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		<title>Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Remember address book-gate ? Locationgate ? I-don&#8217;t-know-what-my-apps-are-doing-on-my-phone-gate? (Oh, that last one might not be a real thing.) Regardless, we&#8217;re living in age where companies are pushing us to rethink the boundaries between what we consider private, personal information and what should be public. The resulting backlash is an overreaction(-gate) when we discover that some of the data we presumed to be ours alone was actually being stored, accessed and shared by others&#8230;in many cases, &#8220;others&#8221; being mobile app developers. Well, leave it to a security firm to capitalize on the privacy scare trend. And by capitalize, I mean launch a $4 app that tells you what the apps on your phone are doing. Introducing  Bitdefender&#8217;s Clueful . Today, the security company has pushed Clueful into the iTunes App Store, claiming it can identify the &#8220;misdemeanant apps on your iPhone.&#8221;  (I believe &#8220;misdemeanant&#8221; is fancy talk for &#8220;naughty.&#8221;) Of course, Apple iPhone users don&#8217;t have much to fear in terms of malware &#8211; Apple curates and tests apps prior to admission. Google has a bigger malware problem, as it only kicks apps out after they&#8217;re discovered to be malicious. That being said, even Apple can&#8217;t test everything. And some users don&#8217;t understand that a social feature on their phone may require an app taking a peek at their address book, for example (the horror!), or tracking their location (ack! I&#8217;m being stalked!). While Bitdefender acknowledges that most apps are not malicious, it&#8217;s true that app developers can be careless with the way they handle user&#8217;s data. With Clueful, Bitdefender says it can now answer questions about what your apps are doing. It shows which apps are accessing your location, tracking your in-app usage, reading your address book, linking your actions across apps to a single identity, needlessly keep GPS running, thereby draining your battery, accessing your UDID, and a host of other ills. To do so, Clueful examines what applications are running in memory and then retrieves audit information from the &#8220;Clueful Cloud.&#8221; (That&#8217;s the name for the space where Bitdefender maintains all the data on apps, and it&#8217;s also the way they ensure communication between the app and Bitdefender’s research labs.) To create the Clueful Cloud, Bitdefender built proprietary technology similar to what they use for their anti-virus products, but customized for iOS apps. But because it’s a proprietary technology and patent pending, the company won&#8217;t go into detail about the specifics of how it works. But the long and short of it is this: Bitdefender tests apps, creates a database, and then shares that info with the Clueful app to give you insight about the apps you use on your phone. The iTunes App Store has hundreds of thousands of applications, but Bitdefender&#8217;s Cloud &#8220;only&#8221; has tens of thousands at launch. However, the database is still growing, and you can submit apps to be tested using the application. I&#8217;ve got an embarrassing number of apps on my phone, but after installing and running Clueful , it still managed to surprise me. (Solitaire was accessing my address book? What?) But the news wasn&#8217;t all bad &#8211; most of my apps were behaving. Clueful nicely differentiates between apps that &#8220;can&#8221; do something (like access your address book) versus those that &#8220;could&#8221; do something (like track your location). Plus, it highlight the good things apps do for you, too, like encrypt your data, for example. I&#8217;m not sure the app is worth $3.99, but if you&#8217;re at all curious about your apps, or just privacy-sensitive, this isn&#8217;t a bad tool to use. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Remember address book-gate ? Locationgate ? I-don&#8217;t-know-what-my-apps-are-doing-on-my-phone-gate? (Oh, that last one might not be a real thing.) Regardless, we&#8217;re living in age where companies are pushing us to rethink the boundaries between what we consider private, personal information and what should be public. The resulting backlash is an overreaction(-gate) when we discover that some of the data we presumed to be ours alone was actually being stored, accessed and shared by others&#8230;in many cases, &#8220;others&#8221; being mobile app developers. Well, leave it to a security firm to capitalize on the privacy scare trend. And by capitalize, I mean launch a $4 app that tells you what the apps on your phone are doing. Introducing  Bitdefender&#8217;s Clueful . Today, the security company has pushed Clueful into the iTunes App Store, claiming it can identify the &#8220;misdemeanant apps on your iPhone.&#8221;  (I believe &#8220;misdemeanant&#8221; is fancy talk for &#8220;naughty.&#8221;) Of course, Apple iPhone users don&#8217;t have much to fear in terms of malware &#8211; Apple curates and tests apps prior to admission. Google has a bigger malware problem, as it only kicks apps out after they&#8217;re discovered to be malicious. That being said, even Apple can&#8217;t test everything. And some users don&#8217;t understand that a social feature on their phone may require an app taking a peek at their address book, for example (the horror!), or tracking their location (ack! I&#8217;m being stalked!). While Bitdefender acknowledges that most apps are not malicious, it&#8217;s true that app developers can be careless with the way they handle user&#8217;s data. With Clueful, Bitdefender says it can now answer questions about what your apps are doing. It shows which apps are accessing your location, tracking your in-app usage, reading your address book, linking your actions across apps to a single identity, needlessly keep GPS running, thereby draining your battery, accessing your UDID, and a host of other ills. To do so, Clueful examines what applications are running in memory and then retrieves audit information from the &#8220;Clueful Cloud.&#8221; (That&#8217;s the name for the space where Bitdefender maintains all the data on apps, and it&#8217;s also the way they ensure communication between the app and Bitdefender’s research labs.) To create the Clueful Cloud, Bitdefender built proprietary technology similar to what they use for their anti-virus products, but customized for iOS apps. But because it’s a proprietary technology and patent pending, the company won&#8217;t go into detail about the specifics of how it works. But the long and short of it is this: Bitdefender tests apps, creates a database, and then shares that info with the Clueful app to give you insight about the apps you use on your phone. The iTunes App Store has hundreds of thousands of applications, but Bitdefender&#8217;s Cloud &#8220;only&#8221; has tens of thousands at launch. However, the database is still growing, and you can submit apps to be tested using the application. I&#8217;ve got an embarrassing number of apps on my phone, but after installing and running Clueful , it still managed to surprise me. (Solitaire was accessing my address book? What?) But the news wasn&#8217;t all bad &#8211; most of my apps were behaving. Clueful nicely differentiates between apps that &#8220;can&#8221; do something (like access your address book) versus those that &#8220;could&#8221; do something (like track your location). Plus, it highlight the good things apps do for you, too, like encrypt your data, for example. I&#8217;m not sure the app is worth $3.99, but if you&#8217;re at all curious about your apps, or just privacy-sensitive, this isn&#8217;t a bad tool to use. </p>
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		<title>Disrupt NYC Day 1: Your Startup Battlefield Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 04:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our very first day of Disrupt NYC is over and the conference started off with a bang. We had memorable chats, dove into fashion for a bit, hung out with the Startup Alley companies and witnessed 15 startups launch their products in our first day of the Startup Battlefield. Even though we will have brand new companies launching tomorrow while fighting for the ultimate prize of $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup, we wanted to take a moment to highlight all that we saw today. There were some brilliant companies, so be sure to check all of them out below. The Internet was buzzing with positive words about each. This is going to be a tough battle. Which company was your favorite? Session 1: Disrupting Learning and Decision Making SpokenLayer Read the web with your ears. SpokenLayer delivers the written web as audio. Instantly. Read by authors, real people and really smart robots. In your pocket, on your time. Answer Factory Cyfeon invented Answer Factory to improve how businesses made decisions and understand their data. Answer Factory immediately operationalizes any data source, regardless of its format, size or location, resulting in improved answer quality. Ark Ark is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even search your friends across multiple social networks. Koemei Koemei is a self-service cloud-platform and API for automated transcription and captioning of video content at large scale. Incident (gTar) Incodent is a consumer electronics company aiming to make creating and interacting with music as enjoyable and casual as listening to it. Session 2: Disrupting Processes UberConference UberConference is a simple, free and visual conferencing tool. BroadPeak Partners Broadpeak Partners brings you K3, an interface harness that standardizes interfaces without the complexity of EAI/ESB. CallApp CallApp was founded in 2011 by a group of passionate industry experts, well funded VCs and angels. CallApp makes each call more fun and productive. Powered by a Universal Crowdsourced Contact-Genome, CallApp provides the Ultimate Calling Experience via its Social Phone CRM &#38; Interaction Platform. Open Garden Open Garden lets you share your mobile Internet among all your devices. KurbKarma KurbKarma delivers a social network for parking that connects people with killer parking to people seeking parking. This mobile app facilitates a peer-to-peer exchange and rewards both parties &#8211; parking karma at your fingertips. Session 3: Disrupting Media Punch! Punch&#8217;s interactive publishing platform radically reduces the cost, time and risk of creating apps for tablets by removing the need to code. It also enables Punch&#8217;s orginal entertainment iPad app, the &#8220;Punch! Culture Shelf&#8221;. StyleSaint Designer goods for under $100. An online eTailer where the community sets the trends. Stevie Stevie turns online video and social graphs into a broadcast-like TV experience, creating entertainment that is personal and social across platforms. TagBrand TagBrand is the service for people who love brands. Babelverse (Startup Alley Audience Choice Winner) Babelverse won the opportunity to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt from the Startup Alley and with little notice ended up giving a slick pitch. Essentially this is a solution for universal speech translation, powered by a global community of human interpreters: it means anyone can be an interpreter. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Our very first day of Disrupt NYC is over and the conference started off with a bang. We had memorable chats, dove into fashion for a bit, hung out with the Startup Alley companies and witnessed 15 startups launch their products in our first day of the Startup Battlefield. Even though we will have brand new companies launching tomorrow while fighting for the ultimate prize of $50,000 and the Disrupt Cup, we wanted to take a moment to highlight all that we saw today. There were some brilliant companies, so be sure to check all of them out below. The Internet was buzzing with positive words about each. This is going to be a tough battle. Which company was your favorite? Session 1: Disrupting Learning and Decision Making SpokenLayer Read the web with your ears. SpokenLayer delivers the written web as audio. Instantly. Read by authors, real people and really smart robots. In your pocket, on your time. Answer Factory Cyfeon invented Answer Factory to improve how businesses made decisions and understand their data. Answer Factory immediately operationalizes any data source, regardless of its format, size or location, resulting in improved answer quality. Ark Ark is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even search your friends across multiple social networks. Koemei Koemei is a self-service cloud-platform and API for automated transcription and captioning of video content at large scale. Incident (gTar) Incodent is a consumer electronics company aiming to make creating and interacting with music as enjoyable and casual as listening to it. Session 2: Disrupting Processes UberConference UberConference is a simple, free and visual conferencing tool. BroadPeak Partners Broadpeak Partners brings you K3, an interface harness that standardizes interfaces without the complexity of EAI/ESB. CallApp CallApp was founded in 2011 by a group of passionate industry experts, well funded VCs and angels. CallApp makes each call more fun and productive. Powered by a Universal Crowdsourced Contact-Genome, CallApp provides the Ultimate Calling Experience via its Social Phone CRM &amp; Interaction Platform. Open Garden Open Garden lets you share your mobile Internet among all your devices. KurbKarma KurbKarma delivers a social network for parking that connects people with killer parking to people seeking parking. This mobile app facilitates a peer-to-peer exchange and rewards both parties &#8211; parking karma at your fingertips. Session 3: Disrupting Media Punch! Punch&#8217;s interactive publishing platform radically reduces the cost, time and risk of creating apps for tablets by removing the need to code. It also enables Punch&#8217;s orginal entertainment iPad app, the &#8220;Punch! Culture Shelf&#8221;. StyleSaint Designer goods for under $100. An online eTailer where the community sets the trends. Stevie Stevie turns online video and social graphs into a broadcast-like TV experience, creating entertainment that is personal and social across platforms. TagBrand TagBrand is the service for people who love brands. Babelverse (Startup Alley Audience Choice Winner) Babelverse won the opportunity to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt from the Startup Alley and with little notice ended up giving a slick pitch. Essentially this is a solution for universal speech translation, powered by a global community of human interpreters: it means anyone can be an interpreter. </p>
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		<title>K3 Server Is Making Enterprise Application Integrations More Efficient, Reduces Work By Half</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 01:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ How is data moved between systems? In the enterprise environment, point-to-point application interfaces are either handled with expensive and cumbersome utilities or, more likely, with custom code&#8230;and frankly, a lot of manual labor. BroadPeak Partners has a better idea. The company is today introducing its application known as K3 Server , a system that aims to disrupt the traditional enterprise interface market by making it easier for I.T. to build, and for end users to tweak, the way code is handled, transformed, reconciled, mapped and enriched as it moves in between systems. BroadPeak is a software consultancy formed in 2006, whose founders have backgrounds in energy trading and capital markets. The idea for K3 Server came to them last year, when they saw the difficulties in how trades were being brought off an exchange and managed for one of their clients. &#8220;It really wasn&#8217;t about retrieving trades from that exchange,&#8221; explains co-founder Vivek Pathak, &#8220;it was about moving data from one system to another system effectively, in a way that was transparent for the business users, and that had fail safe mechanisms to alert when things went wrong (as always does in big tech enterprises), and to give a way for a simple business user to manage the logic of that integration thereafter.&#8221; And so K3 was born. But the product isn&#8217;t just meant for moving data off an exchange &#8211; the technology BroadPeak designed can be used for anything. Containing 140 open source components which are initially put to work by in-house I.T., the system can be purposed for moving and managing data between just about anything, from data stores in price repositories to electronic health records. The system offers three main functions: transparency (allowing you to see what data goes through and what fails, so you can act upon that), mapping (field x in System A maps to field y in System B) and rules (if data meets this criteria, then take this action). For IT, K3 Server means they no longer have to re-invent the wheel every time they need to translate data between two systems or develop a failover routine, for example. The framework allows them to call up the component instead of coding these pieces from scratch every time they&#8217;re used. But while the main data highway, so to speak, is set up by IT, the interesting thing about K3 Server is how the data is handled afterwards. In a traditional environment every little tweak or adjustment would have users scrambling back to developers with a change request. But K3&#8242;s &#8220;Rules Manager&#8221; offers a GUI interface that lets end-users customize their own &#8220;if/then&#8221; statements for how the data needs to be enriched afterwards (add this reference, set this field, e.g.) Pathak says that in early beta testing, the GUI was simple enough for an end-user to handle, even though this was someone for whom using an Excel spreadsheet was considered a technical feat. Plus, the company claims that using the K3 Server system instead of traditional processes results in a 50% reduction in deployment, operation and maintenance of enterprise integrations. And who doesn&#8217;t love less work, right? Given BroadPeak&#8217;s wide client connections from their consultancy practice, they&#8217;re not worried about signing up their first users. However, others interested can sign up to beta test here . For those waiting for the public launch, it&#8217;s very close, we&#8217;re told, and the system will then be licensed on a per-server basis, renewed annually. BroadPeak bootstrapped their efforts, spending around $500,000 on K3 Server&#8217;s development, and is not looking to immediately raise funding. Disrupt Q&#38;A Judges: Adrian Aoun, Fritz Lanman, Dave Samuel &#38; Michelle Zatlyn MZ: What are the benefits of this? A: Fast to deploy, really after replacing custom code. Market is around trading, primarily. Can move 30K trades per second through K3. Benefit to business: gets data to right place at right time. AA: You know it&#8217;s not just about wrapping data, it&#8217;s about taking actions on data. How much extensibility is in the UI? And what happens when you pass the limits of that? A: Have 65 integration patterns, plus open source components. We know that in the future we need to create UI transparency into those integration patterns. FL: Which verticals are being targeted? A: Trading is a great place to start, because there&#8217;s a low tolerance for losing data. Also looking at healthcare and CRM. FL: Risks in sales process? A: Developers are used to developing their own stuff. Wish I could say it&#8217;s been easy. Sales cycles are about 6 months. DS: More about the team? A: Trading biz and tech for long time. (See above) AA: Is it easy to pitch CIOs? A: Most boring part &#8211; mapping &#8211; is the bane of CIOs, they&#8217;re backed up all the time. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> How is data moved between systems? In the enterprise environment, point-to-point application interfaces are either handled with expensive and cumbersome utilities or, more likely, with custom code&#8230;and frankly, a lot of manual labor. BroadPeak Partners has a better idea. The company is today introducing its application known as K3 Server , a system that aims to disrupt the traditional enterprise interface market by making it easier for I.T. to build, and for end users to tweak, the way code is handled, transformed, reconciled, mapped and enriched as it moves in between systems. BroadPeak is a software consultancy formed in 2006, whose founders have backgrounds in energy trading and capital markets. The idea for K3 Server came to them last year, when they saw the difficulties in how trades were being brought off an exchange and managed for one of their clients. &#8220;It really wasn&#8217;t about retrieving trades from that exchange,&#8221; explains co-founder Vivek Pathak, &#8220;it was about moving data from one system to another system effectively, in a way that was transparent for the business users, and that had fail safe mechanisms to alert when things went wrong (as always does in big tech enterprises), and to give a way for a simple business user to manage the logic of that integration thereafter.&#8221; And so K3 was born. But the product isn&#8217;t just meant for moving data off an exchange &#8211; the technology BroadPeak designed can be used for anything. Containing 140 open source components which are initially put to work by in-house I.T., the system can be purposed for moving and managing data between just about anything, from data stores in price repositories to electronic health records. The system offers three main functions: transparency (allowing you to see what data goes through and what fails, so you can act upon that), mapping (field x in System A maps to field y in System B) and rules (if data meets this criteria, then take this action). For IT, K3 Server means they no longer have to re-invent the wheel every time they need to translate data between two systems or develop a failover routine, for example. The framework allows them to call up the component instead of coding these pieces from scratch every time they&#8217;re used. But while the main data highway, so to speak, is set up by IT, the interesting thing about K3 Server is how the data is handled afterwards. In a traditional environment every little tweak or adjustment would have users scrambling back to developers with a change request. But K3&#8242;s &#8220;Rules Manager&#8221; offers a GUI interface that lets end-users customize their own &#8220;if/then&#8221; statements for how the data needs to be enriched afterwards (add this reference, set this field, e.g.) Pathak says that in early beta testing, the GUI was simple enough for an end-user to handle, even though this was someone for whom using an Excel spreadsheet was considered a technical feat. Plus, the company claims that using the K3 Server system instead of traditional processes results in a 50% reduction in deployment, operation and maintenance of enterprise integrations. And who doesn&#8217;t love less work, right? Given BroadPeak&#8217;s wide client connections from their consultancy practice, they&#8217;re not worried about signing up their first users. However, others interested can sign up to beta test here . For those waiting for the public launch, it&#8217;s very close, we&#8217;re told, and the system will then be licensed on a per-server basis, renewed annually. BroadPeak bootstrapped their efforts, spending around $500,000 on K3 Server&#8217;s development, and is not looking to immediately raise funding. Disrupt Q&amp;A Judges: Adrian Aoun, Fritz Lanman, Dave Samuel &amp; Michelle Zatlyn MZ: What are the benefits of this? A: Fast to deploy, really after replacing custom code. Market is around trading, primarily. Can move 30K trades per second through K3. Benefit to business: gets data to right place at right time. AA: You know it&#8217;s not just about wrapping data, it&#8217;s about taking actions on data. How much extensibility is in the UI? And what happens when you pass the limits of that? A: Have 65 integration patterns, plus open source components. We know that in the future we need to create UI transparency into those integration patterns. FL: Which verticals are being targeted? A: Trading is a great place to start, because there&#8217;s a low tolerance for losing data. Also looking at healthcare and CRM. FL: Risks in sales process? A: Developers are used to developing their own stuff. Wish I could say it&#8217;s been easy. Sales cycles are about 6 months. DS: More about the team? A: Trading biz and tech for long time. (See above) AA: Is it easy to pitch CIOs? A: Most boring part &#8211; mapping &#8211; is the bane of CIOs, they&#8217;re backed up all the time. </p>
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		<title>StatCounter: Google Chrome Pushes Past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Again)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Well, it&#8217;s official. Or at least it&#8217;s official if you believe in StatCounter&#8217;s data . Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser has overtaken Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer. For real this time. Maybe. The stat-counting firm compiled data for the week of May 14th through May 20th, showing that Chrome had a market share of 32.76%, compared with IE&#8217;s 31.94%. This isn&#8217;t the first time that Chrome has gotten ahead, however. And the race itself is close &#8211; perhaps too close to call. At the start of this week, Chrome dipped back down to 31.88% market share, which was only a bit ahead of IE&#8217;s 31.47%. There&#8217;s also the big concern regarding StatCounter&#8217;s data. As Microsoft (of course) has pointed out before , these aren&#8217;t necessarily numbers you can take to the bank. Last month, when Chrome briefly won the weekend battle, Microsoft downright ranted about the quality of StatCounter&#8217;s data on its official blog. (It appeared, at the time, that Chrome usage surged on weekends, proving that users liked Chrome better when they had a choice &#8211; outside of I.T. control at work, that is). Microsoft noted that StatCounter doesn’t adjust for pre-rendering (loading pages in the background which the user never sees and may never even click on), nor does it “geoweight” the data to paint a more accurate picture of worldwide usage. Instead, with StatCounter, it’s just raw data. Microsoft also said that if browser share had been weighted appropriately, it wouldn’t have been such a close race. But StatCounter says that, as of May 1st, it has been adjusting its browser stats to remove the effect of pre-rendering in Google Chrome. From that point on, pre-rendered pages (which are not actually viewed) have not included in its stats. Say what now, Microsoft? While those discrepancies are notable, it&#8217;s still worth mentioning that IE’s share has been steadily dropping for some time. StatCounter may just be the canary in the coal mine indicting the bigger shift ahead. via GlobalNerdy ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Well, it&#8217;s official. Or at least it&#8217;s official if you believe in StatCounter&#8217;s data . Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser has overtaken Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer. For real this time. Maybe. The stat-counting firm compiled data for the week of May 14th through May 20th, showing that Chrome had a market share of 32.76%, compared with IE&#8217;s 31.94%. This isn&#8217;t the first time that Chrome has gotten ahead, however. And the race itself is close &#8211; perhaps too close to call. At the start of this week, Chrome dipped back down to 31.88% market share, which was only a bit ahead of IE&#8217;s 31.47%. There&#8217;s also the big concern regarding StatCounter&#8217;s data. As Microsoft (of course) has pointed out before , these aren&#8217;t necessarily numbers you can take to the bank. Last month, when Chrome briefly won the weekend battle, Microsoft downright ranted about the quality of StatCounter&#8217;s data on its official blog. (It appeared, at the time, that Chrome usage surged on weekends, proving that users liked Chrome better when they had a choice &#8211; outside of I.T. control at work, that is). Microsoft noted that StatCounter doesn’t adjust for pre-rendering (loading pages in the background which the user never sees and may never even click on), nor does it “geoweight” the data to paint a more accurate picture of worldwide usage. Instead, with StatCounter, it’s just raw data. Microsoft also said that if browser share had been weighted appropriately, it wouldn’t have been such a close race. But StatCounter says that, as of May 1st, it has been adjusting its browser stats to remove the effect of pre-rendering in Google Chrome. From that point on, pre-rendered pages (which are not actually viewed) have not included in its stats. Say what now, Microsoft? While those discrepancies are notable, it&#8217;s still worth mentioning that IE’s share has been steadily dropping for some time. StatCounter may just be the canary in the coal mine indicting the bigger shift ahead. via GlobalNerdy </p>
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		<title>Comcast Kills Its 250GB Data Cap, Is Testing More Flexible Data Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Comcast announced today that it is doing away with its 250 GB data cap , and will be moving to test out new plans will charge customers based on usage, rather than cutting them off. Since 2008, Comcast has had a data usage cap of 250GB for all its broadband plans. At that time, the cap was mainly meant to deter users from abusing the network, largely by downloading or distributing pirated video files. But times have changed, streaming media is now a thing, and services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and TV Everywhere services like Xfinity TV and HBO Go are using up massive amounts of data for some customers. &#8220;Four years after we put it in place, we don&#8217;t think a static, non-flexible data cap is the best approach,&#8221; David Cohen, EVP of Comcast, said on a call with press. Comcast&#8217;s response is to cancel its 250 GB data cap and to test out different approaches to dealing with broadband data management. That starts with increasing everyone&#8217;s data plan to 300 GB, and putting into effect two new plans in test markets. The first test will start its minimum broadband plan &#8212; Internet essentials, which is priced at $9.95 a month &#8212; at 300GB and will gradually increase the amount of data available to customers who buy higher-speed broadband plans. The second test will provide all broadband customers with 300 GB, regardless of data plan, and charge them more &#8212; say, $10 per 50 GB &#8212; on an incremental basis for data used over and above that. For those who don&#8217;t live in the test markets, the 250 GB threshold will disappear completely, and customers will no longer be cut off if they hit the old cap. Comcast will still contact those who come close, if only to ensure that customers aren&#8217;t getting hit by botnets or other malware. The goal for Comcast is to make sure it&#8217;s not cutting customers off who are reaching that 250 GB limit &#8212; and to also make sure that customers who are using a huge amount of data pay their fair share. The company is also hoping to allay concerns from customer concerns that they might hit those caps due to using services like Netflix, or even TV Everywhere services. Comcast wouldn&#8217;t get into specifics about what percentage of customers bump up against the current threshold, but said that median broadband usage is around 8-10 GB per month. That gives most customers a lot of leeway with 300 GB, but the new plans remove any hypothetical threat of disconnection due to usage. At the same time, one of the main reasons that the data cap discussion came about was due to criticism Comcast received over its Xbox Live streaming VOD service . That service, while delivered via IP, wasn&#8217;t being counted toward its cap. That won&#8217;t change going forward, and Xbox streams still won&#8217;t count against its customer broadband usage. [Image via Flickr/Kevin Burkett ] ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Comcast announced today that it is doing away with its 250 GB data cap , and will be moving to test out new plans will charge customers based on usage, rather than cutting them off. Since 2008, Comcast has had a data usage cap of 250GB for all its broadband plans. At that time, the cap was mainly meant to deter users from abusing the network, largely by downloading or distributing pirated video files. But times have changed, streaming media is now a thing, and services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and TV Everywhere services like Xfinity TV and HBO Go are using up massive amounts of data for some customers. &#8220;Four years after we put it in place, we don&#8217;t think a static, non-flexible data cap is the best approach,&#8221; David Cohen, EVP of Comcast, said on a call with press. Comcast&#8217;s response is to cancel its 250 GB data cap and to test out different approaches to dealing with broadband data management. That starts with increasing everyone&#8217;s data plan to 300 GB, and putting into effect two new plans in test markets. The first test will start its minimum broadband plan &#8212; Internet essentials, which is priced at $9.95 a month &#8212; at 300GB and will gradually increase the amount of data available to customers who buy higher-speed broadband plans. The second test will provide all broadband customers with 300 GB, regardless of data plan, and charge them more &#8212; say, $10 per 50 GB &#8212; on an incremental basis for data used over and above that. For those who don&#8217;t live in the test markets, the 250 GB threshold will disappear completely, and customers will no longer be cut off if they hit the old cap. Comcast will still contact those who come close, if only to ensure that customers aren&#8217;t getting hit by botnets or other malware. The goal for Comcast is to make sure it&#8217;s not cutting customers off who are reaching that 250 GB limit &#8212; and to also make sure that customers who are using a huge amount of data pay their fair share. The company is also hoping to allay concerns from customer concerns that they might hit those caps due to using services like Netflix, or even TV Everywhere services. Comcast wouldn&#8217;t get into specifics about what percentage of customers bump up against the current threshold, but said that median broadband usage is around 8-10 GB per month. That gives most customers a lot of leeway with 300 GB, but the new plans remove any hypothetical threat of disconnection due to usage. At the same time, one of the main reasons that the data cap discussion came about was due to criticism Comcast received over its Xbox Live streaming VOD service . That service, while delivered via IP, wasn&#8217;t being counted toward its cap. That won&#8217;t change going forward, and Xbox streams still won&#8217;t count against its customer broadband usage. [Image via Flickr/Kevin Burkett ] </p>
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		<title>Buffer Acquires ShareFeed, Brings KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah On As Advisor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Achilles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Buffer , the little service for scheduling your social media updates, has some big news today: it&#8217;s acquiring competitor ShareFeed , and is bringing its CEO Hiten Shah on board as a mentor and advisor. ShareFeed was launched in 2009 as a side project from Shah&#8217;s company KISSmetrics , which is backed by True Ventures, SoftTech VC, Polaris Ventures, and other angels. Of ShareFeed&#8217;s team of three, only Shah will be working with Buffer going forward, and will advise the company on how integrate some of the technology the ShareFeed had previously developed. While terms of the deal were not being disclosed, ShareFeed&#8217;s main contribution to Buffer, outside of Shah&#8217;s mentorship, appears to be the technology itself and the data the company had previously collected on social sharing. &#8220;The most crucial parts that Buffer will use is the user flow and engagement data that Hiten and his team have collected through the ShareFeed userbase,&#8221; explains Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich. &#8220;This includes retention and activation metrics and how Hiten managed to build a product with so little drop-off. Also, the technology around individual scheduling of updates, is something that we will work with and potentially integrate into Buffer, it&#8217;s a feature we currently don&#8217;t have,&#8221; he adds. Given that the deal has just closed Buffer doesn&#8217;t yet have an ETA on when the results of that integration will be complete. However, one feature that Buffer has already implemented, which came directly from Hiten&#8217;s ideas for ShareFeed, is to spread the smarter sharing button across the web, including on Twitter.com, Facebook.com, and Google Reader. The company rolled out its improved Buffer browser extension last week, which lets users &#8220;buffer&#8221; (can we verb it now?) directly from the websites themselves &#8211; the ones that host the content Buffer users want to share. The extension places a &#8220;Buffer&#8221; button next to the &#8220;Post&#8221; button on the Facebook status update box, for example. It also lets you buffer re-tweets, new tweets, and blog posts you&#8217;re sharing using the &#8220;Tweet&#8221; button, among other things . Currently, Buffer has 200,000 users ( up from 180,000 just last month ), 25% of whom are active. Every day, those users post 100,000 updates through Buffer to services like Twitter, Facebok, and LinkedIn. Widrich says Buffer is growing at over 20% every month, and is confident that the learnings from the ShareFeed data can top up Buffer&#8217;s growth rate &#8220;significantly.&#8221; ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Buffer , the little service for scheduling your social media updates, has some big news today: it&#8217;s acquiring competitor ShareFeed , and is bringing its CEO Hiten Shah on board as a mentor and advisor. ShareFeed was launched in 2009 as a side project from Shah&#8217;s company KISSmetrics , which is backed by True Ventures, SoftTech VC, Polaris Ventures, and other angels. Of ShareFeed&#8217;s team of three, only Shah will be working with Buffer going forward, and will advise the company on how integrate some of the technology the ShareFeed had previously developed. While terms of the deal were not being disclosed, ShareFeed&#8217;s main contribution to Buffer, outside of Shah&#8217;s mentorship, appears to be the technology itself and the data the company had previously collected on social sharing. &#8220;The most crucial parts that Buffer will use is the user flow and engagement data that Hiten and his team have collected through the ShareFeed userbase,&#8221; explains Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich. &#8220;This includes retention and activation metrics and how Hiten managed to build a product with so little drop-off. Also, the technology around individual scheduling of updates, is something that we will work with and potentially integrate into Buffer, it&#8217;s a feature we currently don&#8217;t have,&#8221; he adds. Given that the deal has just closed Buffer doesn&#8217;t yet have an ETA on when the results of that integration will be complete. However, one feature that Buffer has already implemented, which came directly from Hiten&#8217;s ideas for ShareFeed, is to spread the smarter sharing button across the web, including on Twitter.com, Facebook.com, and Google Reader. The company rolled out its improved Buffer browser extension last week, which lets users &#8220;buffer&#8221; (can we verb it now?) directly from the websites themselves &#8211; the ones that host the content Buffer users want to share. The extension places a &#8220;Buffer&#8221; button next to the &#8220;Post&#8221; button on the Facebook status update box, for example. It also lets you buffer re-tweets, new tweets, and blog posts you&#8217;re sharing using the &#8220;Tweet&#8221; button, among other things . Currently, Buffer has 200,000 users ( up from 180,000 just last month ), 25% of whom are active. Every day, those users post 100,000 updates through Buffer to services like Twitter, Facebok, and LinkedIn. Widrich says Buffer is growing at over 20% every month, and is confident that the learnings from the ShareFeed data can top up Buffer&#8217;s growth rate &#8220;significantly.&#8221; </p>
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		<title>Verizon To Axe Unlimited Data Once Their New Data Share Plans Go Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Verizon Wireless has been working on bringing shared data plans to market for months now , but it turns out not everyone may enjoy making that transition. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at an investor conference earlier today that users on those wonderful old grandfathered unlimited data plans will soon have to give them up if they want to move into a 4G device. &#8220;A lot of our 3G base is unlimited,&#8221; Shammo remarked. &#8220;As they start to migrate onto 4G, they will have to come off of unlimited and go onto the data share plan. That&#8217;s beneficial for us for many reasons.&#8221; Though the move doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise &#8212; they&#8217;ve been running promotions to incentivize migration to their LTE network for a while now &#8212; but hearing their intentions actually spelled out like that probably won&#8217;t please many long-standing Verizon customers. The carrier is aiming to roll out their shared data plans &#8220;mid-summer,&#8221; though I expect more new details to trickle out soon. But let&#8217;s back up a bit here &#8212; how will these things actually work? Though most of the details are still hush-hush, customers will be able to pay a set rate for tiered data plan that can be shared by all the devices on the account. Even though these new data plans are set to make their debut sooner rather than later, there&#8217;s still no information available on what they&#8217;ll actually cost. Verizon isn&#8217;t exactly known for being the most price-conscious wireless carrier (don&#8217;t get me started on the rise of $299 smartphones), but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see what they&#8217;ve come up with. The concept of shared data plans would is wonderful for families and other multi-line accounts, but it doesn&#8217;t do any favors for the individual customers who don&#8217;t need more than one device. The status of existing customers who have had their unlimited data plans grandfathered over to their new 4G devices is also unclear &#8212; Shammo makes it sound like only customers who upgrade after the change takes place will have to pick a new data plan (for better or worse), and with any luck they&#8217;ll leave the lucky souls who have already locked their old data plans alone for now. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Verizon Wireless has been working on bringing shared data plans to market for months now , but it turns out not everyone may enjoy making that transition. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at an investor conference earlier today that users on those wonderful old grandfathered unlimited data plans will soon have to give them up if they want to move into a 4G device. &#8220;A lot of our 3G base is unlimited,&#8221; Shammo remarked. &#8220;As they start to migrate onto 4G, they will have to come off of unlimited and go onto the data share plan. That&#8217;s beneficial for us for many reasons.&#8221; Though the move doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise &#8212; they&#8217;ve been running promotions to incentivize migration to their LTE network for a while now &#8212; but hearing their intentions actually spelled out like that probably won&#8217;t please many long-standing Verizon customers. The carrier is aiming to roll out their shared data plans &#8220;mid-summer,&#8221; though I expect more new details to trickle out soon. But let&#8217;s back up a bit here &#8212; how will these things actually work? Though most of the details are still hush-hush, customers will be able to pay a set rate for tiered data plan that can be shared by all the devices on the account. Even though these new data plans are set to make their debut sooner rather than later, there&#8217;s still no information available on what they&#8217;ll actually cost. Verizon isn&#8217;t exactly known for being the most price-conscious wireless carrier (don&#8217;t get me started on the rise of $299 smartphones), but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see what they&#8217;ve come up with. The concept of shared data plans would is wonderful for families and other multi-line accounts, but it doesn&#8217;t do any favors for the individual customers who don&#8217;t need more than one device. The status of existing customers who have had their unlimited data plans grandfathered over to their new 4G devices is also unclear &#8212; Shammo makes it sound like only customers who upgrade after the change takes place will have to pick a new data plan (for better or worse), and with any luck they&#8217;ll leave the lucky souls who have already locked their old data plans alone for now. </p>
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		<title>Funny Or Die Gets Strategic Investment From Turner, Looks To Accelerate Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Independent online video company Funny Or Die is about to get a lot of help from a traditional TV company, as it&#8217;s struck a strategic partnership with Turner Broadcasting to collaborate on multiplatform video content. As part of the deal, Turner is taking a small minority stake in Funny Or Die &#8212; terms of which have not been disclosed. &#8220;We&#8217;re at an inflection point with digitally distributed video,&#8221; Funny Or Die CEO Dick Glover told me by phone. He says that as a result, the timing of the deal is poised to coincide with that inflection point and catalyze further growth for Funny Or Die. For 2012, Funny Or Die is averaging around 14-16 million uniques per month, and has seen 60 percent growth year over year. But it&#8217;ll likely get a big boost once it starts leverage Turner properties, but especially TBS and Adult Swim. Internet distribution is nice, but it still doesn&#8217;t match the reach that a content creator can get from TV. According to Glover, the partnership will &#8220;provide a microphone to reach a much larger audience.&#8221; While the Internet video company will get some help in promotion, Glover said there&#8217;ll be no real change in how the company is run or what kind of content it puts out. It&#8217;ll still develop for a multiplatform audience, which includes online, mobile, and TV &#8212; where appropriate. This isn&#8217;t the first partnership that Funny Or Die has struck with a TV network. It also has a deal with HBO (which, like Turner, is also part of Time Warner) for its original series Funny Or Die Presents , now in its third season. That deal remains in place and isn&#8217;t affected by the Turner partnership, Glover said. As viewership &#8212; especially among young people &#8212; moves away from traditional TV and to other channels , broadcast and cable networks are starting to look at online video distributors for help in this new, multiplatform environment. The Turner partnership was announced about two weeks after Discover acquired indie video producer Revision3 for a reported $30-$40 million. We&#8217;ll probably see more deals like this as time goes on. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Independent online video company Funny Or Die is about to get a lot of help from a traditional TV company, as it&#8217;s struck a strategic partnership with Turner Broadcasting to collaborate on multiplatform video content. As part of the deal, Turner is taking a small minority stake in Funny Or Die &#8212; terms of which have not been disclosed. &#8220;We&#8217;re at an inflection point with digitally distributed video,&#8221; Funny Or Die CEO Dick Glover told me by phone. He says that as a result, the timing of the deal is poised to coincide with that inflection point and catalyze further growth for Funny Or Die. For 2012, Funny Or Die is averaging around 14-16 million uniques per month, and has seen 60 percent growth year over year. But it&#8217;ll likely get a big boost once it starts leverage Turner properties, but especially TBS and Adult Swim. Internet distribution is nice, but it still doesn&#8217;t match the reach that a content creator can get from TV. According to Glover, the partnership will &#8220;provide a microphone to reach a much larger audience.&#8221; While the Internet video company will get some help in promotion, Glover said there&#8217;ll be no real change in how the company is run or what kind of content it puts out. It&#8217;ll still develop for a multiplatform audience, which includes online, mobile, and TV &#8212; where appropriate. This isn&#8217;t the first partnership that Funny Or Die has struck with a TV network. It also has a deal with HBO (which, like Turner, is also part of Time Warner) for its original series Funny Or Die Presents , now in its third season. That deal remains in place and isn&#8217;t affected by the Turner partnership, Glover said. As viewership &#8212; especially among young people &#8212; moves away from traditional TV and to other channels , broadcast and cable networks are starting to look at online video distributors for help in this new, multiplatform environment. The Turner partnership was announced about two weeks after Discover acquired indie video producer Revision3 for a reported $30-$40 million. We&#8217;ll probably see more deals like this as time goes on. </p>
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		<title>Brad Garlinghouse Becomes CEO Of Booming File Sharing Site YouSendIt</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Box has been grabbing headlines lately because it has been nailing a big market: enterprise customers who need to easily share and store big collections of documents online. But a quiet Silicon Valley rival has also been winning a bunch of this turf &#8212; YouSendIt . Today, the company is backing up its position with some new stats, and a new chief executive, Brad Garlinghouse. He&#8217;s coming off a two-year stint as the head of consumer products at AOL, and a previous five years heading up consumer and enterprise apps at Yahoo. He also has roots as an investor and entrepreneur, so this move is going back to that. YouSendIt, meanwhile, says it has 98% of the Fortune 500 companies on it in some form (Box says it has 82%, for whatever this comparison is worth). More importantly, there&#8217;s quality revenue in this type of business. YouSendIt has nearly 600,000 paying customers on top of 30 million registered users; revenue has correspondingly shot up from $24.4 million in 2010 to $39.3 million last year. Those numbers are also very competitive with Box and other sharing services, from what I hear. Garlinghouse &#8212; who will be on stage at Disrupt New York next week to share more details &#8212; says he&#8217;s particularly excited about some other data points. Registered users have gone up 71% from the first quarter of 2011, while the paid subscriber growth in the first quarter of 2012 beat the same period the previous year. The company isn&#8217;t sharing its revenue run-rate at this point, but these numbers indicate it is going up faster than ever. All this is a big new public view of YouSendIt, which began life way back in 2004, and has managed to grow with little publicity (although TechCrunch has been on the case for years ). One way it did this, as Garlinghouse tells me, was a cleverly placed link in email users would send each other. First a user uploads a file and shares it, then they send an email telling the recipient to go get it on the company&#8217;s hosted page. But, the email includes a link that says &#8220;click here to register and we&#8217;ll store it for you.&#8221; At some point after users register and start using the service, they&#8217;ll hit the paywall. Garlinghouse is replacing six-year chief executive Ivan Koon (who is widely credited for building the guts of the business). Going forward, the new exec will be doing what some of its rivals have excelled at, which is creating an extremely simple user-facing product, and pushing the company&#8217;s brand in public. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Box has been grabbing headlines lately because it has been nailing a big market: enterprise customers who need to easily share and store big collections of documents online. But a quiet Silicon Valley rival has also been winning a bunch of this turf &#8212; YouSendIt . Today, the company is backing up its position with some new stats, and a new chief executive, Brad Garlinghouse. He&#8217;s coming off a two-year stint as the head of consumer products at AOL, and a previous five years heading up consumer and enterprise apps at Yahoo. He also has roots as an investor and entrepreneur, so this move is going back to that. YouSendIt, meanwhile, says it has 98% of the Fortune 500 companies on it in some form (Box says it has 82%, for whatever this comparison is worth). More importantly, there&#8217;s quality revenue in this type of business. YouSendIt has nearly 600,000 paying customers on top of 30 million registered users; revenue has correspondingly shot up from $24.4 million in 2010 to $39.3 million last year. Those numbers are also very competitive with Box and other sharing services, from what I hear. Garlinghouse &#8212; who will be on stage at Disrupt New York next week to share more details &#8212; says he&#8217;s particularly excited about some other data points. Registered users have gone up 71% from the first quarter of 2011, while the paid subscriber growth in the first quarter of 2012 beat the same period the previous year. The company isn&#8217;t sharing its revenue run-rate at this point, but these numbers indicate it is going up faster than ever. All this is a big new public view of YouSendIt, which began life way back in 2004, and has managed to grow with little publicity (although TechCrunch has been on the case for years ). One way it did this, as Garlinghouse tells me, was a cleverly placed link in email users would send each other. First a user uploads a file and shares it, then they send an email telling the recipient to go get it on the company&#8217;s hosted page. But, the email includes a link that says &#8220;click here to register and we&#8217;ll store it for you.&#8221; At some point after users register and start using the service, they&#8217;ll hit the paywall. Garlinghouse is replacing six-year chief executive Ivan Koon (who is widely credited for building the guts of the business). Going forward, the new exec will be doing what some of its rivals have excelled at, which is creating an extremely simple user-facing product, and pushing the company&#8217;s brand in public. </p>
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		<title>Honestly.com Becomes A Talent Search Engine, Renames Itself TalentBin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Honestly.com, a startup that allowed professionals to submit anonymous reviews of their coworkers, has been pretty quiet for the past couple of years. Turns out that&#8217;s because the company has been busy reinventing itself. Today it&#8217;s unveiling a new product and a new name — TalentBin . Co-founder Peter Kazanjy says TalentBin addresses one of the big problems with Honestly, namely the lack of content. Rather than relying on users to create all the reviews, TalentBin looks at the content that already exists on the Web — specifically, people&#8217;s activity on a variety of social networking sites. Kazanjy calls that activity your &#8220;professional exhaust,&#8221; and argues that it contains lots of relevant information about your professional interests and accomplishments. So TalentBin aggregates a person&#8217;s activity across sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Meetup, Quora, Github, Sourceforge, and Bitbucket, then uses that data to create a searchable profile for recruiters. Comparing the product to LinkedIn&#8217;s recruiting tools, Kazanjy says, &#8220;we&#8217;re kind of like that for the rest of the Web.&#8221; In other words, recruiters can use TalentBin to take their search beyond LinkedIn, finding new candidates and new information about existing candidates. For example, Kazanjy says he conducted a search for Ruby on Rails in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he found 4,500 matching profiles on LinkedIn, 156 profiles on BranchOut, and 22,000 profiles on TalentBin. He also argues a TalentBin profile can be much richer than what you&#8217;d find on LinkedIn or a traditional resume. A profile might just say that someone was an engineer at Company X and then at Company Y, with no additional detail, but TalentBin might show that they&#8217;re constantly tweeting and posting on Quora about Ruby and therefore rank them highly in a search for Ruby engineers. And since recruiters theoretically get a better sense of your real interests and passions, that may mean you&#8217;re more likely to get approached about jobs that you actually find exciting. For now, TalentBin is focused on technical talent, but Kazanjy says it could expand into other fields where this data is relevant, which he predicts is &#8220;any knowledge worker.&#8221;  It&#8217;s also entirely recruiter-facing for now, meaning that only recruiters see the profiles, but Kazanjy says it might add features that allow people to see and correct their profiles in the future. ( Coderwall is also trying to create an aggregated profile and reputation system for programmers , but rather its model is inverted, starting out as a site for coders then maybe eventually moving into recruiting, and the name, at least, implies that it&#8217;s pretty focused on programmers.) Recruiters can access TalentBin via the website, or as a plugin to Human Resources Information Systems, Recruiting CRM programs, or Applicant Tracking Systems. This is actually the company&#8217;s second rebranding, because back in 2010 it  changed its name from Unvarnished (at the same time it announced $1.2 million in funding from First Round Capital, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, and others). Hopefully this will be the last. Kazanjy says early signs are positive — even though today is the official relaunch, TalentBin has been in private beta testing for months, and already has 60-plus corporate customers including Intuit, Groupon, and Yahoo. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Honestly.com, a startup that allowed professionals to submit anonymous reviews of their coworkers, has been pretty quiet for the past couple of years. Turns out that&#8217;s because the company has been busy reinventing itself. Today it&#8217;s unveiling a new product and a new name — TalentBin . Co-founder Peter Kazanjy says TalentBin addresses one of the big problems with Honestly, namely the lack of content. Rather than relying on users to create all the reviews, TalentBin looks at the content that already exists on the Web — specifically, people&#8217;s activity on a variety of social networking sites. Kazanjy calls that activity your &#8220;professional exhaust,&#8221; and argues that it contains lots of relevant information about your professional interests and accomplishments. So TalentBin aggregates a person&#8217;s activity across sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Meetup, Quora, Github, Sourceforge, and Bitbucket, then uses that data to create a searchable profile for recruiters. Comparing the product to LinkedIn&#8217;s recruiting tools, Kazanjy says, &#8220;we&#8217;re kind of like that for the rest of the Web.&#8221; In other words, recruiters can use TalentBin to take their search beyond LinkedIn, finding new candidates and new information about existing candidates. For example, Kazanjy says he conducted a search for Ruby on Rails in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he found 4,500 matching profiles on LinkedIn, 156 profiles on BranchOut, and 22,000 profiles on TalentBin. He also argues a TalentBin profile can be much richer than what you&#8217;d find on LinkedIn or a traditional resume. A profile might just say that someone was an engineer at Company X and then at Company Y, with no additional detail, but TalentBin might show that they&#8217;re constantly tweeting and posting on Quora about Ruby and therefore rank them highly in a search for Ruby engineers. And since recruiters theoretically get a better sense of your real interests and passions, that may mean you&#8217;re more likely to get approached about jobs that you actually find exciting. For now, TalentBin is focused on technical talent, but Kazanjy says it could expand into other fields where this data is relevant, which he predicts is &#8220;any knowledge worker.&#8221;  It&#8217;s also entirely recruiter-facing for now, meaning that only recruiters see the profiles, but Kazanjy says it might add features that allow people to see and correct their profiles in the future. ( Coderwall is also trying to create an aggregated profile and reputation system for programmers , but rather its model is inverted, starting out as a site for coders then maybe eventually moving into recruiting, and the name, at least, implies that it&#8217;s pretty focused on programmers.) Recruiters can access TalentBin via the website, or as a plugin to Human Resources Information Systems, Recruiting CRM programs, or Applicant Tracking Systems. This is actually the company&#8217;s second rebranding, because back in 2010 it  changed its name from Unvarnished (at the same time it announced $1.2 million in funding from First Round Capital, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, and others). Hopefully this will be the last. Kazanjy says early signs are positive — even though today is the official relaunch, TalentBin has been in private beta testing for months, and already has 60-plus corporate customers including Intuit, Groupon, and Yahoo. </p>
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