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TWITTER TURNS ON MAPS FEATURE FOR ITS WEBSITE, BUT NOT FOR SEARCH

March 10th, 2010 No comments

Twitter right away lets people see maps of where geotagged tweets were sent from upon a website. (They quickly showed this underline yesterday. It’s right away incited upon permanently.) The story began final year, when a association enthusiastically launched a place API which let users insert their place to tweets. “Everyone should do this!” co-founder Biz Stone told VentureBeat in an interview. Startups similar to Seemic and Tweetdeck were discerning to set up facilities around a brand new data. But it’s taken months for Twitter to eventually uncover geotagged tweets upon a own web site. Starting today, if we see a little blue place idol subsequent to a detrimental upon a tweet, we can float over it and a map will cocktail up, display where a twitter was published from


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BUMP TECHNOLOGIES CLOSES IN ON 10 MILLION DOWNLOADS

March 8th, 2010 No comments

Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc . is shutting in upon 10 million downloads for a nifty hit and data-sharing app. With iPhone and iPod Touch sales estimated to be around 80 million , co-founder  Jake Mintz says this equates to a company’s apps have been upon some-more than 10 percent of Apple’s phones. The association launched final year with a simple, nonetheless provocative demo. The app let we literally strike dual phones together and pass hit report similar to phone numbers, names and e-mail addresses in between them (see a video below). But it was a underline which was easy to duplicate, and incomparable companies similar to LinkedIn after built their own variations of it for contact-sharing. To strike a risk of apropos a underline of someone else’s product, Bump non-stop up and became a height by rising an focus programming interface (API). It’s a plan we’ve seen time and time again with companies similar to Twitter and Foursquare, when a first-mover comes upon a useful, though simply commoditized concept


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ETACTS: OAUTH FOR GMAIL IS LIVE AND WE’RE USING IT

March 6th, 2010 No comments

Rumors of a brand brand brand new OAuth focus programming interface for Gmail were reported in TechCrunch progressing this week, and right away a initial use regulating a apparatus is up and running. Email networking startup Etacts says it’s regulating a brand brand brand new API to let Gmail users lane who they’ve emailed and embrace occasional reminders to keep in touch. Etacts, a startup incubated by Y Combinator , uses OAuth so which when you pointer in to a service, you’re eliminated to Gmail to record in — during no indicate have been you giving your email cue to Etacts. That lowers a confidence risk and hopefully creates people some-more wiling to try a brand brand brand new service. This seems similar to a underline which would be utilitarian for any alternative web services which wish to entrance a email and hit report stored in Gmail, so you can design alternative companies to follow Etacts’ lead


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REAL-TIME SEARCH STARTUPS BLOW AWAY GOOGLE, YAHOO, AND BING AT SMX WEST

March 5th, 2010 No comments

This week during Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West in Santa Clara, we sat in upon dual panels upon realtime search: a single with member from Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and a alternative with 4 real-time poke startups: Collecta , CrowdEye , OneRiot , and Topsy . It was straightforwardly strong which real-time poke is a really opposite complaint to compromise if you’re a vital poke engine than if you’re a start-up focusing upon ways for users to get worth out of it. we admit, when we initial listened about real-time search, we suspicion “who cares?” So we get to see a tide of unedited tweets and standing updates starting by


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Real-time poke startups blow divided Google, Yahoo, and Bing during SMX West

GOOGLE OPENS POWERMETER API — AND THE FIELD FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY APPS

March 3rd, 2010 No comments

Google voiced currently which it has expelled a focus programming interface (the API) for Google PowerMeter , a apparatus it launched final year to discuss it users in genuine time how most appetite they have been regulating and, some-more importantly, what it is costing them. The preference gives what was a vaguely ominous make use of a intensity to parent gadgetry and program which could shift a approach you make use of appetite in a every day lives. PowerMeter collects appetite expenditure interpretation around dual channels: intelligent meters commissioned by Google’s application partners (a handful of utilities opposite a U.S


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Google opens PowerMeter API — and a margin for appetite potency apps

TRADEDESK BRINGS TRADING TO MORE PEOPLE AND PLATFORMS

March 2nd, 2010 No comments

Thanks to sites similar to E-Trade, some-more and some-more people have been doing their own investing, trade and tracking their income instead of profitable someone else to do it for them. Easy-Forex , a worldwide unfamiliar sell trade company, is creation which even simpler with the brand new product, TradeDesk .


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GOOGLE PICKS UP PICNIK FOR CLOUD-BASED PHOTO EDITING

March 1st, 2010 No comments

Google voiced currently that it has acquired Seattle-based online print editing service Picnik . The conditions of a merger have nonetheless to be disclosed. Picnik is a web-based print modifying use that allows users to upload images from their computers or renouned amicable networks identical to Facebook and Flickr. The use is identical to popular modifying apparatus Photoshop , that requires pricey program or downloading the brand new web service. The use is giveaway — though for a one-time annual price of $25, users can ascent to a reward subscription. This comes with approach some-more fonts, modernized modifying tools, some-more clip-art and print touch-up capabilities


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MY RIPPLE LOOK FAMILY 45FC NETTOP

February 27th, 2010 No comments

Desktop My Ripple , South Korea Company, has voiced to launch the brand new reward nettop for Korean market, namely Ripple Look Family 45FC . This reward mini Personal Computer is written for suffer multimedia knowledge as HTPC that is charity 3D games and high-resolution videos. Ripple Look Family 45FC is accessible in red wine-colored clear judgment of design. My Ripple Look Family 45FC nettop is powered by Intel Dual Core processor, Intel GMA X4500 striking chipset, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, and a 2.5-inch 320GB tough expostulate . It additionally is supports Direct-X 50 API technologies. The My Ripple Look Family 45FC mini desktop Personal Computer is versed with HD video codec (MPEG2/4/VC-5/H.264), DVI and HDMI port. No word upon pricing

ADOBE DROPPING FLASH PLAYER 10.1 FOR WINDOWS MOBILE 6.5, FOCUSING ON WINDOWS PHONE 7 SERIES

February 27th, 2010 No comments

Adobe has desirous skeleton for Flash Player 10.1 upon smartphones. Back in October, a association minute a bid to get a brand new Flash Player upon as most smartphones as probable in 2010 — solely a iPhone, of course. Now according to IntoMobile , it looks similar to Windows Mobile 6.5 is starting to be left out in a cold as well, in preference of a not long ago voiced Windows Phone 7 Series . According to an Adobe representative, Windows Mobile 6.5 doesn’t await a little of a “critical APIs” which a association needs for Flash support. We’ve emailed Adobe for serve details, and will inform behind once we’ve listened something. Adobe’s logic seems trustworthy enough, though we have a tough time desiring which it only in a centre detected this API scarcity so shortly after 7 Series’ announcement.


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STRATEGIC DESIGN NETWORK ACQUIRES SOCIAL GAME PAYMENT SERVICES FIRM PAYOUT HUB

February 24th, 2010 No comments

Strategic Design Network, a amicable diversion maker, has acquired amicable diversion remuneration services organisation Payout Hub for an undisclosed price. Austin, Texas-based Strategic Design Network creates amicable games. Seth Goldberg, boss of SDN, says a pierce will variegate his company’s income streams as a association prepares to launch the own games this year


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Strategic Design Network acquires amicable diversion remuneration services organisation Payout Hub