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Disney Video Launches In Beta, Bringing Kid-Friendly Clips And Trailers To All Your Devices: Theres a new product that just came out of Disney Labs -- a video portal for clips, movie trailers, and

Positionly Raises $300,000 For Search Engine Ranking From Point Nine, Others: Search engine ranking startup Positionly has secured $300,000 seed funding from Berlin-based led by seed VC Point Nine Capital and joined by Angels Mariusz

Palantir Technologies Nabs $56M In New Funding, SEC Filing Shows: Palantir Technologies, the big data analysis software company founded in 2004 by a team of ex-PayPal employees including Peter Thiel, has raised $56 million

Sleepover Time! All-Night Hackathon Precedes IPO At Facebook Headquarters: Carrying on in the esteemed tradition of Facebook hackathons, there will be an all-nighter at the companys Menlo Park headquarters that culminates with CEO

How Personal Capital Wants To Bring Money Management Into The Internet Age: Personal Capital, which launched last year, provides a suite of software aimed at helping

Why The Internet Doesn’t Make Us Care More About Politics: American politics used to be fun: frequent political carnivals in the 19th century would mix parties, parades, and political speeches in an endless stream

It’s Time For A Larger iPhone: The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Apple is currently ordering larger screens for the next iPhone. With the usual nonsense, the WSJ

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Pinterest Raising $120 Million to Fund International Expansion: Pinterest is raising $120 million in a funding round expected to be announced Thursday or Friday morning, according to multiple sources. The inv…

Fab.com Shares What Facebook Friends Are Buying: Ecommerce shop Fab.com is an industry game changer, deeply integrating social media into its unique way of selling tech gadgets, tailored dresse…

Create a Designer Room With New Site ‘Project Decor’: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Couple Dead Due To Bad Connection In the Mountains: A couple whose car fell down an embankment in the Catskill Mountains tried to make rescue calls on their cellphone but shoddy reception prevented…

Is Total Gadget Immersion Good or Bad for Kids?: Gadgets such as smartphones and tablets are becoming more and more embedded in kids’ lives. From middle schoolers with smartphones to babies who…

NFL Prospect Ignites Controversy With Concussion Tweet: Former Ohio State linebacker Andrew Sweat has a real shot at the NFL, if he wants it. But Sweat won’t risk head trauma by living out the d…

Facebook’s First Ever Article: Zuckerberg Admits ‘Friendster Was a Model’: How many articles have been written about Facebook in its eight-year history? Impossible to tell — by the time you came up with an estima…

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Rise of the Tech Bandits: Michael Arrington, the Early Years: Editors note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommers cover story Rise of the Tech Bandits chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard McManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be

Startup Swingers: Swapping Founders to Generate Fresh Ideas: Remember swinging? Two people in a committed relationship go to a party with a bunch of other people in committed relationships. They all separate, find new partners for the evening and get jiggy. It may

Google Goes Back to What It Does Well: Finding Things: Surprise! Google has completely transformed the way search works again. But this time, its a kind of search that would have made the old Google proud. Today, starting with U.S., English-language users, Google unveils the Knowledge Graph. Search now looks at the

Read/Write Daily: Bionic Eyes That Can See Clearly: Todays theme is improving on life. Nature did a pretty good job of engineering some hardy life forms. But now were able to tinker with life ourselves.Were further along than you might think. Researchers have

Why the iPad Works for Writing: When the first iPad launched in 2010, critics were quick to lampoon the device for being geared too heavily toward content consumption. The criticisms werent entirely without merit, especially considering that the first-generation iPad didnt

The Truth About Why Yahoo's CEO Got Fired: Whats the takeaway from Yahoos recent CEO fiasco? Dont lie on your corporate bio, for one, and make sure no one else has lied on your behalf. But the real lesson has nothing to do with falsified credentials. Sure, the

Loomio: Making Better Decisions Remotely Possible: Email, instant messaging, forums, code forges and other collaboration tools make it possible for distributed teams to get work done - but theyre not great tools for making decisions. The team behind Loomio wants to solve that with a new

9 Ways to Convince Your Parents to Support Your Startup - Not Just Financially: For many young entrepreneurs, getting their parents’ support for a new venture can make a huge difference - emotionally, practically and even financially. But it’s not always easy to explain to Mom and Dad why,

S3 Storage for WordPress Blogs: Looking to tap Amazon S3 storage for your WordPress blog? The WP2Cloud plugin lets you store all your WordPress data - not just media files - in S3. The WP2Cloud plugin was developed by OblakSoft

Top 10 Windows 8 Features #6: Secure Boot: Its the single greatest dilemma of modern society: How much freedom would you trade to get more security - or vice versa? Since Windows XP became the most exploited operating system in history, Microsoft has taken

Giving iPad PowerPoint Presentations Just Got a Lot Better: One of the iPads more intriguing business uses is making presentations before a live audience. The device is portable and fun to use, and the swipe and pinch gestures can make for some dramatic presentations.

Facebook Will Roll On, Even as GM Pulls Ads: General Motors Co. said on Tuesday that it would stop advertising on Facebook because the platform didnt generate enough sales. It is certainly not a great day for the social media giant, as it looks to

Engagio Gives the Web a 'Context' Button: The killer app for the social Web is the one that will filter the signal from the noise. In the Facebook age, even casual Web users hold tons of conversations at once. Engagio, the conversation discovery company, pulls them all

Staying Off Facebook Won't Protect Your Privacy: Stay away from social networks and people wont know who youre hanging out with or what youre doing, right? Wrong. When it comes to social networking, a recent study suggests, you can run but you cant hide.

How to Keep Red Tape From Strangling Your Startup: Hell, there are no rules here - we’re trying to accomplish something. - Thomas EdisonMany people consider Edison America’s greatest inventor - ever. But he never had to deal with the reams of rules and

Taking HTML5 to the Next Level for Mobile: By 2013, there will be more than 1 billion HTML5-capable browsers in use throughout the world. Applications for those HTML5 browsers will be created by 2 million HTML Web developers, according to research from IDC.

Read/Write Daily: Watch Out for Zombie Drones: Todays theme is do it yourself. You know that saying, If you want something done right... Well, sometimes the status quo wont bring the future fast enough, so fired-up people have to do it

How to Share Your Business Photos Online - Discreetly: You have just returned from a corporate retreat or some other business event that was well-documented with several amateur photographers. Now you want to share all of these pictures amongst your co-workers. The challenge is

Everything You Need To Know About Facebook’s Latest S-1 Filing In Less Than A Minute: Facebook filed what will most likely be the last of seven amendments to its S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday morning. The company is expected to stop taking orders for shares

The Hottest IPO You've Never Heard Of: With an expected valuation of close to $100 billion, it’s understandable that no one can stop talking about Facebook’s initial public offering this week. But while Facebook basks in the social media spotlight, companies tackling

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Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?: If Facebook’s future is mobile, then it may not be enough for it to merely secure a piece of the mobile ad market. It will need to have an outsized impact on the industry.

Hacked recipes and printing food: When bytes meet bites: Everyone may not get excited about open APIs or 3-D printing (what is wrong with y’all?) but everyone loves food. Here are four novel ways the tech world interacts with food (or even food prep). So grab a snack and

Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward: When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real

Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines: New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, something that used

Netflix launches sexy new web-based video player: Netflix just launched a new video player for web-based viewing, and its hot: Viewers can preview all other episodes while watching an episode of a TV show, the player allows seamless size changes and the overall design is much slicker

The newest phone app teens will hate but parents will love: With a reported 11 teens killed while texting and driving per day, parents are turning towards apps to limit their kids phone use behind the wheel. SecruaFone offers one for iPhone and Android handsets that diables some features when in

Google launches Schemer app for the iPhone: Google just launched an iOS app for its other social network: iPhone users can now access the social activity service Schemer with an app that allows them to find things to do and share those plans with their friends. The

ISwifter’s TheWorx iPad app recreates Facebook, but with games: ISwifter is showing how it can create a full-fledged Facebook app that also includes Flash gaming. TheWorx iPad app, a Facebook application that is set to go live next month, will provide users with access to status updates, their news

Calvin: A fast, cheap database that isn’t a database at all: Yale researchers Daniel Abadi and Alexander Thomson think they have developed the cure for Oracle and IBM dominance in the world of database performance, and it isnt even technically a database. The two have created a system they think can

Bloglovin, a design-conscious RSS meets Tumblr, gets Betaworks investment: New York-based Internet company Betaworks is announcing today that, along with Glam CFO Bruce Jaffe, it is making a “significant” investment in Stockholm-based, visual RSS reader Bloglovin.

Verizon phasing out unlimited data as customers switch to 4G: Verizon Wireless plans to close down the mobile broadband buffet for good, phasing out unlimited plans as customers upgrade from 3G phones to 4G. According to Verizon, it must turn off the unlimited spigot as a prerequisite for moving to

Google shakes up search with new Wikipedia-like feature: Google is trying to encourage searchers to spend more time on its pages while also hoping theyll continue to think of the search company as their first destination when looking for information. A new feature called Knowledge Graph is a

Behind the scenes of a Brazilian hacker space: Get a peek behind the scenes of the hacker space Casa da Cultura Digital, or the House of Digital Culture in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Facebook’s biggest problem is that it’s a media company: Facebooks advertising woes, including the highly publicized departure of General Motors, reinforce the fact that while Facebook may function like a social network, on the business side it looks almost exactly like a media company -- and that is going

Verizon is now bigger than parent Vodafone: Chinese and U.S. operators continued to dominate the list of global operators, according to Wireless Intelligence. China Mobile further solidified its top spot in both subscribers and revenue, but most surprisingly Verizon Wireless leapfrogged its corporate parent Vodafone in the

VeriFone’s SAIL caught copying rival Square’s user agreement: While VeriFones Square rival SAIL looks nothing like Squares credit card swiping dongle, the company veered into flat out imitation with its legal user agreement, which lifted much of its language directly from Squares merchant user agreement.

Mobile app installs rise, but time in apps barely moves: Over the past year as more consumers have adopted smartphones the number of installed applications is up from 32 to 41. Yet the amount of time spent using those applications hasnt changed much, indicating that developers might be challenged when

Rocket caught copying Fab code in Nigerian push: The fact that Germanys Rocket Internet is launching another clone should come as a surprise to no-one. But even with their copycat reputation, cutting and pasting code for their new Nigerian online store seems more than little bit lazy.

Appsfire builds a page rank system to score apps: Appsfire is introducing Quality Scores, a new way of pinning an iPhone apps worth to a simple number. The automated system works takes into account dozens of signals and comes up with a number from 1-100 that should help inform

So who got hosed when Facebook bought Lightbox?: The team behind London-based photo app developer Lightbox are joining Facebook. But its a long way from Instagrams billion-dollar deal: in fact, while the companys employees are rejoicing, users and investors appear to have been left out in the cold.

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Facebook co-founder Saverin: Renouncing US citizenship “nothing to do with taxes”: Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is often reluctant to grant media interviews, but the Singapore-based billionaire has come out to flatly deny speculation that the renouncement of his US citizenship was...

This neat site lets you challenge the pundits and predict Facebook’s IPO closing price: Facebook’s upcoming IPO is dominating tech investors’ discussions and thoughts, but you can get involved in the evident too, even if you’re not one of those ready to put cash...

This app will help you find out your pet’s inner thoughts: If you’re a dog or cat lover, then you’ve probably wondered what they’re thinking about when they do the goofy things that they do. I People I know like to...

Here are 9 Chrome extensions that you should try right now: There are quite a few options when it comes to the browser that you use to surf the Internet. You can pick from Firefox, IE, Opera, Chrome, and other smaller...

Sure Facebook has 900 million users, but its engagement is smoked by these other sites: Whenever the question of which social network dominates the landscape is raised, it seems as if the same two or three major players are the only sites that ever earn a mention. If you’re judging social networks based solely on

Netflix updates web player with a new design, better windowed support and streamlined controls: Netflix has updated its web player with a redesigned control bar and better support for small windows and advanced controls in full screen mode. Among the changes: The size of the controls now scales, making it easier to use the

Nigeria to ban use of foreign IT products to promote homegrown industry: The Nigeria government yesterday announced a comprehensive ban on foreign computers and technology products use in public institutions in a move aimed at promoting the local industry. The government said the ban is aimed at promoting ‘made-in-Nigeria’ products and catalyse

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We're hiring: Help us significantly improve conversion and retention: We’re looking for another teammate. This time we’re looking for someone who is completely focused on improving conversion and retention. You love moving the needle, one small step at a time.Conversion could be financial (get more people to start a

Taking the Pain Out of MySQL Schema Changes: A common obstacle we face when releasing new features is making production schema changes in MySQL. Many new features require additional columns or indexes. Running an “ALTER TABLE” in MySQL to add the needed columns and indexes locks the table,

Basecamp in Antarctica: We have customers around the world doing extraordinary things with our software, but Ben Saunders is taking it to a whole new level.Ben and his team are using Basecamp to organize an expedition to the South Pole and back, unsupported

Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...: A year ago we put Sortfolio up for sale.We entertained a variety of offers, met with a few potential suitors in person, and negotiated numbers. Ultimately nothing came together. Then we shelved the process so we could focus all of

VIDEO: Keynote by David from RailsConf 2012 on progress…: Keynote by David from RailsConf 2012 on progress, curiosity, fear, and the danger of easy-bake ovens.

New in the all new Basecamp: Email-in!: This is going to be a big one. Now you can post messages, to-do lists, files, and text documents to the all new Basecamp just by sending an email.First, some backgroundIn Basecamp Classic, you can post a new message by

A/B Testing: It's not about the results, and it's definitely not about the why: In college, I worked for a couple of years in a lab that tested the effectiveness of surgical treatments for ACL rupture using industrial robotics. Sometimes, the reconstructions didn’t hold. The surgeons involved were sometimes frustrated; it can be hard

"Sign up in seconds" ... and then what?: Today I saw a familiar pattern on a website for an analytics product. The home page pitched the product, and then above the signup form there was a headline: “Sign up in seconds.”I see this all

VIDEO: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson…: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson about how important it is to be sensitive to someone’s current state of mind when you are trying to teach or persuade. You don’t teach with facts alone. You have to understand how those

Basecamp via Chrome Frame: When we were building the new Basecamp, we wanted the foundation to be built on clean, modern underpinnings to take advantage of all the new wonderful features of HTML5. That meant we have

37vegetables: One of the super-cool benefits of working at 37signals is a membership in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). We get fresh fruits and veggies at the farmer’s market or delivered to our doors, which encourages us and our families to

The new Basecamp: Perfectly proportioned: It is said that the discovery of The Golden Section in Classical Greece was the result of the quest to identify the ideal proportion and balance in life and art. Throughout history and to this day The Golden Section has

How's the new Basecamp doing so far?: About three weeks ago we launched the all new Basecamp, and it’s been an exciting few weeks.Since I’m a numbers kind of guy, I wanted to share some things I’ve seen in looking at the new Basecamp that are particularly

Design Decisions: Calendar Notifications: One of the joys of building the new Basecamp was using the new Basecamp to quickly iterate on a design problem. Because I’m in Colorado and the rest of the team lives elsewhere, we rely on a combination of tools

The all-new API for the all-new Basecamp: We’re finally ready to unveil the API for the new Basecamp. The documentation lives on Github and we encourage developers to help us improve it with pull requests.The new API covers most of what’s available in the web UI and

What clarity is all about: What if every question you asked your customers was multiple choice? And every question had an “I’m confused” option. How often would your customers choose that option?If your whole business was laid out flat – every product, every promise, every

Exploring ideas in the pursuit of clarity: In my six months as a signal, I’ve worked with Jason F. on numerous design explorations for the new Basecamp. These sessions are always fun, and a few of them helped transform difficult problems into the UI you’re using in

Ten early new Basecamp interface sketches: For those who like the behind-the-scenes stuff, here are 10 early sketches of UI elements/concepts for the new Basecamp.Early concept for the project blank slate (empty project, no content yet).Companies and people, take 1 (discarded).

One Month in Design: After a flurry of scrapped ideas and illustrations that may never see the light of day, I survived my first month designing at 37signals.Joining the team in the heat of relaunching our flagship product, it comes as no surprise that

On Poetry & Programming: I’m a poet, lover of literature, and budding Ruby student. Even as alover of language, I never thought to explore computer language as away to enhance my knowledge and appreciation… until I startedworking here. In writing code, you face similar

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Velocity Profile: Justin Huff: This is part of the Velocity Profiles series, which highlights the work and knowledge of web ops and performance experts.Justin HuffSoftware Engineer PicMonkey@jjhuffHow did you get

A federal judge learned to code: The last couple of days, theres been a fair amount of blogosphere angst over Coding Horrors Please Dont Learn to Code. Ironically, the best argument for learning to code appeared this morning, when it turned out that Judge William Alsup

How to start a successful business in health care at Health 2.0 conference: Great piles of cash are descending on entrepreneurs who develop health care apps, but that doesnt make it any easier to create a useful one that your audience will adopt. Furthermore, lowered costs and streamlined application development technique let you

The chicken and egg of big data solutions: Before I came to OReilly I was building the big data and disruptive analytics practice at a major systems integrator. It was a blast to spend every week talking to customers in different industries who were waking up to the

Four short links: 16 May 2012: Many Old Periodicals -- Im working my way through the back issues of Thrilling Love. Sample story, Moonmist for Mary by Dorothy Daniels, from Feb 1950. Filing clerk Mary wins the heart of her secret coworker romance AND closes the

Velocity Podcast Series - John Allspaw on DevOps: In this new Velocity Podcast, I had a conversation with John Allspaw (@allspaw), a VP of Operations at Etsy.com. This conversation centers mostly on Development and Operations cooperating in high volume companies. John has some interesting insights into how good

DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education as we know it: Create, disassemble, repurpose! DIY-ers relentlessly void warranties and crack manufacturers cases, showing us what is possible when people decide that they, not the vendors, truly own the technology they have purchased. If you cant open it, you dont own it,

Profile of the Data Journalist: The Data News Editor: Around the globe, the bond between data and journalism is growing stronger. In an age of big data, the growing importance of data journalism lies in the ability of its practitioners to provide context, clarity and, perhaps most important, find

Four short links: 15 May 2012: Mobile Money (The Economist) -- Many people know that mobile money—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile

Why I can't shake my ereader: This post originally appeared on Joe Wikerts Publishing 2020 Blog (B&Ns Nook with GlowLight: Why I Still Use an eInk eReader). This version has been lightly edited.My new E Ink reader, B&Ns Nook with GlowLight, arrived last Thursday. Im winding

Four short links: 14 May 2012: Shiri = Japanese Robotic Ass (YouTube) -- I couldnt watch after 2m30s or so when he starts slapping the robot ass. I never imagined a butt as UI. I eagerly await the hobbyist version, the Arduino Ass Shield. (via Ed

Making innovation: Open hardware, personal fab and collaborative design: MAKEs Hardware Innovation Workshop takes place May 15-16, at PARC in Palo Alto. The Workshop is a one-and-a-half day intensive introduction to the business

Lucene conference touches many areas of growth in search: With a modern search engine and smart planning, web sites can provide visitors with a better search experience than Google. For instance, Google may well turn up interesting results if you search for a certain kind of shirt, but a

Top Stories: May 7-11, 2012: Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.Giving the Velocity website a performance makeoverLearn how producers slimmed down the Velocity conference site, cutting

Publishing News: Another publisher ends its app fling: Here are a few stories that caught my eye this week in the publishing space.Move over apps, HTML5 is hereLast week, Jani Patokallio, publishing platform architect at Lonely

Jesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automation: Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is the co-founder of the Velocity Conference and co-founder and chief community officer of OpsCode, the company behind the popular infrastructure automation tool Chef. During a recent interview, we discussed the current state of cloud infrastructure automation,

Developer Week in Review: Java on trial: They told me I could be anything when I grew up, so I became the president of a charity. This week, I got to learn all the ins and outs of incorporating a non-profit, so Ive been a wee bit

You'll be live in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...: The wide rollout of Google+ Hangouts On Air got me thinking about the implications of low-cost / easy-access live

Visualization of the Week: Avengers Assemble: Marvels The Avengers opened in U.S. theaters last weekend, claiming the largest weekend opening so far this year and setting a new three-day domestic box office record. The film features a superhero team comprised of Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk,

Four short links: 11 May 2012: Stanford Med School Contemplates Flipped Classroom -- the real challenge isnt sending kids home with videos to watch, its using tools like OceanBrowser to keep on top of what theyre doing. Few profs at universities have cared whether students learned

Micro Persuasion

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...: It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.

¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?: Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

The Clip Report - Volume 1 In the early 1990s when I began my...: The Clip Report - Volume 1In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright

It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...: It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.

¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?: Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms

It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...: It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.

¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?: Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms

→ Media Tops in Corporate Social Media: → Media Tops in Corporate Social Media: Fire up the PowerPoint. Here’s a fantastic, data-rich report (PDF) from Netprospex on the state of social media adoption in Corporate America. What’s notable is that the media continues

¶ Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus on Google+: The following is also my AdAge column…With all of the attention that’s being paid to Facebook and Twitter it’s easy to forget that no single company impacts media and marketers the way that Google does. Even small changes in Google’s

→ How Journalists Engage Readers on Facebook: → How Journalists Engage Readers on Facebook: Great and very thorough analysis from Facebook on how news organizations are using their platform to engage readers. It looks like the platform is being used more for consumption rather than engagement… “In

Google Deep Shot: Google Deep Shot: Google has a research project underway to help users easily migrate tasks across devices… “Deep Shot remains a research project at Google. With increasing capabilities of mobile phones and fast growing web applications, we hope to explore

The Google+ Census: The Google+ Census: This site is a fantastic resource that you can search to find public profiles on Google+. Don’t miss the stats page. It’s clear from the data that G+ is unabashedly tech-centric right now. It’s heavy with engineering

¶ Twitter, Not Facebook, Should Fear the Google+ Beard: This was cross-posted on Google+A lot of the hoopla over Google+ has been whether it’s a threat to Facebook. However, it’s Twitter who should fear the Google+ beard. Here’s why…Social media networks have typically have one of

How Google+ and Twitter Influence Search: How Google+ and Twitter Influence Search: A fascinating and thorough experiment to see what influence social has on search. Key quote… “The more retweets a link receives, the better it seems to perform in search results and the more visibility

The Top 100 Google+ Users: The Top 100 Google+ Users: It’s not even a week old and already there’s a power list out of Google+ users. You know you’re curious - so go on and click.

A Budget Brand Digital Dashboard: A Budget Brand Digital Dashboard: Fantastic overview from Google on how to create a brand dashboard on the cheap, albeit very limited.

Media Set Up Camp on Google+: A few media companies have started to set up camp inside Google+. They include Mashable (an Edelman client) and The Next Web. Right now most of these are digitally native media companies. Could the big

¶ Consumers Maybe Nonplussed Over Google+: Google yesterday launched The Google+ project - an ambitious new product that aims to take on Facebook. Now that I have had a preview, below is a brief POV of my initial impressions.1 In short, I believe that once it

Webware

Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

See what's new in Thunderbird: As Thunderbird joins Mozillas rapid-release program, the e-mail client re-orients itself for a new roadmap. But wheres it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users: The company is tweaking its mobile twttter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

How to tweet like a man: Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $. Originally posted at Crave

72 people charged in online child porn ring: 52 people have already been arrested as part of an investigation that launched in December 2009. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react: The service has been unavailable for many, and affected users are taking to Twitter to complain. Yahoo says it has fixed the issue. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates: Accessible through Gmail, Googles phone call feature is now available in 38 different languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 international regions. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Yahoo Mail suffering outage; users react: The service is currently unavailable, and users are taking to Twitter to complain about the apparent outage. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Google+ speeds to 25 million users in first month: Growing at around 1 million members per day, Google+ had captured 25 million visitors as of July 24, becoming the fastest site to reach that level, according to ComScore. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Twitter ready to close the door on old site: Popular microblogging site says it will migrate users still on old home page interface to the redesigned home page this week. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Start-up ZocDoc announces $50 million funding round: The medical appointment booking service plans to use the DST Global investment to expand its presence to more cities nationwide.

Start-up ZocDoc announces $50M funding round: The medical appointment booking service plans to use the DST Global investment to expand its presence to more cities nationwide.

The major players in mobile payments: A whos-who of the most recent partnerships for the hot, and rapidly growing, mobile payments sector.

Chrome 13 delivers Instant Pages: The latest update to Google Chrome brings the new Instant Pages feature to the stable version of the browser, along with print preview--but not for all. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press: Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but the social network makes it clear that it wont be getting into the book-publishing industry. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Facebook acquires digital bookmaker Push Pop Press: The companies did not say how much Facebook acquired the firm for, but the social network made it clear it wont be getting into the digital-book publishing industry. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Airbnb revamps policies in response to vandalism: After a customers home was vandalized by a guest, travel marketplace Airbnb makes a slew of changes to its policies to help guard against future incidents. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Airbnb revamps its policies in response to vandalism: Responding to the case of a customer whose home was vandalized by a guest, travel marketplace Airbnb has rolled out a slew of changes to its policies to guard against future such incidents. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Firefox could get even more Chrome style: Preliminary designs for the nightly build of Firefox indicate that future versions of the browser could look even more like its Google competitor. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Square handling $4 million daily in mobile payments: The mobile payments company says that its credit card-reader attachment for mobile devices has raised daily transactions by another million since late May. Originally posted at News - Wireless

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72 Medical APIs: Avvo, National Library of Medicine and NHS: Our API directory now includes 72 medical APIs. The newest is the pVerify API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Avvo API. We list 2 Avvo mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including

Gumroad Aims To Make Selling Items as Simple as Sharing Them: Ever tried to sell something on the Internet and hoped that the process was simpler than what it currently is? What if selling an item on the Internet was as simple as sharing the item

Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night: With respect to Web APIs, the industry has clearly and emphatically landed on REST as the standard way to implement these services. And for good reason... REST, which is generally implemented as a one-size-fits-all solution,

API Strategy Lessons from Factual’s Upgrade of its Mobile/Local APIs: Factual Inc, a company founded by ex-Googler Gil Elbaz that is creating an open data platform, announced extensions to its APIs today that are aimed at improving the ability to target advertising and provide

45 Coupons APIs: Groupon, 8coupons and US Yellow Pages: Our API directory now includes 45 coupons APIs. The newest is the Wishpot Coupon API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Groupon API. We list 10 Groupon mashups. Below youll find some

Gecko Landmarks is Changing the Face of the Mapping Industry: Gecko Landmarks is working on an easier way of giving directions. The theory behind their madness is that “everyone thinks in landmarks”. They took this idea and ran with it. In fact they have

71 New APIs: Wishpot, Gecko and Optical Character Recognition: This week we had 71 new APIs added to our API directory including a social eCommerce platform, optical character recognition service, location information services, web marketing services and a mobile printing app. In addition we covered

16 APIs Used in 7 Days: Facebook, New York Times and Klout: This past week 9 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 16 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include 500px, Direct Textbook, Google

Best New Mashups: Games Mashups Using Google Maps, Twilio and AMEE: Often we like to highlight mashups that offer useful features such as searching for a new house, planning a vacation or saving on energy costs. Sometimes though, its nice to use a mashup for

48 Monitoring APIs: WatchMouse, Amazon and Google: Our API directory now includes 39 monitoring APIs. The newest is the UptimeFu API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the WatchMouse API. We list 7 WatchMouse mashups. Below youll find some

Philly Startup Weekend 3.0: They say the 3rd times the charm - and it looks like thats just about right for the Philadelphia StartupWeekend. While some weekends end with a bunch of mock-ups, slide decks and just

Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec: Cloud API Security was the topic for a panel discussion at the Infosec conference in London April 26th. After a brief introduction of what APIs are, how companies are becoming platforms and

Wishpot’s New API Framework Creates End-to-End Shopping Experience: With Wishpots original service, users could create a single wish list from multiple sites. The service eliminated the need for a new list for every site in which a shopper was interested. Wishpot has now expanded the wish list experience

Google App Engine Finally Debuts the Search API: The Google App Engine team has been consistently rolling out a new release every month recently. They have become so consistent in doing so, that new releases probably do not make that much

Box V2 API makes Simple Things Simpler: Box, one of the earliest providers of cloud file storage recently announced a brand new version of its API that is a complete rewrite of the API. Based on its extensive research on how V1

Involver Launches Groundbreaking Social Advertising Optimization API: Involver launched its Engagement Optimization API last week. Partners are utilizing the API to optimize their ad spend on social in the way theyve been doing across the web for a long time. The Engagement Optimization API allows social advertising

Fundraise.com Prefers a Responsive Design: When Nate Drouin, the founder and CEO of Fundraise.com, first sat down with Dustin Dulginow of Atlas Venture he had already finished development of the Fundraise.com Iphone/Ipad applications (the Fundraise.com API came later). That lunch

42 Environment APIs: AMEE, Brighter Planet and Carma: Our API directory now includes 42 environment APIs. The newest is the EnergyIQ. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the AMEE API. We list 4 AMEE mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the

Yodlee Debuts New Developer Programs: Everybody likes money, but nobody likes the inconvenience of having to visit different sites to manage all their accounts. Redwood City-based Yodlee has been aggregating financial data for its MoneyCenter users and partner

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