Daily Archives: December 22, 2011

Like nerdy memes? Then the Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling Tumblr is for you

December 22, 2011
Like nerdy memes? Then the Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling Tumblr is for you

Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling is amongst the best Tumblrs that we’ve seen so far this year. And that’s saying something as we’ve seen an awful lot pass through Tumblr Tuesday. The recipe is simple but effective, how could any project that brings together something for everyone — pictures of the Canadian actor alongside geeky lines —...

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Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games

December 22, 2011
Facebook Opens Mobile News Feed As Viral Channel For Games

One upon a time, Facebook game companies like Zynga fattened up their user counts thanks to viral distribution to non-gamers through the news feed. Facebook later curtailed this channel, forcing developers to concentrate on paid marketing and true word of mouth to grow. A new boom period could be coming, this time for mobile...

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Facebook introduces changes to encourage gaming, particularly on mobile

December 22, 2011
Facebook introduces changes to encourage gaming, particularly on mobile

Facebook has introduced a series of tweaks to its platform that will place greater emphasis on gaming in a bid to encourage users to play more games through the social network, according to a blog post from the company. The most significant change sees Facebook begin a test to add news items relating to...

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Codecademy Launches ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor

December 22, 2011
Codecademy Launches ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor

Smoking hot startup Codecademy, a service which teaches you how to program online has launched its Labs feature today, as a sign of things to come. Codecademy founder Zach Sims tells me that Codecademy, and specifically new hire Amjad Masad, built the feature because it wanted people to be able to play with what they’ve learned on...

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Y Combinator Startup Priceonomics Tells You How Much To Pay For Any Used Product

December 22, 2011
Y Combinator Startup Priceonomics Tells You How Much To Pay For Any Used Product

You want the best price on things you buy second hand, but finding out how much you should pay is a hassle. Removing this friction from a lucrative part of the purchase funnel is the goal of Priceonomics. The first startup out of the winter 2012 Y Combinator batch, Priceonomics has crawled the web...

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models => Dangerous!

December 22, 2011

At today’s roundtable, the last for 2011, we had four different countries represented and an intense set of discussions on five very interesting businesses – a fabulous event to end the year with. BootstrapToday Anand Agarwal from Pune, India, pitched BootStrapToday, an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS solution from his company Sensible Softwares. Anand...

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Composite lets you remix your surroundings to create compositions

December 22, 2011

Composite, created by James Alliban and Juliet Lall, is an openFrameworks-based app that allows you to paint abstract images using a the iPad’s built in camera. The app generates a painting by capturing and overlaying parts of video frames relative to the areas of the canvas that have been touched. Users reveal more and...

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LinkedIn’s Top 10 Most Shared Articles Of 2011 Mean Business

December 22, 2011
LinkedIn’s Top 10 Most Shared Articles Of 2011 Mean Business

Today professional network LinkedIn released its top most shared stories. There are currently 130 million professionals on LinkedIn, and the most popular shared articles are about how to be a better worker. The number two and number three most sahred stories were about Steve Jobs. The number nine most shared article was about how...

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Go Daddy publishes position on SOPA and turns off blog commenting

December 22, 2011
Go Daddy publishes position on SOPA and turns off blog commenting

The Internet is collectively raging at domain seller Go Daddy for supporting the “Stop Online Piracy Act“, with people like Ben Huh threatening to pull away 1,000 domains owned by his company Cheezburger. In response, Go Daddy has published a blog post that is as useful as a pile of day-old dogshit. Many of...

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No more access to Google’s Hadoop cloud for researchers

December 22, 2011
No more access to Google’s Hadoop cloud for researchers

Google today announced that it is ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access to a massive Hadoop cluster on which to run their data-intensive projects. The project kicked off in 2007 via a partnership with a handful of major universities as...

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