The startup t-shirt is badge of honor in Silicon Valley. A cool company logo, on a well-designed t-shirt signals that you and your team have arrived. When you see someone walking in shirt fromZynga,Yammer,Hipmunk,Evernoteand the like, you know two things: 1. That’s a gnarly shirt 2. If you worked there, you’d have one too. There’s also a good thread of startup t-shirts here onQuora, if you want to see more. (Thanks,Peter)...
DesignCrowd, the Australia-headquartered crowdsourcing service for designers, has big plans: it wants to grow its business from $10 million to $100 million as quickly as possible — and its first step is to conquer the US. With this goal in mind, it is taking on99Designs— which has been based in San Francisco since 2010. Interestingly enough, 99Designs was also founded in Australia. To stand out from the competition presented by the incumbent in the online design services space, DesignCrowd employs a slightly different model of crowdsourcing....
There has been a war raging for over a decade now: desktop client or webmail? Like the Mac versus PC debate and so many others in the world of technology, they become full-fledged jihads over what is, at the end of the day, a matter of personal taste. In the past week, our Editor-in-Chief Zee M Kaneposed the question on Google+. The answers were varied, but showed a strong lean towards webmail — Gmail in particular....
There are a bunch of sites out there that let you share things like thehome screenof your iPhone and yourchoice of apps, but there hasn’t been a stylish equivalent that lets you show off your desktop. That’s where Desktop.ly comes in. It’s a clean, great looking site that lets you upload a screenshot of your desktop, fill out some information about yourself and your setup and share it via Twitter or URL....
Once again, Apple is late to the party. A hot new product is taking the industry by storm, destined to be the ‘next big thing’ and Apple stays silent, letting the other players in the market duke it out to be first on the scene. Meanwhile, pundits and analysts begin to mutter, then cry, that Apple has missed the boat and that whatever they introduce is doomed before it even arrives....
