Those of you who hate meetings and can’t stand endless PowerPoint-based presentations, there’s hope. Todd Barr, chief marketing officer of Alfresco had some encouraging solutions for how to improve them at GigaOM’s Net:Work 2011 conference on Thursday: use tablets. He says they can help turn meeting presenters and attendees into active, focused participants, and...
Jack Dorsey and Dick Costolo, Dec. 8 2011 Twitter on Thursday debuted a dramatic new user interface for all versions of the micro-blogging service: The company will be rolling out totally new versions of the desktop website, mobile website, native mobile apps, and Tweetdeck to its more than 100 million users over the next...
Image: Screenshot See Also: That Siri Hack For iPhone 4 Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be Flipboard Isn’t Just For The iPad Anymore This Ridiculous iPod Dock Weighs 700 Pounds And Costs $30,000 Apple just released its App Store Rewind, revealing the company’s favorite apps and games of 2011. If you’re new to...
See Also: Twitter Just Fired A Cannonball At Facebook And Google+ Facebook Lawyers Drop “Bunker Buster” On Legal Foe Keeping You From Using Its Coolest New Feature In a blog post today, Facebook announced the ‘Subscribe’ button for websites. The new button is essentially a “Follow” button, but for Facebook. This becomes even more...
Image: Google See Also: Google: Whatever Numbers You’ve Heard About Google+, They’re Way Low What Facebook Knows That Google + Does Not BOMBSHELL: Huge Company Bans Internal Email, Switches Totally To Facebook-Type-Stuff And Instant Messaging Google just announced a few new features for Gmail that integrates Google+ directly into your inbox. Here’s what’s new:...
Last month, the team responsible for the creation of SproutCore, one of the more successful of many JavaScript libraries for Web application development, were absorbed as a whole into Facebook, and will likely be working on an apps distribution platform there, probably involving HTML5. What Strobe left on the table was SproutCore, a project...
Another year has come and gone, and it’s time to recap 2011 in all its glory. While most of our recaps will educate you, I hope this one, filled with the top comments from your peers, will inspire you (or at least make you giggle). So whether this list has you nodding your head...
As Nokia struggles to establish itself as a worthy competitor to Apple and the Android bulldozer in the smartphone segment, the company is looking to sell off its wholly-owned luxury phone brand Vertu, reports the Financial Times. Vertu, which sells some of the world’s most expensive ugly phones, was originally started by Nokia back...
Plum District, a daily deals site for moms, is announcing today it has closed $20 million in Series C financing led by General Catalyst Partners, bringing its total funding amount to $30 million. The company is also announcing it has acquired two other startups: the newly launched mobile loyalty platform Chatterfly and a direct competitor, DoodleDeals,...
Today Business Insider officially launches its new Advertising channel. We hope you will bookmark this vertical and come back every day for fresh news, analysis and gossip on the business of marketing, media, PR, commercial entertainment and sponsorship. From Linkedin and Facebook to Ogilvy Mather and Burson-Marsteller, we will tell you everything you need...