Daily Archives: August 18, 2011

Bing just released a Foursquare competitor for Windows Phone

August 18, 2011
Bing just released a Foursquare competitor for Windows Phone

Note that the title does not read: “Bing just released a Foursquare killer for Windows Phone.” They didn’t. Instead, Bing has released a new application called ‘We’re In’ that has the potential to let each of the four WP7 users in every city hang out together. Actually, people who don’t have the application (read:...

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Meet the socially-focused startups at the Unreasonable Institute Demo Day [Video]

August 18, 2011

The Unreasonable Institute is an accelerator with a focus on helping startups that have a social focus. Although the program does not invest capital directly into startups, entrepreneurs from all over the world travel to the US to live in a house in Boulder where they are mentored by some of the USA’s top...

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Evernote buys image editor Skitch, Android app ready, iOS and Windows on the way

August 18, 2011

Evernote announced Thursday that it has purchased image editing and annotation tool Skitch. Evernote, an online note-taking service with apps for every major platform, has long had Skitch as a partner, but will now make it a part of the Evernote suite of products. Skitch will stay a standalone product and the full version...

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Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist

August 18, 2011
Google Hires Silicon Valley Tech Blogger Louis Gray as Google+ Evangelist

Notable Silicon Valley tech blogger and startup consultant Louis Gray is finally turning his passion for Google’s products and services into a career. Gray has just accepted the position of Product Marketing Manager on the Google+ team, an evangelist role involving the promotion of Google’s new Facebook competitor, Google+. The role is loosely defined,...

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BUSTED: 5 Huge Myths About Smartphone Location Tracking (AAPL, GOOG)

August 18, 2011
BUSTED: 5 Huge Myths About Smartphone Location Tracking (AAPL, GOOG)

Image: US Air Force See Also: Apple Is Testing A 4G iPhone Right Now TECH HOTSHOTS TELL US: What Does The Future Of Personal Computers Look Like? This Guy Hacked A Giant 6-Foot Nexus S On Display At Best Buy It’s tough to protect your privacy, especially in a world as hyperconnected as this...

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Motorola Can’t Sign Patent Deals Without Google’s Approval (GOOG, MMI)

August 18, 2011
Motorola Can’t Sign Patent Deals Without Google’s Approval (GOOG, MMI)

See Also: Here’s What Motorola Employees Will Have To Deal With As Part Of Google Android Boss Andy Rubin Split His First Huge Bonus Check With His Employees Incredible: Motorola Shareholder Is Suing Because He Thinks Google Didn’t Pay Enough Google and Motorola Wireless filed the details of their merger agreement with the SEC...

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Why This Guy Left Wall Street To Launch An Art Industry Startup

August 18, 2011
Why This Guy Left Wall Street To Launch An Art Industry Startup

Image: Artlog See Also: 10 Economic Facts That Will Make You Proud To Live In New York City These 10 Authors Are The Highest Paid In The World OUCH! The RNC’s Hilarious Postcards From Obama’s Island Vacay While working at Manhattan equity research firm Monness, Crespi Hardt, Manish Vora often attended client events at...

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Understanding connection types across social networks

August 18, 2011

My company is hard at work in the final design stages of a Web service which has an enterprise social flavour. In the throngs of a design session this week, we got talking about “handshaking” on social networks – the whole process of inviting people to be inside one’s own sub-network, accepting/declining invitations and...

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Grand Theft Auto 3 hits the Mac App Store for $15

August 18, 2011
Grand Theft Auto 3 hits the Mac App Store for $15

Rockstar Games launched the classic sandbox-style action and adventure game Grand Theft Auto III on the Mac App Store on Thursday for the price of $14.99. The company plans to bring the Vice City and San Andreas titles in the series to the Mac App Store as well. GTA 3 was initially launched in...

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Android users only spend time on top apps

August 18, 2011
Android users only spend time on top apps

Android users have about 250,000 apps to choose from but most have little use for any of them outside the top 50. That’s according to new data from Nielsen’s Smartphone Analytics, a new initiative that analyzes data from on-device meters. The interesting news is that the top 10 Android apps account for 43 percent...

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