OpenCandy Shows Some Sw...
OpenCandy , the startup that tries to offer bundled applications that you might actually want to use, has added Joe Kraus , founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, to their board. Kraus is currently a Director of Product Management at Google Read the original: OpenCandy...
How The EFF Lost Its Wa...
Free speech is a basic human right and is essential to creativity and innovation. See more here: How The EFF Lost Its Way By Defending Hate Mongers And Tunnel...
Facebook For Android Ju...
For quite a while now now, one of the biggest problems with Android has been its app support. In particular, the Facebook application has been quite limited: you could read your News Feed, but many of the app’s functions actually kicked you into a separate browser window and...
It’s Not Easy Being P...
In this age of instant Internet celebrity, anyone can become famous for 15 seconds (to rework Andy Warhol’s oft-quoted maxim ). But what does famous mean exactly when anyone can have a Facebook fan page—those public pages on Facebook set up by brands, media outlets, celebs, and...
All Aboard The Micro-Me...
At the beginning of 2009, during a now-famous strategy meeting , Twitter’s executives asked themselves, “Are we building a new Internet?” At the crux of that question was the realization that Twitter “introduced a new form of communication to the world.”...
Popular iPhone App Twee...
A couple of days ago, I checked if there were any updates for the applications I have installed on my iPhone, and one that was identified as having published a more recent version in the App Store was TweetDeck , the popular Twitter client for desktop and mobile. Strangely, the update...
“Horrible Things” S...
Just five days ago Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said mobile subscriptions, among other scammy offers, would be removed from Zynga’s popular Facebook and MySpace games. “We have also removed all mobile ads until we see any that offer clear user value,” he said. So we were...
How To Spam Facebook Li...
Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu , the CEO of BlitzLocal , a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing in local search engine marketing for franchises and professional...
Scan Your Business Card...
Startups like Bump Technologies , which recently got some funding , and My Name is E are trying to kill the paper business card, but even in 2009, many of us, including myself, still use business cards. The biggest hassle with business cards is getting the contact information into your...