WPCandy has launched a service called Pros, where WordPress professionals can create profiles for themselves that makes it easier for clients to find them. Clients can run a search on WPCandy Pros that factors in location, specializations and project budget to find the most suitable candidates for the job. The service offers a free...
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You might not realize it yourself but a lot of information that you get via social networks and the web in general in edited for you. Facebook chooses which friends appear in your news feed. Every time you search on Google the results are tailored based on 57 signals that Google reads about you...
Local QA startup Hipster has raised $1 million in seed funding from some prominent angel Valley investors including Mitch Kapor, Dave McClure/500 Startups, Lightbank, Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Max Ventilla, TechStars David Cohen and David Tisch, Google’s Don Dodge, Paige Craig, Ludlow Ventures, Lerer Ventures and others. Many of you best know Hipster as...
For a group of developers on Facebook’s platform, the clock is ticking. Last night and into today, Facebook has been sending out notices to developers they believe have apps in violation of their policy against sending authentication data to third parties. Those developers have 48 hours to fix their apps or they risk being...
Over the past decade or so, there have been dozens of attempts to create a new kind of electronic currency that people could use for online transactions — there was CyberCash and DigiCash, and even smaller startups with bizarre names like Beenz and Flooz. None of them managed to gain much traction, but that...
Daily deals companies like LivingSocial and Groupon have provided local businesses a huge outlet to advertise their services. LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy tells us that daily deals are “here to stay” but will change over time as the leaders in the group continue to innovate and evolve. As the deals model changes, many copycats...
Rachel Sterne, Chief Digital Officer of NYC Image: Michael Seto Rachel Sterne, NYC’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer, has a plan to make the city the digital capital of the world. Today, the city of New York released it in a 65-page document, The Road Map For The Digital City: Achieving New York City’s Digital...
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON ITUNES HERE Microsoft might be looking to buy Nokia’s mobile phone division – but why? Dan Frommer joins today’s SAIcast and explains why this potential acquisition makes sense. Also, Facebook has been talking with banks about a potential IPO. What’s going on in these meetings? Listen to our Monday...
For Facebook, bringing its Prineville, Ore., data center online last month required more than building a specialized facility with customized servers. According to a post today on the Facebook Engineering blog, the social networking leader also undertook an effort called “Project Triforce,” which entailed spinning up a replica of the Prineville data center on...