Get Your Disrupt Startup Battlefield Applications In Now

It's time to bring TechCrunch Disrupt back home to San Francisco. We are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield until midnight tonight. Applications for the Startup Battlefield can be submitted here. Does your startup have what it takes to be the next Getaround, Qwiki, or Soluto—and make it through the judges gauntlet to claim the top prize of $50,000, the “Disrupt Cup” and accolades of the crowd?  If you think so, make sure you apply. Disrupt is the premiere startup launch competition where the most promising founders and entrepreneurs vie to launch their companies on technology's biggest stage in front of all-star judges. We will have some of the most influential innovators, angels, and VCs judging in front of an audience of 2,000 investors, technologists, and press.

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Literacy is for Loosers

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YouTube’s Creator Playbook: Your Guide To Achieving Internet Fame*

Looking to turn yourself (or your show) into a YouTube star but don't know where to begin? YouTube's looking to help — the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how content producers should be approaching the platform and which features they can take advantage of. The 70 page guide has a fitting title: The Creator Playbook. The new document was discussed today at the VidCon conference in Los Angeles, and is part of YouTube's broader goal to help creators produce high quality content (YouTube's recent acquisition Next New Networks is the driving force behind this mission).

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New on the Avenue for Sunday 31st of July 2011 10 PM

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The Boone County Fairground struggles with direction

“Major decisions on what to do with the Boone County Fairground should come by the end” of the year. That's the opening of a Tribune article about a discussion on the fate of the county-owned fairground. Something similar could have been written yesterday. But the article was dated Feb. 17, 2001, two years after the Boone County Commission paid $2.6 million for the fairground, a parcel of 134 acres at 5212 N. Oakland Gravel Road.

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BigCommerce Raises $15 Million To Help Retailers Manage E-Commerce

BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $15 Million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners. Launched in 2009, BigCommerce provides a comprehensive SaaS for retailers and merchants to manage e-commerce online. BigCommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search to inventory to online payments to marketing and SEO. And the price for the software is affordable for small businesses, with basic plans starting at $25 per month.

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wine

{steven and i at the winery for the first time}

When I first came to Missouri, I kept hearing about was the winery. Everybody was always going to the winery. I couldn't imagine what a winery in Missouri would look like, but I was intrigued. We didn't make it there until 2009, but we really enjoyed ourselves when we did.

That's not the only winery in Missouri. The list is too long for me to count! They are good wines, too, many are award winners. And Missouri even has an official grape!

I'm not a hard-core local shopper, but when I can buy local I will. All these awesome wineries in Missouri is a great thing to support.

Steven is a total wine-o. :) He comes home from work and grabs a glass of wine {or 2} instead of a bottle of beer. He likes the Chardonel.

I'm more of a cocktail girl, so I got a bottle of blueberry and a bottle of peach wine and mixed it with some tonic water {1 part wine to 2 parts tonic water}. So yummy! I think the peach one would make a great sangria, too.

Since out first visit to the closest winery we have been back several times. We have talked about taking a mini-road trip to visit a few more wineries... we might have to do that next summer.

Does your state make wine? Have you been to a local winery?

xoxo, christa

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Social Broadcast Network

Google+ is not on this list, yet. Mostly because I haven't got a handle on its core value as a news trigger. If you're Scoble, the value is obvious as he is now demonstrating by turning it into his blog. But sooner or later the service will have to decide what it wants to be when it grows up — a conversation hub with no tools for rapid synthesis of knowledge, a social graph to challenge Twitter (it's getting there fast), or some other thing perhaps more substantial than currently appreciated, like a stalking horse for YouTube live streaming aka the social broadcast network.

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Know Your Styles: Locals for Locals

While emailing with Jarrett this morning at 5 A.M.  my time (4 his time), I started thinking about a recent box of beer I got via a trade. I wrote out my thoughts in an email with one hand as my ten month old son slept on me. Of course, my son is the reason [...]

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Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere”

This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. Other than the sideshow of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to be winding down yesterday. The company appears to be bending over backwards to compensate the victim and avoid another of her blog posts where she writes about how scared she is, still homeless and shaken after the ordeal. Now another victim has come forward.

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OMG/JK: The Man In The Yellow Jacket

We're back for a new episode of OMG/JK — featuring both of your hosts reunited in the TCHQ studio (I was back in SF for our Mobile First CrunchUp). Oh, and this episode also includes a cameo by a man in a large yellow jacket. I won't spoil it. We kick off this week's episode by diving into Twitter's new ad format, which allows brands to place Promoted Tweets at the top of their followers' streams. Twitter has long been toying with various ad formats — will this one please users, or just annoy them? Next up we have Facebook's secret iPad application, which leaked out as part of an official update to its iPhone application. MG got his hands on the app and tested it before Facebook cut off access, and his first impressions are good — tune in to get the details.

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New on the Avenue for Sunday 31st of July 2011 02 PM

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Overlooking the Obvious

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Square Now Processing $4 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day

Flush with $100 million in new funding, Square is continuing to grow like a weed in the mobile payments space. After passing the $3 million mark at the end of May, Square is now processing $4 million in mobile payments daily, and is on track to reach over $100 million in transactions in July. And COO Keith Rabois tells us that he expects the company to double this volume by October. In late June, Square raised a massive round of funding, which valued the company above $1 billion. At the time of the announcement, it was revealed that Square was processing nearly $4 million in payments per day, but the company has surpassed that mark a month later. Rabois tells us international expansion is part of the next phase of growth. He expects to initial launch payments capabilities outside of the U.S. in 2012.

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(Founder Stories) Ben Lerer: Thrillist Will Do “$40 Million In Revenue This Year”

In this episode of Founder Stories;, Chris Dixon sits down with Thrillist Co-founder and CEO, Ben Lerer (who is also a partner with his father Ken Lerer in Lerer Ventures). Targeted towards young men, Thrillist is a "platform for guys" that offers "both local and national content and commerce smooshed into one place" says Lerer. Inspired by Bob Pitman's Daily Candy (Pitman is an early investor in Thrillist), Lerer founded Thrillist a couple years out of college. Before he figured out that he wanted to create a city guide for guys, he and his co-founder went through a lot of "get rich quick schemes" with the common thread that they knew nothing about any of them. The only thing they really knew about was "frivolous fun and buying stupid shit." And thus Thrillist was born. A guide for guys with the voice of a national men's magazine but a local focus.

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Buying An Electric Car

After 3.5 years, I've finally re-joined the community of car owners. Between February 2008 and last week, I was car-less. I borrowed and rented cars, took taxis and Zip cars, and occasionally biked. I also bummed a lot of rides (thank you very much – you know who you are). It had started when the warranty on my fancy German gas guzzler expired; I sold the thing, and never really found the time to shop around for a replacement – Who Has Time For This? I felt a lot more excited about the prospect of driving an electric sedan, which should be greener, potentially faster, simpler to operate, and cheaper to fuel. Most importantly, I'd never have to kill ten minutes stopping for gas – Who Has Time For This?

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Dating Josh’s Little Sister

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Healthcare Disruption: Providers Are Making Newspaper Industry Mistakes (Part III)

Editor's note: This guest post was written by Dave Chase, the CEO of Avado.com, a health technology company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture's healthcare practice consulting to 25 hospitals and was the founder of Microsoft's Health business. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave. Since the latter half of the 90's, the handwriting has been on the wall for newspaper companies that media's future was digital. Heck, the newspapers' own business sections reported on this trend. Despite this, the majority of the industry focused on traditional strategies such as taking on debt to acquire other newspapers or investing in new printing presses, leading to disastrous consequences.

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The Boone County Fairground struggles with direction

“Major decisions on what to do with the Boone County Fairground should come by the end” of the year. That's the opening of a Tribune article about a discussion on the fate of the county-owned fairground. Something similar could have been written yesterday. But the article was dated Feb. 17, 2001, two years after the Boone County Commission paid $2.6 million for the fairground, a parcel of 134 acres at 5212 N. Oakland Gravel Road.

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New on the Avenue for Sunday 31st of July 2011 06 AM

Please support this service by visiting (e)ANGLER. We have found the following new stocks that meet our profile for active players on Empire Avenue. It is suggested to evaluate each stock before you invest. I suggest that you check out the 5 and 4 star rated stocks as you best bet for growth investments. 5 [...]

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Dammit.

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CoMics: State Fair

It’s a state of mind.

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Oh Snap! #27

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