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Elon Musk Sat Down With Stephen Colbert, Talked Tesla, SpaceX And The Irony Of The Two

admin2 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:10:25 +0000

Elon Musk certainly hasn’t been on the down-low lately. Well, with the Tesla’s IPO and then Toyota huge investment and manufacturing deals

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Elon Musk Sat Down With Stephen Colbert, Talked Tesla, SpaceX And The Irony Of The Two

Independent Mobile App Store GetJar Now Seeing 3 Million Downloads Per Day

kram412 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:29:32 +0000

According to GetJar , its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day . GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date. At current (self-reported) growth rate, the company should hit 2 billion downloads in about a year, if calculated on the back of a virtual envelope.

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Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min

A D M I N — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:05:40 +0000

Every big publisher on the Web wants to be able to serve up ad-friendly videos, but creating them can be a pain. But there are already plenty of high-quality videos out there in every subject imaginable. With that in mind, Answers.com has quietly launched Video Answers with about 200,000 videos from video distribution network 5min on everything from home repair and fashion tips to cars and travel.

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Twitter Begins User Streams Testing. Realtime Tech Should Help Ease API Strain

user — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:16:15 +0000

For some time now, Twitter has been working on a new API: the Twitter Streaming API. The idea behind it is to allow third-party Twitter clients to receive continuous tweet updates in realtime. As developer advocate Taylor Singletary notes today on the Twitter Development Talk Google Group, limited testing of this new feature (also called “User Streams”) for desktop clients has now begun

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Could This Be the Eve Of the Kindle 3?

ACMAir — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:01:14 +0000

It seems that all Kindle orders have been frozen and, it seems, that Jeff Bezos is hanging around New York right now and will speak on Charlie Rose tonight. While I seriously doubt that Bezos will whip out the Kindle 3 on the Charlie Rose show (he’ll probably talk about ebooks outselling hardbacks) it seems there is definitely something afoot.

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MixPanel Offers Realtime iPhone Analytics That Probably Won’t Piss Off Apple

A D M I N — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:59:33 +0000

Perhaps you recall back in June when Apple CEO Steve Jobs laid the smack down on mobile analytics firm Flurry . He noted they were “pissing us off” because they were collecting device data about Apple’s products. Specifically, Jobs obviously cared because it uncovered some as-yet-unannounced Apple products.

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Fired Because Of Twitter [Video]

ACMAir — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:46:58 +0000

You’ve likely seen the EVO 4G vs. iPhone video .

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Ze Frank Gets $500,000 To Play Games From Andreessen Horowitz, Betaworks, And Ron Conway

vertical8 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:32:51 +0000

Ze Frank , the video blogger and performance artist, is getting $500,000 from a band of super angels and VCs to play games.

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YC-Funded Optimizely Makes It Remarkably Easy To Run A/B Tests On Your Website

kram412 — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:23:14 +0000

If you’re running a website, you’ve probably heard of A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users. But there’s also a pretty good chance that you haven’t actually gotten around to running those A/B tests — the prospect can be daunting, and if you aren’t tech savvy, existing solutions can be confusing

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comScore: Hulu Video Ads Are Viewed More Than Twice As Much As YouTube Ads

kram412 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:55:27 +0000

comScore has released its June video metrix stats today, with the number of users watching online video content dipping slightly from 183 million viewers in May to 177 million U.S.

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comScore: Hulu Video Ads Are Viewed More Than Twice As Much As YouTube Ads