why they impugn your intelligence, click here.
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Matt Cutts
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Live-blogging the Google Chrome OS event
19 Nov 2009 | 9:50 amI’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like. For starters, here’s what Google announced about Chrome OS back in July. At that time, Google called out “speed, simplicity and security” as the key ideas behind Chrome OS. Google released Chrome a little over a year ago with a novel idea–a comic book to describe the features and design decisions behind Chrome. Looks like Danny Sullivan is live blogging too. Google OS just noticed that the source code for Chrome OS is available. (Maybe… -
State of the Index, November 2009
17 Nov 2009 | 7:26 pmLast week I was in Las Vegas for PubCon, a conference for publishers, and I wanted to share the slides from my main presentation: When I get a chance, I’ll also re-create the talk on video and share the video with you, but in the mean time Lisa Barone did a nice live write-up and coverage of the Q&A. It’s always nice to see SEOs and webmasters that I’ve gotten to know from search conferences. For example, one night featured the traditional SEO Werewolf game, except with blackhats as the werewolves and whitehats as the villagers. Somehow in the middle of that party, we… -
Expect Caffeine after the holidays
10 Nov 2009 | 7:47 amBack in August we mentioned a developer preview of Caffeine, which is new technology that improves our indexing infrastructure. The feedback on Caffeine has been very positive, so we’re ready to move from the developer preview to the next stage of the roll out: going live with Caffeine at one data center. This means that a small percentage of Google’s users will benefit from the technology behind Caffeine in their regular searches. I know that webmasters can get anxious around this time of year, so I wanted to reassure site owners that the full Caffeine roll out will happen after… -
Gaping hole costume for Halloween 2009
31 Oct 2009 | 3:49 pmThis year for Halloween I tried to do a see-through hole in your body costume: It worked okay, but not great. The biggest problem was that I didn’t have a gadget lying around the house that could output live composite video. Both my normal video camera and my digital camera had exhausted batteries that wouldn’t recharge, which is a gadget fail on my part. And while my Flip video camera is tiny and it can output pre-recorded video through a composite cable, it can’t output live video (?!). Lame. I didn’t care enough to buy a new battery-operated gadget that could send… -
Export your Google Docs data
25 Oct 2009 | 8:56 pmOne of my favorite personal blog posts is about not trapping users’ data. In late 2006, Eric Schmidt declared “We would never trap user data.” Many of the major Google properties (search, Gmail, Calendar) make it trivial to export or download your data. In the past, Google Docs would let you export a single doc at a time, but Google Operating System runs down exactly how to batch export your Google Docs. For each type of document (text document, presentation, spreadsheet, etc.) you can choose what file format to get. I had about 81 personal docs (~13MB) and it only took…
