September 2011
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Shaker turns Facebook into a virtual lounge...
The winner of TC Disrupt 2011 is a cool start-up called Shaker that turns the most popular social network Facebook into a virtual reality where you can meet new people, listen to music, dance and have fun — all on Facebook.
Shaker is an app that you sync up to your Facebook account that will let you enter virtual rooms to socialize with other Facebook users in the app. As Shaker said in...
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Dustin Moskovitz talks Facebook, Myspace and...
The co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz was at TechCrunch Disrupt today and talked a lot about his experience at Facebook and what he learned from it. He touched on Myspace and how Facebook learned from Myspace and he also talked some about Google Plus and how it can be improved such as adding some symmetry to the relationships as there is added value in a two way connections. He speaks on...
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A warning to social media users in Mexico
It’s well known that the drug cartels in Mexico use murder as a way to send a message to the community and also to the media. Killing people to set an example happens quite often and it typically works. It’s not so typical for this to happen to social media users.
However, the cartels are now trying to intimidate people using the Internet in Mexico to get them to stop speaking out...
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Internet PSA: Give credit where credit is due
Attribution is very important when you find things on the Internet that you want to share with others. Remember sharing is caring, always cite your sources and don’t ruin the Internets! Now, back to your regularly scheduled program. via, source
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Coming soon - Twitter web analytics #TCDisrupt
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt (you can watch live here, ends soon) Twitter announced their brand new site analytics tool. Many have been asking for this for a long time, trying to measure the return of usage for Twitter.
There are key metrics that the new analytics tool will be how many page views you get from Twitter, re-tweets and replies. If you have the Tweet Button integrated into your...
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Report on the State of Social Media
The Nielsen Company who is a market leader in understanding consumers just published a new report on social media that looks at trends and consumption patterns across social media platforms in the U.S. and other major markets, exploring the rising influence of social media on consumer behavior.
An interesting finding is that U.S. Internet users are spending a quarter of their online time on...
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Posterous pivots and turns to social networking
Posterous made a big change today for new and existing users of the platform. Before today, Posterous was a direct competitor to Tumblr. Posterous was a simple blogging platform however hasn’t gained a lot of traction in recent months and fell a bit stagnant losing the blogging battle to Tumblr.
As Tumblr continues to succeed with a recent moment of reaching it’s 10 billionth blog...
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Foursquaropoly, real life Monopoly using...
Checkin’s on Foursquare may get a whole lot more popular and fun with Foursquaropoly which is a new app under development. Originally started as a student concept, the idea is to use the classic board game Monopoly and integrate it into real life.
How is this done? Using a smartphone app and Foursquare. Combining the two you become the game piece and the city you live in the boardgame. ...
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Live stream of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011...
If you are into tech and startups, then you should be attending the TC Disrupt in SF. But like me, many of you probably can’t make it to SF. So you can watch it live. I checked the TC Disrupt site and didn’t find a live stream; not sure why they don’t have it up on the site yet. But TC Disrupt starts today through Wednesday. I embedded the live stream below if you want to...
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A first look at Diaspora, the future of social...
Diaspora means the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland. Case in point, Facebook. For the past few years for social networking, the established home for social interaction has been with Facebook.
Myspace tried to keep up with Facebook but failed. Twitter once thought of a social network is becoming more of a content aggregation source. ...
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Founder of Digg Kevin Rose launches Foundation
Foundation is a new site dedicated to a monthly video series of interviews with the founder of Digg Kevin Rose talking to influential founders in the tech community. There are a few videos up already with Jack Dorsey co-founder of Twitter, Chris Sacca who is a start-up investor and founder of Lowercase Capital, Dennis Crowley co-founder of Foursquare and more.
If you want insight into the...
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How Pixar 3D computer rendering looked 40 yrs ago
Back in 1972, making 3D graphics wasn’t really too much different than the way it’s done today, it’s just more advanced now. The basic concept is still the same though, using polygonal vertices to make up three dimensional models. In this video which was created by Ed Catmull the founder of Pixar, you can see how the first digital 3D rendered images look like.
It’s really...
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Images get remixed and social with 4Chan founder's...
4Chan founder Christopher Poole aka Moot just launched his new website called Canvas which is currently in beta. You may know 4Chan already and wonder if this is similar to what 4Chan already is. Yes it is similar, but Canvas looks to provide less of a shock and awe experience that 4Chan can bring and really beef up the image experience in a different way.
The site gives focus solely to images...
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Tumblr just hit their 10 billionth post
Surprise surprise, I just finished up sharing a new blog post and bam, I get hit with virtual confetti and a message on the Tumblr dashboard that Tumblr has reached its 10 billionth post. I wish I was that person that submitted the historic post, but don’t think I am that lucky.
It’s nice to see though that Tumblr is growing at such a fast (and competitive) rate. I really believe...
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The iPhone Auto-Correct love song
Anyone that has ever used an iPhone or texted someone using one will certainly appreciate and laugh at this song from College Humor called the Auto-Correct Love Song. Stupid anal correct!
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Keep your home or business fashionable with...
Vintage typography art isn’t limited to the printed page: it’s also woven through artisan rugs. That is the tag line for LinusDean, a graphic designer and artist who takes vintage typography and applies it to high quality handmade wool rugs for a fashionable statement. The most main stream and popular typeface in recent history has been Helvetica which has spawned movies, awards, jokes and...
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Nike is taking us Back to the Future with Air Mags
Nike is about to make a ton of Back to the Future fans and geeks really excited. They are literally going to be coming out with the same shoe from Back to the Future II worn by Marty McFly. The shoes in the movie auto-lace and tighten by just pressing a side-button.
From what I understand, technology has finally caught up to this crazy movie scene and Nike is going to be creating the Air Mag...
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Superman gets suspended from Google Plus
Poor Superman. Even he can’t catch a break from Google’s real name policy for Google Plus. It’s a shame, really is. source
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TechCrunch gets the animated treatment
You know you’ve made it in the industry when you get the Taiwanese NMA animation video treatment. If you read TechCrunch or any tech blog for that matter, you probably heard about the goings on over at TC. If you haven’t, skip to the video for a quick rundown. If you have time, first read this post by David Carr at the NY Times, then read this post by MG Siegler at TC. Follow it up...
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Google updates their search algorithm every day
Google Search consists of several hundred ‘signals’ in their search algorithm and in a new video from Google, they say they change and update it every day, sometimes almost twice over. That is a tremendous amount of work that goes into providing the best search results possible.
In 2010, Google ran over 20K different experiments in their sandbox (test environment) to get better...
