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	February 1st, 2013 SendHub (YC W12) launches Sendhub Manager, letting orgs give every employee their own work phone number accessible on their own smartphone Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous SendHub, a Y Combinator-backed call and messaging solution for individuals, businesses and other organizations, is today launching a new product meant to address the needs of provisioning numbers to employees in larger organizations. With SendHub Manager, as the feature is being called, organizations will have access to an online dashboard where they can quickly create, move or delete phone lines for their staff. Explains SendHub co-founder Garrett Johnson, “it’s essentially like Google Apps for phones.” The company, which began as a messaging-only service, expanded to support voice calls and voicemail this past summer. At that point, it became a viable competitor to something like Google Voice, for example, as you can now get your own SendHub phone number, then place or receive calls and text messages using your own phone. On the iPhone, SendHub offers a native application for this, and an Android version is in the works. Read the full article at Techcrunch Coinbase (YC S12) launches Donate Bitcoin widget Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Coinbase listened to users and added a donation widget that users can use to donate an arbitrary amount if bitcoin to any cause that puts the widget on their website.  Read the full story on the Coinbase blog Custora (YC W11) to teach online class about Customer Lifetime Value Thursday at 2PM EST Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous The most common question that online retailers ask us at Custora is, “How can I increase my Customer Lifetime Value.” And not far behind is, “So what exactly is CLV?” This makes a lot of sense. After all, CLV is by far the most important metric that online retailers should be measuring. Yet despite it’s apparent simplicity — it’s literally just the average amount of profit generated from each user over their lifetime as a customer — there is a lot of hidden complexity. That is why we’ve decided to host an online class this Thursday, Jan. 31th, at 2PM EST. This class will be a basic introduction to Customer Lifetime Value, along with the opportunity afterward to ask the founders questions about your specific business. Read the full article at the Custora blog Michael Fitzgerald of Submittable (YC S12) interviewed on Mixergy Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Embedded media -- click here to see it. or watch on mixergy.com YC and Upverter (YC W11) are hosting a Hardware Hackathon Feb 23 in Mountain View Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Hardware is back! Y Combinator has seen a huge increase in the number of hardware startups they fund. And so in an effort to encourage the renaissance and throw some gas on the fire, we are hosting a hardware hackathon. The focus is on getting like-minded hardware hackers into the same space, sharing ideas, designing hardware and ultimately creating more hardware startups. If you’re hardware savvy and interested in starting a hardware startup, you should apply to come and hack with us! Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. Read the full details and apply for the hackathon here Elastic (YC W11) launches Close.io, sales software designed by sales people Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Even the best products or services don’t sell themselves, which makes way for everybody’s favorite professional: the salesman. Despite their often mercenary, compensation-driven ideologies, salespeople are the lifeblood of any organization. Unfortunately, the CRM and communication software tools they rely on are traditionally created by engineers who have never been within 100 yards of a “dial for dollars” power hour, or a dinner meeting potentially worth $500,000. As a result, existing solutions are unnecessarily cold, inefficient, and limiting in their design. “Pretty much everyone uses Salesforce, but I’ve never met anyone who says they love Salesforce – have you?” Elastic and Close.io engineer Phil Freo says. Close.io, which launches today to solve this problem, is the first commercialized software product released by of sales-as-a-service consulting startup and Y-Combinator alumni Elastic (FKA, SwipeGood). Frustrated with the solutions available elsewhere in the market, Elastic built a custom solution for its team of 20 salespeople. Read more at pandodaily.com 野毛の夜 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 徘徊。 A Time Before Tabbouleh Posted 1 day ago by markbittman to bittman I had been cooking for only a few years when, in 1972, a friend gave me “A Book of Middle Eastern Food,” by a woman named Claudia Roden. In my cooking life, there was no more important influence than that book. Roden rose to prominence later than Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, the two grandes dames of mid-20th-century cooking in Britain. (David and Grigson helped Britons “fix” a cuisine that had gone horribly wrong because of war and the accompanying hardships.) But when Roden published “Middle Eastern Food” in 1968, she built on their influence, expanding — almost exploding — the vision of what was possible. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say there was effectively no hummus or tabbouleh before then. And suddenly there were not only those, but also rosewater, meat cooked with dates and phyllo dough. The reason for Roden’s broader view is simple: She was born in Cairo to a family of Syrian Jews, left for school in Paris when she was 15 and was reunited with her parents and siblings in London, when the Suez crisis of 1956 chased the Jewish community out of Egypt. Her first book was inspired by the food of her childhood. Her research ultimately led her to write extensively about the foods of North Africa, Spain, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Her “Book of Jewish Food” is the most comprehensive work on the subject and, unlike many books on the topic, gives equal weight to the cooking of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. I wanted to cook with Roden for years, and finally, on a recent visit to London, I was invited to her home to do so. What to cook with someone who awes you? Read the rest of this article and get the recipes here. Meet Condoman and Lubeliscious, Queensland's safe sex super duo Posted about 19 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 3 If you happen to be strolling through an event in aboriginal Queensland, Australia and catch a glimpse of what look like comic book characters, you haven’t wandered in to the Queensland ComicCon so much as a promotional opportunity for Queensland Health and their dynamic and sexually-responsible duo, Condoman and Lubeliscious. Condoman was first introduced in the late ‘80s in an effort to encourage safe sex practices among aboriginal youth, but what’s a comic book without a well-endowed heroine (in the brains department, thank you very much)? This comic book is the first time we see a range of new characters- in particular Lubelicious, who helps Condoman to fight a range of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) in Indigenous communities across Queensland. Lubelicious represents the image of a strong Indigenous woman who promotes the use of water based lubricant. Together with Condoman, they fight STI's and challenge the shame of talking about sexual health. Other new characters include the usual suspects, including HIV, Syphillis, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, HPV, Hepatitis B and C, and Herpes, as well as the most evil character of all, Stigmalien, described as “…the leader of the STI’s [who] represents the stigma attached to living with STI’s or being tested for STI’s.” Well, now we know who’s been busy tampering with sex ed programs in the U.S., but where, oh where, is our superhero of safe sexuality? We’re waiting, Condoman, when you’ve finished your business in Queensland. Full story at Queensland Indigenous Health via io9. Let’s talk about sex (and get a comic book!). A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow by Marcin Ryczek Posted about 19 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics 1 via thisiscolossal.com   Street Vendor in Rome Posted about 18 hours ago by Amazing Pics to Amazing Pics via 500px.com Sent by Posterous. 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