Better Than Gmail Tasks: To-Do List App Any.DO Now Syncs With Gmail, Turns Emails Into Action Items On iOS, Android & Chrome. Any.DO, the mobile to do list app backed by $1 million in funding from Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Blumberg Capital, Genesis Partners and others, is today making good on its promise that it will become something more than your average task list. With the new Gmail integration feature debuting today, you can now turn email threads into actionable items that are automatically synced to Any.DO’s cross-platform apps. Of course, Gmail already has its own task list functionality built-in (click “Gmail” in the top-left corner of your inbox and choose “Tasks” to access your current list). But Gmail’s native task list functionality falls short on mobile, where it’s supported as a mobile-optimized web page, as opposed to a feature-rich standalone app like Any.DO. CEO Omer Perchik says that email is one of the most common ways that people manage their to-do’s, which is why the company decided to launch Gmail integration.
L'évolution du Web. Smarterer : un outil qui annonce la mort du CV ? Smarterer permet aux recruteurs de sélectionner des candidats à partir de résultats obtenus en répondant à des tests chronométrés, plutôt qu’en se référant à leurs cvs. Si l’outil se démocratise, le cv pourrait devenir une antiquité. Le slogan de Smarterer est le suivant : « Plus de CV, des compétences uniquement ». L’idée est de permettre aux personnes à la recherche d’un emploi de prouver de quoi elles sont réellement capables. Le fonctionnement est le suivant : après vous être inscrit sur le site, vous avez accès à toute une série de compétences à évaluer, parmi lesquelles : niveau de langue (anglais, espagnol etc.), suite office, finance, programmation (php, mysql etc.).
Après avoir choisi l’une de ces compétences, vous devez répondre à un QCM de quatre réponses au choix, et chronométré avec un temps imparti de soixante secondes au total. Ces tests sont ensuite une mine d’or pour les recruteurs qui peuvent ainsi évaluer beaucoup plus facilement les compétences réelles des candidats. First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email” Y Combinator’s Paul Graham recently begged entrepreneurs to consider “frightening ambitious startup ideas,” like building a better search engine or replacing universities. “Any one of them could make you a billionaire,” said Graham. “That might sound like an attractive prospect, and yet when I describe these ideas you may notice you find yourself shrinking away from them,” he said. “Don’t worry, it’s not a sign of weakness. Arguably it’s a sign of sanity.
The biggest startup ideas are terrifying.” Among those terrifying ideas was rethinking the inbox, and in particular, the Gmail inbox. Although there has been much complaining about the sorry state of email, very few companies are addressing the situation. For starters, if anyone can ever disrupt email, why not three ex-Googlers who spent years working on Google Wave, among other things? “Email hasn’t been innovated in 20 years,” explains Adams. Fluent operates differently. The Mobile Experience Can Power Users Switch? Some attachments: Yahoo's Fall From Grace, By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
Last month, we looked at Google's amazing growth over the last few years. This month, a sadder tale. Yahoo, a darling of the dot-com era, has had a rough transition into the social media age. As the following infographic shows, the company's performance has suffered particularly in the past eight years. Yahoo is still a powerhouse — after all, few can claim to control more than 1% of the Internet's traffic — but its grip on the web is loosening. Meanwhile, the company's management troubles — the latest is the controversy over CEO Scott Thompson's fudged resume — continue. Overall, the trends — outlined in this infographic from HighTable — aren't good.
Let The News Find You: Msgboy Reads The Web For You In Real Time. Keeping up with the news is pretty much a full-time job these days. Thankfully, recommendation services like Zite and Flipboard have figured out some ways of keeping their users informed without overloading them with information. Ideally, though, a recommendation service wouldn’t just learn about the articles you read in a certain app and what you or your friends share on Twitter or Facebook, but it would also look at what you read in your browser throughout the day. Msgboy is trying to do just that. It reads what you read as you browse the Internet and automatically subscribes you to the sites you regularly visit.
It then ranks new stories based on how interesting they will likely be for you and notifies you whenever it detects a new and potentially interesting story. Msgboy only works in Chrome right now, but will soon support other browsers as well. While Msgboy will try to understand your preferences by itself, it also offers users +/- buttons to voice their preferences. Evernote Raises $70M At A $1B Valuation To Prep For An IPO, And The Next 100 Years. It’s official. To transition from a startup into a late-stage company that aims to be around for 100 years, Evernote today confirms it’s raised a $70 million Series D round of funding at a $1 billion valuation.
Meritech Capital and CBC Capital were chosen to lead the round because they’re the firms that can help Evernote prepare for an eventual IPO. Evernote doesn’t need the money. It still has much of the $96 million that it’s raised to date in the bank plus over one million paying customers out of its 25 million+ users. But now Evernote will have the cash to isolate itself from short-term market conditions.
But just because it’s maturing, Evernote has no plans of slowing down. As information overload becomes more prevalent, Evernote’s mission to let you remember everything becomes increasingly relevant. Joining Meritech Capital and CBC Capital in the round and the company’s 100 year vision are funds and accounts managed by T. It certainly has momentum. [Image Credit: Exame] Princeton Review Founder Launches Noodle, A Search & Recommendation Engine For Education.
Regardless of Android or the fact that 96 percent of its revenues come from advertising, from the beginning Google’s mission statement has been “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google’s mission changed the Web, and it remains true that, if you know what you’re looking for, there isn’t a more useful search tool.
But if you don’t, that’s not always true. Take education, which sees 3.7 billion searches every month. Generally speaking, education-related decisions — like what school to go to, what to study — aren’t made in a snap, but the process nearly always starts with a Google search. Go search for “test prep.” Knowing that it can take weeks or even months to refine a search and make a decision on all matters education, Noodle Education is today launching what it believes is a better solution: A search and recommendation engine that helps refine the process and suggest educational opportunities based on what’s important to you. 10 Beautiful Apps & Websites To Drool Over. Yesterday we discussed the trend of beautiful apps and websites in 2012. It's an increasingly Visual Web and great design is a key part of getting attention nowadays.
We put the call out over social media to find out your favorite examples of gorgeous apps. In this post, with your help, we've listed 10 examples of beauty in the modern web app or website. Unsurprisingly, iOS apps are very well represented in this list. Apple's design philosophy is highly regarded and many of its apps are similarly beautiful. That said, if you have a favorite lovely app on Android, Windows Mobile or another OS, please note it in the comments. In no particular order, here are our selections: 1. Showed the way for glorious design on the iPad. 2.
The pretty version of Tumblr. 3. iPhone Twitter client "with a lot of personality. " 4. Drawing tool for iPad, with an appealingly simple UI. 5. Tech blog launched on the premise of a new kind of design for blogging. 6. 7. Mobile app for Google Reader (iOS). 8. 9. 500px. 9 Powerful Free Infographic Tools To Create Your Own Infographics - DATA VISUALIZATION. Plan Me Up, un agenda social en pleine expansion.
Concerts, cinéma, balades, brocante, spectacles, festivals, tournoi de poker, conférences, événements virtuels sur internet… PlanMeUp est un agenda social qui vous recommande gratuitement des idées d’évènements et de sorties, en fonction de ce que vous aimez et d’où vous vous trouvez. Vous voulez savoir comment ça marche ? C’est ici : Cet article s’inscrit dans une série sur les startups françaises en partenariat avec le programme « L’application du mois Windows Azure et Microsoft BizSpark« .
Voir détails en fin d’article. Concerts, cinéma, balades, brocante, spectacles, festivals, tournoi de poker, conférences, événements virtuels sur internet… PlanMeUp est un agenda social qui vous recommande gratuitement des idées d’évènements et de sorties, en fonction de ce que vous aimez et d’où vous vous trouvez. Vous voulez savoir comment ça marche ? Le mécanisme est assez simple : D’un côté, chaque événement est associé à une ou plusieurs catégories, ainsi qu’une liste de tags (mots clés).
[Etude] Un tiers des Français utilise internet pour chercher une idée de sortie. 38% des Français déclarent choisir leurs lieux de sorties en fonction des réductions disponibles sur Internet. Voici l’un des principaux enseignements qui résulte d’une récente étude menée par Cityvox , guide spécialiste des sorties et loisirs sur internet, et Harris Interactive. Selon cette enquête, menée en ligne du 15 au 23 février auprès de 1000 personnes, un tiers des Français utilise internet pour chercher une idée de sortie.
Parmi eux, un tiers, également, déclare recourir au téléphone mobile pour préparer leurs sorties et, 1 sur 5 y aurait même souvent recours. Toujours sur internet, 55% des Français déclarent lire ou consulter les commentaires ou avis émis par d’autres internautes avant de sortir. Bienvenue! Rejoignez nous sur le groupe des acteurs de l'internet francophone sur Linked In , animé par Frenchweb.fr. Recevez par mail chaque matin toute l'actualité du net: Rapport Hadopi : la baisse du téléchargement illégal est amorcée. [Etude] Un quart des Européens n’ont pas encore accès à Internet. Eurostat, l’office statistique de l’Union européenne, a publié hier son étude sur l’accès à Internet au sein des 27 pays membres.
Les chiffres révèlent qu’au premier trimestre 2011, près de 73% des ménages du continent avaient un accès à Internet, contre 49% au premier trimestre 2006. Malgré une nette amélioration du niveau d’accès, plus d’un quart des Européens restent donc encore privés de ce service. L’étude souligne, en outre, la persistence de disparités importantes entre les pays du Nord très connectés et les régions de l’Est et du Sud qui restent à la marge. Ainsi, en 2011, le pourcentage d’accès à internet était égal ou supérieur à 90% aux Pays-Bas (94%), au Luxembourg et en Suède (91% chacun) ainsi qu’au Danemark (90%), tandis qu’il était égal ou inférieur à 50% en Bulgarie (45%), en Roumanie (47%) et en Grèce (50%). La France se situe pour sa part en milieu de peloton avec une pénétration de 76% en 2011, contre 41% en 2006. Comunitee: A New Social News Site For Mainstream Readers. Does the world need another social news site?
That’s the big question about today’s launch of Comunitee, a new beta destination for tracking the news you want to follow, commenting and sharing stories with your friends. I mean, it’s not like we already have Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for this, right? Well, not exactly. For those who want the full, real-time firehose of feeds for a set of specific topics, there are fewer options on the desktop that don’t involve geeky RSS readers.
And given what Google did to Google Reader, a lot of people are still looking for online alternatives. To be clear, Comunitee is not an RSS reader. It’s a news aggregator. Comunitee has a lot of competition. For starters, the news site is smarter than your average RSS reader. One thing I did notice, however, was that the site was not as real-time or comprehensive as it should be. That’s a shame because the site itself looks good. [Nouveau] Votre CV DoYouBuzz sur les principaux jobboards en quelques clics. DoYouBuzz, plateforme française de création de CV, a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement d’une nouvelle fonctionnalité permettant d’exporter facilement et rapidement son CV vers les principaux jobboards tels que RegionsJob.com, LesJeudis.com et Cadremploi.fr.
Ce dernier service devrait être disponible dès demain. Fondée il y a trois ans, la start-up nantaise permet de créer très facilement, à partir d’une sélection de templates, un CV en ligne enrichi d’un portfolio d’images, de vidéos et de documents. Le site propose de publier son CV sur une adresse professionnelle de type www.prenom-nom.com, de suivre les stats de consultation, de partager directement sa page par e-mail et d’extraire des versions Word ou PDF à imprimer. Ludovic Simon, fondateur de DoYouBuzz : « Pour mettre toutes les chances de son côté dans sa recherche d’emploi, avoir son CV sur les principaux jobboards est une étape indispensable, mais également très chronophage !
XXX Domains: An Obvious Failure. Is it just me or is the ICANN plan to corral online porn going terribly wrong? We already have reports that universities are snapping up XXX domains in an effort to get ahead of porn pranksters who want to besmirch a few good online names with smut. I guess this turn of events was obvious to anyone with half a brain. Legitimate porn sites have little interest in the triple X domains, which went on sale earlier this week, for their businesses because they see them as potential censorship and, more importantly, they thrive on people accidentally stumbling on their URLs.
In the early days of the web this was common because porn purveyors snapped up known names and brands — none of which had to feature an obvious porn domain label. That’s how “Whitehouse.com” ended up, for a time, as a porn site. .XXX was designed to improve the situation. No more accidentally typing in, well, something you didn’t intend. Think I’m exaggerating? I know where to go. Secure your brand. 3 New Digital Solutions For Capturing and Sharing Content. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.
This week we chose three companies whose reps presented at the DreamIt Ventures demo day in Philadelphia on Wednesday. All three have created fresh digital takes on collecting and sharing different types of content. SnipSnap turns paper coupons into digital coupons with an app that “clips” them with a smartphone camera. SnipSnap: A Digital Organizer for Paper Coupons Quick Pitch: SnipSnap scans, saves, and redeems printed coupons on your mobile phone. Genius Idea: Giving printed coupons digital perks. Mashable’s Take: SnipSnap is a bridge between physical and digital coupons.
The process also makes printed coupons shareable and trackable through social media. Yes, it would. Awesome, yes. What the World’s Biggest Websites Looked Like at Launch. [Infographie] Les conférences web en France. The Anatomy of a perfect Website. [Infographie] 1,4 milliard d’e-mails reçus chaque jour en France. Prizes - Solve Problems. Win Contests. Make Money. [La Start-Up française de la Semaine] : Super Marmite. Data, data everywhere. Volunia, un nouveau moteur de recherche !