With the support of the YC can't wait is a mobile social network for movie trailers

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Anyone who has spent the late night hour or three viewing movie trailers on trailers.apple.com understand Utility cannot wait for iPhone app. co-founders Eric Florenzano and Eric Maguire tell me that app nearest competitor trailers.apple.com himself, and that the only way to track updates to this website via its RSS feed.

Can't wait is a slick mobile cinema trailer player built on the basis of the YouTube API. This is hardly the first application, which includes movie trailers (see movie apps like Flixster and Fandango, for example), but the application has a strong emphasis on interaction with other users, as well as a reminder when there are movies that you are interested in.

Cinephiles can download the application for viewing the latest movie trailers, which includes options for sorting by just added, and release date. After watching the trailer, users can then share them with specific friends, both inside and outside can't wait or all users of the application, clicking Gonna pass or cannot wait.

Button can't wait will also choose you for notifications to when the film will hit theaters, which takes into account other similar trailers, or when a friend recommends something.  Co-founders plan to integrate more social features, such as an opportunity to comment on another post about the trailer in later versions.

Of course, because the movie trailers, basically the first transformation point for theatre tickets, tickets can be bought film from within the app, can't wait monetizes, taking charge of branch from Fandango. In addition, people cannot wait for the trailer and share with your friends (in fact attract new users) have the opportunity to win free movie ticket. Co-founders mulling over the expansion of this sort of Groupon film inspired function.

Florenzano said that eventually he hopes that can't wait to help people organize their nights with friends and that they're planning on creating algorithmic technology to help people any surface trailers, they would like to see more of. He would like to see cannot wait for content consumption model for extensions for video games, music and consumer electronics. Android app is also in the works.

"People are bored, they sat at the train station, bus stop and they've got their phone to be them and got a time to kill," said Florenzano. "They don't have time to watch the whole movie or do something important, but they have 1-2 minutes to watch the trailer. We're not curing cancer, but we help people to have some fun ".

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Next generation 911 would support the text, photos, video and data

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No one ever wants to be in a situation that requires emergency services, but when you think all "dial 911" it really helps. Kind of. In truth, our emergency response system is pretty outdated when we consider all the different forms of communication, which will be the core. But fortunately, FCC Charmain Julius Genachowski has been tapped by the recently announced that five step plan is in place to bring text, photo, video and data to support next-generation 911.

"It's hard to imagine that airlines can send text messages if your flight is delayed, but you cannot send a text message 911 in an emergency," said Genachowski has been tapped by. "Unfortunately it is true that our emergency response communication has not kept pace with commercial innovation — has not kept pace with now do what ordinary people every day with communication devices."

This is a very sweet News considering there are many situations in which the phone support just doesn't cut it. Let's say you're in a kind of bank robbery hostage situation (knock on wood). You can't just whip out the old Smartphone and yammer in police wearing masks. But the text will definitely help you, and anyone who is young, had a cell phone in the classroom with them knows that the hidden text message isn't terribly difficult.

Another hypothetical: you are convenient to store one night ice cream when perusing through the selection of a mugger pulls out a gun and captures all the money from the register. You know, he's going to run for it, but if you can just snap a pic or grab some videos, the police can actually find it. For several years, photos and videos sent in via next generation 911 service may be one of the best ways to catch criminals.

The service does not roll out for another five to ten years, but at the same time, a set of 911 will do just fine.

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Mark, with the support of the Cuban AskMen JungleCents Ushers in space daily deals

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During the grinding operation, the transition in the digital era publishing industry grasping at straws to find ways to grow its revenue models. Even when the time marches on, publishing companies, in General, continue to struggle with most effectively monetize their content and add more (or even primary) income. JungleCents, Mark Cuban support for the launch, with a men's lifestyle magazine, AskMen in daily transactions space in an attempt to help publishing to use additional sources of revenue — all thanks to the vouchers.

As the TC Alexia Tsotsis wrote back in October, a la Commission Junction, JungleCents intends to attack the acquisition of customers, taking the vouchers from companies in lieu of cash and execution of these transactions on your site, as well as affiliate sites — in limited quantities for a limited time.

In connection with AskMen JungleCents offers discount on men's goods from bonobos, which offered on JungleCents but also AskMen.com. With bonobos deals customers pay $ 48 to $ 100 voucher to spend on Bonobos.com, with the deal, essentially acting as a gift card as the user does not have spent $ 100 voucher for once.

Of course AskMen is not exactly the New York Times, but the daily transactions can potentially allow content sites such as AskMen monetization in more measurable approach when you add more value to their readers, says JungleCents cofounder and CEO Samir Mehta. Sites like JungleCents could actually be good for niche publishing sites, because they can serve more targeted deals, which are relevant to the readers of the site. For example, if the reader is positioned on AskMen, men in publishing and is serviced by bargain for cheap jeans, the reader is likely to click on, say, someone else perusing the News on the New York Times.

These transactions at the bottom of this post may even go so far as to add value to content (gasp!) and give publishers a trigger for monetization. JungleCents testing this theory, the set in which they proposed a 50 per cent of the readers of Nooka watches. The deal netted a set of 9 per cent of the rate and success gave JungleCents the motivation for the other secondary niche publications.

Mehta, said that he thinks that this model is not only useful for publishers, but offers up the brands as they get access to their target demographic. He also brings their custoemr acquisition cost down because these clients (based on how they find transactions) are not deal-hungry coupon clippers, they are more likely to be brand ambassadors. Thus for brands, who are not interested in gold leaf or Groupon, AskMen bonobos model seems a better fit.

As to how the redemption of the vouchers work? Once a consumer buys a bargain at JungleCents, they get an email with a unique redemption code, which they then used to retrieve and brand in the online store. Mehta, said that he thinks that this allows brands to own their new client, unlike Flash sales that run off last season, when the consumer has no contact with the trade mark.

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Chrome Lion full-screen support is ready to go in the Canaries, with or without tabs

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Building on our previous coverage of Google's chrome browser for OS X Lion, it looks like the development moves faster than expected. In particular, swiping gesture support is already fully implemented (currently the right too) and now the proper screen hit the Canary build browser.

Shortly after the start of the lion a few weeks ago we celebrated the Chrome works, but it was a little wobbly. Because the lion may have changed some default gesture swiping page was broken. And chromium in full-screen mode is not really compatible with the functionality that is built into a lion. Not less than chrome SVP Sundar Pichai said that Google is working on, but notes that "it will take some time".

In the weeks since, dev and beta builds of chrome was very unreliable, constantly crashing. This prompted a number of chrome for Mac users over to Apple's Safari browser. But if this last Canary build Chrome any indication, Google is pushing hard to get the Chrome back up to speed on the Mac.

As for the first time noticed MacStories, support full screen now completely baked into Chrome Canary. And it's brilliant. There have been some disputes about whether functionality should work as it was previously, with absolutely no browser chrome (bottom) showing — or if it should work as Safari and show tabs in full screen mode? Well Google implemented both ways. By default, when you enter the entire screen, you will see tabs, but the new curtain "button removes tabs for you really full screen experience. (Tabs will still pop down when you hover over the top of the screen.)

Swiping gesture based page was fixed a couple of weeks ago, but Google has its back when compared to Safari. As you can see on the boards of chrome, our history flag issue for the team, and they quickly fixed.

In the latest version of chrome in Canary channel is 15. Chrome's dev build is still in the 14, 15 changes should hit soon. Then it will be several weeks before he rolls over all channels of chrome. But rest assured, Leo compatible Chrome is on the way.

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Get satisfaction gets $ 10 million to grow its network support community

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Community support site get satisfaction announces today a $ 10 million series b financing led by InterWest partners and followed by blue, OATV and first round capital, InterWest partner Bruce Cleveland will join the Board this new inflow of resources will then get the common funding of $ 21 million to date.

In the same space as lithium or Telligent Satisifaction, ambitiously wants to be the first company to move to the network, to talk with clients, these clients can be. The company was founded in 2007, Lane Becker, Thor Muller, Amy Muller, who came with the product after realizing that they need a platform to support their main project at the time, hilarious Valleyschwag.

Since then, get satisfaction has gone through some notable change management; Co-founder Thor Muller resigned as Director in 2009 and Becker resigned as President in 2010, the transfer of key Web 2.0 veteran Wendy Lea, whose task is to transform the ideals get satisfaction public support community with real business.

Get satisfaction is based on the relationship between brands and consumers must be open and transparent. On multiple platforms, the main forum features allow customers to initiate discussion, one of four ways, ask a question, share an idea, report a problem or give praise. Companies can create a page to obtain satisfaction for free and pay a monthly fee to demand and moderate page starting at $ 19.00.

LEA tells me that in a world post Web 2.0, companies should engage with customers through multiple points of contact; For example the integration of get satisfaction Facebook fan page redirects all calls through the main center of the company.

What separates get satisfaction from competitors is the fact that all the interactions occur in an open environment and so easy to find in Google customers wishing, the answer to the question as "the mighty leaf tea from a fair trade tea?" you can find themes and a mighty target page easily. The company provides value to its customers through direct data services CRM Salesforce and Assistly, allowing brands to take practical steps according to excavated client discussion reduces research and support costs.

Get satisfaction currently has more than 58 000 communities online and 2500, with clients, running the gamut from giant Proctor and Gamble, Adobe to startups like Zynga, Spotify, Flipboard and Mint.

LEA is sold in the larger vision of human powered community and tells me what get satisfaction is essentially a bridge between social networks such as Facebook and CRM tools like Salesforce, attracting customers on what amounts to a pyramid consisting of three levels; Service and support (Basic), the idea of the level (Center) and community level (above). Perhaps the most eloquent testimony to the company's philosophy is the mascot of jargon, the robot, which represents the corporate speak, many companies use when communicating with customers, "we want the company to make an authentic voice," says Lea.

LEA plans to use the funding for the establishment of the team even further in order to focus on product innovation and strategic partnerships. The company currently employs 39 staff and has made many notable new staff in recent months, including the star Community Manager Drew Olanoff. LEA tells me she is planning to release mobile get satisfaction and new widgets this month and "very interested" in acquiring — so stay tuned for more news here.

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