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It’s no mistake that Pinspire.com is built on the same concept, has the same look, the same color scheme and even the same feel to its cursive logo as the hugely popular social bookmarking site Pinterest.
Pinspire is, after all, the latest venture of Germany’s Samwer brothers, who have been developing copycats of popular sites and selling them off since 1999, when they sold Alando to eBay for $50 million. More recently, they started and sold GroupOn clone CityDeal to GroupOn and Zynga clone Plinga to Zynga.
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We’ve reached out to Alexander, Marc and Oliver for comment, but they are publicity shy (last fall Oliver agreed to an interview with TechCrunch, then walked out). We’re also trying to see if Pinterest has a comment on the startup or any interest in buying it. We’ll update if we hear back from them.
One of the keys to the success of Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based incubator the brothers founded, has been identifying Web sites that have taken off in the U.S. but have yet to globalize and find a strong, international following. The brothers launched the clone as a beta in November, and if history is an indicator, will hold it just long enough to develop a loyal, overseas following.
Already valued at more than $200 million, Pinterest remains in invite only mode, which is one of the ways Pinspire is trying to one-up its look-alike competition. And Pinspire, for its part, has a relatively loyal following in its own right, with more than 11,500 fans of its Facebook page.
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In location news, visitors to 9-11 locations in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania can use an app to listen to oral histories from first-responders. The top real-time Web story was that Collecta is ending its API. And one of our biggest Internet of Things stories of last year is finally here: IPv4 addresses are about run out. In 10 days, to be exact. Read on for more.
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This summer, Apple is expected to launch its next iPhone, and new reports describe it as a “completely redesigned handset” as well as a “total rethink from a design standpoint.” To start, the iPhone 5′s internals be different – the device will run on a new, combined CDMA/GSM/UTMS chipset from Qualcomm, which will support both AT&T and Verizon here in the U.S., as well as other carriers worldwide – perhaps even an expanded lineup, as would now be possible. Along with the iPad 2, this chipset change represents the transition away from Infineon as the iPhone and iPad chipset maker. Going forward, Qualcomm will make the chips for all Apple mobile devices.
But as of this morning, it seems that the most notable thing about the iPhone 5, is not a sum of its features, but the fact that it will be the first iPhone that will launch without Steve Jobs’ daily presence. Although the ailing Apple CEO stated via press release this AM that he will continue his role during his medical absence, COO Tim Cook will be in charge of day-to-day operations at Apple.
Consider the iPhone 5′s 2011 launch as Apple’s dry run for a future without Steve Jobs at the helm. Can it still be “magical?”
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From the sound of the note, there’s no reason to expect this is any short-term illness for Jobs. He writes that “Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011″ so he can focus on his health. Jobs has previously had pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant in 2009, so this news is not surprising, but it’s decidedly upsetting, both from a financial point of view and from the point of view from of someone who has upheld the CEO as one of our era’s greatest visionaries.
But for now, let’s just focus on the iPhone 5. Without Jobs’ daily involvement, Apple execs may be launching the most impressive device yet, if our suspicions play out. Here’s what we know so far:
Details on iPhone 5 are Minimal
An Engadget exclusive from last week cites “reliable sources” in detailing the latest rumors about the upcoming iPhone 5 and iPad 2. The iPhone is currently being tested by senior staff on Apple’s campus, it’s said. But even the sources aren’t giving out details on what the phone will be like, only saying it’s a “compete redesign.”
However, we can put together a list of Apple’s latest acquisitions, hires and patents, to start giving us an idea of the iPhone’s future.
For starters, a 2010 Apple hire of a notable NFC (near field communication) expert Benjamin Vigier and the filing of several related patents, including one for a mobile payments service, suggest that the next iPhone will include an NFC chip inside – the same technology which Google’s latest flagship Android phone, the Nexus S has now. With Android’s newest release, Android 2.3, code-named Gingerbread, support for NFC has been built-in.
This short-range, high frequency wireless technology allows for data exchanges between two devices in close proximity to each other. It will soon form the basis of Google’s (and others) upcoming mobile payments initiatives.
But Apple, too, appears to have plans in this area. Patents point towards ideas for things like iPay, iBuy and iCoupons, all of which suggest Apple is building some sort of mobile wallet.
Among Apple’s other high-profile acquisitions, was April 2010′s buyout of Siri, a personal mobile assistant that was spun out of SRI International, and whose core technology came from a DARPA-funded artificial intelligence project called CALO. Siri was transformed into an iPhone application that could listen to questions either spoken aloud or typed in and then provide answers. At first, the focus was on the sort of ”out and about” questions you may have, e.g. When does that movie show? What Chinese restaurants are nearby? Can I get a table at my favorite Italian place? What’s the phone number for a taxi company? Etc.
But only a few months post-acquisition, the app was updated to integrate results provided by the computational knowledge engine, Wolfram Alpha. For those unaware, Wolfram Alpha is a new sort of search technology which can provide factual answers to questions, as opposed to a list of search results. It currently consists of 10+ trillion pieces of curated, objective data from primary sources, and it can perform calculations on the fly – over 50,000 types of algorithms and equations are now possible.
With this sort of technology built into Apple’s next iPhone, assuming that’s the case, the device could easily go head-to-head with Google Android’s voice search and voice actions, the former which directs you to results from related Google Search properties and the latter which helps you perform actions on your phone, including sending text messages, routing a trip on a map, pulling up a map of nearby attractions or businesses, launching the phone’s music player to play a certain song or artist and more.
Will iPhone 5 up the feature set of its competitor? It’s likely. One of the interesting things about Siri is that it integrates with third-party data sources like OpenTable for restaurant reservations and Yelp for local business listings. Those services, incidentally, also exist as iPhone apps. What if Apple tied together this new voice interface to the device not only with the services themselves, but could also direct you to the appropriate app to learn more? You would then have a whole new interface for locating and launching apps – a search engine of sorts, even, where the focus isn’t on what app name you need to find (as iPhone’s native search does today), but on what action you need to take.
Another Apple acquisition from April 2010, was Lala.com, a cloud-based music streaming service. No doubt this talent-hire was for the purpose of gaining insight and knowledge into the details of building a solid music streaming service like the popular, but now defunct, Lala.
iTunes, the centralized repository of music, videos, apps and more, is quickly becoming outdated as new streaming-only services crop up left and right. Some, like Rdio, provide access to your own content library along with 7 million or so digital tracks while others, like MOG forgo access to your own tracks entirely, offering only its catalog of 10 million songs. Rdio and MOG, as well as Napster, Rhapsody and (the still-yet-to-launch stateside) Spotify, are reasonably priced subscription services, where around $10/month provides you with all-you-can-eat access to music.
Apple has never offered a subscription model for iTunes, however, but with the Lala acquistion, that appears to be in its future. With iPhone 5, you may be able to purchase, download and stream everything from your phone, no desktop software required, and all for one low monthly fee.
In September, Apple acquired facial-recognition firm Polar Rose, whose technology was previously used in a consumer-facing service that automatically tagged your Facebook and Flickr photos with your friends’ names. While speculation at the time focused on how Apple could use the facial recognition to improve its desktop products like Aperture and iPhoto, there’s no reason why it would ignore its mobile products.
Integrating facial recognition into the iPhone could mean a device that knows its owner, for example, and unlocks the phone just for them. Or whose photos are automatically tagged with the names of friends and family which are then synced to iPhoto on the Mac.
In summary, that’s a very smart smartphone we’ve just described above: one that knows who owns it, unlocking just for them, one that can listen and respond to your questions, that can provide factual answers or point you to a related mobile app, one where you music library (and maybe more) is stored online, one that includes NFC for mobile payments, and one which works on whatever carrier you choose. Frankly, that sounds downright magical.
Steve Jobs has long been a visionary for this industry, and his ideas and creations has dramatically impacted how people interact with technology. iPhone 5, assuming it offers all the above, could do that yet again. But now we’ll have to see if Apple can pull it all off without Jobs’ day-to-day presence at Apple.
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I really hate it. I think you have to have monumental reasons, in life, to actually do any work. Let alone to work. And doing "some work" or "any work" is totally different to "working".
I hate working. I hate it. If I was a smurf right now, I’d be the one who hates things, and I’d hate working today. Perhaps youngsters under say 30 have a 4% probability of having a good enough reason to ‘work’ outside of inner cities where poverty drives them to early parenthood.
Work is even more rubbish to face when you’ve spent even just 10 minutes on a forum or facebook or anywhere that is, by contrast, ridiculously interesting. I must retreat into a world of… well, my world. My work. The work. I just want to make art and have some fun, but no. We give ourselves a choice, to choose total irresponsibility or not, we spend our youth learning how to choose irresponsibility and then, when it matters, when it can mean "forever"… what do we do? We crave responsibility. Mad mad lemmings. And make the films which sell, where the stars are all irresponsible. Nightmare. This is the fault of the advertising industry and we are the actual cogs, us humans here in this place, the cogs in the wheels of the neo-advertising industry. We’re "the s***", but we’re also in it, up to our necks, because it all happens here, all the containment of human will! We make it. We tell them what to buy and when and why.
We’re misfits in the shadows and we preach a world of perfect curves and lines, we’re brainy overzealous antisocial giants, and we put out templates of stupidity, apathy, mass-synchronized behaviour and tiny-mindedness to THEM so that we get paid, and we’re controlled too… cogs, in a bigger organism, the brain of the modern propagation industry, where most people’s money flows in and out on command and you can BUY people to buy what you sell, night and day, across the globe, in all languages, like some horrific new evolution on stock market trading – you can buy consumer behaviour, as a company, an investor, probably somehow even as a consumer. I’ll send a cheque for 2 cents to tycoontalk asap. 
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