Google has been on a mission lately to outline some of the cooler , newer features coming to Chrome on their Chromium Blog. Today brings one of the biggest yet: Background Apps .

Ever find yourself posting a ton of pictures to Twitter and Facebook and Dailybooth and so on and so forth, just to have them fall into the digital abyss? The people behind vvall, a stealthish mobile photo app, have created GRID , a humble project inspired by Coffee Of The Week . GRID attempts to organize your social photos chronologically, separating your own and your friends’ online image trails by date and days of the week.

@readability Readability The Readability iOS app has been re-submitted.

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Just Monday we were writing about  Breakup Notifier , a Facebook app that raked in more than 100,000 users in less than 24 hours and as of 5 hours ago had a more than modest 3,673,484 users in its database … And then poof! It’s gone, blocked by Facebook. To the uninitiated, Breakup Notifier sent you a helpful email notifying you whenever the object of your stalking affection changed their relationship status. This is not the first cool app Facebook has shut down this week, it also blocked the Dutch anti-smoking app Blackmail Yourself yesterday.

I’m not sure exactly how easy (or difficult) it is to come by stuff like this, but I for one thought it was pretty cool. Eli Feldblum and Mayer Reich , co-founders of RankAbove , emailed me a number of documents this morning that Facebook used to send potential advertisers back when they were just getting started (and when the fledgling company was still called TheFacebook)

There’s an age-old debate in Silicon Valley over whether or not you have to have started a company before to be a great VC. While many of the best VCs in Valley history weren’t entrepreneurs, the bias is heavily on investors who know firsthand what entrepreneurs are going through

StackOverflow co-founders Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood know their audience. The Q&A site popular with programmers is today launching its Careers 2.0 effort at  careers.stackoverflow.com , unveiling a complete revamp of the “dinky careers site” that was there before

A Raleigh, North Carolina-based maker of thermoelectric coolers and generators, Phononic Devices , closed a $10 million series B investment from Venrock and Oak Investment Partners, the companies revealed today. Often explained as “solid-state heat pumps,” thermoelectric technology (a.k.a.

PCH International isn’t your normal Chinese manufacturing company. They’re located in Shenzhen, a sleepy fishing village in the 1970′s that is now home to 9 million people. It’s an Irish company, headquartered in Cork, Ireland