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Surchur Relaunches Their "Dashboard to the Now"
Written by Sarah Perez / February 26, 2009 6:37 AM / 8 Comments
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Surchur, a web, blog, image, video, and social media search engine, has just relaunched their online dashboard. The company calls this an "update," but it's more like an overhaul of Continue reading »


NYT Times Newswire API: All the News That Will Fit
Written by Rick Turoczy / February 26, 2009 12:34 AM / 8 Comments
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We continue to be impressed with the direction The New York Times is taking with their Times Open strategy - exposing more and more data from the Gray Lady via Continue reading »


ZumoDrive: Extend Your iPhone's Disk Space with Cloud Storage
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 25, 2009 6:17 PM / 8 Comments
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ZumoDrive, a new cloud storage service that looks and feels like a native drive on your desktop, just opened up its public beta program. This public beta coincides with the Continue reading »


Howard Lindzon and Friends Launch New Investment Fund for Social Apps
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 4:07 PM / 8 Comments
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Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who created the high-profile short video show Wallstrip and then sold it to CBS, today launched a new fund to invest in social applications. Continue reading »


Etsy is an International Word of Mouth Phenomenon (Charts)
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 1:42 PM / 24 Comments
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Wouldn't you love to have people in every corner of the globe talking about your website face to face and on their blogs? That's the enviable position that online crafts Continue reading »


Don't be Silly - The Kindle 2 is No Threat to Audiobooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 25, 2009 10:03 AM / 10 Comments
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A few weeks ago, just after the introduction of the new Kindle 2, the Authors Guild complained that Amazon's eBook reader had a text-to-speech function. According to Paul Aitken, the Guild's Continue reading »


iTunes U Proves Better than Going to Class
Written by Sarah Perez / February 25, 2009 7:01 AM / 29 Comments
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Skip the lecture, download the podcast. That's probably not what university professors tell their students, but perhaps they should. New psychological research conducted by Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the Continue reading »


App Purchases Are Adding Up
Written by Sarah Perez / February 25, 2009 5:49 AM / 8 Comments
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Take the Poll at the Bottom of the Post! Recession? What recession? According to a survey from ABI Research, many U.S. consumers are spending hundreds of dollars per year on Continue reading »


Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data to Developers
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 5:26 AM / 31 Comments
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Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed Continue reading »


Republic Project: Reinventing the Box Set for the Digital Age
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 25, 2009 5:00 AM / 6 Comments
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The Republic Project, a new online music business, officially launched its service this morning. At its core, the Republic Project reinvents the special edition music box set for the digital Continue reading »


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