Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop from $2.99 to free, with developer Loren Brichter (who makes up the one-man startup Atebits) joining the Twitter mobile team. Twitter [...]
Tags: Blackberry, Careful Analysis, Ceo, Chirp, Developer Conference, Evan Williams, Filling Holes, Fred Wilson, Ipad, Iphone, Logic, Loren Brichter, Mobile Application, Mobile Team, No Doubt, Quality Applications, Shock, Third Party, Twitter, User Experience
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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
In the last few days, we’ve uncovered some major new features that Facebook is going to announce at its f8 developer conference, including its plan to offer a Like button for the entire Internet and a creepy auto-Connect feature that will share your data with sites you never signed up for. Now we’ve heard [...]
Tags: Advertising, Backbone, Browser Window, Chat Bar, Clone, Developer Conference, Facebook, Few Days, Launch Bar, Lot Like, New Features, Technology, Third Party, Toolbar, Whole Lot
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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Facebook introduced some changes to its privacy policy today in advance of new features which will be rolling out soon, perhaps during its f8 developer conference next month. Some of the changes foreshadow new features dealing with location, taking advantage of the expanded “Everyone” settings, syncing contacts on your mobile phone with your Facebook [...]
Tags: Advantage, Browser Cookies, Contacts, Developer Conference, Distinction, Fan Page, Geo, Location Features, Location Photo, Mobile Phone, New Features, New Location, Personal Data, Personal Page, Photo Uploads, Privacy Policy, Status Updates, Third Party, Tweaks
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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook’s product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That’s because they’re already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers, and once two people know a secret, it isn’t really a secret any more.
One of the new features [...]
Tags: Api, Big Idea, Billions Of Dollars, Darn Internet, Developer Conference, Facebook, Gesture, Google, Graph, Hundreds Of Thousands, Implementation, New Features, New Stuff, Party Developers, Preference, Product Announcements, Publishers, Search Engine, Third Party, Tributary System
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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat, which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was this sentence on the placeholder website: “We are a PayPal and Venrock backed startup re-defining a $100 billion market and are [...]
Tags: Card Payments, Co Founder, Developer Challenge, Developer Conference, Electronic Payment, Incubator, Jack Dorsey, Malley, Market Insight, Moneygram, Naveed Anwar, Osama, Payment Applications, Quarry, Ryan Gilbert, Secure Paypal, Seed Money, Serial Entrepreneur, Specifics, Vc Network
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Sat, February 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments