People really like Instagram. Founder Kevin Systrom recently appeared in a Best Buy Super Bowl ad paying tribute to mobile innovators, a testament to how far its come with a team of six. (Over 15 million users-far.) While Instagram is awesome (just ask Alexia) and offers a great tool for simple, hipster-elegant photo sharing,...
Earlier today a number of tech blogs carried findings from comScore that heralded Pinterest as the fastest site of any (standalone) kind to hit 10 million monthly uniques’, well, it turns out that isn’t true. Though there’s no doubt that the social sharing site has grown massively since launching in closed beta in March 2010...
The Price of Free: Path Uploads Entire Address Book To Its Servers Hacker Arun Thampi discovered today that Path is uploading your entire address book to its servers. Though most people don’t expect this liberal sharing of data, Path doesn’t warn you ahead of time. Path could generate hashes of the contact info locally,...
Olympus is building on its significant micro four-thirds IP (i.e. mirrorless cameras with the M4/3 sensor size) with a premium offering with a stylized, retro look. The OM-D EM-5, digital successor to the long-running OM series of film cameras, has a look straight out of the 70s but specs that should satisfy enthusiast photographers...
Pinterest Up (and to the right). See Also If You Build This Startup, There’s A Good Chance You’ll Be A Billionaire Facebook Reorg May Pave The Way For More Acquisitions Food Porn Should Help Us Keep Track Of How Much We Eat Social image-sharing site Pinterest, which is the toast of Silicon Valley and...
There’s a lot of press attention being paid today (by TNW as well) to Path. The life-journaling app has found itself in a tough position after it was found that it is accessing Address Book data and uploading it to its own servers without gaining express permission from users to do so. But there...
Towards the end of last year, an internal memo was sent to Gannett journalists letting them know that they would be outfitted with new iPhones and iPads to assist them with breaking stories. It’s a forward-thinking approach for an old-school company that owns publications such as USAToday. Not only is it a forward-thinking, but...
Before long, Prokopy’s Facebook profile had become almost useless. Checking it felt like a chore. “I was going through tons of posts from people I didn’t know, and I don’t want to say that I didn’t care about them but I didn’t care to know the details of their lives,” she says. “But the...
The father of the LED is now looking to revolutionize the industry he helped create. Soraa, a Silicon Valley startup co-founded by Shuji Nakamura — who created the blue laser and the white LED — officially unveiled the technology behind its LED innovation on Tuesday. The company, which is backed by venture capitalist Vinod...
Build a better mouse trap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better mouse lock for Web browsers, and you might make browser-based gaming a lot more attractive. Vincent Scheib has been working on a W3C specification and feature for Chrome that will put browsers another step closer to...