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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble Carpe Diem We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. Watch Out for BarrioSquare – A Foursquare App for Nokia N900 January 2nd, 2010 • Mark Guim • Foursquare just launched a native app on Palm, joining the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android OS. Nokia users don’t have any apps for Symbian or Maemo, so we have to rely on the mobile site instead. Fortunately, a developer named Chris B has written on his blog that he started work on a Maemo app for the Nokia N900 using Foursquare’s public API. With 32M kids online, Moshi Monsters invade toy market (video) Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game characters are now moving into the real world in the form of toys. Michael Smith, chief executive England-based Mind Candy, said in an interview that more than 32 million kids have registered to play Moshi Monsters since the company launched the online game in 2008. Akin to Pokemon, Moshi Monsters are cute and collectible monsters that children can adopt as pets.
Facebook Photo Trends [INFOGRAPHIC] The number of online photos has steadily increased over the last decade, but a revolution has occurred with photo sharing in the last year. Pixable alone sorted through 10 billion photos in the first month after the launch of the app. This is only a glimpse into the massive volume of photos circulating in social networks. MakerBot Industries Steps to Success Every now and then we’re reminded 3D printing is not science fiction, but a real technology used every day to make amazing things in homes, studios, schools, and businesses. At MakerBot we’re proud to be leading this Next Industrial Revolution with the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem, which makes desktop 3D printing and 3D scanning affordable and reliable for everyone, and includes a variety of products and services to help unleash your creativity. One of the newest members of our family is MakerBot Desktop, a complete, free 3D printing solution for discovering, managing, and sharing your 3D prints. As we learned in last week’s post on connectivity, MakerBot Desktop was built to access the powerful software capabilities of the new Fifth Generation line of MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printers. This week, we’ll take a look at how to use it to go, in just three simple steps, from a 3D design to a 3D print.
Amazon, Lendle and the Danger of Using Open APIs: Tech News and Analysis « Updated: Lendle, an ebook-sharing service that allows users to find and trade Kindle books, sounds like a great idea — except that it doesn’t work anymore, because Amazon pulled the plug on the site by blocking access to the Amazon API. According to Lendle co-founder Jeff Croft, there was no warning from the online retailer, only a cryptically worded email. So Lendle becomes the latest poster child for a simple maxim: Building your service on top of someone else’s API, no matter how “open” the API is supposed to be, is a very dangerous road. Update: Lendle has posted an update on its blog to say that it has modified its service as requested by Amazon (removing a feature that allowed Lendle users to synchronize their books with their Kindle account) and API access has been restored.
Mozilla Firefox for Mobile 1.0 Release Notes Firefox is the browser built for the way you use the Web on your mobile phone. These key design principles are at the heart of the browsing experience: minimize typing, let the Web have center stage, and seamlessly synchronize your desktop and mobile browsing, to name a few. It’s built on the same browser engine as Firefox 3.6 for desktop computers with some extensive under the hood work to optimize for mobile. Secure, powerful and customizable -- Firefox for the Nokia N900 is packed with your favorite features. Highlights include: Sync Mobile and Desktop Browsing
Beyond Social: Read/Write in The Era of Internet of Things This blog was founded in 2003 on the philosophy of a read/write Web - a Web in which people can create content as easily as they consume it. This trend eventually came to be known as Web 2.0 - although others preferred Social Web - and was popularized by activities like blogging and social networking. It would be easy to say that the 'social' element is still the primary part of today's Web, since the popular products of this era enable you to say what's on your mind (Facebook), what's happening (Twitter), or where you are (Foursquare). All of these are mostly social activities. But more significantly, these and other products output data that will increasingly be used to build personalized services for you. Explore museums from around the world! LONDON, Tuesday 1st February. Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen - Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum. The results of this partnership, which can be explored at www.googleartproject.com involved taking a selection of super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than a thousand other images into one place.