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MapMyFitness reels in $9m in Series B funding led by Austin Ventures and Milestone
thenextweb.com
MapMyFitness today announced a $9m Series B funding round led by Austin Ventures and Milestone Venture Partners. MapMyFitness is the Texas-based health and fitness tech firm powering the likes of MapMyRun.com, MapMyRide.com and MapMyWalk.com, and back in April we reported that on the company’s efforts to map the fittest states...
How to Get Bloggers to Write About Your Startup: Insider Advice
www.readwriteweb.com
It's every startup's dream - to get the attention of the people who matter. You might think that refers to customers or clients, or even venture capitalists or angel investors. Nope. We're talking about bloggers. Sure, investors and customers are vital to the success of a startup business, but few...
Path raising $40M round led by Redpoint. No, it will not be the next Instagram.
venturebeat.com
Rumors about Path’s new round of funding have circulated for some time, but they are now being reported as hard numbers, specifically a $40 million round of funding led by RedPoint Ventures that would value the company at $250 million. Path launched with a focus on creating a very small,...
The iPhone elite
www.extremetech.com
iPhone users are elitists. It’s one of those things that we’ve always suspected — including iPhone users themselves — but to maintain the status quo and to prevent high tech culture devolving into all out war, we dance around the issue by using euphemistic terms like hipster. The fact is,...
5 Ways To Smarter Ideas From Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell
www.fastcompany.com
At the celebration of Mindshare 50th networking event in Los Angeles, Nolan Bushnell said improving intelligence doesn't require state-of-the-art gadgets or mind-altering medication--just a pair of skis and some yoga pants. Since 2006, the monthly networking event Mindshare has brought together some of Los Angeles’ smartest entrepreneurs, artists, and inventors...
WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs with 49% majority
thenextweb.com
While for a moment Tumblr gave WordPress a run for its money, WordPress now powers nearly 73 million blogs (Tumblr has 51 million), and continues to expand its massive reach. But aside from new blogs popping up all over the place, a closer look at Technorati’s top 100 list reveals how...
Paris Lemon and the No Good, Very Bad Day
www.readwriteweb.com
Sometimes we have bad days. It's a part of being human, part of working in a stressful time and place. Among the problems of being a blogger are that it exposes one's weaknesses, magnifies the limits of one's personal perspective, and often amplifies our feelings beyond what we might have...
5 things that mattered at SXSW
tech.fortune.cnn.com
Couldn’t make it to this year’s new media pow-wow? Here’s everything you need to know in 500 words or less. FORTUNE — This year’s South by Southwest Interactive may be remembered just as much for what happened outside the halls of the Austin Convention Center as what happened in them....
Skimlinks Releases Full API For Web Publishers
techcrunch.com
Skimlinks, a content monetization platform for web publishers, has released a comprehensive API suite. Part of this allows publishers to learn more about their users shopping habits. The startup made the news recently when it was briefly used by hot startup Pinterest to monetize its outgoing links – although that...
Boot up: the privacy problem, Google's tough path, the 9x email problem, RIM's latest woe and more
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Plus testing the MacBook Air as a real ultrabook, social networks in a single slide, OAuth's risk to data, why fragmentation won't matter and moreA burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamWhat the Path privacy breach shows us about real privacy online...
What’s the likelihood that a tech rumor is true? Tracour plans to answer that very question
thenextweb.com
Tracour may burst a few bubble reputations, and shine some light into neglected corners, if it lives up to its promise. The app, more of a database with tools it could be said, collates technology rumors, binding them to authors and publications, and sorts them by ilk. When a rumor...
Guerrilla trend: Make an ad so terrible that it will stand out, and drive clicks
thenextweb.com
The higher-quality the ad, the better its impact? Maybe not, in today’s saturated market. In April, the Plenty of Fish Ad Blog put out a post that quickly made waves among the technorati and advertising-focused, as its conclusions were antithetical to the common sense surrounding how to garner the attention of...
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
arstechnica.com
Enlarge Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technology in museums, research parks, and...
Silicon Valley, you’re going to be seeing a lot more of this Hollywood “nightmare”
venturebeat.com
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel has a temper. The tech industry better get used to it, because he’s looking north toward Silicon Valley. Emanuel has built a respected and feared reputation as one of the leading power brokers in Hollywood. The head of the William Morris Endeavor agency, he’s the...
Yahoo Unloads Extreme Irony With Latest Facebook Attack
www.wired.com
Ultimate irony: Yahoo has launched an attack on the open source technologies inside Facebook's data centers. Photo: Pete Erickson/Wired When Yahoo sued Facebook earlier this year, claiming the social networking giant infringes 10 of its patents covering things like personalized advertising and news feeds, the Silicon Valley technorati blew a...
New book ‘Insanely Simple’ focuses on Apple’s simplicity, releases in April
9to5mac.com
There are people—yours truly included—who felt genuinely dumbfounded having read both the authorized “Steve Jobs” biography by Walter Isaacson and Adam Lashinsky’s “Inside Apple.” Do not get me wrong, Isaacson and Lashinsky are among the best contemporary wordsmiths, and their work enlightened us with some previously unknown details about...
12 More Websites To Show You the Hottest Twitter Topics
www.makeuseof.com
In the past two articles, 9 Websites To Show You The Hottest Stuff on Twitter Now and 10 More Websites To Show You The Hottest Twitter Topics we’ve taken a look at just how much information can be found when you dig a little deeper on Twitter. Going beyond the...
Should Open Web Advocates Stay Independent?
gigaom.com
When it was revealed Wednesday that developer and noted open web champion Tantek Celik was joining the Mozilla Foundation, a wave of congratulations swept across Twitter and the blogosphere. But not everyone was happy to learn that Celik — the former chief technologist at Technorati and before that an...
Why ngmoco CEO is Bullish on iPad
gigaom.com
Apple’s iPad which is soon going to find its way into the market has drawn criticism and scorn from many a few technorati. Neil Young, chief executive and co-founder of San Francisco-based mobile gaming start-up, ngmoco isn’t one of them. Not only does he think that the iPad would make...
PubSubHubBub Publisher
intertwingly.net
Previously, I had been pushing pings to blo.gs, blogrolling, technorati, and weblogs. I removed all of these, and added pubsubhubbub.appspot.com. This involved two steps. Adding the following to my feed: <link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/> And, adding the following to my publishing flow (based on pubsubhubbub_publish.py): #!/usr/bin/python import urllib, urllib2 hub...
Talk Is Cheap: What Does The Facebook Backlash Really Mean?
www.readwriteweb.com
There's a website working to organize a coordinated dumping of Facebook and there's a search suggestion on Google prompting users to find out how to delete their Facebook account. There are even droves of the technorati leaving the social network. But what does all of this hubbub over Facebook and...
25 Ways to Engage Contacts in Social Media
kylelacy.com
What is it? What is it good for? Engagement. One of the primary selling points of social media is the concept of engaging a potential customer or partner in your product or service. So how do you accomplish engagement on a personal level? 25 Ways to Engage a Potential Customer...
Regator Revamp Adds Blog Trends, Monitoring, More
blog.louisgray.com
In the last few years, much of the Web's focus has trended toward social networks and microblogging, and away from more traditional blogging. Twitter and Facebook are on the tips of most people's tongues, even when those sites often serve as much to link to news and blogs elsewhere, in...
RT @MMOnetwork Technorati Launches New Self-Serve Advertising Portal For Bloggers And Publishers http://is.gd/6diL9
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RT @MMOnetwork Technorati Launches New Self-Serve Advertising Portal For Bloggers And Publishers http://is.gd/6diL9
A Sense of Scale: Social Networking By The Numbers (Video)
www.web-strategist.com
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. Numbers are powerful, but only if they provide context to the changes in our life. This above embedded video (if you don’t see it, click here to the blog post) has been created by agency Jess3 and...
We’re taking BGR to the next level — MMC acquires BGR
www.boygeniusreport.com
I wanted to share some amazing news with you all. I am happy to report that BGR has been acquired by MMC. Moving forward, CEO of MMC Jay Penske and I are partners on BGR, and I couldn’t be happier. This will allow BGR to grow enormously. From a more comprehensive...
Sunday Morning Thoughts: Facebook, Graph API, and Open Graph
laughingmeme.org
Sunday Morning Thoughts: Facebook, Graph API, and Open Graph I don’t do the pundit thing. I don’t claim to already understand everything that Facebook’s announcements this week mean. They were certainly interesting, and breath taking in potential scope. They also rely heavily on the weight of FB’s 500 million monthly...
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