Please Welcome Peter Ha, Frederic Lardinois And New Co-Editor Alexia Tsotsis. Sure, legends like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle don’t play for the Yankees now, but the team hasn’t just survived the ups and downs over the years. Hate it or love it, the franchise attracts many of the best players in baseball today, and wins championships. That’s TechCrunch, too. Peter Ha is returning to us with a few very solid years of editing successes under his belt.
He started out as a CrunchGear writer under John Biggs, back in 2006. He went on to found the Techland blog for Time and turned it into a growth story. Here’s what his previous boss, editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo, has to say about the job he did: “Peter was one of the first editors hired at The Daily and his vision and leadership were instrumental in the creation of our excellent ‘Apps and Tech’ section. Starting in two weeks, Peter will be back at TechCrunch as our managing editor, working to organize the daily flood of stories we cover as well as develop new projects. And so ends our latest entry in the Drama category. Read Write Web Mobile Summit 2010. RSS is dead ?
Rww. Rww. Patrice. Foremski. Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking. There is one iOS "tip" that I keep hearing and it is wrong. Worse, I keep hearing it from supposedly authoritative sources. I have even heard it from the lips of Apple "Geniuses" in stores. Here is the advice - and remember it is wrong: All those apps in the multitasking bar on your iOS device are currently active and slowing it down, filling the device's memory or using up your battery. To maximise performance and battery life, you should kill them all manually. Wrong. Let me be as clear as I can be: the iOS multitasking bar does not contain "a list of all running apps". Except in a few cases, which I'll explain, the apps that appear in the multitasking bar are not currently running. Let's get technical: iOS apps have five states of execution. Active and Inactive are not interesting for this discussion.
When you press the home button, the app moves from Active to Background. The first technical caveat is that Suspended apps remain in the device's memory. Background Tasks Summary.
LeWeb11. Shady Rat. It is now illegal to access any foreign website in the Republic of Belarus. According to the US Library of Congress, the Republic of Belarus has just recently published a law making it illegal for Belarusian citizens and residents to access and/or use foreign websites (particularly for commercial purposes). Violations of the law are recognized as a misdemeanor and can result in a charge of up to $125. The law requires companies and individuals that are registered as entrepreneurs to only use domestic domains for providing online services, conducting sales, or exchanging email messages. This likely means that domain holders with any connection to outside services will have to forfeit their domains.
The law begins on January 6, completely destroying the benefits an open Web can have on the economy and quality of life for citizens. From the LoC: It appears that business requests from Belarus cannot be served over the Internet if the service provider is using online services located outside of the country. More from the LoC:
How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing. The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit - Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed. In this blog post I will discuss the evolution of social media from long-form to push-button, the emergence of social curation on sites such as Twitter and Tumblr, and the move to structured sets of curated content on Pinterest and its brethren.
But first, the meta-trend.... ...Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation.
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