Daily Archives: May 27, 2011

Disrupt Hack Baitr Skewers Viral Launch Pages

May 27, 2011
Disrupt Hack Baitr Skewers Viral Launch Pages

While Baitr didn’t win the TC Disrupt Hackathon, it did win the minds and hearts of those in attendance who have a tendency towards black humor. Baitr, a Launchrock-type viral launch page that does nothing but visualize your email falling into the abyss, isn’t at all useful. But it is funny. Says creator Peter...

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LinkedIn Halo Effect? Facebook Shares Surge To New High In SharesPost

May 27, 2011
LinkedIn Halo Effect? Facebook Shares Surge To New High In SharesPost

Facebook shares on private secondary markets like SecondMarket and SharesPost spiked briefly in March to $34 – an $85 billion valuation. But they settled down to around $31.50 after that and have mostly stayed around that level since then. But something caused the shares to surge past that old record to a solid $35...

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Calipso: A CMS Built with Node.js and MongoDB

May 27, 2011
Calipso: A CMS Built with Node.js and MongoDB

Move over Zotonic, there’s a new asynchronous, next-gen content management system in town. Calipso is a CMS written in Node.js and using MongoDB as its database. According to the project website, Calipso doesn’t feature caching yet but can support around 180 hits a second. You can find it in Github here.

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Poised for IPO, Kayak Reports Sales Boost and Global Growth

May 27, 2011
Poised for IPO, Kayak Reports Sales Boost and Global Growth

Kayak kicked off 2011 with major sales growth in the run-up to its planned initial public offering, according to an update to its IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission made Friday. The travel search company made $52.6 million in the first three months of 2011, representing a 43.4 percent increase over the...

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Can National Geographic Still Wow Us? On Flipboard, It Can

May 27, 2011
Can National Geographic Still Wow Us? On Flipboard, It Can

What do you get when you combine history’s most famous source of photography from around the world, with the hottest media consumption app on the hottest media consumption technology platform in years? With today’s addition of National Geographic to last year’s iPad App of Year, Flipboard, we will soon find out. Filpboard works with...

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After Surging Past Angry Birds, The Heist Now Selling An App A Second

May 27, 2011
After Surging Past Angry Birds, The Heist Now Selling An App A Second

For as long as I can remember, there has been one app that has constantly held the top paid app spot in Apple’s App Store: Angry Birds. Sure, other apps surge to the top briefly. But Angry Birds always comes flying right back. But a new app appears to be bucking that trend. Today...

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Calling All Geeks: Apply Now to Demo in NYC at ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit

May 27, 2011
Calling All Geeks: Apply Now to Demo in NYC at ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit

Have you got an awesome technology that captures some of the potential of the new read/write Web? We want to see the most exciting projects you’ve got demonstrated live in New York City next month at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit at Columbia University June 13 and14. Our past events have included a segment called...

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The Price of Hackers, Spammers and Abuse: When Is It Too Much?

May 27, 2011
The Price of Hackers, Spammers and Abuse: When Is It Too Much?

Google announced Thursday it will shut down its Translate API entirely later this year, “due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse.” While the issue of whether the company is justified in shutting down the API (and cutting off a resource upon which developers have based important features and even entire companies)...

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Ultra-minimalist writing app iA Writer now available for Mac

May 27, 2011
Ultra-minimalist writing app iA Writer now available for Mac

If you’re a minimalism freak you’ve come to the right place. Today marks the release of iA writer for Mac, a writing app or rather “digital writing tool” with so much minimalism, there’s barely anything there. Let’s run through the features, won’t take long, and I’ll then share my initial impressions. Features 1. Zero...

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Keith Rabois: Square Will Be Way More Valuable Than PayPal

May 27, 2011
Keith Rabois: Square Will Be Way More Valuable Than PayPal

While Square kicked off a busy week in mobile payments with its new Square Register and Card Case products, the latter part of the week was dominated by Google’s new NFC Wallet and PayPal’s trade-secret lawsuit against Google, which appears to be a prelude to a big mobile-payments announcement soon. But even with all...

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