Grindr, the popular gay hookup mobile app, has launched a new version of its location-based people-finding service. Called Blendr, the app is aimed at a general audience, but the core idea remains the same: help users find other users based on shared interests and physical proximity, as close as one block away. Unlike Sonar...
Social media truly is taking over. From communicating with friends, staying updated with family members, and even to networking opportunities with potential employers or business contacts — if you haven’t gone social, you’re living in the past. Even the world of fashion seems to be caught up in the trend. Popular fashion retailer Saks...
Yossy Mendolovich CEO of IMGuest, the world’s only hotel management social network, has launched a service that flips the script on how marketing people interact with guests at prominent chains. IMGuest is a premium marketing tool launched three days ago that enables marketing and guest relations staff to use the social graph to interact...
PostSecret, the beloved weekly blog that allows anyone to anonymously share a postcard containing a personal secret, has launched an iPhone app that expands the project out onto the social and mobile Web. In addition to viewing the regular Sunday Secrets – the physical postcards – featured on PostSecret.com, users can create and share...
If you’ve watched President Obama’s speech on jobs yesterday evening, you know that employment is a real concern in the US, as much as it is in other Western countries. In fact, unemployment and the global economic crisis are some of the reasons why more and more Americans and Europeans are moving to Latin...
Car rental community Getaround is announcing a $3.4 million seed round today, with participation from Netflix founder Marc Randolph, Powerset founder Barney Pell, WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, Michael Arrington‘s Crunchfund and others. Co-founder Sam Zaid tells me that investor momentum for Getaround, which is in the same peer to peer carsharing...
In case you’ve lain awake nights wondering what tasty treat will follow Ice Cream Sandwich in Google’s sweet parade of Android versions, allow me to set your mind at ease. According to a “trusted source” speaking to This is my next, it’s going to be Jelly Bean. More importantly, this source says that some...
This week Apple has introduced a new section on the iBooks store that bears the title Quick Reads. The section contains shorter, cheaper ebooks that aim to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Singles. The books are much smaller in size than your average iBook and range in price from $0.99 to $4.99. The new section...
Early this year, Google got angry at Microsoft for ripping off its search results. Microsoft had been using the MSN and Bing Toolbars to track what users were searching for at Google. Then it was using this data to improve Bing’s own search results. Microsoft had actually been doing this for a couple years,...
Scott Fulton’s earlier post, What’s This I Hear About Proprietary Open Source?, raised some interesting points about most people’s idea of open sourced software. How open is open enough? If a project is closed to the public, can it really be called an open source project? We asked and you answered and we culled...