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The software industry is still figuring out the right balance between open and closed, but we at the DataPortability Project believe that communication is the first step.
Tell your visitors what they can expect from you and what you expect from them in return. Your Portability Policy explains the ways that your customers can use the digital "stuff" they've entered into your product, i read more »
Tell your visitors what they can expect from you and what you expect from them in return. Your Portability Policy explains the ways that your customers can use the digital "stuff" they've entered into your product, i read more »
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may no longer be worried about Twitter and its impressive growth rate - and he shouldn't be - but that won't keep the micro-sharing service from continuing to boast impressive growth numbers all around the world.
Online analytics firm comScore noted Twitter's overall continued growth, even based on incomplete data (third-party client users aren' read more »
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Babbel, the language learning site, has added "realtime" speech recognition to enhance its practical application and enable users to fine-tune their pronunciation skills. This pits the service up against more traditional players such as TellMeMore or Rosetta Stone, says the company.
The speech recognition functionality was built in-house - much of the team's background is in audio tech read more »
The speech recognition functionality was built in-house - much of the team's background is in audio tech read more »
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Inside Network's AppData is a goldmine of information about third-party applications on Facebook. With it, you can see stats like: FarmVille has 63.9 million monthly active users -- making it well over twice as large as the number two app on Facebook, Texas HoldEm Poker (also a Zynga game), which has 28.5 million monthly active users. But there was always something a little wonky about certain ar
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Resonate Networks, a US-based online ad targeting company, has secured $5 million in Series A funding, led by Greycroft Partners and iNovia Capital. Greycroft partner Ian Sigalow has joined Resonate's Board of Directors.
The company had previously raised a $2 million round of funding from some big-name political figures, including Harold Ickes (deputy chief of staff under P read more »
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We've seen how The New York Times became enraged by the audacity of the Pulse iPad application [iTunes] to use it's RSS feed in one of the best news readers to appear on that device. Controversially, the app was pulled by Apple after the NYT complained, despite being lauded by Steve Jobs. It's now been reinstated, without the NYT as a default feed. So consider a different scenario: the news read more »
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Financial information services giant Markit this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire Wall Street On Demand, a company that has specialized in the design, development and hosting of financial services websites and applications.
Wall Street On Demand is based in Boulder, Colorado, has over 350 employees and claims to provide its services to most of the major brok read more »
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It's been almost exactly one year since social gaming powerhouse Zynga unleashed what was destined to become an online phenomenon: FarmVille. The game has 70 million monthly active users, many of whom are total addicts. But some gamers are doubtless ready for a new fix, and today, they're getting just that — Zynga has launched FrontierVille, a Wild West themed game that shares many similarities
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Group buying site Tippr.com has acquired Austin-based deals site FanForce for an undisclosed sum. This follows the company's acquisition of fellow deal of the day site ChicagoDeals last week.
FanForce offers a white-label Groupon of sorts, allowing small businesses to create their own deals. FanForce takes care of the promotion of deals and offers, sell the vouchers and collect paymen read more »
FanForce offers a white-label Groupon of sorts, allowing small businesses to create their own deals. FanForce takes care of the promotion of deals and offers, sell the vouchers and collect paymen read more »
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A certain founder of a certain hot startup made the mistake this evening of posting two messages to Twitter that he clearly didn't intend to. They were sent via text message - and my guess is they were meant for a friend, not public consumption.
Cleaning it up a little, it reads:
...But the investors are already rich so this doesn't change their lives like it does mine...[It read more »
Cleaning it up a little, it reads:
...But the investors are already rich so this doesn't change their lives like it does mine...[It read more »
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Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5. The startup is announcing today that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop functionality that supports native interaction with desktop. So basically, you can drag and drop files from the desktop right into your Box.net web application.
The feature works on Firefox 3.6 a read more »
The feature works on Firefox 3.6 a read more »
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The Sony Vaio Z-Series is a thin and light with a mission: to prove that a tiny - but expensive - laptop can run Windows 7 and almost anything you throw at it like a champ.
When I opened the Sony Z-Series' plain brown box, my heart fell. "Another ultra-portable," I thought, "another sad-making thin-and-light without power or verve." But I fired it up, used it for a solid week, and came read more »
When I opened the Sony Z-Series' plain brown box, my heart fell. "Another ultra-portable," I thought, "another sad-making thin-and-light without power or verve." But I fired it up, used it for a solid week, and came read more »
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On the eve of my last trip to Brazil, I was watching an episode of CSI: Miami where David Caruso was tracking a violent drug kingpin in Rio. Every time they mentioned the favelas—the infamous slums that crowd Rio’s hills—his partner said breathlessly, “The most dangerous part of the city.”
Sadly—unlike nearly everything else on the over-the-top CSI franchise—the depiction of the fave read more »
Sadly—unlike nearly everything else on the over-the-top CSI franchise—the depiction of the fave read more »
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Whenever a service rises to popularity, an "open" alternative is usually close behind. The problem is that most of these alternatives never go anywhere, let along get close to the service they're trying to supplant. But the rate at which Diaspora*, the open project hoping to be the new Facebook, is gaining funding is getting too big to ignore.
The New York Times profiled the NY-based p read more »
The New York Times profiled the NY-based p read more »
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Now that many corporations have mastered the tricky art of signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account, the next step is leveraging social media tools in a meaningful way that impacts your brand and your bottom line. While some have found varying degrees of success, the vast majority could use a crash course stat.
That deficiency has given rise to conferences like Smash Summit, held o read more »
That deficiency has given rise to conferences like Smash Summit, held o read more »
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Wikipedia is easily one of the most visited sites in the world, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. This morning, the Wikimedia Foundation announced a number of changes it has made to make the experience for visitors and contributors better.
Most apparent is the new look and feel, which includes a refreshed puzzle globe logo, which was originally created in 20 read more »
Most apparent is the new look and feel, which includes a refreshed puzzle globe logo, which was originally created in 20 read more »
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In Jim Sheridan's 2009 film Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play two siblings that are opposites. Maguire's Sam is an Army captain, a straight-laced hard worker, and a family man. Gyllenhaal's Tommy is a fresh-out-of-jail convict, a general screw-up, and someone who doesn't seem to care anyone but himself. But then everything changes (and I'm not giving anything away that isn't in the
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It was only a matter of time. Since last summer, we've been tracking the progress of SCVNGR, a location-based gaming platform that allows users to build engaging, real-world scavenger hunts that use their mobile devices to both receive clues and solve riddles. Until now the service has primarily catered to museums, universities, and businesses, who use it for things like tours, orientations, an
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Buzznet, a social network based around people's interests (i.e. music, art, fashion, photography, movies, television, celebrities), is relaunching today with a more social layer on the platform. Buzznet, which is a property of pop culture media conglomerate BuzzMedia, allows users to share, curate and socialize content based on their personal interests.
On the site now, us read more »
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Seattle-based online advertising startup AdReady has raised $5.3 million in funding.
Xconomy had the scoop last week based on an SEC filing, but now we also know the names of the investors, all of which have invested in the company in the past. read more »
Xconomy had the scoop last week based on an SEC filing, but now we also know the names of the investors, all of which have invested in the company in the past. read more »