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Pinterest is spamming your Facebook friends’ email with fake connection requests
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There’s no doubt that what interest-aggregation site Pinterest has managed over the past few months is spectacular. Recently reaching the milestone of 10 million users, the site has gained traction faster than just about any other site in history. But with that growth comes the responsibility to handle it and...
Vonage Continues To Challenge Skype With New Mobile App For iPhone, Android
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Vonage has been battling Skype for many, many years, but they’re not letting up now that the latter has been acquired by Microsoft. The Internet calling company, which has been dangerously close to dying a few years ago, this morning launched a new Vonage Mobile app for iPhone and Android,...
Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People
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Some of us can’t be bothered to check in, but still want to find interesting people nearby. The challenge for developers is how to do this in a way that is both useful and not creepy. Glancee, available for both iOS and Android, gets closer to solving these problems than...
Facebook As A Mobile Platform: 60 Million Mobile Users Visit Third-Party Apps Each Month
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Facebook is huge on mobile — as an application developer. But questions have circled for years around how it can be a real mobile platform on top of operating systems controlled by Apple and Google. But we got a little more data on what it’s already accomplishing on the platform...
Circl.es: Meet The Latest Dating Site That Uses Facebook To Help You Find Love
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Online dating is a hard nut to crack. First of all, it’s a very personal process ported to a largely impersonal medium — and then there’s the creep factor. Next, it’s a big business, but a small set of names dominate mindshare. Sure, with size and scale comes revenue, but...
Big Question (Answered): "Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?"
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Every day I jump onto Facebook for my work, but honestly, I never use it as it was intended. If you send me a message or like my status, I might engage, but I never reach out to folks. My stream is full of interesting content about people I don't...
It's True: You Have Too Many Facebook 'Friends'
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Facebook can be whatever you want it to be. It's a promotional tool, a way to keep in touch with family members, a space for lifestreaming your every move, or a community forum for meaningful discussion about a specific topic. But sometimes, it all just gets too overwhelming to deal...
PlaySay: Social Language Learning App Launches With $820k And A HarperCollins Deal In Its Pocket
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The education market — as Apple and others have noticed — represents a huge mobile opportunity, and today sees the launch of an app that plays on that potential, with added gamification and social twists. PlaySay, a “social language learning” startup, today debuts a free, new Spanish/English iPhone app —...
Sounder launches, we go hands-on (video)
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We don't know about you, but most of us Engadget editors live in a perpetual state of inbox insanity. Keeping on top of voicemails, text messages, emails, IMs, Twitter DMs, Facebook and Google+ messages -- to name just a few -- is a herculean task yet also an essential...
This app generates gorgeous and informative infographics about your Facebook usage
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While the tide might be turning on the use of infographics by journalists or bloggers, we can imagine they’re still pretty popular among social media users. Especially when the topic of the infographic is you. With the new Facebook-powered app, GetAbout.me, you can generate three pretty cool infographics about you...
Tracking Your Interests on Facebook: How It Compares to Twitter & Google+
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Earlier this week, we reviewed how mainstream social networks are being used to track the things you care about - such as art, baseball or cooking. Our conclusion was that Twitter is the best way to do this currently, because it's easy to track topics and converse with other people about...
SchoolFeed Turns High School Reunions into a Facebook Social Game
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SchoolFeed, which is building a sort of Facebook social gaming version of Classmates.com, already has six million monthly users. Now, it has raised $1.75 million in funding. SchoolFeed helps users find out whatever happened to their freshman crush, of course — as well as plan reunions, scan their yearbooks and...
Storify launches a slick iPad app to open its story-building service to a new audience
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Storify is today announcing a brand new app for the iPad, bringing its drag and drop curation of Tweets, videos and other web links to the tablet. The experience looks smooth and carries over the core features of the web app. Storify is a service that lets you combine links...
Verizon’s Galaxy S III preorders begin June 6th, start at $199.99
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Verizon Wireless on Monday became the first wireless carrier in the United States to announce launch details for Samsung’s next-generation flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. The nation’s No.1 carrier has confirmed that preorder availability will begin on June 6th, and the Galaxy S III will start at $199.99 for...
Social gifting app Wrapp lands in the UK with big merchant partners in tow, heading to the US next
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Wrapp, the Swedish social gifting app maker co-founded by former Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn, is making its debut in the United Kingdom today. The service was previously available only in Sweden, even though has Wrapp has offices in Stockholm, London and Silicon Valley. A U.S. launch is up next, followed...
Fanning & Parker to launch Airtime: Here’s what we know
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Airtime, the social video startup founded by Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, is set to launch with a press event in New York Tuesday. Airtime has been billing itself as a “live video network” that supposedly offers “the most simple, fun way to connect live to people you...
Draw Something becomes an iPhone and Android games phenomenon
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30m downloads later, OMGPOP's social drawing game sparks Zynga acquisition rumoursUS firm OMGPOP is the latest independent developer to spark a mobile gaming craze, with its Draw Something social game racing to more than 30m downloads on iOS and Android just six weeks after its release.The game takes its inspiration...
Facebook Offers enjoys a Groupon moment, sends 3m users to Australian deal offering 50 vouchers
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Facebook’s Offers service may only be a couple of months old (and only available to select number of partners) but the sheer size of the social network has proved difficult for one small business owner, with 3 million people engaging with an accommodation deal that offered just 50 vouchers. The deal was...
A man who claimed he’d commit a ‘live murder on Facebook’ has been jailed
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A man who claimed that he was going to commit a “live murder on Facebook” has been jailed for two years, the BBC reports today. Cardiff Crown Court heard that Greg Searle told his 400 Facebook friends, “I give you live murder on Facebook. Bet you sick freaks can’t wait for me...
Give this app your embarrassing photos and it blackmails you into getting things done
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Much like GymPact, which lets users put cash on the line to encourage themselves to exercise, Aherk! is “goal-oriented self-blackmail.” Yes, for all you procrastinators out there, if you really want to get things done you know it takes motivation — and what’s better motivation than the threat of leaking...
Now everyone is connected, is this the death of conversation? | Simon Jenkins
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As our meeting places fall silent, save for tapping on screens, it seems we have mistaken ubiquitous connection for the real thingI first noticed it in a restaurant. The place was strangely quiet, and at one table a group seemed deep in prayer. Their heads were bowed, their eyes hooded...
Why Second Screens Beat the Super Bowl
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"If the Super Bowl is such a meaningless game, why are so many people posting updates about how they're not going to watch it?" said one of my Facebook friends, as the game approached halftime. OK, I don't follow football. And I especially don't know anything about the Super Bowl....
A Peek Inside Dropbox’s Company-Wide Hack Week At Its Big New SF Offices
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From the outside, Dropbox looks occupied with launches these days. It came out with a big redesign this month, then followed up quickly with a new way to share files with Facebook friends. But the company is busy with a lot of internal growth, too. It recently moved into...
Keep Your Facebook Friends Close & Your Facebook Enemies Closer
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The adage says: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." And that's exactly what the creators of EnemyGraph had in mind. It's an application that allows users to list their "enemies," whether these are ideological enemies of your mind, Facebook friends, pages or even groups. Hate a politician? Name...
Adzuna launches ‘Friend Map’, letting you ask your Facebook friends where you should live
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Classifieds ads search engine Adzuna is extending its reach into the property sphere as of today, pulling in half a million live properties for sale and rent from across the UK. Its new Friend Map feature is particularly interesting, and is one that company co-founder Andrew Hunter believes will “fundamentally...
WGT launches Major League Baseball game on Facebook (exclusive)
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It was inevitable that World Golf Tour would have to rebrand itself as WGT. After all, a company can’t live on golf games alone. So the company is announcing it has changed its name and is revealing a new baseball game on Facebook as part of an expansion into...
Dating App Yoke Hooks You Up Based On Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and Facebook Data
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Finally, a dating site where you can find someone to actually date, not just sleep with. New dating app Yoke matches you with single friends of friends you’re truly compatible with but who don’t even need to be Yoke users. Yoke does this by comparing you and their Facebook Likes and listening...
Backed By Lerer And SV Angel, Newsle Launches To Let You Track News About Your Friends
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If you want to see what your friends or contacts are up to, you can check out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram for a realtime feed. But what if you want to read news about your friends? That’s a little bit trickier, which is why Newsle was born. Axel Hansen...
Andrew Ross Sorkin Tries (And Fails) To Poke Some Holes In Facebook's 'Active Users' Stats
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New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is trying to whip up some hysteria around the relatively straight laced IPO filing from Facebook this morning. The gist of his column: Facebook says it has 845 million monthly active users, but "active users" doesn't necessarily mean a user is coming...
Virurl Raises $1.2M To Reward Users For Spreading Viral Content
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Virurl, a startup that helps advertisers promote their content virally, is launching its public beta test today. It’s also announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Here’s how the Virurl model works: Advertisers upload the content that they want to promote, then set a campaign budget and...
