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Capture, Access, Share and Stream Home Movies With Pogoplug Video and Sony Handycam Camcorders. Squeeqly launches to plug some social into online retail - TNW Europe. Social shopping is a rapidly developing area and Squeeqly, launching today at The Next Web Conference Startup Rally, aims to take a chunk of the market with a plugin that allows e-commerce sites to harness their customers’ social networks to find new customers and find out more about their customers. The plugin enables users to engage conversations around retailers’ products with their friends on Facebook and Twitter. [Video] SoundTracking gets app store’s app of the week - TNW Video. The duaLink USB Cable Syncs Multiple iOS Devices at Once. For Mac Gets Sharing, Audio Notes, Speedier Search, and More. The big updates keep on coming…Today, Evernote for Mac (version 2.1) gets a bunch of great new features, including social sharing, audio recording and search speed improvements.

for Mac Gets Sharing, Audio Notes, Speedier Search, and More

Here’s the latest: Download Evernote for Mac directly from Evernote or check for updates. Mac App Store users, this update will be available very soon. Sharing to Twitter, Facebook and more In our last major Mac update we added the ability to share your notebooks and access notebooks that have been shared with you. You’ll notice a new Share button in the menu bar. Record audio notes. AppFreeway highlights great paid apps, then gives them away - TNW Apps. If you’re app addicted like we are, then you’re never sated in your desire to find the newest and the best.

AppFreeway highlights great paid apps, then gives them away - TNW Apps

While we (ahem) feel we do an admirable job here at TNW Apps of bringing you the best and brightest, a new iOS app from AppsMarketing called AppFreeway is looking to take a slightly different approach. Instead of just highlighting free or only showing paid apps. AppsFreeway works with developers to highlight paid apps and give them away. Yes, there are other similar services, but we focused on securing quality apps to give away for free as well as delivering stats to developers to track the success of their campaigns. In addition, we focused on creating an app that isn’t cluttered with dozens of other apps.

From the Tips Box: Bookmark Separators, Address Bar Translation, and Cross-OS Shortcuts. Page Sharing Service Bo.lt Lets You Copy, Edit And Share Almost Any Webpage. With $5 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, webpage sharing service Bo.lt launches today after about a year in private beta.

Page Sharing Service Bo.lt Lets You Copy, Edit And Share Almost Any Webpage

Like a “Bit.ly on steroids,” the service lets you paste any URL into its copy engine or bookmarklet, creating a duplicate of the page on its servers. Once copied, Bo.lt lets you quickly edit the page itself. You can change the text, edit and delete images and text and change links — either through the Bo.lt visual editor or its HTML editor. You can then share the page on Twitter or Facebook through its customizable URL and let other people edit or make changes which are tracked. Peepmail Finds People's Email Addresses at Businesses.

Transform your space with the MagicPlan app. As (1) Easy Alarms Fixes Every Annoyance You've Ever Had with Alarm Clocks. ShortKeys - Windows Text Replacement software - Eliminate repetitive typing - Type faster. Share Short, Memorable Video Moments with Tout - TNW Apps. Tout for iOS helps people share real time video status updates.

Share Short, Memorable Video Moments with Tout - TNW Apps

Videos taken can be shared with friends and followers at social networks like Facebook and Twitter. To even have a sneak peek into the app, you will need a Tout account. If you don’t have one, it can be created from the app. The sign up form opens up in Mobile Safari and is a bit messed up. After submitting all the details, the form redirected to another form that clearly wasn’t optimized for mobile access. Life's Defining Moments. The Canvas Blog - Introducing pins, groups, and sharing. We launched several new features last week, including pins, groups, and share buttons. 1.

The Canvas Blog - Introducing pins, groups, and sharing

Pins Keep track of interesting threads you want to follow by dragging the pin sticker to them. Spice Up Your Social Feeds with Spout - TNW Apps. Just yesterday I was talking about consuming quality content on an elegant app.

Spice Up Your Social Feeds with Spout - TNW Apps

Spout for iOS devices takes reading news to the next level. Spout animates the jeepers out of the news and social feeds and is visually stunning. The effects, while being awesome, does not distract you from reading the content. The new Bluum extension is excellent for curious web browsers - TNW Apps. Bluum is a free Chrome web application that launched today.

The new Bluum extension is excellent for curious web browsers - TNW Apps

It’s a timely fit for our ongoing productivity week here at The Next Web. The hot pink extension is perfect for the intellectually curious. It’s an easy way to find out everything on the Internet related to a word of text. Simply highlight the word and click the pink and purple heart button and the Blum window slides in from the right to display related wiki, pictures, video, real time news, tweets and more. Send Cool Push Invitations with iVite - TNW Apps. iVite from INOV8 is the first app for iDevices that allow users to share calendar events from app to app.

Send Cool Push Invitations with iVite - TNW Apps

Instead of plain old email invites, iVite delivers event notifications by push messages. This way, you won’t lose the invite in an unread, spam filled inbox. The usefulness of iVite is two fold. Get the Right Stuff Done with Priorities. Priorities is the latest app in the productivity field and it may very well be an easy-to-use yet powerful way for iPhone and iPod Touch users to get things done.

Get the Right Stuff Done with Priorities

Developed by Hand Carved Code, Priorities is a slick-looking app that hopes to win over prospective users with its easy-to-use interface and “bare bones” task managing. Priorities allows you to add tasks and lists quickly and easily. Minimalist for Facebook Removes the Clutter from Facebook's Home Page. Overwhelmed By News? Summify Picks The Top 5 Articles You Should Read. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Overwhelmed By News? Summify Picks The Top 5 Articles You Should Read

If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Summify Quick Pitch: Summify e-mails users five stories they should read based on what their friends are talking about on social networks. Genius Idea: Making a product so simple it's impossible to be overwhelmed by it. In attempting to build the perfect RSS feeder, Summify founders Mircea Paşoi and Cristian Strat quickly learned one thing: the world does not need another RSS feeder. Their original product ranked news items in real time based on who in the users' network was sharing them.

On Wednesday, the team launched a new version of its product, exclusively dedicated to delivering the top five news stories to users based on what their friends shared and liked. HeyWire now lets you text your friends from Facebook - TNW Apps. We first wrote about HeyWire, a Boston based startup at SXSWi when it integrated Twitter, Facebook and Google Talk into its group messaging app. The app aims to be a truly multi-platform messaging service, but it couldn’t do that without a Facebook app too, right? Today, HeyWire launched its Facebook App, which is the first app that allows Facebook users to send both texts and Tweets via SMS from within Facebook. Traveling abroad? Droam will help you avoid roaming costs - TNW Europe.

Most of the attendees at The Next Web Conference, taking place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, are not from The Netherlands. We are very proud of that and have always considered the conference an international event. To make it easier for people not from The Netherlands we always try to help with hotels, travel and finding their way around Amsterdam. For this conference we’ve gone one step further and have partnered up with Droam to also make it affordable to use your devices here and enjoy cheap dataroaming without being charged absurd amounts of money by mobile operators. We have all been there; you travel, check a bit of mail, do a bit of surfing, nothing excessive, and when you get home you are greeted with a roaming data bill that easily matches the amount of money you spent on food, during the whole trip. Well, I certainly have experienced that. Pogoplug Beta Will Turn Your Computer Into a Personal Cloud File and Print Server. Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App (And $41 Million In Funding)

$41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch. That’s how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with. Your eyebrows should already be raised, and here’s something to keep them fixed there: this is the most money Sequoia has ever invested in a pre-launch startup. Or, as the Color team put it, “That’s more than they gave Google.” Host simple websites on Dropbox with DropPages. It’s not its best-known use, but DropBox can be utilised as a way of hosting simple websites for free. DropPages is a new service looking to build on this idea with a number of enhancements that makes the process even easier.

Chats.io: On-demand, disposable group chat. Wunderlist, a simple and beautiful task manager releases its web app. Last year, we reviewed the OS and Windows desktop apps for Wunderlist, a gorgeous looking task managing service. New Apps for Your iPhone and Android: February 2011 Edition. In 2011, we launched a new series where we round up some of our favorite new apps for smartphones (primarily iPhone and Android) on a monthly basis.

5 Free Tools for Creating a Screencast. Get Off Now! Never miss another bus or train stop using your iPhone. TNW Quick Hit. SyncPad: A real-time collaboration app for visual presentations. Yahoo’s Got a Digital Newsstand. Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone. You Should Use It. Set Up a Remote Music Alarm to Ensure You Get Up in the Morning. Create Mobile Apps with Conduit Mobile. Lovefre.sh connects you with great local produce and the people behind it. Location apps dominate the various App Stores available to smartphone owners but not many have the specific intention of connecting you with local produce in your area but also connecting you with the people behind that.

Shopping Rewards App Shopkick Hits 100 Million Checkins. Shopkick's location-based shopping app lets users implicitly check in to the locations of its retail partners in exchange for rewards. Secure Your Online Life the Easy Way. Nudgemail makes adding Google Calendar appointments as easy as sending an email. Upload Any File on the Web Directly to Google Docs or Dropbox.

Android App Merges SMS, Facebook Chat & Twitter. HeyWire, a social messaging application for mobile devices, is releasing its Android application Wednesday. Babylon Aims to Be the Quora of Translation. Check-in fatigue? Share location only when you want to with Marco! Make Your Own Beautiful, Customized Browser Start Page. New Startup Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals [EXCLUSIVE] CloudMagic 2.0 Adds Speedy As-You-Type Search to Google Docs and Contacts. The Software System. AnybodyOutThere? is the smarter, PG version of Chatroulette. Anybots begins shipping its telepresence robots today. LastPass Browsers Autofill Logins on iPhone and iPad. Minimalist Gmail is the Best Gmail Tweaker for Chrome Yet. The Best Ways to Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn't Give You What You Want. Use Chrome and Chromium Side-By-Side for Easy Profile Management. K-9 Mail Is What Android's IMAP Email App Should Be. This site could help you learn Italian, lose pounds and stop smoking - Crain's New York Business.

About. iSendr: On demand, peer-to-peer file sharing, no cloud required. Update: Evernote for Android. LetsLunch.com - Join the Movers & Shakers of Silicon Valley. Semantic Text Startup Reads and Summarizes Documents for You Mashable. Beyond The Filters: Brands Begin To Pour Into Instagram. Get More from Evernote with Advanced Search Syntax. Ghostery.