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Tumblr updates Android app with tablet support
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Tumblr now supports Android tablets. The company just updated its app to work on larger screens, with new layout elements including a mosaic-style tags page. There have been a few nips and tucks in other areas, too, such as an alphabetized list of people you're following. Other sections of...
What Brands Are Doing Right -- And Wrong -- On Pinterest
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Pinterest was once the darling of social media, but now its user-base is plateauing. Unlike Twitter----where brands and celebrities dominate the most-followed lists--the top brand on Pinterest has less than one-tenth the followers of the top individual user. And Pinterest's user interface is limited for brands: you can post things,...
Now you can watch 30 videos at once with Gnzo's unique interface
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It’s a sad paradox that we mostly browse through video clips by means of still images. Whether you’re on YouTube, Vimeo, or another video site, most of what you see are stills — at least, until you click on something. Gnzo has an alternative: What...
Solar Mosaic Gets $2 Million DOE Grant To Build Out Crowdfunding Site For Solar Projects
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Solar Mosaic, a startup that’s aiming to be the “Kickstarter for solar projects,” has been awarded a $2 million grant from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Sunshot Initiative. Solar Mosaic, which also goes by simply Mosaic, is building an online platform that facilitates crowdfunding of solar projects. Last...
When Mark Zuckerberg Met Marc Andreessen, He Didn't Know What Netscape Did
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Mark Zuckerberg is so young, that the first time he met Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, he didn't know what Netscape did. Andreessen told the story to Wired as part of a long interview: One of the first times Zuckerberg and I got together, in 2005 or 2006, he stopped me...
EC Reforms Aim To Make It Easier For Europe's Telcos To Work Together, Share Assets -- FT
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The European Commission is planning a series of far-reaching reforms this year to support the formation of a pan-European telecoms market, according to the FT. Talking to the newspaper in an interview published yesterday, Neelie Kroes, a VP of the EC and Commissioner for the digital agenda, said: “We’re working on a range of measures...
Mosaic LCD tiles: When wall paintings aren't enough
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Looking to spruce up your home with some decorative wall art? These Mosaic LCD Tiles from Planar will certainly do the trick....
Apple Introduces New Mac Mini With Faster Processors and Quad-Core Option
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Apple updated its Mac Mini line of desktop computers at its media event today. The new Mini's have new processors, including quad-core models on the high end, as well as new built-to-order RAM options of up to 16GB. Pricing remains the same as the prior generation Mac Mini models. There...
Pulse passes 20 million users and launches monthly 'Insights' reports into news-reading trends
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We’re big fans of Pulse here at The Next Web, the mobile platform that takes your favorite news and media sites and transforms them into an interactive mosaic. Launching two years ago for iPad, Pulse later arrived for iPhone/iTouch and Android, bringing beautiful news-browsing to the lion’s share of the...
What Brands Are Doing Right -- And Wrong -- On Pinterest
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Pinterest was once the darling of social media, but now its user-base is plateauing. Unlike Twitter----where brands and celebrities dominate the most-followed lists--the top brand on Pinterest has less than one-tenth the followers of the top individual user. And Pinterest's user interface is limited for brands: you can post things,...
A Kickstarter for green energy
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Startup Mosaic is going national in its effort to raise money online to fund rooftop solar systems. By Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE -- By Internet standards, crowdfunding has been around forever. The idea to tap into online communities to raise money first became popular in 1997, when fans of...
The dark side of Saturn revealed in a beautiful new NASA photo
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NASA has released a stunning new photo of Saturn, showing a backlit view of the planet along with its rings. The space agency placed the Cassini spacecraft in Saturn’s shadow on October 17th in order to capture the high solar phase, allowing scientists a look at the rings and...
6 ways to monetize a user-based business model
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How do you monetize a unique business model based on users rather than selling an actual product? We asked members of the Young Entrepreneurs Council for their thoughts. Giving it away at Contently “At Contently, our core monetization strategy is through marketplace transactions. We’ve built (and continue to grow)...
Mosaic crowdfunds clean tech, opens platform to non-accredited investors
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The last time somebody named his Internet project “Mosaic,” we got something that profoundly changed the landscape of the technology world – and by extension, the rest of the world. After all, before the proliferation of mobile apps, the Web browser was our only common entry to the Internet....
Apple's 'Rubber Banding' Patent Key to Samsung Lawsuit Preliminarily Invalidated
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FOSS Patents reports on a new court filing from Samsung revealing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a preliminary decision ruling that Apple's "rubber banding" patent that was a key part of the $1 billion lawsuit against Samsung has been invalidated. While numerous other reviews and...
Your Logo in LEGO
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Your Logo in LEGO is a post from Chris PirilloYou want your own logo in LEGO?photofun.pirillo.com/This very same dude will do one for you, too:Top Furniture for GeeksConan O’Brien Portrait – in Cheetos!First LEGO SetFree Photoshop OnlineLEGO Mosaic PhotoLEGO GamesSony Sweep Panorama Photo ContesteStarling Touchscreen Digital Picture Frame ReviewMy Teeth...
Apple to Stream Live Video of 'iPad Mini' Media Event to Apple TV
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Several MacRumors readers have noted that Apple has added a new "Apple Events" icon to the Apple TV, with the company revealing that it will be streaming today's media event live. It is unclear if the video stream will be available through other means such as on apple.com, but Apple...
Google Earth 6.2 seamlessly stitches over mismatched patchwork
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Unsightly mosaic artifacts no longer mar Google Earth's high-altitude views. But for an even more singular look at the planet, check Flickr's latest NASA contribution....
Design trends of 2012: The good, the bad, and the 'die already'
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As we play taps for 2012, let’s take a look at what developers and designers got into over the past 12 months, aesthetically speaking. Web (and tablet and smartphone) design this year was more than ever characterized by relatively new technological capabilities. Advances on the dev side made tricks...
Facebook switching all users to Timeline this fall, with no exceptions
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If you're one of the few who has yet to be upgraded to Facebook's Timeline view, you'll be forced to make the change by the end of this year, the social network has confirmed. Users who still have the previous design will be notified of the change sometime before...
Dijit acquires GoMiso in bid to create social TV
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Dijit Media, the maker of the NextGuide “hyper-personalized” user interface app for the iPad, is acquiring GoMiso in a bid to delve further into the “social TV” market. The deal gives Dijit more options to improve social TV, where users can use iPads and other devices to enjoy TV together. Dijit...
Keepsy Launches A Mobile App For Photo-Sharing & Photobooks
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Last week the former Yobongo team (now at Mixbook) announced their plan to launch an iPhone app for building photobooks, but today a company called Keepsy has beaten them to the punch with an app of their own. Like Mixboook’s forthcoming Mosaic app, the Keepsy app aims to deliver a quick...
Vibrant Media Redesigns Its In-Text Ads (So It's More Obvious They're Ads), Unveils New Full-Screen Ad Unit
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Vibrant Media, the company best-known for its in-text advertising, is unveiling a revamped product lineup today. The changes should make it a little more clear that Vibrant’s in-text ads are indeed ads, while also giving advertisers the opportunity to deliver something a little more splashy. CEO Cella Irvine showed me...
Vibrant Media Redesigns Its In-Text Ads (So It's More Obvious They're Ads), Unveils New Full-Screen Ad Unit
Visualized: Cassini probe gets a glimpse of Saturn's shadow
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The Cassini space probe has collected quite a few memories of Saturn in its eight years, swinging by the planet's moons and even listening to lighting storms. Even so, we're being treated to an uncommon sight today: the dark side of Saturn. A newly processed set of 60 images,...
Solar Mosaic turns 'the kickstarter of solar' into a way to make money
gigaom.com
At 9AM (PST) on Monday, the Kickstarter of solar, Solar Mosaic, will officially open up its site to residents of California and New York, as well as accredited investors, looking to make money by investing in solar panel roof projects. For months (at least since last Summer), Solar Mosaic has...
How to Watch Baseball Online (Legally or Otherwise)
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Every Major League Baseball season has a whopping 2,430 regular-season games that are played from April through October - not counting spring training or the playoffs. That is a lot of baseball. And of course, you'd like to use your PC or tablet to watch some of those games, right?...
Hey Hey We're The Code Monkeys, ShareMyPlaylists Gets API To Access Its Spotify Playlist Data
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ShareMyPlaylists, the Spotify community and playlist sharing site, has released an API so that developers can get access to its treasure trove of playlist data — 120,000 playlists, referencing a total of 20 million tracks — and start to build apps or integrations on top of the service. The news...
Mosaic for iPhone lets you build beautiful printed photo books in minutes for the life in-between
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Digitally ordered photo books are a notoriously hard nut to crack. Too many options or not enough options, layout hassles and concerns about finish end up confusing potential customers and turning them off to the process. Despite the ability to print fairly high quality books and bind them having been...
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