For the past few years, being the “Twitter for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK” has been a popular trend among startups. Now, we’re starting to see a shift. Several new startups are launching as the “Foursquare for FILL-IN-THE-BLANK.” And big brands are actually starting to take notice.
Miso is an iPhone app that incorporates the “check-in” idea with watching movies [...]
Tags: Apps, Badges, Bazaar, Big Time, Fre, Hot Potato, Hot Tub, Ins, Iphone, Mgm Studios, Miso, Ncaa Tournament, Realtime, Rotten Tomatoes, Starbucks, Startups, Sweepstakes, Time Machine, Tub Time, Twitter
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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Right before the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago, some of you may have read about SimpleGeo’s awesome location data visualization tool called Vicarious.ly. The site showed location information coming in to SimpleGeo from Austin in realtime, and included elements such as Foursquare check-ins, Gowalla check-ins, geotagged pictures from Flickr, and geotagged [...]
Tags: Austin Texas, Couple Weeks, Data Visualization Tool, Elements, Festival Goers, Flickr, Fun, Hangovers, Hindsight, Ins, Location Data, March 11, March 17, Midst, Realtime, Span, Sxsw Festival, Tweets, Twitter
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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
70% of users on the web do not speak English. Considering how many web sites and services are done entirely in English, obviously, this is a problem. Smartling thinks it has the solution. And now they have $4 million in funding to prove it.
The realtime website translation tool has raised the Series A round led [...]
Tags: Accuracy, Accurate Translations, Angels, Attempts, China Translation, Google, Hybrid Model, Machine Translations, New Money, Professional Translators, Realtime, Speak English, Translate, Translation Tool, Venture Partners
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Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Google News is testing out a new design, as I reported earlier this month. It includes trending topics on the left and new personalization options. But today someone in the bucket test noticed something different. The sharing options changed. Each story can be shared via email, Google Reader, or [...]
Tags: Blogger, Buzz Button, Email Reader, Embrace, Facebook, Google, Google News, Google Search, Hat Tip, Limited, People, Personalization Options, Realtime, Rival, Search Results, Web Content
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Fri, February 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments