A year ago, TNW visited an up and coming event called SocialDevCamp Chicago, and we were blown away. It was an intimate event, with a much broader cross-section of technology oriented people than we were used to seeing at such conferences. Needless to say, this year TNW is a media sponsor. We just couldn’t...
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I can’t blame Facebook for allowing Games to post into the stream, as word of mouth is basically what Facebook is all about. A friend posts something to their stream, you see it in yours because you are their friend, and you can continue to spread the word if you so choose. Google’s approach...
You’ve seen the pictures. Heck, maybe you’ve taken the pictures. Food shots are increasingly filling up our social streams, as evidenced by yesterday’s news that Foodspotting had reached 1M app downloads in 18 months. So we asked you, “Do you take pictures of your food? And, if so, why?” You answered and we culled...
Facebook has been experiencing intermittent disruptions with the service for the better part of 12 hours where users are having trouble posting to their walls, liking, or commenting on other peoples posts. The general pop-up that users are getting says, “An error occurred while trying to write to our database, please try again later.”...
Microsoft will formally launch the Mango update to its Windows Phone mobile platform on September 1st, according to a new report. TNW has not been able to independently confirm the date, but the original post claims “multiple trusted sources.” The date itself is not out of the question, and fits with previously rumored timelines. The...
It seems totalitarian states like Egypt and Libya aren’t the only ones struggling with the impact of social media and the desire to muzzle services like Twitter and Facebook. In the wake of the riots in London, the British government says it’s considering shutting down access to social networks — as well as Research...
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Would you quit a corporate career to live the startup life? It’s not so common for Brazilians to answer “yes”. Yet, that’s exactly most of Polo Marte‘s founders did less than three months ago. So why did they take the jump? Corporate Life vs. Startup Life When I met Marcelo Gluz a few weeks...