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Hipmunk Checks In: Launches Hotel Search For iOS And Android | TechCrunch
Getting travel search right on a mobile phone is tough.
Intel Adds Integrated Voice Control With Nuance Partnership | TechCrunch
Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech.Canon Boosts Specs, LCD, And Price Of Its G Series With New G1X | TechCrunch
The last iteration of Canon’s compact rangefinder-esque series of cameras, the G12, wasn’t particularly compelling to me.
One of the unending debates in blogging circles is about the value of comments. How do you encourage the best comments and discourage the anonymous trolls? Do you even need comments?
61 Percent Of Disqus Comments Are Made With Pseudonyms | TechCrunch
Last April, OfficeDrop raised $1 million in angel funding for its online solution that allows people to take all the paper documents cluttering their offices, scan them, then manage, organize, and store them in the cloud. With its round of angel funding, OfficeDrop set out to work on the development of mobile apps, and has since launched both iPhone and iPad apps that turns your Apple and Android devices into a scanner. Among other things, these apps allow users to take a picture of a recept when on a trip and send it their expense folders in OfficeDrop’s cloud “filing cabinet.”
OfficeDrop Now Lets You Scan Documents To Social Networks — And The Cloud | TechCrunch
The Surprising Path Of Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: This is Part I of a three-part guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part II, he will describe how software and mobile technologies can augment and even replace doctors. In Part III, he will talk about how technology will sweep through education.
Since the launch of Google+, Google has been putting a lot of muscle behind promoting and integrating the service into its core products.
Google Fuses Google+ Into Search — And There Are Bigger Changes Afoot | TechCrunch
With The Clicky Value-Wheel, Groupon Puts The “No” In Innovation | TechCrunch
You can say a lot of things about Groupon, but not that they lack a great sense of humor over there.Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms? | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: This is Part II of a guest series written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures.
“Search Plus Your World” Is Just About Google+, Not Your World | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Frederic Lardinois is a tech writer who blogs at SiliconFilter Google announced the next iteration of its social search initiative this morning. Google Fellow Amit Singhal introduced this as “search, plus your world.”Social Travel In Realtime: HipGeo Offers A Glimpse Into The Future Of Location-Aware Apps | TechCrunch
As Semil showed back in November, social travel sites are all the rage these days among the entrepreneurs, offering plenty of interesting approaches to offering recommendations on where and how to travel. You may not have heard of HipGeo, but if you’re a traveler, this is something that will likely pique your curiosity.This morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the ‘normal’ algorithmically-generated results we’ve come to expect.
Twitter Really, Really Hates Google’s New Google+ Integration | TechCrunch
What most alarms me about today’s “Google Search Plus Your World” announcement is how it will distort name searches. When I Google someone’s name, I’m typically looking for a Wikipedia entry, their Twitter account, a personal website, or an author page on their blog. Today, Google Search handles this well, often returning these as the top results.
When I Search Your Name, I’m Not Looking For Your Google+ Profile | TechCrunch
Facebook Rolling Out News Feed Ads Ambiguously Marked “Featured” | TechCrunch
Facebook today began the slow rollout of Sponsored Story ads within its home page’s main news feed. Instead of clearly marking them as “Sponsored” ads though, they’re labeled “Featured”.I love it when tech companies start acting like bickering exes. This morning Google announced that it was gasp going to start mixing its chocolate Google+ results into your peanut butter normal search results, optionally of course. Twitter wasn’t happy with this because Twitter and Google were totally dating for a year and nine months until they broke up last July.