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Citrix acquires online collaboration platform Podio
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Citrix has announced that it has acquired Podio, the Copenhagen-based online collaboration service. Aimed at businesses, Podio is a service that allows users to create their own apps for use within their teams. So, the accountancy team could create an app to automate their workflow, for example. Founded by Jon...
PRO: How to navigate the new world of digital advertising
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Data is at the center of every phase of the workflow for digital advertising, which means it’s absolutely crucial for doing business in that space. Thanks to a new ecosystem designed to serve the sell-and-buy side of digital advertising, that data can now be leveraged, but the new landscape also...
Seattle online collaboration startup Sandglaz raises cash
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Nada Aldahleh There’s no shortage of competition in the online collaboration space, creating tools to make teams work together more efficiently. The competitive landscape was highlighted earlier this month when Bellevue-based Smartsheet.com reeled in $26 million in fresh funding, and just today Seattle’s Liquid Planner unveiled a new set of project...
How startup Alegion aims to humanize crowdsourcing
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There’s man and there’s machine. And then there’s Alegion. The Mill Creek, Wash.-based startup launched at Amazon Web Services’ Re: Invent conference in late November with a business model that aims to turn crowdsourcing labor into the perfect blend of human-machine interaction. Crowdsourcing hasn’t really taken off, Alegion Co-founder and...
Microsoft Open Sources Windows Scripting Tool Mayhem
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Microsoft has released as open source a program that helps users link different Windows applications in a single workflow....
The MLB's Passbook ticketing experiment pays off
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The day after Apple released iOS 6, I was at a Giants game in San Francisco, trying out the Passbook integration ginned up by the MLB and Tickets.com. I loved it. It was a seamless experience, and you could tell that there was a ton of thought put into how...
Clean up your Mac desktop in a jiffy with Desktop Tidy
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My daily workflow involves saving a lot of temporary stuff to my Mac’s desktop. Over the years I’ve tried a number of scripts, applications and other tricks for keeping the first thing I see in the morning clutter-free, but honestly nothing has been as easy to use as Desktop Tidy...
With A Beautiful New Redesign, Unroll.me Comes Out Of Beta To Roll Up All Your Junk Email Subscriptions
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Unroll.me launched in private beta a few months ago to help end email fatigue — specifically that which is linked to all the email subscriptions that users sign up for and forget about. That includes all the daily deals, travel promotions, and the like that you don’t necessarily want to...
With A Beautiful New Redesign, Unroll.me Comes Out Of Beta To Roll Up All Your Junk Email Subscriptions
The Silos That Dog Us -- Putting Them Out To Pasture
marketingland.com
Silos, while they might be pleasing to the eye in a pastoral setting, are a known negative in the world of business and marketing. We should not organize, manage workflow or report in silos. Nor should we plan and execute in silos. And, never should analysis and optimization of our...
Amazon Giant Aims to Squash PaaS Competition with Elastic Beanstalk
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The good news for PaaS providers is that the largest player in cloud computing took another big step into PaaS support itself, with a PHP-based offering. That helps validate the model pretty effectively. The bad news for PaaS providers is... well, the same thing, really. Amazon's PHP support for Elastic...
Box updates its Android app, now with previewing, offline access, and more power for road warriors
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Box today announced a major update to its Android app with its release of version 2.0. It’s been a busy few weeks for the cloud storage specialist, who only last week announced the release of its dedicated app for Windows 8. With this release, users are now able to streamline their...
Startups: For the Organizer Nerd In Everyone: Streak
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Photo: Andy Ciordia/Flickr “CRM for your life” might sound like a service that only highly organized nerds could love (especially if you call it customer relationship management for your life). But even those who don’t obsessively sort their inbox by labels or color-code their closet by season can find something...
Hearsay Social Offers Fresh Content For Brands In New Content Exchange
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Hearsay Social, a startup backed by New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital, has tried to solve many of the challenges facing large brands that need to manage the social media presence of local branches or franchises. Its latest step: Launching a “Content Exchange” where brands can find and share articles....
GoPro HD Hero 2's free ProTune upgrade will add 24fps and higher bitrates
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On the show floor at NAB 2012 GoPro had more to show off than just a finalized version of its $99 WiFi BacPac and Remote Control kit we saw at CES, announcing a ProTune firmware update that should bring an all new level of quality to its existing HD...
Livescribe Sky WiFi Smartpen review
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More Info Livescribe unleashes new Echo smartpen Livescribe outs the Sky WiFi Smartpen Smartpen leads to airport chaos For a relatively niche company that has only been around for five years, Livescribe has grown quickly. Its smartpens -- which cleverly digitize handwritten notes and audio -- have already attracted...
How to manage file-in-use errors for OS X applications upgrades
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While there are several approaches to managing "in-use" errors in OS X, you can often make use of the Trash to temporarily store these files so as not to disturb your workflow. [Read more]...
Storify for iPad: Make The News By Hand
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Storify for iPad. That's a complete sentence. Storify is a noun, yes. It's a company that makes an app. But it's also a verb that company invented. To storify is to take a series of discrete moments and thread them into a story. It stand alone or be embedded on...
Can we ditch our desktops? The Ars OpenForum discusses mobility
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What should you consider when moving your computing setup to a laptop and mobile? Image by bigpresh The Mobile Computing Outpost often poses provocative questions about the future of computing while staying grounded. Recently, babyachilles described a situation where he would need a nimble and portable computing setup: "I...
Square Open Sources Squash, Its Internal Bug Analysis Tool For Developers
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For all of you developers out there, you know how difficult it is to manage all of the bugs that pop up in the code that you push on a daily basis. Sometimes, you just don’t know when things will go wrong in production, therefore you have to be nimble...
Going Google: When The Past Comes Back to Haunt You
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The Internet has no boundaries. No limits. No edge. For all practical purposes, you will never reach the end of the Internet. Which is why it is so strange that working from Chrome OS, the portal to the Internet, induces flashbacks to older platforms that mess with the entire...
Health 2.0 Challenge #1: Getting Doctors Off Fax Machines
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Today at the DC to VC: Health IT Startup Showcase, a collaboration between Morgenthaler Ventures and the Health 2.0 Conference, I saw firsthand how health IT startups are tackling big, real-world problems. Coming from a world where a photo-sharing mobile app gets bought for $1 Billion, it's refreshing to see...
Gift Guide: Doxie Go Scanner
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Short Version The Doxie Go is a portable scanner with a built-in battery and 512 MB of internal memory. You can bring it anywhere with you and scan all your documents before throwing them away. But the best part is the application that comes with it. It integrates with cloud...
Skitch update for iOS brings improved text editor, faster UI response
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First went Skype, now goes Skitch. (Must be something in the Sk-water.) Yet another app update is on its way today for iOS users and this time, it's Evernote's productivity app that's seeing a version bump. Bundled into this 2.0.3 update is a new text editor that the company...
Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements 11 debuts for Mac, PC
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Adobe late Monday announced the new Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11, the company's consumer-level photo-editing and video-editing programs. The new versions have both been given makeovers in the user interface once again, with modes separated by skill levels (three in PS Elements, two in Premiere Elements) and new...
Forget iWorks — I’m Editing Google Docs on the iPad
jkontherun.com
With all the talk about Apple’s iPad, I’m noticing two trends. First, the device is polarizing opinions — people either lust for it or say they don’t see the point of it. Very few seem to be “on the fence” about the iPad. But there’s a common thread among all...
WP Engine Gunning for the WordPress Market by Targeting Developers
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When I was in Austin earlier this year, there was one company people kept pushing me to meet with: WP Engine. The company provides a one-stop shop for all WordPress hosting needs, with the goal of simplifying the lives of WordPress developers and users. Today, the company is taking a...
Facebook Picks Up The Mobile Development Team From Pieceable
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How many mobile acquisitions and team hires can Facebook do in one month? Too many to count, apparently. There was mobile commerce startup Karma, then they hired the team from Android developer shop Lightbox. Now the developers from Pieceable, which created an easy way for publishers to build their apps...
Microsoft open sources Windows scripting tool Mayhem
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Microsoft has released as open source a program that helps users link different Windows applications in a single workflow....
Bear CSS creates the perfect stylesheet template based on your HTML
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It’s not easy to find the perfect workflow for Web development, but after a certain amount of time, many devs start working off of their own templates as a starting point. In the end, there’s often no need to write out your stylesheet from scratch, even if it just means...
eBay iOS app update makes it easier to sell items directly from your iPhone
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eBay today released a significant update to its iOS app, introducing a streamlined selling process that makes setting up auctions (or buy-it-now instant purchases) a much simpler task. Like the traditional eBay website, the iOS app will now assist you in choosing the right category for your item. It...
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