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US Megaupload extradition request
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The US government formally calls on New Zealand to hand over the founder of the Megaupload file-sharing site and three of his co-workers....
Social Fitness Tracker Endomondo Hits 10 Million Users, Tracks 250K Workouts Each Day
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Fitness tracking service Endomondo first launched back in 2008, and it seems they haven’t stopped picking up steam since then. The team has just announced on the company’s official blog that their service now plays home to 10 million registered users — not too shabby, especially considering that roughly three...
Inrix Traffic 4 for iOS helps drivers avoid traffic congestion and estimate arrival times (video)
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Love driving but hate traffic? We hear you, and so do the people at Inrix. While the company might not come to the forefront of your mind when you consider the crowded world of navigation solutions, Inrix is a significant player in the field -- even if much of...
I’m Already Sick Of SXSW
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Editor’s note (Yeah I’m an editor now, suck it second grade teacher who was all “Does NOT work well with others”on my report card. Yeah you know who you are, Ms. Dudley. ): We’re republishing this timeless classic, because it still stands pretty much as is exactly as is year...
Facebook’s 99%: Later employees may pay almost double the tax rate that early employees will
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Even Facebook isn’t immune to the “Warren Buffett” problem. The widely-respected billionaire investor has famously said that he pays a lower rate on his taxable income than his secretary. The picture may not look that different at Facebook, once all the taxes are accounted for in the company’s widely-anticipated initial...
Need A New Name For Your Website? Why Not NameStation?
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You’ve dropped out of college, met a dude who is totally into PHP, and you’re ready to build a startup. Where do you begin? With a name, silly! That’s where NameStation.com comes in. It’s basically a naming tool for creators and creatives who need to build a bunch of odd...
Griffin's Helo TC Assault helicopter now on sale, gives you yet another way to annoy co-workers
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It was way back at CES when Griffin's Helo TC Assualt chopper first landed on our radar, and now it's set for retail takeoff. Remember the original TC we played with last summer? This Airwolf-inspired RC helicopter comes with the same IR flight deck, allowing for motion or touchscreen...
10 Tips for Using Evernote Effectively
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Evernote is a tool for keeping track of, well, everything. At least everything as far as digital information goes, or information that can be digitized. Evernote comprises a Web-based service and clients for Windows, Mac OS X, mobile devices, and extensions for Web browsers. It's a service I've been using...
Even More Ways to Master Facebook Timeline
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Every brand and just about every user on Facebook has been switched over to Timeline, making the familiar old wall a thing of the past. Love it or hate it, Timeline is here for good - or at least until Zuckerberg, Sandberg and Associates unleash something newer and presumably better....
How to Share Your Business Photos Online - Discreetly
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You have just returned from a corporate retreat or some other business event that was well-documented with several amateur photographers. Now you want to share all of these pictures amongst your co-workers. The challenge is that you want to keep them private to the participants and not plaster them...
The 23 Happiest Companies In America
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There's more to life than the soul-sucking 9 to 5. At some companies people are actually happy. CareerBliss identified the happiest companies in America based on thousands of employee reviews and ratings. "Bliss" scores were based on factors including "work-life balance, one's relationship with their boss and co-workers, their...
Lenddo uses social networks to give loans and improve credit
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Lenddo, which helps people build credit with small loans and a social-based Klout-like scoring system, raised an $8 million first round of funding Tuesday. The brains behind Lenddo, co-founders Jeff Stewart and Richard Eldridge and chief scientist Dr. Naveen Agnihotri, think a person’s social graph can be a better indicator...
Hmmm Is A Split-Personality Social Network For Sharing Different Yous To Different Facebook Friends
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You’re crazy with your friends, serious with your co-workers, and sweet with your parents. Now you can share those distinct personalities with their matching audiences thanks to Hmmm, a mobile app launching today that aims to let you be yourself online, whoever that is. Facebook friend lists and Google Circles...
Get stuff done in the cloud. Go Google.
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You probably hear terms like “the cloud” or “cloud computing” being used a lot these days. While the idea of the cloud may seem abstract, many things you already do on your computer and smartphone today, such as email, photo sharing and video streaming, are made possible by the cloud....
4 Cool Things You Can Do With Wappwolf and ifttt
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Wappwolf and ifttt are a bit like the chocolate and peanut butter in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Separate, they're pretty good. Together, though, is when the magic happens. For folks new to the services, Wappwolf is an application that performs actions when you drop a file into your Dropbox....
dShr.es makes sharing Dropbox files with anyone super simple
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Dropbox is a fantastic way to share files with friends, family, and colleagues, but it’s not really set up to share a file with the “masses”, meaning there’s no way to simply upload a file and shoot out a link to the world so that they can download it. A...
Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (MSFT)
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Over the last few years, Microsoft has gained a reputation as a rough place to work. Ex-employees have publicly complained that the company is political and bureaucratic. Now a tell-all book published earlier this year depicts Microsoft as downright soul-crushing. Stack Rank This! Memoirs of a Microsoft Couple was written...
Enterprise social networker Jive upgrades with powerful new apps
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Enterprise social networking company Jive Software has considerably upgraded its product offerings for the first time since the company went public last December, with the debut of new apps to help its customers stay in touch and collaborate better. Palo Alto-based Jive faces strong competition from Yammer, Moxie, and...
Living on a Stream: The Rise of Real-Time Video
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A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about streaming. I was marveling how easy it’s becoming to beam a live video feed, anywhere, not only to a friend or a group, but, essentially, the entire world. The province of the network news team with satellite...
Thousands Of People Are Looking For Love On LinkedIn (LNKD)
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There's an episode of Sex in the City where Charlotte decides to use her best business networking tactics to find her true love. Now, real life is imitating TV. A new dating site called Hitch.me turns your LinkedIn network into a search for a soulmate -- or in some...
Employees, you may now speak (more) freely on social media
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The National Labor Relations Board has bad news for employers that want to heavily restrict their employees’ speech on social media. Employers can either update their policies to allow for the same types of speech that the National Labor Relations Act allows elsewhere, or they can find themselves facing lawsuits...
Women juggle work and family — and now their online identities too
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It’s hard not to note the irony of a discussion about authentic identity at a festival where most people are posting the same overexposed iPhone pic of their morning latte to Instagram. But inside the Austin Convention Center at SXSW Interactive this year, identity and privacy took center stage. In...
[Infographic] The Future of Social Mobile Communications in the Enterprise
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The nature of work has been changed by the mobile phone. This is an undisputable fact. It's also a fact that organizations and enterprises have not always coped well with this revolution. The early stages of mobility in the workplace were fairly simple: A couple top executives had private cellphones...
How Language Shapes the Culture of Facebook
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To log-in to Facebook is to enter a social space entirely different from the rest of the Internet and your physical reality. It is like walking into a hall of old friends, current co-workers, ex-partners, mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, people who do not identify or do see themselves...
Major Bummer: WriteThat.Name Wants You To Pay To Keep It From Spamming Your Friends
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Shame on you, WriteThat.Name. After more than one personal recommendation, not to mention glowing reviews around the web, I finally got around to signing up for WriteThat.Name, a service which automatically updates your Gmail address book with your contacts’ current information, which it pulls from their email signature lines. To...
Why Klout really matters: Money, money, money
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Anyone familiar with the concept of big data should know that social media are a great source of information on consumer sentiment. But the next wave of analytics in social media will be influence. It’s easy to categorize friends and co-workers who are concerned with their Klout scores or number...
These Apps Are Radically Changing The Way You Interact With The World, And You Don't Even Realize It
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Square and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said the future of apps lies in a future where apps "fade into the background." They are apps that you don't even realize you're using most of the time. They handle all of your payments without making you take out your wallet. They manage...
These Apps Are Radically Changing The Way You Interact With The World, And You Don't Even Realize It
Skype sets a new record with 35M people using the service at the same time
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Skype is a powerhouse when it comes to VOIP, which is exactly why Microsoft bought the company for $8.5M last year. In what appears to be a surge of usage this past month, the company has announced a new record for usage at the same time, 35 million users. That...
Tracky Raises $1M For Its “Open” Cloud Productivity & Collaboration Platform
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Las Vegas-based startup Tracky has spent the last year, heads-down, building a social collaboration platform that aims to bridge the gap between your personal and professional networks. Today, the startup is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from a few Canadian super angels, Vortaloptics, and family...
Do more with your spreadsheets with CollateBox
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For those who live inside spreadsheets, CollateBox launches today as a no-fuss way to clean house and get productive. CollateBox, which specifically targets the business managers who rely on Google Docs or Excel for their day-to-day operations, lets users collect data, share subsets of their spreadsheets with co-workers, receive...
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