Posted on 10 April 2012
Now this is a pretty nifty use of a corporate Twitter account. Smart Car’s Argentinian division has filled practically its entire Twitter stream — which is currently 456 Tweets long — with ASCII art images that turn into a stop-action movie when you scroll through them.
Tags: addition, argentina, argentinian, check-it-out, corporate-users, design-options, Facebook, smart car, tweets, twitter
Posted on 10 April 2012
Maybe you love Tim Tebow. Or maybe it’s Lady Gaga that tickles your fancy.
Tags: celebrity, christopher, huge fan, means-attending, perfect, polish, shot-2012-04-10, startup
Posted on 10 April 2012
We’ve always been interested in the Notion Ink project, which has always striven to be a true alternative to both the iPad and Android masses.
Tags: advantage, gadgets, hardware-specs, high-res-screen, ipad-or-kindle, kindle fire, notion ink, running-at-1920, story-continues, tablets
Posted on 10 April 2012
The three pillars of Norfolk’s economy, according to local startup legend Marty Kaszubowski , have always been the military, shipping, and tourism.
Tags: digital, hourly-industry, military, night, project, richmond, startups, time, titans, virginia
Posted on 10 April 2012
Mobile app platform provider Parse is reporting having discovered a major security hole in the Facebook Android SDK.
Tags: api, apps, culprit, Facebook, Mobile, parse, sdk, security, tools, user, vulnerability
Posted on 10 April 2012
YouTube Live , Google’s live streaming platform, celebrated its first birthday over the weekend. To mark this event, YouTube is adding a number of new features to Live today. Most of these (new production software, improved publishing flows and real-time analytics) are mostly of interest to video producers.
Tags: events, expectation, great-britain, live, live-video, varun-talwar, youtube, youtube live
Posted on 10 April 2012
In Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt,” two children play in their “nursery,” a sort of home holodeck where they can conjure up any scene in which to play.
Tags: google glass, horizon, imagination, iphone, Mobile, opinion, science-fiction, Video
Posted on 10 April 2012
Interview Street , the startup that helps companies recruit by holding programming contests called CodeSprints, is doing something a little different this week — it’s holding a CodeSprint for 13 different startups, all backed by Sequoia Capital . The CodeSprints started out as big events with a long list of recruiting companies , but while there are still plans for more comprehensive CodeSprints in the future, Interview Street started holding smaller, more frequent events , usually tied to a specific company or technology.
Tags: contests-called, doing-something, Facebook, interview, interview-street, more-frequent, sequoia-capital, sequoia-code, started-holding, startup, startups, street, white, white-house
Posted on 10 April 2012
Average Facebook ad clickthrough rates are highest on weekends and lowest on Monday, according to new research by TBG Digital . Specifically, Saturday’s average CTR is 12 percent higher than average CTR on Monday
Tags: advertising, averages, ctr, digital, Facebook, feed-or-friends, perhaps-because, possibility, simon-mansell, their-downtime, well-as-changes, work-or-school
Posted on 10 April 2012
Finding a good restaurant – even in a city you’ve never been to – has never been easier. Thanks to Yelp, Urbanspoon and its various brethren, a good place to eat is generally just a few clicks away. What if you want to find a restaurant with a very specific atmosphere, though
Tags: data, discovery, Facebook, french, good-restaurant, hobbit, hoppit, Mobile, mood, restaurants, search, search-engine, startups