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The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is Layer
- Andrenid 13y agoI'm not sure how TechCrunch do it, but if you have Ghostery installed in your browser, the entire article content disappears as soon as the page loads, leaving you with an empty article.
- jcoder 13y agoIt's ads and trackers all the way down?
- Andrenid 13y agoAdblock isn't doing it, definitely Ghostery, so looks like either they detect Ghostery and hide the article if you have it (the rest of the page shows up, just not the article content/text)... or Ghostery thinks their text is a tracker and is blocking it.
- prezjordan 13y agoThe latest update includes "Click to Play." Just click the Play button to let the script run once.
- hipaulshi 13y agoI cannot believe anything other than COTA deserved to win. It is clearly the most impressive piece of technology I have seen in this Disrupt. What if a whole city can be covered by such device? Non-disruptive power on your mobile devices man. And Dryft? I tried it and it was terrible (to be fair, a lot of people was trying it, so the machine learning algorithm might messed up, I tried for like 2 mins and it was not easy).
- herdrick 13y agoIt doesn't occur to TC that a page with several videos that play upon page load is super annoying? I wanted to watch one of those videos but it was easier to just close the whole thing.
- jaredsohn 13y agoNone of the videos played on load for me.
- herdrick 13y agoOK, maybe it's just me. But I tried it on a second browser - same thing. Thanks!
- jaredsohn 13y agoI just tried opening the story's link in Chrome/OSX and also Chrome/OSX incognito (in case extensions were interfering) and the page loaded but none of the videos played until I manually clicked Play.
- callmeed 13y agoArrington is a judge and CrunchFund is a seed investor of the winning company. Stay classy, TechCrunch.
- shalmanese 13y agoArrington recused himself from voting with every startup he invested in (as did other investors on the stage).
- jaredsohn 13y agoInterestingly, I think that for one of the finalists (forget which one), all of the judges but one were investors.
- seeingfurther 13y agoDoesn't CrunchFund do tons of small investments and I'm guessing they invest in every company at Disrupt? It would almost be silly for them not to... I would think.
- callmeed 13y agoThat's fine, then TC shouldn't put any CrunchFund people on the judging panel.
- ryanmerket 13y agoThey do not invest in every company at Disrupt. Source: I presented on stage in NY 2010.
- asenna 13y agoForget who invested and who voted, Layer is seriously addressing a huge problem. I looked at their presentation and realized how bad something like this is needed. I was looking for something like this recently and now I can't wait to get an invite. I feel they deserved winning. I do not have a vested interest in this company, just a fan.
- mathattack 13y ago