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FYI: Path uploads your iPhone’s entire address book to their servers
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Blogger Arun Thampi has discovered something that may or may not sit right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an account, Path sends every single one of your contacts in your address book to...
Eventbrite: Facebook Drives More Ticket Sales Than Twitter And LinkedIn Across US And UK
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Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are becoming increasingly strong marketing platforms, and, eventually, we should start to see more metrics that show how effective all those likes, shares and RT’s really are for businesses. (There are still precious few.) One company that’s gotten an early start on that...
Photo hosting site Snapjoy launches Flickraft, a simple way to import your Flickr pics
thenextweb.com
In September we told you about a new exciting startup that aimed to host all of your photos in a beautiful and elegant way. That startup, Snapjoy, has announced a new feature in a big way, and it’s shooting an arrow directly at Yahoo!’s Flickr. Up until now, you could...
Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, raises $18.6 million to help Americans stop bowling alone
www.theverge.com
In his seminal 1995 essay, Bowling Alone, academic Robert Putnam examined the frayed social fabric of America's cities and towns. He pointed out that while more people than ever were hitting the lanes, fewer and fewer were joining together in leagues. More than a decade later, with so many...
Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, raises $18.6 million to help Americans stop bowling alone
Samsung Galaxy S III review shootout: AT&T vs. Sprint
www.engadget.com
More Info Samsung Galaxy S III review AT&T announces Samsung Galaxy S III plans Sprint Galaxy S III arrives with Google Wallet on June 21 Each summer the world celebrates a time of warmth, fun and relaxation. For the tech community, however, it's traditionally the season in which Samsung...
iPad Keeps Apple No. 1 in Mobile PC Sales
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The mobile PC business is booming, and thanks to exploding iPad sales, Apple remains its undisputed leader. According to NPD, Apple during the first quarter of 2012 shipped 17.2 million mobile PCs* worldwide, enough to capture a 22.5 share of the market — more than double that of its closest...
Larry Page’s First Year As Google CEO: Impatience is a Virtue
www.wired.com
Backchannel Steven Levy In January 2011, only hours before I had to send back the proofs for In the Plex, the news came out that Larry Page would be taking the helm of the company as the CEO. The transition would occur on April 4 of that year. If...
Google privacy policy changes spark EU inquiry
www.guardian.co.uk
France asks European data authorities to investigate pooling of user data, which has begun as of Thursday 1 MarchGoogle's new privacy rules, which have come into force as of Thursday 1 March, are to be investigated by EU authorities, with France arguing the sweeping changes breach European law.France's data protection...
IBM's Quantum Computers Could Change The World (Mostly In Very Good Ways)
www.fastcompany.com
101010: That's the number 42 represented in binary, which is the mathematical way today's binary computers see every single piece of information flowing through them, whether it's a stock price, the latest Adele track, or a calculation to generate an MRI of a tumor. But now IBM believes it's made...
PlayStation Vita won't get UMD Passport in US — PSP support is digital-only
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Sony has confirmed that there will be no UMD Passport program for the PlayStation Vita when it launches in North America later this month. The system supports digital PSP games, but drops the UMD drive slot; in Japan, UMD Passport allows owners of retail PSP titles to register their...
CISPA veto recommended by White House, bill's authors defend it
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Not a fan of CISPA? Fear not. President Barack Obama isn’t either. A Wednesday e-mail released by the Office of Management and Budget made very clear that should the bill reach the president’s desk in its current form, "his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill." "Legislation...
Check out this 2,000 photo stop motion video and learn how the photographer did it
thenextweb.com
The recent Google+ photography conference in San Francisco was a huge hit and there has been a ton of really great content and stories coming out of it. Photographers from all over converged to discuss their love of photo-taking, as well as teach each other a thing or two. One...
Sony’s Optical Disc Archive: 30 Blu-ray discs in a 1.5TB MiniDisc-like cassette
www.extremetech.com
Hot on the heels of the most successful storage mediums of all time — MiniDisc and Zip disks — Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a single, one-inch-thick plastic cassette.The cassettes will range in capacity from 300GB...
Nextdoor takes $18.6M to strengthen communities across America
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Nextdoor, a private social network for the neighborhood, announced today that it raised $18.6 million in funding. The site provides a trusted and protected online space for neighbors to engage with each other, with the overarching goal of making communities across America safer and stronger. Nextdoor is a closed network...
By the numbers: Apple vs. the world
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The news that Apple planned to unveil its third-generation iPad in early March sent Apple’s stock soaring to $500 and beyond, and it brought back a meme that has come and gone quite frequently over the past year: “Apple is worth more than.” Ever since Apple began to go...
Failure Is Not An Option: Why Kickstarter Hides Failed Projects
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Dan Misener, in a fit of inspired data mining, scraped half of Kickstarter to find failed projects. He could not, it seems, find a single one. Why? Because Kickstarter hides them behind a non-searchable wall. They exist, sure, but you won’t find them with Google and they never, ever show...
Dwolla Announces Funding Led by Union Square Ventures
www.betabeat.com
Mr. Milne. Power to the prairie! That Union Square Ventures-led funding we reported on for investor darling Dwolla—the startup of the 700 name spreadsheet—is indeed happening. (Albeit for $5 million instead of the $10 million we expected.) Village Ventures, Thrive Capital, Marc Ecko of Artists & Instigators and angel investor Paige Craig...
Facebook's New Mobile Ads Highlight Zuckerberg's Big Strategy Dilemma (FB)
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Facebook's decision to allow advertisers to buy "Sponsored Stories" in users' News Feeds, that appear only on their mobile phones underlines the major cultural battleground inside Facebook right now. On one side you've got founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose prime concern is the user experience, and who famously wrote before the...
TNW is selling 3 startup ideas, plus their domains. Here's an update on the auctions
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Chances are that you’ve seen our posts about startup concepts that we’re selling, along with their respective domain names. Searcle, Intermediads and Userati are the three that we presently have up on the block, and we’re getting close to the sale of Userati so it’s time for an update. The...
Startup Alley Walk-through At TechCrunch Disrupt Is Go
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TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley is jam-packed with interesting startups and it’s always frustrating that we can’t get to film every single one. However, we do our best and you’ll find that Techcrunch Jordan Crook and I manage to get through plenty in this walk-through. Amongst the companies we caught...
AT&T's Lumia Launch Less of a Splash, More of a Plop
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Nokia / Flickr: NokiaOfficial As flagship product launches go, the Lumia 900′s was more unusual than most. Certainly, the decision to launch the handset on Easter Sunday was perplexing. But more confounding still was the manner in which it was carried out, which really doesn’t speak well of Nokia or...
Take a look at the incredible typeface collections on Typecache
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We first highlighted Typecache, an independent online compendium for typography, when we featured its list of 30 Alternatives to Helvetica back in May. Since then, the site has grown significantly and now offers 6 different themed typeface collections — what it calls “Font Clusters” — in addition to plenty of other...
How my riots tweet landed me in hot water – at taxpayers' expense | Mike Harris
www.guardian.co.uk
Sanctions against councillors who express an opinion are overzealous. Finally, a judge has stood up to such nonsenseLast year, I was reported to the standards board of Lewisham council for tweeting concerns that last summer's riots were spreading to our area (which they did – you can read my tweets...
No That Won't Backfire At All: Questionable Story About Obama's Daughter Disappears From The Web
www.techdirt.com
Generally speaking, the press has something of an implicit agreement that they don't use underage Presidential offspring in politically tinged stories. For obvious reasons, it's considered to be a pretty cynical move. Of course, if they actually do something newsworthy, it might be a different story. This afternoon a bunch...
When Every Practical Economic Idea Is Political Suicide, Something's Wrong With Politics
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Last week, Planet Money brought together five different economists, who represent a pretty broad spectrum of political ideologies in general, to see what policies there are that all of them (mostly) agree on -- and then noted why every single one of those policies is political suicide for a Presidential...
Irreparable injury result if FTC fails to police Google, group tells court
www.zdnet.com
A privacy group suing the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday in a federal court brief that the agency’s inaction against Google warrants judicial review and failure to do so could cause “irreparable injury” to consumers.The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wants a federal court to compel the FTC to enforce...
Google Nexus 7: a post-PC device for the rest of us. Well played, Google
www.guardian.co.uk
If your budget hits a ceiling at £200 then the Nexus 7 is just the right tablet for you. It's a really good tablet. Now, is it a great tablet?My Nexus 7 arrived in a box that was open and badly squashed. It was a day late, after Google had...
First Round Capital Raises Its 4th Fund And Makes Kent Goldman And Phineas Barnes Partners
www.businessinsider.com
First Round Capital, a seed stage VC firm with investments in startups like Birchbox and Uber, has raised its fourth fund. Kent Goldman and Phineas Barnes will be partners in the next fund alongside Howard Morgan, Chris Fralic, Rob Hayes and Josh Kopelman. Here's the post Josh Kopelman wrote announcing...
Twitter Employees Basically Spend All Day Making Fun Of Each Other On Twitter
www.businessinsider.com
"Some of the best Twitter accounts are the parody accounts," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted last August. "Seek them out." Or just create them! When it comes to this mandate, Twitter employees are nothing if not obedient. (While we can't vouch for the provenance of every single one of these...
Facebook App Center goes full circle, rolls out to all users worldwide
www.engadget.com
While Mark's network had already flipped the App Center switch in a number of parts around the globe, there was still a large chunk of its abundant user base missing out on the recently unveiled application hub. That's all about to change starting today, however, as a Facebook rep...
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