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| May 17, 2013 | Nevahold rallies angry customers on social media to make their voices heard (exclusive) | Customer service requests are only useful if someone hears (and responds) to them. Nevahold is a startup from Ghana trying to help customers get their voices heard.
Nevahold is a platform where people rally together to get the attention of ... |
| Sep 12, 2012 | Get your ‘No Sleep in Hustle’ Cloudmine tees from Startup Threads [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Aug 2, 2012 | ImageShack Launches Yfrog Social, An Ambitious New Full-Service Social Network | ImageShack founder Jack Levin has certainly experienced the short end of the stick when it comes to building a company that works with the API of a larger social network.
In February 2009, ImageShack launched the Yfrog photo-sharing service... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Dutch Collection Society Found To Be Source Of Infringing Content | Remember the story about the composer who found his music featured in anti-piracy ads and had a difficult time getting paid out, triggering a corruption scandal at collection society Buma/Stemra? It was obviously a bit ironic that the music... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Silicon Valley’s airline faces social media backlash as it switches technology | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Since its launch, Virgin America has become the u... |
| Nov 28, 2011 | YFrog Deletes Photo Account Of UK Celebrity Twitterer @GraceDent | Twitter photo sharing service YFrog has deleted the account of Grace Dent, an influential UK Twitterer and writer with over 94,000 followers. There appears to be no explanation for the blunder at the moment but we’ve reached out to YFrog fo... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | The case of the “stolen” Twitter account | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The ownership of a moderately popular Twitter acc... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | The case of the “stolen” Twitter account | The ownership of a moderately popular Twitter account and the value of the account’s 17,000 followers are at the center of an ongoing legal dispute.
In the case of the stolen Twitter followers, or PhoneDog v. Noah Kravitz, PhoneDog, a mobil... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Native JavaScript H.264 decoder offers compelling demo of JS performance | Photograph by racoles reader comments 71 with 48 posters participating
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Mozilla developer Michael Bebenita has released a JavaScript-based H.264 decoder that is intended to ... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Scaling Up Startups: Takeaways from Gemvara, Kayak, LogMeIn, Wayfair, and More at MassTLC UnConference | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Get a bunch of prominent Boston-area founders and CEOs in a room together, and ask them provocative questions. It’s a tried and true recipe for a good discussion, and that’s e... |
| Oct 10, 2011 | Former Porn Star Bree Olson Visits Fortnighter’s Alexander Basek In New York | Sometimes a pickle is a just a pickle
A few months back Betabeat reported on a budding Twitter romance between former porn star “goddess” Bree Olson and Alexander Basek, travel writer and co-founder of startup Fortnighter.
It was an online ... |
| Aug 12, 2011 | BART’s Interference In Subway Protests, A Step In The Wrong Direction For Digital Freedoms | As many may be aware by now, Bay Area Rapid Transit, also known fondly as BART and San Francisco’s version of a municipal subway system, has been on the receiving end of quite a bit of criticism over the last 24 hours. The criticism stems f... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Rumors & Acquisitions: Aol and the Labs, Turntable and the Labels, and Which Aviary Co-Founder Needs Your A/S/L? | LAME. The evil music labels are considering a lawsuit against Turntable.fm, according to a high-level source on the West Coast, but haven’t decided how to proceed. Meanwhile, Turntable lookalike Rolling.fm is knee deep in lawyers trying to ... |
| Jun 24, 2011 | I Found Out About This Gay Marriage Thing On Foursquare | Well actually it was an Instagram of a Foursquare check-in, posted to Twitter …
So I actually haven’t been following news at all today, and when I say news I mean actual news, not tech news which I keep up with like an addiction. And I so h... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Ask Ars: which image services might commercialize my photos? | reader comments 29 with 27 posters participating
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In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it's all about your questions and o... |
| Jun 12, 2011 | If Something On Twitter Seems Too Bad To Be True, It Probably Is | Anyone else seeing an influx of blog headlines that go “Updated: [Thing That We Just Wrote About] Is A Hoax”?
While Internet hoaxes have been around since the Soviet Union wanted to join Usenet in 1984 (remember LonelyGirl15?), we’ve had qu... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Lewd “prank” on Congressman’s Twitter account might be yFrog’s fault | reader comments 245 with 82 posters participating, including story author
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Did Congressman Anthony Weiner really tweet a photo of his, well, wiener? It's possible, but he al... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | How People Share Photos On Twitter Today [Study] | Twitter is getting into the photo-sharing business. This is a natural extension to the Twitter product and its stated goal of giving users a consistent user experience across all of its clients. But how will this affect other photo sharing ... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | Twitter Announces Better Search, Photo Sharing | Twitter has just announced some photo news, as rumors circulating over the Memorial Day holiday weekend hinted it would. The big reveal isn’t exactly a new photo-sharing or photo-storage service – Twitter will not be hosting the photos you ... |
| May 30, 2011 | Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service | Twitter has been completely emphatic about where developers should stake a claim, with Twitter Platform Lead Ryan Sarver warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer c... |
| May 27, 2011 | Algae Biofuels Maker Solazyme Goes Public, Finally, Raking In $197.6 Million | Shares in Solazyme, the makers of algae biofuels and algae-based oils and chemicals used in health and beauty products, began trading on Nasdaq under the symbol SZYM.O on Friday. The business set an initial public offering price at $18, but... |
| May 24, 2011 | Yandex Opens At $35 Per Share With A $11.2B Market Cap (Bigger Than LinkedIn) | After pricing its IPO at $25 per share a few hours before the market opened, the Russian search giant’s share price jumped close to 40% immediately after its flotation.
The price per share opened this morning at $35, giving Yandex a market ... |
| May 16, 2011 | The Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off For The Last Time Today, Here's How You Can Follow The Action | The Space Shuttle has been called the pickup truck of space. Well, for the Endeavour, today is the last time it will make the journey to its awesome work site. Like any truck it just wants to get the job done and blasted off minutes ago for... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The Next Internet Breakthrough As They Did About The Moonwalk | Obama spent a considerable amount of time preaching to the choir at today’s Facebook Town Hall event, first bringing up Intel founder and Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove as an example of the kind of immigrant the US should be focused on reta... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Google's Value To US Users And Advertisers Is Over $119B Per Year, According To Google | Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian took the stage today at Web 2.0 Expo to break down the totality of Google’s yearly economic value in the US. He spoke about two elements of value: The value of Google to users and the value of Google to a... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | The pop culture alliance of Lady Gaga, Google, Twitter — and Rebecca Black | Pop singer Lady Gaga visited both Google and Twitter today, and I’ve been wondering what that means for how celebrities are feeding off of Silicon Valley and vice versa.
Lady Gaga fans find out about her through Google and watch her music o... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | New Yfrog Aspires To Be A Platform For All Your Social Sharing | Yfrog is attempting to go beyond being just a photo landing page and comments, soft launching an entirely new product in beta today. This relaunch is a big departure, actually asking users to look at Yfrog as more than just a client for sha... |
| Feb 18, 2011 | Engadget editor departs, slams the new “AOL way” | We’ve been hearing that some of AOL’s employees are unhappy with the company’s growing focus on boosting traffic above all else, but until now that has been limited to anonymous complaints and vague reports of discontent. Today, however, AO... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Twitter Photo Sharing Platform TwitPic Adds Video Support | Twitter media sharing site TwitPic is expanding beyond the world of photos today. The startup is launching video support today, which will allow users to upload video from the site itself, as well as from mobile and desktop clients that sup... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Chinese Gundam Copy Now Looks Less Like The Original, Still Ugly | Do you remember the embarrassingly ugly and uncool Chinese copy of the awesome Gundam statue Bandai erected in Tokyo and later in Shizuoka? The rip-off caused such a splash that mass media in Japan (and the world) started reporting about it... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Need More Proof Quora Is "Blowing Up"? Meet The Quora Button | While co-founders Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever are famously quiet about Quora’s user and traffic numbers, entrepreneur Semil Shah has discovered something even more indicative of the site’s entrance into A-List status — A Quora button ... |
| Dec 25, 2010 | Alzheimer’s researcher Mark Smith: A holiday tragedy (Weekend Rounds) | — Major news is pending for both the neuromodulation device market and Cleveland Clinic Innovations. Three sources confirm a deal is done for Intelect Medical, a Cleveland Clinic spinoff with investors that include Boston Scientific (NYSE:B... |
| Dec 16, 2010 | Is Yahoo about to kill Delicious? | Updated
It looks like Yahoo’s cost-cutting efforts go beyond its recent layoffs. The company plans to “sunset” (i.e., shut down) a number of products including social bookmarking service Delicious, according to what looks like a leaked slid... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Rescuing retail | The retail news is bad – consumer spending is dropping and the remaining customers are going online, eBay is taunting the big retailers who in turn are threatening to set up China-based online stores.
Are things really that bad for the bric... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Eduardo Saverin Beats Mark Zuckerberg to Indonesia | Someone needs to make me a “Where in the world is Eduardo Saverin?” logo. Following up on my story that he was holed up in a penthouse in Singapore investing in Facebook games, comes news that Saverin has hopped over to Indonesia to meet wi... |
| Nov 26, 2010 | Twitter Users Make Snowstorm Map #UKSnow | Industrious Briton Ben Marsh is turning the epic ten inches of snow forecast in the UK this weekend into a way to bring his fellow citizens together. On his site UKSnow, users who tweet about the weather in realtime can now have their locat... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Hands-on: Tweet Library for iPad | reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating
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If you're in the market for a new Twitter client for the iPad, one that will seduce you with good looks or woo you with custo... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Employees Excited About Twitter's "Big Night" Tonight, But Aren't Giving Much Away | Like just about everyone else in the Bay Area media business, we were instructed yesterday to show up at Twitter for “an event” taking place around 4 PM PT or so. The invite itself gives absolutely no hints as to what the announcement will ... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | From NTT's Showroom In Tokyo: Next-Generation Digital Signage System (Videos) | Updated with second video (provided by NTT PR).
Here’s the second demo I witnessed at NTT‘s showroom “Note” [JP] in Tokyo: an “intelligent” digital signage system that actually holds the potential to offer value not only to advertisers but ... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | New Facebook Places Logo Is A "4." In A Square. Yeah. | On the left is the logo for Facebook’s newly launched geolocational product Facebook Places, on the right is the logo for the current leader in the space Foursquare. Notice anything interesting?
So Facebook, between the hoodie, the gong and... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | Old Spice Man Gets Backed Up With A Few Numbers, Sales Up 107 Percent | With all of the buzz lately around the fantastically successful Old Spice campaign, some numbers are finally starting to trickle in about whether or not the campaign actually translated into more sales of the body wash. Although initial rep... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | 5 Big Questions About Twitter’s Move to Multimedia | Twitter slipped a new option into users’ settings earlier today that hinted the service may soon display images and video inline with users’ 140-character updates, much like Facebook does in its News Feed. Moments after it was seen and repo... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Internet will soon be running on IPv4 address fumes | reader comments 96 with 66 posters participating
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Earlier today, someone I follow on Twitter retweeted a message from Alyssa Milano. This is what the former TV star had to s... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Reeder, The Best Feed Reader On The iPhone Is About To Launch On The iPad | Two months after its launch, there are no shortage of RSS readers for the iPad. But I’ve tried most of them, and still find them all lacking in some way. In fact, the one I’m still using the most is not optimized for the iPad at all — Reede... |
| May 14, 2010 | Foursquare Warns Its Competitors: "We're Running Like A Well-Oiled Machine" | “This summer is going to be dangerous for anyone else in this space!”
That’s what Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley had to say when I spoke to him earlier about the service. Crowley is known for being outspoken. But he’s usually not that... |
| May 3, 2010 | Conan Thanks Twitter For "Saving My Ass" | Not all celebrities, it seems, are over Twitter.
A couple of weeks ago, while in town for a comedy show, Conan O’Brien made a pilgrimage to the Twitter headquarters. He entertained employees, and even sent a tweet to prove it’s really him d... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | SXSW wrap-up: Maybe it really does suck now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Franciscans complain that Burning Man used to... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | SXSW wrap-up: Maybe it really does suck now | San Franciscans complain that Burning Man used to be better. New Yorkers claim that everything used to be better. While it’s no surprise that some attendees of the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference this past week in Austin, T... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Image hosting on the cheap: a look at three free services | reader comments 54 with 44 posters participating, including story author
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Image hosting is the kind of service many people use for sharing their images. There are several gr... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | ImageShack Updates iPhone App With Powerful Photo, Video Sharing Options | ImageShack, one of the largest media hosting sites on the Web, updated its iPhone app ImageShack Uploader (iTunes link) this morning, unlocking features that enable users to easily share both videos and photos using either ImageShack servic... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | yFrog Launches Twitter Clients For BlackBerry And Android | yFrog, an image and video sharing site for Twitter, is furthering its mobile strategy by launching both BlackBerry and Android apps. Yfrog for Blackberry lets you Tweet text, images and video to Twitter, view tweets, search Yfrog, view foll... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Kodak Hooks Up With TweetPhoto For Realtime Photo Sharing Lovefest | Imaging tech juggernaut Kodak is pretty keen on utilizing social media to connect with current and potential customers, boasting a presence on such sites as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.
The fact that it doesn’t own the @Kodak handle on Twi... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Seesmic Desktop Continues To Grow, Adds Facebook Fan Pages, Yfrog Integration And More | Seesmic, the startup behind the Twitter and Facebook desktop and web clients, is launching a new version of Seesmic Desktop that adds Facebook fan pages, yFrog integration, a “reply to all” button for messages and a favorites timeline. Deve... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | First Twitter, Now The Web Starts To Embrace Bit.ly: Google, TypePad, CBS and yfrog | When Twitter decided to start using Bit.ly as its default URL-shortener, usage exploded. But the service was able to handle the rise in usage, and has been steadily adding new features. And now other major players on the web are rewarding t... |
| Jul 3, 2009 | Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next | If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn’t be surprised to see some more of t... |
| Jun 20, 2009 | It Really Should Have Been Called The iPhone 3G V – For Video | Disclosure: I have not bought an iPhone 3G S — I’m still unsure if I will. Apple gave me a review unit to play with for 60 days.
So, I’ve now had a full day with the latest iPhone, the 3G S. So far, so good. This isn’t meant to be a full re... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Twicsy Is A Killer And Kind Of Creepy Way To Search Pictures Shared On Twitter | I don’t know about you, but when I see a link to a picture shared on Twitter, I almost always click on it. Sharing images in real-time is a particularly interesting use of the service. And now there’s a more interesting way to view these ti... |
| Jun 5, 2009 | If Facebook Is Worth $10 Billion, Twitter is Worth $1.7 Billion | Last week, Facebook took a $200 million investment that valued the company at $10 billion. So if Facebook is worth $10 billion, how much is Twitter worth? After all, Twitter turned down $500 million from Facebook late last year, and founder... |
| May 27, 2009 | ImageShack gains early lead in mobile Twitter video hosting | There are already a few services that make it easy for you to share links to videos on Twitter, including TwitVid.com and TwitVid.io, but they’re getting a serious new competitor today: ImageShack.
You can either upload videos and tweet the... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | ImageShack aims to play media host to the Twitter ecosystem | Twitter‘s traffic could more than double this month to above 30 million unique visitors on its web site in the US alone (that’s not counting Twitter traffic on other applications nor traffic outside the US). Expect to see the number of thir... |
| Apr 5, 2009 | A Picture Is Worth A Thousands Tweets: Pixim And TweetPhoto Emerge | There’s been a proliferation of photo sharing apps tied to Twitter, including TwitPic, Twitxr (review), and Yfrog (review), giving users a vast amount of choice when it comes to image sharing on the popular micro-blogging service. But TwitP... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | ImageShack Launches Mediocre TwitPic Alternative | ImageShack, the oft-forgotten and underestimated venture capital backed media hosting company, has quietly launched an alternative to the image sharing tools for Twitter already out there, like TwitPic and Twitxr. The tool is called Yfrog a... |
| Alzheimer’s researcher Mark Smith: A holiday tragedy (Weekend Rounds) | Here are some of the top stories at MedCity News this week:
— Increasingly influential Alzheimer’s disease researcher Mark Smith, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, died on Sunday in a hit-and-run accident as he was walking hom... |
| Amazon представляет интернет-планшет за $199, сенсорный ридер за $99 и снижает цены на обычные Kindle (дополнено) | Amazon представляет интернет-планшет за $199, сенсорный ридер за $99 и снижает цены на обычные Kindle (дополнено)
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Как и ожидалось ранее, компания Amazon представляет свой первый интернет-пл... |