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Farewell Stack Exchange
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I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange...
Read It Later Rebrands As Free App, Pocket; Updates UI With Filters, Favorites And More
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Read It Later, an app that allows you to save articles and other content on the web to “read them later, is debuting a new version of its service and rebranding as “Pocket.” Founded in August 2007 by Nathan Weiner, Pocket has a mission that similar to Dropbox’s: it wants...
Qualcomm demos touch-free gesture control for tablets powered by Snapdragon (video)
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Tablets are for touching -- that much is understood. But Qualcomm's making it so your fingers will be mostly optional, thanks to the Kinect-like powers of its Snapdragon CPU. To highlight this, the company's uploaded a couple of videos to its YouTube channel that showcase two practical use case...
Read It Later’s app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket
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Read It Later is making its app completely free — no more $2.99 Pro version — and renaming it Pocket to express “how simple it is to take any content users discover with them, no matter where they go.” “Read It Later was profitable from the first day it launched...
An Always-Present Recipe Box: ZipList Reaches 1M Users
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Startup ZipList says 1 million users have used it to find and save more than 4 million recipes. The service launched less than a year ago. Users can search for recipes, save them, and convert them instantly into ingredient shopping lists. There’s a mobile app so you can bring your...
Sensitive scales can weigh individual atoms, ensure perfect recipes
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Those of you who have navigated beyond using an Easy-Bake Oven will know that weighing out ingredients is a chore. Then again, it's nothing compared to the sort of balancing that takes place at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, where a team has developed a method of weighing individual...
Microsoft debuts on{X} for Android, promises to 'automate your life'
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Well, we can't exactly say we saw this one coming. Microsoft has today taken the wraps off a rather ambitious project dubbed on{X}, which is available exclusively for Android smartphones initially (support for more platforms is planned), and offers a range of tools that promise to help "automate your...
9 simple ways to speed up your online business
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This post is brought to you by Comcast Business Class. Visit business.comcast.com to learn how Comcast Business Class can keep your business moving at the speed of the Internet. You’ve got the idea, you’ve got the product and you’ve got the customers. Now how do you make all of...
How Brands Are Using Pinterest - And What They Can Do Better
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This year's hottest new online service is undoubtedly Pinterest, the "virtual pinboard" website. Once a social site becomes popular with consumers, brands soon follow. In 2011 brands flocked to Google+ when it became the hot new thing. Now, in 2012, brands are beginning to make their way onto Pinterest....
Read It Later gets a makeover with a new name and redesigned apps
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See you later, Read It Later. The bookmarking app for web, Android, and iOS just changed its name to Pocket and launched redesigned versions of its apps. Read It Later was originally designed to save articles on websites and social media sites to read later, hence the name. I’ve...
Pocket, the app formerly known as Read It Later, becomes a destination for 6 million users
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When the app formerly known as Read It Later redesigned itself and changed its name to Pocket back in April, founder Nate Weiner wasn't sure how it would go. "In general, rebranding can go either way," Weiner told The Verge. The redesign was inspired by data that showed users...
Pinterest drives more revenue per click than Twitter or Facebook
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If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can. Pinterest is the first social network that’s delivering not only lots of traffic but also real revenue and lots of new customers. I know this because...
Snapguide wants to be your handheld how-to guide for everything
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There are plenty of websites that provide in-depth information about specific topics, but apart from a few tired old services like eHow from Demand Media, there aren’t many places you can go to find how-to guides for a wide range of different things — from tying a bow tie or...
DealBook: Pinterest Raises $100 Million
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Pinterest, which allows users to share photographs, recipes and other media on custom "pinboards," raised $100 million in a funding round led by the Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten....
Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence
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Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That’s the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized content. Trapit is the two-year-old, venture-backed intelligent...
Survey: 21% of users on Pinterest have purchased an item that they found on the site
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There’s no doubt that Pinterest continues to gain traction in for users who enjoy creating collections of things to share with others. We know that businesses are seeing tons of traffic to their sites from Pinterest users as well, showing that the premise of curated collections on a social network...
An Unprecedented Video Glimpse Into How Google Crafts Its Search Results
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How does Google create its search algorithms, its recipes for making the listings and search results you get? For the first time, the general public gets a glimpse into the decision making process, through a video that Google has posted of one of its search quality meetings. The Video I...
Microsoft-developed on{X} is a flexible automation tool for Android
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Our phones are capable of collecting so much information (for good or ill) that it's a shame not to use it to make our lives easier. That's the reasoning behind on{X}, a programming tool that lets you to set automatic actions for your Android phone. Similar in principle to...
Gadgetwise Blog: A Free Photo Lighting Lesson
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Scott Kelby's Lighting Recipes is an iPad app that contains 13 demonstrations on how to light photos, from studio glamour shots to outdoor sports portraits....
Meet MillionShort: The Hack That Could Be The Perfect Antidote To Search Engine Spam
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Recently I tried to do a Google search for a wine to pair with swordfish, and it was pretty much a disaster (first world problems, I know, but still.) The problem is, web search results for certain topics are just overloaded with “search engine optimized” (SEO) content, which is very...
Microsoft’s on{x} pushes mobile automation to new heights, but only for Android users [video]
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Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new app and set of APIs called on{x}, which pushes smartphone automation to new heights. The app allows users to write custom scripts that automate various smartphone functions based on time, location and a number of parameters similar software does not currently support. On{x}...
Scott Kelby's Lighting Recipes: Learn to Shoot Like a Pro With Free Photography App
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What is the best method to use when photographing someone in direct sunlight? Expert shooter Scott Kelby explains this, along with other tricks, in his free iPad app. More »...
Task and action automator IFTTT looking to build mobile apps for iOS and the web
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The wonderful service IFTTT, which allows you to pin various web services together to make cool things happen, is looking to build apps for iOS and mobile. This is indicated by a recent job posting for a full-time iOS/Mobile Engineer in San Francisco. The posting says IFTTT is ‘seeking a...
The Hunt for Exotic Flavors
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Catering to local tastes in Latin America, flavor company Givaudan sent teams of experts to far-flung locales to track down recipes and bottle them. As a result, consumers could soon be snacking on picanha potato chips, matambre instant soup and chorizo burgers....
App Store Adding New “Food & Drink” Category
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The App Store will soon be updated with a new “Food & Drink” category, according to developers of existing iOS applications who received an email from Apple today about the upcoming change. “In the next few weeks”, applications will be automatically migrated to the new category; currently, the App...
Obama campaign joins Pinterest
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US President Barack Obama has been credited with the adept use of the web to achieve his political aims, and he's just absorbed Pinterest into its social media portfolio. Obama's new Pinterest account includes boards like "Obama-inspired recipes," "pet lovers for Obama," and "ObamArt." As with other accounts carrying...
Finding News Is One Thing, Understanding It Is Another. Prismatic Does Both, and Fast.
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The Internet is mostly noise, with small kernels of insight thrown into the technological soup. There are the rare tweets and blog posts that transform a fact into an idea, and that turn a random concept into something meaningful and personal. It’s the same commentary that is so valuable...
Get organized with Springpad
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Editor’s Note: In order to diversify our review coverage, Inside Mobile Apps will now run reviews of non-game apps, including utilities like Springpad, today’s app review. Springpad is a new cross-platform notebook solution for iOS, Android and the Web from Spring Partners. It combines cloud-based notebook saving with social...
Apple adding Food and Drink category to App Store
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In a letter to developers, Apple has detailed a new Food and Drink category that's coming to the App Store in the next few weeks. Apple says that the new category will be populated with apps "that help users cook and bake, mix drinks, manage recipes, find new restaurants...
Instapaper Debuts Ad on The Howard Stern Show
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(Photo: howardstern.com) Instapaper’s Marco Arment just made his first big advertising buy with a spot on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show, which aired last week. ”I am a huge fan by the way, and this for real, of Instapaper,” Mr. Stern says in the spot. “I have Instapaper on all my devices… I...
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