Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill F...

Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander -style. See the rest here:  Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill Farmville. Not Foursquare. Not Gowalla....

doubleTwist’s iTunes ...

Over the last six months,  doubleTwist , the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of...

Blippy Gets A Facebook-...

When Blippy launched a few months ago , the idea was to get the site up there as bare-bones as possible so it was simple to people. That makes sense since the idea of sharing your credit card transaction data was (and remains) highly controversial. See the original post here:  Blippy...

UpNext: Three New Citie...

One of the most detailed 3-D mapping apps on the iPhone is UpNext , which lets you click on 3-D buildings and see a list of the businesses and offices inside. Up until now, however, it only covered New York City. Originally posted here:  UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare...
Cascaad Personalizes Your News Stream In Real Time, Raises Funding

Cascaad Personalizes Yo...

Cascaad , which is billed both as an ‘awareness engine’ and a ’smart social media browser’ by the Italian startup behind the service, aims to make the realtime streams you tap into more about you. Essentially, the tool is designed to filter the never-ending...
Y Combinator’s Browsarity Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To Charity

Y Combinator’s Browsa...

Affiliate fees are all over the web and often we don’t even know that we are clicking on affiliate links when we click through to make purchases at our favorite online retailers. Here is the original post:  Y Combinator’s Browsarity Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To...
Yahoo Contacts Gets Facebook Connect

Yahoo Contacts Gets Fac...

Last December, Yahoo announced that it would be rolling out a deep integration of its products with Facebook Connect, essentially outsourcing all things social to the world’s most popular social network. Today marks one of the initial demonstrations of this partnership, with Yahoo...
Foursquare And Gowalla Line Up For A SXSW Brawl With Site Updates

Foursquare And Gowalla ...

Last year at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, both Foursquare and Gowalla had their public unveilings . Continued here:  Foursquare And Gowalla Line Up For A SXSW Brawl With Site...
Playdom Acquires Facebook Game Developer Offbeat Creations

Playdom Acquires Facebo...

Social gaming company Playdom has acquired Facebook game developer Offbeat Creations. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Excerpt from: Playdom Acquires Facebook Game Developer Offbeat...
WordPress Makes A Big PuSH To Speed Up 10.5 Million Blogs

WordPress Makes A Big P...

All 10.5 million blogs on WordPress.com, including TechCrunch, just got more realtime. Any blog hosted on WordPress is now PuSH-enabled , meaning that new posts get pushed out to feed readers such as Google Reader the second they are published. There were WordPress plug-ins that did this...

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