If Kickstarter met the adult-entertainment industry and they fell in love, this would be their child. Meet Offbeatr, a crowdfunding site for the adult community. The weeks-old site is a one-stop hub to find, fund and support X-rated creative projects. It’s already got 1,500 people using the site and 22 live projects. And they’re not just...
Daily Archives: August 23, 2012
Facebook Rebuilds Its iOS App, Siding With Apple Against Google
Facebook released version 5.0 of its iPhone and iPad app Thursday. It’s a complete rewrite of the app. It actually works now. The iOS Facebook experience has been miserable for a long time. With Apple on the verge of releasing Facebook integration to both OS X and iOS, the update is only the beginning...
Microsoft Changes Its Logo To Mimic Windows 8
For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft has changed its logo, the company announced Thursday. The new logo draws heavily from the look and feel of the typeface formerly referred to as “Metro” used in the company’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system. “It’s been 25 years since we’ve updated the Microsoft logo and...
114 Entrepreneurs On 1 Train For 8 Hours Pitching Ideas
Think an elevator pitch is hard? Try selling your vision with a beer in each hand, balancing in the aisle of a train barreling north at 80 mph. That’s exactly the challenge posed by Geeks on a Train, a veritable Nerd Express from Portland, Ore., to Vancouver, where passengers will “rethink business” among like-minded entrepreneurs...
Pops steps up its pitch to put your phone alerts on steroids
If you, like most smartphone wielding, GigaOM-reading information addicts, spend all day twitchily looking at your phone to see whether any new messages have come in, then let me introduce you to Pops, a notification service that you will either love or hate. Last time I wrote about the Israeli startup, I said that...
Daily Deals Marketplace DealsGoRound Rebrands As MyCabbage, Lets Users Store And Share Savings
Former secondary daily deals marketplace DealsGoRound announced today that it has relaunched as MyCabbage, an online and mobile platform that allows users to organize, share and redeem gift cards, coupons and daily deals. The company is backed by $950,000 in new investment from Lightbank, I2A, New World Ventures and several angel investors. CEO Kris...
As daily deals decline, DealsGoRound relaunches as MyCabbage
The decline of the daily deals market has not only chased away many deal providers, it’s also affecting many of the businesses that have sprouted up to serve the daily deals ecosystem. The standalone secondary market for deals, which emerged as a promising way for people to reuse and sell their purchased deals, is...
President Reagan’s Son Wants To Free You From The Shackles Of Liberal Email At Reagan.com
I usually don’t like to dip my nose into politics on these pages, but this is pretty hot stuff. If you – or someone you love – wants to play this one for the Gipper they can head over to Reagan.com and sign up for their own unscanned, and ad-free email address. Why support...
Microsoft has a brand new logo, its first since 1987
Microsoft might be overhauling its Windows and Windows Phone operating systems this year but that’s not all, because for the first time in 25 years, it has launched a brand new corporate logo, which looks to display a much more modern image for the company moving forward. In an interview with the Seattle Times, Microsoft’s...
More Evidence That The iPhone 5 Is Going To Have A Very Thin Screen (AAPL)
See Also The iPhone 5′s Sync Cable Leaked And It Seems To Confirm There’ll Be A Smaller Dock Connector iPhone 5: Most Wanted Features That’ll Improve Gaming Even Without The iPhone, T-Mobile Just Made Customers An Offer That’s Tough To Refuse For months, there have been rumors that the next iPhone would have a...