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Local—now with a dash of Zagat and a sprinkle of Google+
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Finding the best places to go is an essential part of our lives, as are the people and resources that help us make those decisions. In fact, the opinions of friends, family or other trusted sources are often the first we seek when looking for the perfect restaurant for date...
Facebook Now Lets Users Identify Themselves As Organ Donors
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Facebook has been credited with helping to power the ‘Arab Spring’ movement of democracy, and in further ‘we plan to save the world’ news, it is now unveiling a new feature: tell your world you’re an organ donar. Starting today, you can add that you’re an organ donor to your...
Google overhauls its local search experience with Google+ Local, featuring Zagat scores
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Google has launched one of its biggest multi-product overhauls in quite some time with the release of Google+ Local. The new, more social, offerings will replace the current Google Places pages and brings the importance of its Zagat acquisition to light. When I spoke to the team about the launch,...
Mitt Romney iPhone app misspells America, sets internet ablaze
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For most people, misspelling a crucial word in a promotional application wouldn’t completely ruin your career. But if the word is “America” and the promotion is for Mitt Romney’s 2012 Presidential campaign, you can be sure heads will roll. Such is the case with a new iPhone app Romney...
Social: Facebook Should Keep Suppressing Mark Cuban's Mavericks Page
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Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. Photo: Keith Allison/Flickr Mark Cuban is angry. The Dallas Mavericks owner and tech entrepreneur is lashing out at Facebook for filtering the messages he directs to the Mavericks’ 2.3 million followers. The thing is, he’s part of the problem on Facebook, not the solution — and...
Meet Memoto: The Discreet Camera That Records Your Life In 30-Second Intervals
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It’s inevitable, right? With cameras becoming ever smaller and storage becoming ever cheaper, there will come a day when all of our life’s memories are digitally preserved. Memoto, a Stockholm-based startup inspired by the Quantified Self movement, is taking a stab at this opportunity with a postage-sized camera that...
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...
Bitcasa Launches Open Beta Of Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Service, Raises $7M Series A Round
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Cloud storage company Bitcasa today announced that it’s now opening its beta to the public. The service, which says that it will offer its users unlimited cloud storage, is currently available for free, but the company plans to charge $10/month after the beta period. In addition, the company also announced...
Mark Zuckerberg Says It's Totally OK To Ignore Dinner Guests While Checking Your Phone (FB)
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Three new ads in Facebook's campaign for its new Facebook Home phone takeover app all have one thing in common: They show people ignoring friends, family, strangers, and colleagues while they check their phones to see what's going on in the Facebook news feeds. And, it turns out, CEO Mark...
Evergram Launches A "Future Messaging Platform" For Life Events, Including Weddings, Birthdays, Online Memorials & More
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You may remember Evergram as the company whose co-founder, Duncan Seay, pitched the media in a wedding dress in the Startup Alley at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF. The dress may have brought him attention, but the gimmick wasn’t necessary – Evergram can stand on its own as a startup worth noting....
Evergram Launches A "Future Messaging Platform" For Life Events, Including Weddings, Birthdays, Online Memorials & More
Is it legal to shut down cellular networks in an emergency?
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In the wake of the tragic events in Boston today, the Associated Press had earlier reported that Boston Police had ordered a shutdown of cellular service throughout swaths of the city, perhaps out of fear that additional explosive devices may be rigged to detonate using a remote trigger. Carriers...
Tripbirds Launches with Backing from Path, SoundCloud Founders
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Stockholm-based social travel startup Tripbirds launches out of private beta today, entering an increasingly crowded online travel market. But while others like Wanderfly intend to be the “Pinterest for travel,” Tripbirds hopes to make the process of planning a trip more like an organic discussion with friends, family and trusted...
Apple's secret garden: the struggle over leaks and security
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Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Apple engineers love the "big reveal." When a surprising new product they have been toiling over in secrecy finally bursts into public view during an Apple keynote, they enjoy seeing the public reaction. But the public wants its products details early, and it gets them...
Screenleap lets you share your screen with one click and no software installation
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I’m a big fan of services on the web that don’t require me to sign up or install any software. YC company Screenleap fits the bill on both of these things. Screensharing is an important part of being able to hold business meetings from remote locations, and most of the...
Do real programmers ‘like’ Facebook?
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Do software programmers care about Facebook? More specifically, do they use Facebook — which claims 845 million active users — as a resource to collaborate with their peers, keep up with what’s going on in the programming universe? The answer, according to an informal poll on Hacker News is, no. Programmers like...
Will Viddy (and other video apps) kill the YouTube star?
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While everyone is trying to predict which video sharing app will be the true “Instagram for video,” the massive surge in popularity for video apps could also become a problem for the online video mainstay YouTube. As consumers move towards mobile video apps for viewing and sharing content, their...
Startup Spotlight: Ex-Microsofties start BevyUp to let friends and family shop together
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The BevyUp team Would you have more fun shopping with a buddy? BevyUp founders Mauricio Cuevas, Brian Toba, Chris Rallo and Reymarx Gereda think you’ll be better off shopping alongside friends, family and co-workers. The company, which is emerging from stealth mode today after being in development for more than a...
Wallwisher Brings The Flexibility Of Notes On Paper To The Web
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At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Wallwisher showed us the new version of their web application. Wallwisher allows users to write, collaborate and share content on an empty canvas. The idea is deliberately simple in order to allow many uses for the service. For example, you could create noticeboards, scrapbooks,...
When Facebook and Twitter bring noise, EverySignal offers clarity
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EverySignal is a new way to find the handful of important announcements from your social networks — all your social networks — in just one daily email digest. The digest brings clarity, organization, and best of all, brevity to an information-gathering process that could take hours, should you choose...
YouTell lets you solicit honest opinions from friends, family and co-workers...anonymously
thenextweb.com
There are social networks for just about everything – from the all-encompassing Facebook, through to the retro photo-filters of Instagram and on to the photo-grouping pinboards of Pinterest. And that really is just the tip of the iceberg. But the common strand shared by most friend-based social networks is that...
Twitter’s Discover tab upgrade gives us what we’ve always wanted: Context
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Make no mistake about it, I’m a Twitter fan and “power user”. I’ve shared some of my most personal moments on the service to friends, family, and onlookers who have nothing else better to do (kidding). It’s a fantastic service to share your thoughts or news going on around you,...
Donate Your Facebook cover photo & timeline to save a homeless pet
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As many as four million pets a year are euthanized simply because they don’t have a place to call home. This saddening fact is exactly why a new initiative has been created by GolinHarris for PetSmart Charities, which poses an interesting take on how we can use our Facebook cover photos...
AOL says it plans to “evolve” AIM and not kill it, but it’s a bit late for that
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Oh, AOL. The company that opened the gates to the Internet for so many of us has definitely had its troubles as of late. It’s sad to see what is going on at the company, especially since products like AOL Instant Messenger were commonplace for so many of us “back...
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...
File-Sharers Buy 30% More Music Than Non-P2P Peers
torrentfreak.com
The major music labels have a clear stance on online piracy, as the following quote from the RIAA illustrates. “While downloading one song may not feel that serious of a crime, the accumulative impact of millions of songs downloaded illegally – and without any compensation to all the people who...
There Are Now 200,000 People In Everyme Circles
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On Tuesday, Everyme launched its iPhone app for people to share with limited circles of friends, family members, and coworkers. Today, CEO Oliver Cameron says the response has been “crazy.” Specifically, he says that 24,000 people have created Everyme accounts in the first 48 hours. Because of the way Everyme...
Hot messaging app MessageMe already has over 1M users, nabs $1.9M in funding
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MessageMe has been busy since its launch a week and a half ago. The messaging application has been cut off from Facebook’s Open Graph, raised $1.9 million in seed funding, and attracted more than 1 million users. MessageMe offers iOS and Android apps that sent rich messages to friends,...
[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...
Apps Rush: Angry Birds, Dream Heights, Pudding.to, Stagedom, Picture Me Cute As Can Bee and more
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What's new on the app stores on Tuesday 14 February 2012A selection of eight apps for you today:Angry BirdsWeb-based Facebook applications are usually out of this column's brief, but we'll make an exception for the long-awaited Facebook debut of Angry Birds. New for the social network are social features to...
Google+ redesigns and says 100m of its 170m users used it in past 30 days
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Search engine's catchup social network grows number of users rapidly but engagement data remains sketchy while company seeks to make sharing "more awesome"Google says 170m people have registered for its Google+ service since it was launched 10 months ago - and that 100m have "engaged" with the service at least...
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