Daily Archives: July 26, 2011

Navigation App Waze Drives Past 5 Million Users; Adds Text-To-Speech Voice Guidance

July 26, 2011
Navigation App Waze Drives Past 5 Million Users; Adds Text-To-Speech Voice Guidance

Social mapping and navigation company Waze has hit a big milestone today. The company has accumulated 3 million users in the past 7 months, with 5 million users in over 45 countries. It took just two months for Waze to rack up its last million users. Founded in 2009, Waze offers free apps for...

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PeopleBrowsr’s Playground analyses sentiment from 1000 days of your data

July 26, 2011

At Techweek in Chicago I caught up with Jodee Rich and Andrew Grill from social media anylitics tool PeopleBrowsr. The team have just launched Playground which analyses 1000 days of data to understand exactly what is being said about you and/or your brand across the web. Having seen quite a few social media anlytics dashboards in...

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Nick Davies Brought Down Rupert Murdoch And All He Got Was A Book Deal

July 26, 2011
Nick Davies Brought Down Rupert Murdoch And All He Got Was A Book Deal

See Also: Rupert Murdoch Is Protected By A Group Of Powerful Women, With Ninja-Like Reflexes The Long Knives Are Out For Piers Morgan Over Phone-Hacking Allegations British MP Tom Watson Is Preparing A Book On The Phone Hacking Scandal Guardian reporter Nick Davies, the man who broke the phone-hacking scandal that’s bringing down Rupert...

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Casey Anthony’s Lawyer Is Close To A Book Deal

July 26, 2011
Casey Anthony’s Lawyer Is Close To A Book Deal

Image: qwtnews.com See Also: Two New Suspects Have Been Arrested In The Giants Fan Beating Case China’s Most Wanted Man Is About To Be Extradited From Canada Casey Anthony Is Not Hiding Out On Geraldo’s Yacht Jose Baez could soon be a published author. Casey Anthony’s defense lawyer is in talks with Richard Pine...

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Apple web graphic slipup teases us with a 3G iPod touch

July 26, 2011
Apple web graphic slipup teases us with a 3G iPod touch

I’ll start off by saying that I firmly believe that this is simply a graphics mistake and not a leak of a future product. That being said, an eagle-eyed reader of iDownloadblog discovered that the iPod touch product image on Apple’s official iTunes site has a clear ’3G’ indicator along with a signal indicator...

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Patent Troll Sues Amazon Over Electronic Checkout Service

July 26, 2011
Patent Troll Sues Amazon Over Electronic Checkout Service

After slapping Google and PayPal with patent lawsuits, patent troll Purple Leaf is going after Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of infringing on its “311 patent” via Amazon’s Payments product. We’ve embedded the complaint below. According to the complaint, Purple Leaf’s 311 Patent generally relates to methods and system for an electronic transaction based...

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Jumio says use your webcam to swipe credit cards

July 26, 2011
Jumio says use your webcam to swipe credit cards

Jumio, a secretive online payments start-up created by Jajah founder Daniel Mattes, is finally ready for its close-up. That’s a fitting metaphor, because Jumio is enabling online credit card payments made by scanning a card with a computer webcam. Dubbed Netswipe, the technology allows online retailers to easily process a debit or credit card...

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Report: We are a YouTube nation

July 26, 2011
Report: We are a YouTube nation

Further evidence that we are all YouTube addicts comes from the Pew Internet American Life Project this morning: 71 percent of U.S. adults used video sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo in May, according to a new Pew report, compared to 66 percent a year earlier. Also interesting is the percentage of users who...

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How Poppy Dinsey went from fashion blogger to startup founder

July 26, 2011
How Poppy Dinsey went from fashion blogger to startup founder

Fashion by its very definition is something that’s constantly changing. And changing is something 24-year old blogger Poppy Dinsey knows all about. Poppy set up What I Wore Today (WIWT) back on January 1st 2010, and it has always been a blog with a simple underlying  premise: Upload and share one photo each day...

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Check Out The Pretty But Unrealistic NYTimes Redesign Everyone’s Buzzing About (NYT)

July 26, 2011
Check Out The Pretty But Unrealistic NYTimes Redesign Everyone’s Buzzing About (NYT)

Everyone’s buzzing about designer Andy Rutledge’s proposed redesign of NYTimes.com. And it’s very pretty: it simplifies a lot of things and makes it airy, but there are also a lot of things about it that are unrealistic.  For example, the designs are conspicuously ad-free or ad-lite, despite the fact that the Times needs those...

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