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‘Anonymous’ Social Network Anybeat Is Getting Bought And Shut Down. Dmitry Shapiro Going To Google+?
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Anybeat, a social network that launched last year as a kind of “anti-Facebook” to meet people you don’t already know, is getting bought by another company and is shutting down. The company posted a message to its users a few hours ago noting that it would be closing up operations...
‘Anonymous’ Social Network Anybeat Is Getting Bought And Shut Down. Dmitry Shapiro Going To Google+?
Sources inside Microsoft say a clash of personalities led to Sinofsky's departure
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The abrupt departure of Windows and Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky this evening has surprised many in the Microsoft community considering that he's hot off the launch of Windows 8 and Surface, two of Redmond's most important products in the last decade. There had been persistent rumblings that the...
Exclusive: Interview With Inside Apple's Adam Lashinsky [Video]
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On Friday, February 3, at the lovely Delancey St. Theater in San Francisco, ReadWriteWeb and our new home company, SAY Media, co-hosted a release party for Adam Lashinsky's new book, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - And Secretive - Company Really Works. It was our first joint event since...
Sinofsky speaks, denies he tried to take over Windows Phone division at Microsoft
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Former chief of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, departed Microsoft earlier this week in a shock announcement following the release of Windows 8 and Surface RT. While sources have claimed his departure was related to a clash of personalities, Sinofsky has started to share some insight into his role at Microsoft....
If you like animated GIF-loops, check out Loopc.am’s freshly updated iPhone app
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A major update of GIF-sharing service Loopc.am has been released in the App Store this morning which introduces a new solution for Tumblr integration. Short loops are animated directly on a Tumblr user’s dashboard as long as they are less than the 1mb limit. In addition, there is improved Facebook...
Beyond Kickstarter: Rock The Post's Alejandro Cremades On The Future Of Crowdfunding
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Crowdfunding isn’t just about funding your friend’s artisanal wrapping paper. For Rock The Post it’s about saving the U.S. economy. By now, everyone knows the Kickstarter model--come up with a brilliant idea, pitch your heart out, and then hand out nifty prizes to your donors. Funding your friend’s artisanal wrapping...
Startups: Have Your Say: TenderTree Can Help You Pick a Caregiver
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Photo: Rosie O’Beirne/Flickr At this point practically every restaurant, shop, or handyman service has a Yelp, Google, or Angie’s List review to help us decide who gets our money. But when it comes to a far more important and subtle kind of decision, finding the right person to take...
'Beat Making Lab' brings music tech, know-how to aspiring talent in developing communities
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Is the next Mos Def or Azalea Banks languishing in a region where there's no way to get his or her talent across? The producer who's laid down beats for those stars, 'Apple Juice Kid' (aka Steven Levitin) along with fellow UNC prof Pierce Frelon aim to find out...
FabKids Launches Subscription-Based Kids Clothing Service, Actress Christina Applegate Partners
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San Francisco-based FabKids is the latest startup to try its hand at subscription-based e-commerce, taking on competitors like Wittlebee in the kids’ apparel space, but with a slightly different twist. Instead of offering a box of separates shipped monthly, FabKids will send out one complete outfit it has designed in-house and...
Startup Talent Wars: Why You Can’t Be Like Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs was not a people person. When in a rotten mood - which apparently was often - he’d storm around Apple reducing employees to tears. But he was Steve Jobs. And you’re not. Today’s startup founders are learning that hiring and keeping the best talent may be the...
Live from the Airtime launch: Can the the Napster duo strike gold with social video?
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We’ve been hearing about Airtime, the video chat startup founded by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, for some time now. We’ve heard the Chatroulette comparisons and seen it raise $33 million so far. Today, we finally get to see it in action. At Milk Studios in New...
How Twitter Is Pairing Its Interest Graph With Ads
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With somewhat coincidental (?) timing, given this week’s Facebook Marketing Conference, a new article published today by Bloomberg Businessweek takes a deep dive into Twitter’s advertising’s business. Twitter is the other major social network after big brands’ ad dollars, and although its 100 million active members pale compared with Facebook’s 800 million+, there...
Dealers wanting to sell Ford's first all-electric car must Focus on the environment
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You can't just sell the new 2012 Ford Focus Electric, you've got to embrace what it stands for, or at least that's what Dearborn is telling its dealers. Per the company HQ, outfits hoping to offer the electric hatchback on their lots later this year must send sales staff...
Chinese Microblogging Giant Sina Weibo Adds English-Language Interface
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Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging platform sometimes referred to as “China’s Twitter,” is finally offering an English-language interface, as confirmed to Tech In Asia by the company. Though the English-language interface is still only partial, it will help turn the site into an important marketing tool for overseas brands and...
With 125M Views, These Vloggers Are Already Good. But YouTube Wants To Make Them Better.
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YouTube has announced the next class of creators to go through its YouTube Next program, this time focusing on vloggers. The video site originally announced the initiative about six weeks ago, and today it is announcing the 16 vloggers who will get some cash and advice to take their videos...
Yahoo 2012: Top TV/Movie Searches, Songs & Singer Searches
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Screen related searches are the backbone of Yahoo’s year in review lists, as actors, actresses, talk show personalities and reality TV celebrities seem to command a bigger presence year after year. In the most popular TV searches on Yahoo in the US, perennial favorite American Idol dominated... Please visit Search Engine Land for...
The 16-Year Itch: Microsoft, NBC Call It Quits, NBC Gets Custody Of MSNBC.com
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They came together with a common world view and complementary personalities. Then, as they grew older and grew apart, they still tried to make it work — for the sake of the child, at least. Now that that kid is a teenager, they’ve decided now is probably the best time...
Blogs Outrank Social Networks In Influence
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Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that collects and delivers the top social media news first thing every morning. You can sign up to receive Social Media Insights here or at the bottom of this post. Blogs Outrank Social Networks In Terms Of Influence (Technorati via...
For Social Media Viewing, Twitter Is Live TV; Facebook Is DVR
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When you follow someone on Twitter, you see everything they post. When you follow someone on Facebook, it decides what you see. Which is right? I’d say both, and it comes down to the live TV versus DVR personalities of each service. Should Facebook Show Everything? The issue of Facebook......
The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem at Groupon
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In February of this year, Groupon acquired Adku, an e-commerce data targeting startup staffed with a whip-smart technical team. It was one of a series of acqui-hire deals Groupon executed as part of its strategy to staff up its Silicon Valley office with the most data-savvy engineers money can buy....
TIME’s 100 “most influential people” list include some of Silicon Valley’s finest
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The votes are in and TIME has published its top 100 influential people, or “breakouts, pioneers, moguls, leaders and icons”, in the world. As we told you when the nominations were announced, 2012 appeared to be the year of technology. Of those nominated, the ones that actually made the list...
If Path is a “mini Facebook”, then Hmmm is a “mini Path”
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We see our fair share of social networking apps here at The Next Web and once in a while there’s a new player that stands out to us. Whether it be because it’s only for couples, or because it brings a Facebook-type experience to your mobile device and 150 closest...
Dr. Leslie Saxon's Quest: iTunes For The Quantified Self
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Feeling under the weather? In the future, you'll take out your smartphone--not to call your doctor, but to check your own vitals.What if monitoring your heart rate and blood pressure was as easy (and addictive) as checking Facebook updates? That’s the future Dr. Leslie Saxon is working toward at USC’s Keck...
Tim Schafer's $3.3 Million Kickstarter Adventure Could Level-Up The Entire Video Game Industry
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This behind-the-scenes interview with the brutal legend of video game design proves that listening to your customers can pay off in unexpected ways."We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it’s the way, to me,...
Microsoft's former Windows Phone chief shifted to head of corporate development and strategy
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Microsoft's Andy Lees, who was moved out of the top Windows Phone job less than a year ago, has been shifted to the head of corporate development and strategy at the software giant, a company spokesperson has confirmed. Lees, who has been working on "a time-critical opportunity focused on...
Zerply, an Estonian-American hybrid, launches jobs tool for freelance era
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If Square wanted to hire someone who was a front-end designer with expertise in HTML5 who just happened to also be a lover of jeans made from cotton picked in Zimbabwe and woven by artisans in Japan, there’s a chance the company could find that person on Zerply. Zerply started...
Innovation Agents: Fab's Bradford Shellhammer Embraces Risk, Defines Design
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Watch the cofounder of the e-commerce design site explain how he figured out a way to share his obsession--a breakthrough (and risky) moment that established him as the curator of a wildly successful business. "People who embrace design, it infiltrates their entire life," says Fab.com cofounder (and Most Creative Person...
Investors turn entrepreneurs into insecure little teenagers
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It’s strange how entrepreneurs who are large risk takers and bold personalities turn into insecure little teenagers when facing investors. “Do they like me? Do they think I’m fat? Oh god, they thinks I’m stupid and my idea will fail. I WILL NEVER SUCCEED IN MY LIFE!” Ok, this might...
Twitter Untangles Its Overgrown Org Chart
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Twitter isn’t such a little bird anymore. The company has ballooned in a short time, adding more than 1,000 employees to its ranks in the span of just one year. And like any company going through a growth spurt, Twitter’s organizational structure has become complicated. The company has tried breaking...
Google TV YouTube updates on the way, just in time for original content
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One of the best upgrades in Google TV 2.0 was the addition of a dedicated YouTube app — now, it’s about to get even better with an update set to launch this week. The new YouTube GTV app will offer a smoother interface and a new feature called Discover...
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