After 3 years in the stealth and $ 20 million, Aro Mobile displays some skin - some Android Skin. And invites us.

Yesterday, the New York Times and Robert Scoble unveiled publicly for the first time that a company called Kiha Software works on during about three years in stealth now: a piece of software called Aro Mobile. With over 20 million dollars in support of artists such as co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen, they get obviously lots of buzz. And which should continue when fully show the system in a few weeks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. But for the moment, we have a teaser video of it in action peak, and 1,000 exclusive beta invites for TechCrunch readers to try the software themselves.

So what is Aro? Currently, it is a piece of software that runs on Google Android OS mobile. But it is not just another layer as some of these skins of terrible OEM design for Android.Instead of this, he weaves in the OS and uses AI and information from the machine to understand what you do with your téléphone.Il is mode native links in your email, phone, calendar, AddressBook and browser to make them potentially much more useful to you when you travel.

Maybe someone you sent an e-mail referring to an address, the Aro system can recognize as and with a click of a button give you all kinds of actions that you can do with elle.Est with names - and companies.And dozens of other things.

But it is really one of those things who better when see you in action.Pour watch videos below .and if you are interested in signing to test, use this first lien.Les 1,000 people will get priority access to the beta program (even if it is still deploy into the waves as they ramp up to).

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MySpace accused of ripping the stealth startup Pinterest

This morning co-founders Pinterest Ben Silberman, Paul Sciarra and Yashwanth Nelapati split many to a barrage of tweets, "so @ myspace completely tore @ pinterest." It pisses me really off when an old, tired hack tries to undermine inovators for hard work. [sic] "MySpace has revealed its new redesign last night and Pinterest users picked up quickly to on the similarities between the aesthetics of both site, leading to an intense debate from Twitter."

The layout grid off site used by MySpace and Pinterest is nothing new;Lazyfeed, http://enjoysthin.gs and countless other sites have a similar design (there is even a theme of Tumblr) .but the fact that the former Director of technology MySpace Dave Peck email Pinterest in March by requesting a prompt advance is interesting, especially when you read the email.

Founder Silberman says TechCrunch, "MySpace product team joins our site really at the beginning and I'm sure they have inspired it."Our impression was that they took some information and we have been affected that our users have been vocal about it. »

However, Silberman who retweeted charges on behalf of official Pinterest this morning, said, "I would not go as far as saying that they snatching.""They are probably listening to organize friends of interest after they missed the boat friends," referring to the way in which you can now use MySpace to track the pages of topics.

Pinterest is still invite only and is currently looking for financement.Bien in stealth mode startup social cataloguing has 17,000 users and prepares to meet its millionth "pine".Silberman plans to launch in a few months, encouraged by all the user supports today, "it is cool when you're a small business and your users stick place for you."

MySpace has 90 million users in September according to comScore, marking a decline of 18% since the year dernière.Cette recent design and concept review was an attempt to gain some traffic lost to competitors like Facebook.

MySpace screencap via The Guardian

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