Archive | July 24th, 2010

Queer Eye-Phone: Gay Social Network Fabulis Gets An App

Posted on 24 July 2010

Since its public beta launch in April, fabulis has been growing quickly. The gay mens’ social network now has over 51,000 members — up 40 percent in the last 30 days alone. And their taking that growth mobile, with the launch of a new iPhone app today

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NY, NJ Parking Lots Sign Up to Charge Electric Vehicles

Posted on 24 July 2010

The Car Charging Group, Inc.

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Pinning Down Zynga’s Revenues Is Like Playing Pin The Tail On The Bullet Train

Posted on 24 July 2010

One of the most exciting things to watch in tech these days is various groups’ estimates for Zynga’s revenues.

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A Case For AIR: Adobe Evangelist Builds Video Conference App For Android & PC

Posted on 24 July 2010

Earlier this year, you probably heard that Apple  blocked Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone App converter from the App Store on the eve of the tool’s launch. That may have crushed Adobe’s dream of allowing developers to write their Flash apps once and deploy them wherever they’d like, but its AIR platform still works with Mac, PC, and Linux, with support for Android devices coming later this year.  That means developers will soon be able to write applications that will work on both the desktop and smartphones

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Forum Site Lefora Gobbled Up By CrowdGather

Posted on 24 July 2010

Los Angeles based CrowdGather , which offers forums for online communities, has aquired the assets of Silicon Valley based Lefora . The size of the all-stock transaction isn’t being disclosed.

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Halcyon Molecular’s William Andregg: “The Only Way To Reach The Stars Is To Live Longer”

Posted on 24 July 2010

This week’s episode of Speaking Of… (video below) features the founder/CEO of Halcyon Molecular, William Andregg. Andregg grew up in Arizona. There’s a song by The Orb called Little Fluffy Clouds that describes the light-pollution-free Arizonan sky quite perfectly, with amazing clouds, sunsets and stars.

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Wisconsin: Land of Beer, Cheese, and…Startups

Posted on 24 July 2010

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Steve Faulkner. He is the CEO of the GeoHuddle, a Madison, Wisconsin based startup developing community geothermal heating and cooling systems.

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Big Money: AOL’s Beauty Pageant With Google, Microsoft For New Search Deal

Posted on 24 July 2010

Time Magazine Editor Josh Quittner and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage on Friday afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen. Most of the interview was centered on AOL’s content strategies. But what I really wanted to know about was what AOL’s plans were around search

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Influencing Innovation: The Americans With Disabilities Act

Posted on 24 July 2010

Today marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) , a code of law that has influenced society and tech companies in interesting ways already, and is expanding to influence them even more.

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Booyah’s MyTown Unlocks Product Check-Ins [Video]

Posted on 24 July 2010

The location check-in was so 2009. Well not exactly, like many, I suspect location-based services will eventually live up to their hype in the mobile arena

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