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Can the iPhone Help Save Magazines?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:51:31 -0400

With bargain-basement subscription prices and free Web articles, magazines have spent the last decade acting like startups who care for nothing but eyes. But unlike Twitter, publishing companies…

Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast.

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:05 -0400

Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast.:

After months of negotiations and holding both off at bay, Twitter now has agreements with both Bing and Google to give them access to its full feed of public Tweets. Both search engines have…

Tracked.com Launches Massive Structured Database Of People And Companies

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:04 -0400

Tracked.com Launches Massive Structured Database Of People And Companies:

It isn’t often that a startup can raise nearly $12 million dollars and work in stealth for a year and a half without anyone noticing. But that’s exactly what Tracked has done – and today…

Web 2.0 Summit: Marissa Mayer Shows Off Social Search, Results From Your Social Networks

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:13:04 -0400

Web 2.0 Summit: Marissa Mayer Shows Off Social Search, Results From Your Social Networks:

At the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, Google’s Marissa Mayer unexpectedly came on stage to unveil a new product. She first announced that Google has also reached a deal with…

Uo Is Now Serving Secret Sushi on the LES -- Grub Street New York

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:15:29 -0400

Uo Is Now Serving Secret Sushi on the LES -- Grub Street New York:

Check out the menu of the new sushi spot hidden above 151.

Microsoft To Announce Bing Deals With Facebook And Twitter

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:44:04 -0400

Microsoft To Announce Bing Deals With Facebook And Twitter:

Microsoft will announce the integration of real time status updates from both Twitter and Facebook into Bing at the Web 2.0 Summit today, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deals….

How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts)

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:44:02 -0400

How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts):

Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker did her annual data dump slide presentation, this year focusing on the growth prospects of the mobile Web. As…

At Marea, a Cultural Experience Staged on a Plate - Review - NYTimes.com

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:38:58 -0400

At Marea, a Cultural Experience Staged on a Plate - Review - NYTimes.com:

Marea, the Italianate restaurant that Chris Cannon and the chef Michael White have opened on Central Park South, is inspired by seafood, but is by no means in thrall to it.

Mary Meeker: Economy Is Recovering, Mobile Is Exploding, And The iPhone Is Awesome.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:21:44 -0400

Mary Meeker: Economy Is Recovering, Mobile Is Exploding, And The iPhone Is Awesome.:

Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Mary Meeker, gave her usual quick presentation with a ton of information. Rather than trying to squeeze it…

Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYTimes.com

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:46:54 -0400

Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYTimes.com:

A social networking service where the operative question is not “what are you doing?” but “where are you going?”

Top 10 Time-Saving, MacGyver-Style Cleaning Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:34:58 -0400

Top 10 Time-Saving, MacGyver-Style Cleaning Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]:

Very few people truly enjoy spending time cleaning, and fewer still love buying expensive cleaners for every little task. Here’s a handful of clever, time-saving DIY substitutes for common…

Rock Band Hits The App Store

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:34:58 -0400

Rock Band Hits The App Store:

The much anticipated and hyped Rock Band for iPhone and iPod Touch is out! We first scooped the news of the launch of the app a few weeks ago. Shortly afterwards, Rock Band for the iPhone/iPod…

The Song Decoders at Pandora - NYTimes.com

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:01:00 -0400

The Song Decoders at Pandora - NYTimes.com:

By breaking music down into its component parts, Pandora Internet radio tries to figure out what kind of music you — not your social group, heroes or aspirational self — really like.

Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:34:29 -0400

Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China:

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive…

Why Kai-Fu Lee Turned Down Steve Jobs (And Is Still Cool with That)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:25:12 -0400

Why Kai-Fu Lee Turned Down Steve Jobs (And Is Still Cool with That):

BEIJING, CHINA– Kai-Fu Lee may have left his post as president of Google China, but he didn’t go very far. While still president he learned that Google was going to give up some of its space…

Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try Digital Books - NYTimes.com

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:47 -0400

Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try Digital Books - NYTimes.com:

Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.

Starting at the End: 12 New Cities Built From Scratch

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:47 -0400

Starting at the End: 12 New Cities Built From Scratch:

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A good city, like a good wine, needs time to develop. As any Civilization-playing geek knows, it takes decades or centuries to turn a cluster of villages into a…

Payvment Enables Retail Storefronts On Facebook Via PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:32:16 -0400

Payvment Enables Retail Storefronts On Facebook Via PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API:

In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Flexible Payments API, PayPal recently announced its version of the API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped over the summer). PayPal’s API…

Is EA Going to Buy Zynga or Playfish in Social Gaming Bid?

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:57:35 -0400

Is EA Going to Buy Zynga or Playfish in Social Gaming Bid?

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:21:40 -0400

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com:

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation…