When is the social curation bubble going to burst? You just can’t move for social curation services right now.
The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now. With this swirl of activity, then, it’s no surprise to hear that Parisian service Pearltrees — slogan “collect, organize, discover” — has just raised another $6 million of funding, led by local conglomerate Groupe Accueil. The company, which has been running in public since 2009, welcomed the injection of funds as a way to help expand and scale up its system for bookmarking and organizing, which is based around a clustered visual interface.
And it needs that scale. Google Now: behind the predictive future of search. 291inShare Jump To Close.
Sony eSupport - KDL-32EX720 - Support Information. Delhi-based media consultant Rama Lal (name changed) learnt about Jabong.com, an e-commerce website focused on lifestyle products, from her entrepreneur husband.
And one early morning, she logged on to the site and ordered a pair of shoes. That was the first time she shopped on an e-commerce site and to her utter delight, by 5 pm on the same day, a Jabong delivery boy knocked at her door with the pair of shoes she had ordered in the morning. The shoes fitted her perfectly. iPhone 4S mod adds built-in wireless charging. By Dakota Torres on 07/05/2012 The ability to charge a phone wirelessly is currently a luxury in the smartphone market.
It is only available as an aftermarket modification by using a wireless charger pad and case. Tanveer, a doctor by day and a modder at night, has developed a process to eliminate the need of a case when wirelessly charging an iPhone 4s. Do Not Track: an uncertain future for the web's most ambitious privacy initiative. Following months of relative quiet on the subject of Do Not Track — an HTTP header that tells advertisers and other third parties not to follow you around the internet — the controversial browser signal is being thrust back into the limelight.
After the W3C's recent face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam, the the Digital Advertising Alliance plainly said that it "does not require companies to honor DNT," effectively saying it intends to stick to its own self-regulatory approach to user privacy. Much of the renewed interest stems from Microsoft's controversial decision to turn Do Not Track on by default in Windows 8's Internet Explorer 10, and Adobe engineer Roy Fielding's subsequent decision to take a sledgehammer to the Apache web server, patching it in a way that explicitly overwrites the DNT signal coming from Microsoft's newest browser.
With the fate of our beloved internet economy allegedly at stake, perhaps it's a good time to examine what Do Not Track is. How did we get here? How Dollar Shave Club Got Their Sales Pitch in Front of 5 Million+ People. For anyone who's been involved in sales and pitching processes, you'll appreciate how much work it can take to win new customers. Not to mention the advertising and marketing that goes behind it to get into that position in the first place. So if you haven't got enough time to pitch to more than 5 million potential customers - maybe there's an easier way to go about this instead! Dollar Shave Club Enters Razor Wars. Does Dollar Shave Really Save? Dollar Shave Club made major headlines this month thanks to a catchy video and a solid promise: high-quality razors delivered to your door for just a few bucks a month.
But is the deal from this scrappy start-up as clear-cut as it seems? The video soon went viral, flooding the Santa Monica, Calif. -based firm with thousands of orders, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. If You Want to Lead, Read These 10 Books - Whitney Johnson. Last week, John Coleman posted a list of recommended books, 11 Books Every Young Leader Should Read.
There were no books by women on the list. While part of me cries “unfair” more than I would like it to, this is John’s list, and he gets to recommend as he chooses. What actually concerns me — and I hope you as well — is that in his canon of leadership books there are no women’s voices, at least not in the top 11 that he relies on and that inspire him to greatness.
John’s picks, however, are not an anomaly among men, or even really among women. When I recently asked a group of successful professional women to list their favorite books about entrepreneurship, the list skewed largely male. Why Apple acquiring Color makes sense in Silicon Valley: the strange logic of the acqui-hire. Color, a photo sharing app that launched in August of 2010, has the unpleasant distinction of having raised $41 million before it even launched, by far one of the largest sums bestowed on any software company prior to them acquiring a single customer.
Its technology, a location based social network that automatically found and shared photos with relevant people nearby, was hyped by every tech blogger who had the good fortune of enjoying early access to the product. And of course, after launching, the product was roundly reviled and sunk like a stone. It's a marketplace that encourages risk News broke yesterday that Color was shutting down, followed by the news the Color was not shutting down, followed by the news that Color was being acquired by Apple for at least $10 million, followed by the news that no, Apple was just paying $2-5 million for the company's engineers.
UNC law professors John Coyle and Gregg Polsky recently published one of the first academic papers on this topic. MySpace Strikes Back! Or Dead Man Walking? MySpace will be revamped with a new, catchy and eye-candy design soon.
And while most are discussing the new design, this story will give you some other interesting insights on the possible new strategic course of MySpace. Most captains of industry declared their opinions a few years ago: “MySpace? It is a dead man walking social network”. But Specific Media and Justin Timberlake seem to be repositioning MySpace from a social network towards an interest network. The Fancy: The Future Of Social Media? If you haven’t heard about The Fancy yet, you might be missing out on getting to know the future of social media, or even better: how to further monetize your social platform.
The Fancy is a relatively new, Pinterest-like platform, on which the products and gadgets that are shown can be bought directly. In this article, you will learn about The Fancy, and how its click-to-purchase business model could show us the future of the ROI in social media. The Fancy is similar to Tumblr and Pinterest, and is described as “part store, blog, magazine, and wish list.” Users can upload photos of original products, places, and other gadgets they find around the web on the site and mobile application.
License Plate Frame Foils Irksome Traffic-Light Cameras. The noPhoto set up on a test bench.The noPhoto reacts to a camera's flash, blanking out the license plate.A noPhoto prototype hooked up to a battery for testing. The final version will have reflectors to focus the light on the license plate, significantly increasing the lux.The noPhoto ready for distance and timing testing.The noPhoto successfully detects and reacts to the studio flash from over 100 feet away, which is elevated 10 feet to simulate a typical red-light camera flash.A zoomed in shot (200mm of zoom) of the noPhoto reacting to a flash from over 100 feet away.The noPhoto reacts from 10 feet away.A close-up of the noPhoto reacting.
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