Monday, August 4, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // August 4, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 4, 2014

Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive, And Dropbox Accounts Into Mind Maps

Like many other people, I use Evernote as an information dump. Despite my best efforts to keep things organized with multiple notebooks and tags, my account has... read more

No. Just… No.

This is never something I thought I'd have to explain, but I'm realizing that for some people who are new to the internet, the rules here may not be clear. read more

Meet HelloWorld, An Easier Way To Share Your Location With Friends

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This Extension Gives You A New GIF Every Single Time You Open A Tab

Hey, you! Don't you wish you had more distractions in your day? Wouldn't it be great if you could get distracted by something literally every time you opened a... read more

Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Joined By 11,000 And Counting

On Friday the Europe vs Facebook privacy campaign group kicked off a new legal initiative targeting Facebook -- in the form of a class action lawsuit that's... read more

The Seven Constants Of Game Design, Part Three

In the last of this three part series on the constant factors of game design we're talking all about the role of the player as character (or not) and powerful... read more

Taboola Acquires Perfect Market, Launches Taboola-X To Help Publishers Monetize Their Sites

Taboola has spent the last seven years perfecting a technology that is designed to help publishers drive more traffic to their sites and make some money from... read more

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Gillmor Gang: Smoke Signals

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — talk... read more

Dive Into Fates Forever, Startup Battlefield's First MOBA Game

 When Jason Citron launched Fates Forever in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, it was impressive... read more

Hands-On With The Revamped iOS App For We Heart It, The Feel-Good Social Photo Site

 We Heart It, the Pinterest-meets-Tumblr social image sharing platform that’s attracted a large and... read more

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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // August 3, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Aug 3, 2014

Mexico’s Resources Fuel The Texas Startup Economy

Everything is bigger in Texas, and thanks to Mexico, that may be also soon be true of the state's growing tech sector. Flush with cash, Texas' proximity to... read more

Lessons Learned On App Design For Fast-Growth Markets

One of the typical mistakes developers make is thinking that because they've had success in one corner of the globe, they should be able to employ the same... read more

Technology’s Role In Direct Democracy

An influx of communication and collaboration technologies since the beginning of the 21st century has helped to make this the most connected time in human... read more

Chinese Communist Party-Backed Tech Giants Bring Censorship To The Global Stage

Chinese search giant Baidu entered the Brazilian market last week with the launch of a localized Portuguese search engine called Baidu Busca. It's the second... read more

Sony And EA Experiment With New Business Models For Older Games

This week, both Electronic Arts and Sony revealed or began to roll out new services that have been described to various degrees as "Netflix for gaming." That... read more

Hukkster, The Winklevoss-Backed Online Shopping Tool, Has Shut Down

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Apple Leads in Accessibility, But Can Third-Party Developers Follow?

Buried deeply within her mostly "provocative and poorly reported" story for Reuters on Apple and accessibility, author Christina Farr offers a nugget of truth:... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Dive Into Fates Forever, Startup Battlefield's First MOBA Game

 When Jason Citron launched Fates Forever in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, it was impressive... read more

Hands-On With The Revamped iOS App For We Heart It, The Feel-Good Social Photo Site

 We Heart It, the Pinterest-meets-Tumblr social image sharing platform that’s attracted a large and... read more

TC Cribs: A Trip To BarkBox HQ, Where Dogs Rule

 We definitely dig dog-friendly companies here at TechCrunch Cribs, so when we were in New York City recently,... read more

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