Vox Media has very quickly become a huge force in online media. The owner of websites like SB Nation and the Verge is seeking to create a whole new generation of premium properties online, as a way to attract big advertisers. One way it's doing that is by extending its home-grown technology to brand marketers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/butcLrVORDM/
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Congress?s?solution to flight delays caused by sequester-mandated budget cuts is going to cause pain in the long run.
To avoid further furloughing air traffic controllers, the FAA will be allowed to draw on funds that had been set aside to improve the nation?s airports.
American airports aren?t great to begin with, and now they won?t be getting much better.
To give American travelers a look at what they?re missing, we?ve put together a list of the world?s best airports, based on the 2013 World Airport Awards, announced this month by leading airline reviewer Skytrax.
The awards, which include categories for best terminal, shopping, security, cleanliness, dining, and more, are determined by public opinion. More than 12 million people responded to this year?s survey.
As President Obama noted in a press conference Tuesday, the highest ranked U.S. airport is Cincinnati at #30. Not very impressive.
Yearly passengers: 70 million
2012 rank: 11
Why it?s awesome:?Despite London Mayor Boris Johnson?s concern that Heathrow gives visitors ?a terrible impression of the UK,? the overcrowded airport made it into Skytrax?s top ten.
The third busiest airport in the world in 2012, it took home the awards for Best Airport Shopping and Best Airport Terminal, for T5, which opened in 2008 after a $6.2 billion, 19-year design and construction process.
Heathrow?s Skytrax review includes four or five out of five star rankings for ease of use, flight information, public transport, security staff efficiency, and more.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 66.8 million
2012 rank: 14
Why it?s awesome: Haneda moved up five places this year, partly thanks to how clean it is.
With a third, international terminal that opened in 2010, Haneda can accommodate 90 million passengers annually.
More construction is already in the works: The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced plans to expand the new terminal with eight more gates, more parking, and a hotel, by March 2014.
The airport won the Skytrax awards for Best Airport Terminal Cleanliness and World?s Best Domestic Airport, and took second place for Best Airport Immigration Service.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 17.6 million
2012 rank: 8
Why it?s awesome: The least busy airport in the Skytrax top ten, Vancouver International offers visitors a large collection of Pacific Northwest Coast Native art.
Skytrax named Vancouver International the Best Airport in North America for the fourth year in a row in 2013, a streak that justifies the $1.4 billion the airport spent on?recent expansion.
Volunteers, known as Green Coat Ambassadors, work in the airport to help travelers get where they?re going.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures provided by Vancouver International Airport.
Yearly passengers: 24.8 million2012 rank: 7 Why it?s awesome:?The largest international airport in Switzerland, Zurich was significantly expanded in 2003, with a new terminal and an underground, automated train called the Skymetro to shuttle travelers around.
Located 7 miles north of the Zurich city center, this airport also won Best Airport Baggage Delivery in Europe.
The airport offers a porter service where travelers pay a fee to have their bag picked up from anywhere in the airport and delivered to their final destination.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures provided by Zurich Airport.
Yearly passengers: 38.4 million
2012 rank: 6
Why it?s awesome: Germany?s second busiest airport features aesthetically pleasing terminals on the walk to the gate. Many of the walls and ceilings are made of glass, making the airport feel large and open.
The airport, a 45 minute train ride from the Munich city center, was also named the best in Central Europe, and the World?s Best Airport for Dining.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 81.9 million
2012 rank: 5
Why it?s awesome: Already beyond its 78 million passenger annual capacity, Beijing Capital is the busiest airport in Asia and the second busiest in the world, trailing only Atlanta?s Hartsfield-Jackson.
That?s why the city is building another airport, which will be bigger than JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark combined.
Capital?s tallest building, Terminal 3, came in fifth for Best Airport Terminal. It opened in 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics.
Capital also took second place for Best Baggage Delivery.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 56.1 million
2012 rank: 3
Why it?s awesome: Located less than five flying hours from half of the world?s population, Hong Kong?s airport is one of the busiest in the world.
It didn?t win any awards, but it landed in the top five for dining, shopping, cleanliness, and leisure amenities.
In March 2012, the airport decided to add a third runway to increase its capacity.
Hong Kong International also offers a nine-hole golf course, a great place for travelers to spend long layovers.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 51 million
2012 rank: 4
Why it?s awesome: Schiphol opened in 1916 as a military airfield and has now transformed into one of the busiest airports in the world.
While travelers wait for their flight departures, they can enjoy a massage, play a game of poker at the casino, and catch up on some reading at the airport library.
According to Skytrax, Schiphol also has excellent dining and shopping options.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
Yearly passengers: 39.2 million
2012 rank: 1
Why it?s awesome: Incheon, the largest airport in South Korea, serves passengers on more than 70 airlines, and is one of only three airlines to receive a five-star overall rating from Skytrax.
Every year from 2005 to 2012, it was rated as the world?s top airport by Airports Council International.
The young airport ? it opened in March 2001 ? is home to a museum of Korean culture, and has excellent rankings for cleanliness, external views, rest areas, internet access, and local food choices.
Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figures are preliminary rankings for 2012 provided by Airports Council International.
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Even bacteria have a kind of "immune system" they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders ? in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, were now able to show that this defense system is much more diverse than previously thought and that it comes in multiple versions. Their goal is to use the various newly discovered versions of the CRISPR-Cas gene for the targeted manipulation of genetic information, particularly for medical purposes.
The human immune system's main function is to protect us against invading bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. To perform its job, the system has evolved into a highly complex ensemble of cells, messengers, and antibody molecules that is capable of recognizing different pathogens, defending us against them, and storing information about them.
Even the bacteria themselves are threatened by pathogens: Certain viruses, the bacteriophages (literally, "bacteria eaters"), have become specialized to invade bacterial cells and proliferate inside of them. In order to get rid of these unwanted guests, many species of bacteria make use of an arsenal of molecules that works according to similar principles as an immune system does.
The Cas enzyme recognizes DNA molecules that contain non-self genetic information, e.g. from bacteriophages, and cleaves them at specific sites. In order to recognize these molecules, a molecular copy of specific, characteristic sections of the foreign DNA is required. This copy, a kind of "molecular profile" of bacteriophage DNA and other foreign genetic material, exists as RNA, an important cellular building block, which is used, among other things, as a temporary storage site of genetic information.
The template for this profile is stored in the bacterium's own genes, specifically in those regions scientists call CRISPR (which stands for "clustered regularly interspaced small palindromic repeats" or, more simply put, the "regular arrangement of small, symmetric repeats" in the sequence of the DNA building blocks). Together, the enzyme and the profile RNA constitute the CRISPR-Cas system.
Now, Prof. Emmanuelle Charpentier's work group has scoured the genome of several hundred bacterial species in the search of CRISPR-Cas genes ? and has made several discoveries. "We were able to identify new CRISPR-Cas genes in a number of bacterial species," says Charpentier, an HZI researcher who also teaches at Hannover Medical School (MHH). Among these species are much-feared germs like Streptococcus pyogenes and the meningitis pathogen, Neisseria meningitidis. "We have identified a number of these genes with the help of computers by examining known DNA sequences of the bacteria in question." Charpentier's conclusion: "The CRISPR system is not only widespread among bacteria, it also exists as an incredible range of different versions."
Knowing about these different versions is not only of academic interest but can also be tremendously useful for gene technology: "The CRISPR-Cas system is capable of cleaving DNA at very specific sites," explains Charpentier. "The Cas enzyme can already be modified in such a way that it becomes active not only in bacteria but also in animal and human cell cultures." If this kind of enzyme is specifically equipped with new RNA "profiles," it cleaves the cell's genome at precisely defined sites. "If you then use specific cellular repair mechanisms to mend the DNA strands and connect their loose ends, you can then specifically introduce new sections of genes into cellular DNA."
This opens considerable options for new forms of therapy. "I am certain that the CRISPR-Cas technology has tremendous potential," says Charpentier. "Especially for medical applications like gene therapy."
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Krzysztof Chylinski, Anas Le Rhun, Emmanuelle Charpentier The tracrRNA and Cas9 families of type II CRISPR-Cas immunity systems RNA Biology, 2013
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U.S. forward Abby Wambach (L) fights for the ball with Japan's Azusa Iwashimizu during the final of the women's football competition of the London Olympic Games on Aug. 9, 2012 in London.
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On the April 29 edition of the Hang Up and Listen podcast, Stefan Fatsis followed up on his April 25 Slate piece on Abby Wambach?s head injury and the National Women?s Soccer League pitiful response. The transcript of Fatsis? story is below, and you can listen to him read it by clicking on the audio player beneath this paragraph.
Abby Wambach did not play in her team?s opening home game on Saturday in the new women?s pro soccer league, and that?s because she was clocked in the head a week earlier by a ball traveling I?d guess 50 or 60 miles per hour that was struck by a teammate who was standing about 6 yards away. As I wrote in a piece on Slate last week, Wambach collapsed lifelessly and rolled into the fetal position, grabbing her head. She stayed down for 31 seconds. The ref, a World Cup and Olympic veteran named Kari Seitz, raised her right palm to stop a trainer from coming on the field. Wambach stood, took two off-balance steps, and play resumed.
It was the 90th minute of a tie game. Wambach played the next four minutes and headed the ball on the game?s last play. When the whistle blew, she went to her knees, the trainer rushed on, and Wambach needed help getting off the field. The goalkeeper for the other team said Wambach was mumbling, and that she told her she was out of it. Her coach said she wasn?t doing too well. But she boarded a bus for the long ride home from Washington to Rochester, N.Y.
I was at the game, and it was frightening. Wambach was clearly and dangerously compromised, but everyone around her let her play on. Hey, the Western New York Flash needed her! Crunch time in a big game against the Washington Spirit! If Wambach had taken another similar blow to the head?well, just Google ?second-impact syndrome.?
If at this point a professional athlete, coach, trainer, league official, or journalist isn?t taking sports head injuries seriously, they need to wake the hell up. The level of denial and ignorance I?ve witnessed since Wambach went down last week has been profound and stunning. Let?s start with Wambach herself. The day after the game, she tweeted out a photo of herself on her knees at the game?s end with the opposing team?s goalkeeper, Ashlyn Harris, waving for help. ?I?m all good here everyone. Thanks for the well wishes,? she wrote.
All good? All bad. Instead of B.S.-ing her nearly 241,000 Twitter followers?many of them preadolescent and teen girl soccer players who idolize her?here?s what Wambach could have said: ?I made a mistake everyone. I should have come out of that game. Play it safe. Don?t take risks with head injuries.?
Instead, Wambach and her team, the league, and local media spent the last week treating the episode like an annoying distraction from what really matters?the next game. Last Monday, Wambach told reporters that she had passed concussion tests, was symptom-free, and, referring to her ?hard-headedness,? was confident that she would play the following Saturday. But she didn?t practice that day and no one from the team or league publicly discussed her status on Tuesday or Wednesday. The league?s commissioner did talk to me. She said that ?everyone who was out there??on the field??handled that appropriately.? And she gave me other reasons for why Wambach soldiered on despite a head injury that sent a collective gasp through the crowd.
My story posted on Thursday morning. A local reporter who covers the team mentioned it in a blog post in which he put the words ?head injury? between quotation marks and said that he expected Wambach to play on Saturday. On Thursday afternoon, the team announced that Wambach wouldn?t play?because of ?precautionary measures.?
Wambach and the Flash?s coach, Aaran Lines, talked to reporters. Lines said that Wambach was ?fine? but that there are ?certain procedures? to be followed that have ?come of late through what?s happened in the NFL.? Wambach finally said?and I?m willing to bet she was asked to say it?that she, the team, and league ?take these things seriously.? But her and her coach?s statements left me wondering just how seriously. The most telling quote came from the coach: ?She wasn?t quite right Monday. We left it to Tuesday to recover and then late Wednesday the medical staff came in, and you need five days from that point. That was the issue.?
Wait, what? Wasn?t she symptom-free on Monday? And the team ?left it? until Tuesday for her to recover, and didn?t call in medical staff or begin the return-to-play concussion protocol until late Wednesday? So why was the team telling the public that Wambach was ?fine?? Why was it implying that the only reason she wouldn?t play were these pesky return-to-play guidelines that the league has to follow?which are the fault, by the way, of the National Football League?
On Friday, I emailed the commissioner of the National Women?s Soccer League, Cheryl Bailey, and its PR guy, and the PR guy for the Flash. I asked them to explain the timeline in Wambach?s care and treatment as described by the player and her coach. I also told them I?d rewatched the video and it looked like Wambach displayed four and possibly all five of the symptoms of a concussion that are part of the league?s guidelines. [The first four]: slow to get up, unsteady gait, falling to ground grabbing/clutching head, dazed/confused blank or vacant look. And judging by the way she fell, limply, that it was even possible she displayed the fifth sign, losing consciousness.
And, finally, I asked this: ?Do you still feel that your policies were correctly followed on the field? Have you discussed what happened with the referee, coaches, trainers, and other players who were present? Do you plan any policy changes going forward or other actions? And do you have any plans for how you might discuss the incident, and head injuries more generally, with league constituents including players, coaches, and fans??
As I speak, I?ve heard nothing back from the league. No one involved has actually mentioned the word ?concussion.? Since sharing that picture of herself in clear distress, Wambach hasn?t tweeted a word about her injury. At halftime of Saturday?s game, she did tell the crowd that she?d be ready to play on Wednesday, though her coach said afterward that she hadn?t been medically cleared. Hmm. [Update, April 30: The team now says that Wambach has been medically cleared and will play on Wednesday.]
I love women?s soccer. I took my daughter to the Women?s World Cup in 2011. I have taken her to many more games since, including the Wambach fiasco. As I wrote in the Slate piece, the sport has played the role-model card to great effect, and with great sincerity, since the 1990s. Controversies have been few, and limited to on-field matters.
But if this new league?the third in the last decade?wants to be taken seriously, it needs to behave seriously. It can?t just be about fun and autographs and encouraging girls to play. In fact, I?d argue that the National Women?s Soccer League has a better chance of not failing if it takes a progressive stand on issues central to the life of female athletes?including injuries, especially now concussions. Be progressive, be honest, do some good?for your own athletes and for the ones watching. Pretending that something didn?t happen doesn?t make it so.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Quail Hollow has been a symbol of perfection for 10 years since it returned to the PGA Tour lineup, a beautifully manicured golf course where the six major champions who have won ranged from Tiger Woods to Rory McIlroy.
It is less than perfect this year. Some have even compared the greens to a rundown municipal course.
One thing that hasn't changed at the Wells Fargo Championship is that someone will win just over $1.2 million, and he mostly likely will have played better golf than the other 155 players in the field.
"You can't lie about it ? the greens are shaky," defending champion Rickie Fowler said Wednesday. "But I feel like come tournament time ... you're still going to be able to make putts. There is still a hole out there. Someone's going to have to make putts this week. Someone's going to win the golf tournament. They're still giving out a trophy and a jacket at the end of Sunday."
No one is more disappointed than tournament officials, who spared no expense trying to fix a problem that was out of their control. The South has been plagued by an unusually cold and wet spring, which tournament director Kym Hougham said was the primary culprit. The bent greens are to be torn up in two weeks and replaced by Bermuda, a move that is one year too late.
How bad are they?
The greens on Nos. 8 and 10 had to be replaced by sod just last week ? in fact, the 10th green had to be re-sodded twice because the roots were growing sideways. For the new sod, the club paid for strips of grass that were 4 feet wide and 60 feet long to reduce the number of seams, even though it was the most costly. Several other putting surfaces have patches of brown where there is no grass.
On four greens, the players were asked to only hit one shot in the practice rounds and limit their putting to alleviate any stress on the greens.
It was unusual to see players on the practice green leaving 30-foot putts some 5 feet short of the hole. Robert Allenby actually made one, and then he was asked what he was doing.
"I'm trying to see how many bounces it takes to get to the hole," Allenby said. "That was 22 for a 33-foot putt."
Allenby took issue with a memo from PGA Tour officials that warned players of four bad greens at Quail Hollow, with the rest of them a typical tour greens.
"There's not one green that's like a normal tour green," Allenby said. "That might have confused a lot of players."
PGA Tour players are spoiled with consistently great conditions each week, so complaints figures to be rampant this week. In this case, however, there has been an equal dose of sympathy for a tournament that has run so smoothly since it began in 2003.
"They always put on a good show," Allenby said. "They look after us. One thing you can guarantee, the greens will be perfect next year."
This year is suffering.
Woods decided last week not to play, presumably because he forgot there was only two weeks between the Masters and Quail Hollow, a change in the schedule this year. The Wells Fargo Championship has only one of the top 10 in the world ? McIlroy at No. 2 ? which is rare for this event.
There already have been nine players to withdraw, including past champions Vijay Singh and David Toms. Ian Poulter was in Charlotte on Tuesday but never made it out to the golf course. He withdrew citing personal reasons. Not all of the withdrawals are related to course conditions, although there were enough to make other players wonder.
Hougham didn't hide his disappointment, nor did he make any excuses.
"It's unfortunate," he said of the greens. "There was a lot of effort put it to rectify the situation. A number of factors contributed, Mother Nature being the biggest. But you know our standard. They deserve good greens, and we didn't produce good greens. And we'll make sure that never happens again."
For the players who showed up ? and stayed ? they planned to make the best of it.
"It would be one thing if half the field played on good greens and half the field played on bad greens," Joe Ogilvie said. "This place prides itself on presentation. Trust me, they feel a hell of a lot worse than anyone complaining."
McIlroy has fond memories of Quail Hollow, where he won his first PGA Tour title in 2010 at age 20. He made an eagle late in his round to avoid missing the cut, and then closed with a 62 on Sunday. It's one of his favorite courses on tour, and that hasn't changed.
"We come to Quail Hollow and they're ? for me ? probably the best greens on tour, usually," McIlroy said. "It's just unfortunate that they're not quite up to the standard that they usually are, but it's no big deal. The rest of the golf course is in phenomenal shape. It's going to be the same. Everyone has to putt on them, and the best player at the end of the week is still going to win. I don't think there is a big problem at all."
"I don't mind because I'm not a guy that relies on my putting, per se," he said. "So it will eliminate quite a lot of the field. I don't mind that at all."
The putts roll about like they do at Pebble Beach in February when it has been raining. Balls bounce as much as they roll. Players are having to hope for the best and expect the worse, and realize they're not the only ones who get a few bad bounces.
As Allenby continued to rap putts on a cloudy day, he looked at the bright side.
"I can miss them on good greens," he said. "If I miss a few, it's not like I haven't missed a bunch already this year. I've won on worse greens. The British Masters in '96. They spray-painted them green. It was green paint over dirt. And I ended up winning."
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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, a research affiliate of UC San Diego School of Medicine, have found a link between multivitamin use and alcohol consumption before pregnancy, uncovering a need for education about the importance of vitamin supplementation, particularly among women who drink alcohol during their childbearing years. The study was published online this month in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Researchers examined data collected from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's multiple-state Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) of more than 100,000 women between 2004 and 2008. The women answered a series of questions about alcohol use before their pregnancies as well as multivitamin supplement use. The study found women who reported consuming alcohol regularly or binge drinking were significantly less likely to take a multivitamin supplement compared with those who did not report alcohol consumption.
"It's likely a woman may consume alcohol before she even realizes she's pregnant, therefore, these findings are significant," explained Lauren Bartell Weiss, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at UC San Diego's Center for the Promotion of Maternal Health and Infant Development and co-author of the study. "If a woman is drinking alcohol regularly and unintentionally becomes pregnant, not only does her unborn child have a greater risk of being affected by the alcohol, but other studies suggest that alcohol can also alter the metabolism of nutrients and interfere with the nutritional supply to the developing baby."
Since pregnancy increases the demand for several vitamins and minerals in order to adequately support a developing fetus, Weiss said the alcohol interference with nutritional supply means a woman's unborn child may also have a greater risk of developing other birth defects, such as neural tube defects, if she hasn't been taking a multi-vitamin.
"These findings emphasize the need for educating all women of childbearing age, especially those who drink alcohol, about the importance of taking multivitamins regularly whether they're planning to have children or not," said Weiss.
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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, a research affiliate of UC San Diego School of Medicine, have found a link between multivitamin use and alcohol consumption before pregnancy, uncovering a need for education about the importance of vitamin supplementation, particularly among women who drink alcohol during their childbearing years. The study was published online this month in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Researchers examined data collected from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention's multiple-state Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) of more than 100,000 women between 2004 and 2008. The women answered a series of questions about alcohol use before their pregnancies as well as multivitamin supplement use. The study found women who reported consuming alcohol regularly or binge drinking were significantly less likely to take a multivitamin supplement compared with those who did not report alcohol consumption.
"It's likely a woman may consume alcohol before she even realizes she's pregnant, therefore, these findings are significant," explained Lauren Bartell Weiss, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at UC San Diego's Center for the Promotion of Maternal Health and Infant Development and co-author of the study. "If a woman is drinking alcohol regularly and unintentionally becomes pregnant, not only does her unborn child have a greater risk of being affected by the alcohol, but other studies suggest that alcohol can also alter the metabolism of nutrients and interfere with the nutritional supply to the developing baby."
Since pregnancy increases the demand for several vitamins and minerals in order to adequately support a developing fetus, Weiss said the alcohol interference with nutritional supply means a woman's unborn child may also have a greater risk of developing other birth defects, such as neural tube defects, if she hasn't been taking a multi-vitamin.
"These findings emphasize the need for educating all women of childbearing age, especially those who drink alcohol, about the importance of taking multivitamins regularly whether they're planning to have children or not," said Weiss.
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During our Disrupt event today, New York City company Foursquare’s co-founder Dennis Crowley spoke about how people are talking about the company these days. One of the interesting things about the company is its strategy to be the “location layer” of the Internet. For four years, the company has been trapping all of this location data, tips and social graph information. On its location data, Crowley said that the company is generating all of this information that will be important moving forward, like finding all of the interesting places on say, a Monday morning in New York City. These are the bits of data that Foursquare has just started leveraging in its own app and it’s only going to get better. Crowley says that its API is underutilized by partners and people aren’t “leaning” on them as much as they could be, as of yet. He says that in the next year you’ll see more apps that use Foursquare’s location data get smarter about the world around it. This means that the company has a lot more evangelism to do to educate companies on how their data is best used. I can’t think of many services that do a really good job of it right now. Sure, apps like Flickr let you add a Foursquare venue to your photo, but that’s all. It would be nice if Flickr could suggest places to visit and shoot photos based on other interesting places are close to your current location, and those are the types of applications that Crowley suggests when saying that its API isn’t used to its fullest potential. When asked about how the company is viewed from the outside, Crowley said Foursquare is going through a period of time that other big startups have gone through: We’re not the shiny new thing anymore, we’ve been around for four years. People are understanding what we’re trying to do, become the location layer. We’re in that interesting hazing period where people are skeptical on whether we can be success or not. Facebook went through it, now we’re going through it. “The biggest haters and critics of Foursquare haven’t used the app in the past six months.” Crowley continued. He went on to call some of the predictive modeling that Foursquare is doing for users is somewhat like “rocket science.” However, getting people to stop thinking of Foursquare as the same company thatSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/g7k7qDcUmhA/
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