| Flipboard Lands Time Inc. Digital Leader Quittner as App's New Editorial Director Flipboard is getting an editorial director. Josh Quittner, a director of digital editorial development for Time Inc. is leaving the magazine empire to join the fledgling tablet magazine startup, effective after the July 4th weekend, according to the New York Post. Time Inc. is the publisher of CNN Money, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money and, of course, Time Magazine. He is perhaps best known in tech circles for an article he did in the early 1990's for Wired titled "Billions Registered: Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin' corporate name as your own Internet address." In the article, Quittner had bought the domain name Macdonalds.com and tried to give it to the fast food giant, which was clueless about the Internet at the time.
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Is Klout's New +K Feature Extra Kreepy? There are hundreds of millions of people on Facebook and Twitter and a lot of people want to know who is more or less influential than others online regarding various topics. Klout is one of the best-known startups in this market (PeerIndex is another) and this week Klout has added a new feature: personal endorsements of people on topics they're influential on. Called +K, the feature is an easy way to say, with a click, that a person has influenced you on something. I just endorsed RedBull's Andrew Nystrom on the topic of Social Media on Klout, because I value his opinion on the topic. Is this a good idea? Not everyone thinks it is.
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Microsoft Now Allows Easy Mapping of its Data Store Microsoft's Windows Azure DataMarket, the company's online store of various large data sets, has partnered with Colorado-based web mapping software service OnTerra Systems to offer a quick map view of all data in the data store that has a geographic component. Data marketplaces are hot and likely to get hotter. Place, space, time and streaming are all key characteristics in an increasing number of data sets of interest. OnTerra's map app works in conjunction with Bing Maps. Bing has partnered with OnTerra on a number of mapping projects over the past several years. In January OnTerra released a service called MapSavvy WMS that helps business and security customers to capture web imagery of Bing Maps for a low subscription price.
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Sickweather Analyzes Social Data to Map Illness Outbreaks There have probably been times when just a cursory glance at your Facebook feed or Twitter stream reminds you that it's flu season and plenty of your friends' status updates referred to some sort of sneezy, snuffly, achy, barfy condition. Thanks to mobile technology, that's something you can still do while sick in bed: post to your various social networks. For the healthy among us, these sorts of status updates serve as a good reminder of who we should steer clear of. But at a larger scale, this social data can give other warnings about where diseases clusters are occurring. And unlike the sorts of statistics released by the Center for Disease Control, this social data can be tracked in real-time. That's the aim of a new startup called Sickweather. The company, which is still in private beta, wants to track the signs of sickness via social networks and generate maps so that people can determine who and where to avoid.
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What Does Crime Look Like in Your Neighborhood? Crime Maps Will Show You There are a number of questions people ask when looking for a new place to live: What are the schools like? How close is public transportation? Are there grocery stores nearby? But one of the most common concerns is safety. People want to know about the crime rates in cities and neighborhoods. The real-estate Trulia launched a new product today called Crime Maps that should answer some of these questions. As the name suggests, the new tool lets people view and compare the frequency, types, and history of crimes across various cities in the U.S.
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water... Sony Pictures Hacked On the heels of a Memorial Day weekend hack of the PBS website - an act of retribution for an unflattering Frontline report on Wikileaks, the prankster-hackers LulzSec have found their next target. And it's a target that's just recovering from another security breach, namely Sony. LulzSec claims to have broken into the Sony Pictures website and compromised over a million users' accounts.
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A Detailed Look Into the Groupon IPO Filing Groupon, the daily shopping deals service, took its first major step towards an initial public offering today. In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company estimates its IPO will be worth $750 million. It becomes the second major tech company after LinkedIn to aim for the public market in the last month. The difference between Groupon and LinkedIn though is that Groupon makes significant revenue, has been around half as long as LinkedIn and may or may not actually be a technology company. What are the revenue and risk factors for investors thinking about Groupon stock? We take an in-depth look below.
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Museum Offers Real (Human) Guides Online Museum aan de stroom - a brand-new city museum covering the art, shipping and folklore of Antwerp, Belgium - is offering web visitors real, real-time guides. Through June 7, visitors to the museum's website can interact with, and direct, flesh-and-blood guides through their Discover the MAS Live program and website. Using your computer, you "capture" a live guide and, your arrow keys, direct him or her to explore the museum for you in real time.
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YouTube Unveils Creative Commons Licensing Option for Easier Sharing YouTube announced Creative Commons licensing options for videos hosted on the site today, making it much easier to use and share videos with legal attribution. Creative Commons on YouTube will allow users to splice clips or scenes from other videos through the YouTube Video Editor. Copyright and Creative Commons can be a tricky area as there are several different Creative Commons options. YouTube tries to make it easy by using only one -- CC BY 3.0 -- that permits users to share and adapt content for commercial use provided that attribution is given to the original creator.
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Google, Bing & Yahoo's New Schema.org Creates New Standards for Web Content Markup The Web's three leading search companies are announcing today a new collaboration called Schema.org, where more than 100 new types of website markup for content like movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places and more will allow search engines to better understand and present what they find on the pages that show up in search results. Yahoo announced the project first today on its Yahoo Search Blog and said it was reminiscent of all three search companies collaborating to create the sitemap concept. This will change the way people design websites, it will change the way people do search marketing, it will change a lot of things. It should be very, very interesting.
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