Archive | August, 2012

YC-Backed Private Photo-Sharing App Everyme Raises $2.15M From Tencent And Others

Posted on 31 August 2012

So you’ve got your photos on Facebook, and you’ve got them on Instagram, and on Path. But what about that stuff that you don’t want everyone to see? Just some people?

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biNu Socializes Its Feature Phone App Platform

Posted on 31 August 2012

biNu , a startup backed by Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, allows owners of feature phones and lower-end smartphones to access apps like Facebook and Twitter. Now the company is getting more ambitious on the social networking side. CEO Gour Lentell tells me that it wasn’t really his plan to build a social network

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Disrupt Startup Alley & Pavilions: Sold Out!

Posted on 31 August 2012

TechCrunch Disrupt is now one week away. We are excited to say that Startup Alley is now SOLD OUT

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500 Startups Accelerator Alum Tiny Review Becomes Tiny Post, Adds New Fonts And Filters

Posted on 31 August 2012

Tiny Review was one of TechCrunch’s favorite startups from the third 500 Startups Accelerator class that graduated in February. Then it was touted as an “Instagram for Reviews,” allowing users to easily add text to images, and then link them to certain locations. Users could also share those photos out to various social networks, like Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook

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With Google Fiber Sign-Ups Behind Schedule, Google Lowers Pre-Registration Thresholds

Posted on 31 August 2012

A few days ago, Google’s gigabit Fiber project in Kansas City had only reached its sign-up goals in about 50% of the city’s “fiberhoods” and a number of areas were still very far away from reaching the threshold for getting Google Fiber’s Internet and TV service installed in their neighborhoods.

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Facebook re-opens notifications channel for developers to send users custom messages

Posted on 31 August 2012

Facebook has launched the new  Notifications API beta giving developers a way to reengage users with custom messages through the native notifications channel. These notifications are different from app requests in that users do not need to allow further permissions to receive them

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Gillmor Gang Live 08.31.12 (TCTV)

Posted on 31 August 2012

Gillmor Gang – John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded.

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Facebook to increase automated efforts to remove false Likes

Posted on 31 August 2012

Facebook has updated its integrity systems in order to prevent false Likes, according to the Facebook Security page .

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Cinemagraphs (Animated Gifs) As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format

Posted on 31 August 2012

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its 25th anniversary this past June (don’t you feel old now?), won’t die. And the animated GIF, in particular, has seen a notable resurgence recently, as a newer, younger group of netizens rediscover its capabilities, posting GIFs to social networks, blogs and in fashion editorials

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The Value Of Your iPhone Drops Every Second, So Try This

Posted on 31 August 2012

The value of your current iPhone is going down as I write this very sentence. And according to Gazelle , current iPhone models traditionally depreciate about 25 percent a couple weeks before the next generation iPhone is unveiled. And guess what

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