Airtel, one of the largest Indian mobile operator, has just launched a service request code based Facebook service, using which Airtel customers can access Facebook without the need of a data connection on their phone. Based on Fonetwish which has been developed by U2opia Mobile, a social and mobile applications provider, this service makes...
Daily Archives: May 17, 2011
Wait, Just How Big Is ShoeDazzle? (DMD)
Image: AP Yesterday top Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz, also known as A16Z, led a $40 million investment in ShoeDazzle, a “Netflix for shoes” startup. ShoeDazzle is best known for being sponsored by Kim Kardashian, but it seems to be a huge business. A16Z Partner John O’Farrell says the company has 3 million “members”,...
Startup Aims to Create Big Apps for Big Data
From left nPario’s Bassel Ojjeh, Cloudscale’s Bill McColl and bit.ly’s Hilary Mason at Structure Big Data What if you amassed petabytes of data and then realized you had nothing you wanted to do with it? It’s not enough to hoard data, or run basic analytics hoping for patterns; to create the true promise of...
The Future of User Interfaces: Data Visualization
A new iPad app launched this month called Planetary. It visualizes your music collection using the solar system as a metaphor and it’s visually stunning. It also seems gimmicky, at first glance. The concept is that stars are music artists, planets are albums and moons orbiting a planet are the album tracks. You can...