Here’s a noodle-scratcher to ponder over the weekend: the HTC Vigor was supposedly going to hit Verizon as the Droid Incredible HD, but files leaked from the forthcoming device hint that the phone may not carry the Droid distinction after all. Someone who was lucky enough to have a Vigor in their possession managed...
At Facebook‘s big F8 Conference on Thursday, the company announced a massive overhaul of its entire user experience. First, there’s “Timeline,” a visual representation of your entire life that replaces your profile view. Then, there’s Open Graph, which will let developers make killer integrated apps. We’ll break down the entire announcement for you, pros and cons, and...
Salesforce.com GM of Platforms (and former Heroku CEO) Byron Sebastian Last week, Facebook and Heroku announced a partnership through which Facebook developers could easily launch applications on Heroku’s cloud Platform-as a Service via the Facebook development portal. That appears to have been a smart partnership for Heroku, which reports it saw more than 33,800 Facebook...
Groupon has lost its second COO in six months. Back in March of this year, Rob Solomon, who joined the company in March 2010, announced that he would be leaving the company. A month later, Groupon hired former Google VP Margo Georgiadis to replace him. And today, just five months after she joined the...
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For any service where you are taking time to enter data, links, conversations, and photos, search is very important. For a real-time service that lets you update in seconds, things get lost and forgotten. Search fixes that. Twitter search is extremely limited in that it only shows a few days worth of tweets. A...
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Say what you will about Meg Whitman as the new CEO of HP. She knows consumers. Just a couple of days ago, HP was led by a lifelong enterprise software veteran madly dashing to refashion a global technology behemoth into something he was familiar with. During his tenure the well-regarded, though not as well...
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