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More People, And Inevitably Scammers, Are Using Twitter

vertical8 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:58:59 +0000

2010 thus far has been a year of milestones in terms of online population, with Facebook hitting 500 million active users and Twitter reaching 100 million users. This growth explosion is not without its dark side; a rising tide lifts all boats, even the more miscreant ones.

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Offerpal Moves On, Gives Game Developers New Ways To Distribute Notifications

vertical8 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:56:59 +0000

Last week, Offerpal Media announced that, as a direct result of Facebook transitioning games and applications from their proprietary currencies to the newly-launched Facebook Credits and partnering with rival Trialpay , the company saw itself forced to lay off people who worked on its Facebook monetization initiatives.

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Coming Soon From Twitter: “THE MOST AMAZING CLIENT YOU’VE NEVER SEEN”

vertical8 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:28:28 +0000

When Twitter bought Atebits in April, a lot of us were excited about the possibilities. After all, Atebits (aka Loren Brichter ) was the company behind Tweetie, the best iPhone Twitter client and arguably the best desktop Twitter client as well (though Mac-only). Developers, however, were not as enthusiastic.

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YC-Funded PagerDuty Makes Sure Your Team Knows When A Server Goes Down

A D M I N — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:06:15 +0000

Server downtime is a fact of life for most web administrators, and there’s no shortage of products and software that make it easy to monitor when something has gone awry. Of course, an inbox full of urgent emails telling you your server is frying isn’t too helpful when you’re sound asleep.That’s where PagerDuty , a startup that launched a year ago, is looking to help.

Augmented Reality App Sekai Camera Goes Multi-Platform. Adds API And Social Gaming.

Administrator — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:11:03 +0000

Tokyo-based Tonchidot has come a long way since the spectacular launch of its augmented reality app Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 back in 2008. We’ve spent quite a few articles on how the startup did since then, and the bottom line is that it did very well so far. Tonchidot is now offering up a lot more versions and features for its app (available for free on the iPhone with iOS4 support, iPad , and Android ).

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Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Percent Faster Every Day

kram412 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:50:39 +0000

Editor’s note: The following analysis is written by Robert J. Moore , the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics , an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup.

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Twitter Is Missing Some @Replies

blogger — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:35:07 +0000

Yesterday, users and developers started complaining of missing @replies in Twitter streams.

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Diaspora Reports Progress In Its Quest To Build An Open Facebook Alternative

A D M I N — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:45:32 +0000

It’s been exactly one month after Diaspora , which aims to become an open Facebook alternative (much like OneSocialWeb and others) raised just over $200,000 in funding from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others through Kickstarter . Since then, it’s been quiet, but the team of four NYU students has been making some progress in actually building the system. In a blog post , Maxwell Salzberg updates the world on its progress, including the fact that they’ve set up their offices inside the Pivotal Labs building (and gotten some product advice from the company as well)

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Rumor: Apple TV Getting A Major Update, Perhaps Propelling It Out Of Hobbyland

vertical8 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:28:43 +0000

According to the Blog of Record , Apple is bolstering its collection of engineers dedicated to the Apple TV.

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Alcatel-Lucent Acquires Web API Repository ProgrammableWeb

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:58:44 +0000

ProgrammableWeb , a well-known repository for Web APIs, has been acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in a surprise move. Terms of the acquisition remain undisclosed, but according to the press release , ProgrammableWeb will continue to operate as a separate entity and the site’s founder John Musser will be making the move to Alcatel-Lucent. The repository , which was launched back in 2005 and now contains some 2,042 APIs (we covered when it hit 1,000 back in November 2008), will be maintained by its new owner.

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