http://techcrunch.com – An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore there’s a time when they’re “in” your product or service, and a time when they’re “out” of said product or service. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Facebook had its big coming-out party for mobile on Wednesday, and its Home launcher will soon start shipping exclusively on an HTC device. This is the social network’s first crack at being the default experience on any device. Until now, using Facebook has been a completely optional and background experience, meaning you’d have to visit its website or download one of its apps. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. So let’s be upfront about a couple of things. First, I went to the OUYA party at GDC. Second, I also was invited to the pre-dinner beforehand. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Patricia Nakache is a general partner at Trinity Ventures where she invests in early stage social commerce and entertainment companies. Follow her on Twitter @pnakache. The prevailing wisdom among entrepreneurs these days is that they should initially fund their startups with a $1-2 million convertible note. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — spent a too-quick hour on Facebook Home, Twitter’s new deep linking Cards, and the jousting over Webkit. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Twitter rolled out sweeping updates to all of its mobile properties this week, mostly to support the new Twitter Cards, but unfortunately, those who are using the service on Android aren’t so happy. The app has always been a bit buggy on the Android platform, but the issues that are being reported are more than just a little problematic. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – If you haven’t heard of Whisper yet, get ready to. It’s the latest social app to capture the attention of a huge — and growing — audience of users, as well as the attention of a group of investors. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.opensuse.org – Last week we let openSUSE 12.3 out of the gate. Like always, it was exciting and fun to see the result of so much preparation get to our users! So, how did it go and what did we learn? Conversations We had great conversations with you on google plus and we were very happy that 40 people joined the openSUSE team hangout on the release day! (Distributions)
Email this pagehttp://androidforums.com – Hi, Earlier tonight I turned on pc, then noticed Win 8 Updates was doing it's work. Once that settled down, I went onto YouTube and found I had lost every one of my videos that I had built up over a good few months. Is this a google thing or a Win 8 thing??. Why do Apple and Android assume everyone wants and desperately needs fb or twitter. Personally I wish they would cease to exist. (General)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – The idea of RSS was one that never quite gripped with normal Internet users. Sure, for us geeks who absolutely love consuming as much information as possible, RSS is a wonderland. When Google launched Reader in 2005, I can remember surfing to all of my favorite sites and looking for that little RSS logo, clicking on it and subscribing to the feed. (IT news)
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