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Because dating sites suck, this startup finds you love like in that movie Hitch
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I kind of have it out for dating sites. I absolutely love the idea of different people connecting from across the globe for friendship and even relationships, but in actuality, the typical online dating experience has yet to become as elegant and immersive as it could be. Of course there...
Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings
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Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee. According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots to artificially boost free app rankings into the Top charts. At least one company denied the...
Man Builds Twitter Bot That Humans Actually Like
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Greg Marra knows how to build a Twitter botnet that seems human Photo:Robert McMillan/Wired When Greg Marra built @Trackgirl, he designed her as an experiment to see if an automated program could worm its way into online networks of real people. What he didn’t expect is that people would actually...
Google Launched Three Incredible New Gadgets Yesterday: Here's Everything You Need To Know (GOOG)
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At its big conference in SF this week, Google showed off three new gadgets: a home entertainment hub called the Nexus Q, computerized glasses called Google Glass, and a tablet computer called the Nexus 7. We were there, and we all over it. Here's what you need to know: Nexus...
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Wozniak in Line for iPad 3 at Apple Store (VIDEO)
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It has become a tradition to find Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waiting first in line for the next big Apple product. Tonight, was no different as Wozniak checked in on Foursquare at the Westfield Mall in Century City, California. The new tablet is available for pre-order and in stores at...
Google will now tell you why messages wound up in your Gmail spam folder
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Overall, Google does a great job at separating the email wheat from the email chaff. In fact, one of the reasons I’m a rabid Gmail fan is its ability to kick junk email straight to the spam folder where it belongs so I don’t have to waste time doing that....
11 Of The Most Shameless, Unethical, And Creepy (Yet Oddly Addictive) Apps For Your iPhone (AAPL)
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App developers are getting more and more creative with what they create. From old school pranks to age old questions of how to be popular, we're both loving and hating these strangely addictive iPhone and iPad apps.Police Scanners are a very morbid way to spend your time... There are...
The Inside Story of The OMGPOP-Zynga Deal From The CEO, Investors & More!
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We caught up with OMGPOP chief executive Dan Porter, Zynga’s chief mobile officer David Ko and board member and Spark Capital partner Bijan Sabet to get the inside story of how OMGPOP’s sale went down. It’s been a whirlwind six weeks for OMGPOP, which transformed from an also-ran social gaming...
Foursquare Takes on Yelp With Recommendations. Our Verdict: Good Start, Not There Yet
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Today location check-in app Foursquare unveiled a new design for its iOS and Android mobile apps. It now focuses on recommending places for you to go, based on your current location. It's also more social. This is a sensible pivot, but Foursquare is not yet at the place it needs to...
Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize
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NEW YORK -- Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto medical evacuation helicopters and, he said, "go off in a cloud of dust." But after their sacrifice on the battlefield, Wood said, "you never know what happened...
Pinterest-Like Web Store Wisemarkit Pays Members For Sales
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We've seen the numbers: Pinterest is turning out to be a real driver of purchases on the Internet, and Pinterest users spend more cash on average than members of other social networks. So why doesn't Pinterest have an affiliate program so that you get paid whenever someone buys a product...
Take My Facebook Password? Over My Dead Body
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Not to beat a dead horse, but there are a lot of people out there who are very, very upset at the idea of sharing their social media logins with employers or potential employers. I'm not talking about the ACLU, and a couple of senators asking the Justice Department to...
How to Create Your Own Social Media Playbook
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If you are trying to plan out your enterprise's social media activities, it helps to have a playbook. Several companies have produced such a document, ranging from a few pages to more extensive tomes, and I wanted to give you some tips to preparing your own, as well as talk...
Disrupt NYC Day 1: Your Startup Battlefield Companies
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Our very first day of Disrupt NYC is over and the conference started off with a bang. We had memorable chats, dove into fashion for a bit, hung out with the Startup Alley companies and witnessed 15 startups launch their products in our first day of the Startup Battlefield. Even...
A life online: 'I'm a nerd who likes to keep his private life private'
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Nick Perry, 39, is IT manager for a business publisherNick Perry began using the nascent internet in 1991, when he started his degree in engineering and computer science. He and his fellow students were given email accounts on the computing department's Unix network, a rudimentary text-only system with no user...
AlertMe’s ‘huge’ UK gas deal: big data for real people
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Smart energy startup AlertMe has struck a deal that could super-charge its expansion by providing its technology to the U.K.’s largest domestic energy supplier. In an announcement on Tuesday, AlertMe — which runs a cloud-based service that monitors and analyzes people’s energy use and gives them detailed feedback — said...
REVEALED: Spammer Earns Thousands Per Day On Pinterest
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An anonymous 24-year-old spammer is making thousands of dollars per day posting on Pinterest. As reported by The Daily Dot, the spammer -- who identifies himself only as Steve -- has been using a combination of spambots and Amazon affiliate accounts to make as much as $1,900 a day....
How Tech Patent Lawsuits Hurt Real People
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A patent lawsuit between a David and Goliath in the tech world threatens to silence a four-year-old girl, parents claim....
Microsoft guide explains how to submit apps to the Windows Store (video)
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Microsoft is serious about Windows 8, and if you're serious about submitting Metro-style apps then there's now a healthily long and detailed blog post (at the source link) explaining how. The post suggests that Redmond's app police are looking at a roughly a six-day turnaround for signing off and...
Why OMGPOP's Draw Something Game Is Losing Users
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OMGPOP's Dan Porter sold Draw Something for $200 million to Zynga on March 21, 2012. The social drawing game was on its way up. By April 3, it struck gold at 14.6 million users. The decline since then has been slow and steady - and it's not the kind that wins...
Pinterest Clone Pinspire ‘Tampering’ With Users And Pimped By Spammers
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Employees of interest clone Pinspire are alledgedly altering the personal accounts of users by deleting, hiding and removing pins, ‘likes’, comments, re-pins and also ‘pinpoints’, the system on which they base giveaways and contests. In addition TechCrunch has found evidence of people with Pinspire email addresses astro-turfing blogs asking for...
Shaker Is Your Friendly Neighborhood Bar--Online
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Israeli entrepreneurs create a "Cheers" for the Internet.Remember how a lot of people once dismissed Twitter? "Why do I want to read about what my friend is making for dinner?" they asked. Same with Facebook: "Why would I want to read status updates?" Shaker, a site that's launching in the U.S....
From Start to stop: a glimpse of how real people will use Windows 8
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In what may become the first of a long-running series, Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo unleashes his father on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Confusion follows.You've heard about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and you've read the early reviews which say, for example, that while it's great on a touchscreen (such as...
Microsoft tries to push social advertising forward with new ‘People Powered Stories’
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Microsoft may have close ties to Facebook, including its relationship as an investor in the social giant, but that isn’t stopping the company from trying to, in its words, go ‘beyond just a “Like.”‘ Today, Microsoft announced a new program, one that it hopes represents an evolutionary step in what...
Traffic Vs Friendship: My Tough Decision To Turn On Facebook Subscribe
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I’ve been using Facebook since its early years. So today it has the most complete and accurate set of connections to people I’ve known throughout my life. Exactly because of its success in assembling this group, I’ve avoided turning on its five month-old Subscribe feature — until now. For those...
FINALLY: An Expert Explains Why We're Obsessed With Zombies
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People are obsessed with zombies. Zombie movies. Zombie TV. Zombie games. Zombie books. We can't get enough of them. But why? What is it with zombies? Why is "The Walking Dead" such a smash hit? Why are kids obsessed with "Plants versus Zombies"? Why is Zynga so bullish on...
Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere’s first ever Pulitzer
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The Huffington Post has just made history as the first blog to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. Only in the past two years have digital media outlets made the Pulitzer cut. ProPublica, and independent non-profit journalism outfit that syndicates content to traditional news organizations, was the first digital outlet...
Secrets of Facebook’s success: Identity
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Identity is important to everyone, but many startups get it wrong. Getting identity right has been one of the main keys to Facebook’s success. As Facebook gets ready for its monster IPO, which will likely value the company at more than $100 billion, I thought it would be valuable to...
So When Will Real People Actually Be Able To Buy Google's Glasses?
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Google Glass will go on sale about one year after the test version for developers ships -- think early 2014. A pair will cost a lot less than the $1,500 that Google is charging developers for an early beta version, which will ship in 2013. They will not include advertising....
Votizen Wants To Use Social Networks To Revolutionize Politics
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Votizen has the potential to do for politics what Napster did for music. Sean Parker recently spoke on-stage at SXSW about Votizen, a startup that he backs, hoping it will repair democracy. It lets users connect to like-minded voters using social networks like Facebook. Votizen worked with Google on...
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