Archive | April 10th, 2012

Nifty: Smart Car Uses Hundreds Of ASCII Tweets To Turn Twitter Page Into A Stop-Action Movie

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.

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HugeFan.com Wants To Connect You With Your Idols

Posted on 10 April 2012

Maybe you love Tim Tebow. Or maybe it’s Lady Gaga that tickles your fancy.

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Notion Ink Scraps High-Resolution Screen For Next Tablet

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.

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Live At The Norfolk Mini-Meet Up

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.

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Security Hole Spotted In Facebook Android SDK, Long Tail Apps May Still Be Unpatched

Posted on 10 April 2012

Mobile app platform provider Parse is reporting having discovered a major security hole in the Facebook Android SDK.

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YouTube Live Turns One: Adds Pay-Per-View And Real-Time Analytics

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.

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Science Fiction

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.

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Interview Street Helps Sequoia-Backed Startups Recruit With Its Latest CodeSprint

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.

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Facebook ads have higher clickthrough rates on weekends, study finds

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

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Hoppit Launches The World’s First Ambience Search Engine For Restaurants

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

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