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How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video)
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Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and worth over $100 million.Just one...
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Visual Website Optimizer: Another Way To Run A/B Tests On Your Site
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A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users, is a key part of launching a new version of any website.Visual Website Optimizer, which I'll just call VWO from here on out,...
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Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon
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To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it). But the one thing it has been lacking and that users knock it...
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Notifo for iPhone Gets Free User-to-User Messaging, Real Time Twitter Notifications
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Last time we wrote about Notifo, we called it a "simple mobile notifications platform for anything" -- and really, that's probably the best way to describe it. Take your iPhone, install the Notifo app, hook it up to your favorite...
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Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps
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When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn't even in the top 10 most-used apps...
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Um, Where’s Twitter For Android On Twitter’s Top 10 Apps?
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This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By just about every measurable metric, it seems to be skyrocketing. He also included a graph of the top 10 ways people are now using Twitter. This...
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Record Numbers Pinging Ping.fm Thanks To Apple’s Ping
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An interesting beneficiary of Apple's launch of music-oriented social network Ping—social status updater Ping.fm. According to Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur, Ping.fm saw a record number of accounts created yesterday (Seesmic acquired Ping.fm earlier...
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Plex Inks A Deal With LG, Could Be The Start Of Something Huge For Both Companies
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Plex is about to get big. The offshoot of the XBMC project just announced that LG will be using its media platform in upcoming Netcast HDTVs and Blu-ray players, in turn, making these devices about the best media streamers imaginable -- even...
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab Can Set Its Own Price, No Need To Directly Compete With The iPad’s $500 Price
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab is going to sell well. It won't be a blockbuster like the iPad, but it should still do alright mainly because it's the first consumer-worthy Android tablet. Samsung can even price the tablet well north of the iPad's $500...
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A Merger Made In High Heaven: US Cannabis To Buy WeedMaps
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Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson fame may be too chicken to invest in WeedMaps (think Yelp for pot), but that isn't stopping other companies from sniffing around the startup, looking to score.In fact, a company called...
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Google Hopeful Of 2010 Launch For iTunes Rival Despite Lack Of Signed Label Deals
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We all know Google Music is coming, it's just a question of when - and what it'll look like, of course. According to Reuters, Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010.Citing unnamed 'people familiar with...
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Project Dance Party: Facebook’s Secret Twitter-Like Follow Feature
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Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called "Subscribe." For a second, I thought it might be the equivalent of Twitter's "follow" ability -- that is, a feature which would let you follow the updates of someone that...
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YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform
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YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work.Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL...
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Important: Gmail Priority Inbox Should Now Be Available To All
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It's hard to remember a product I've become so dependent on quicker than Gmail's new Priority Inbox. I'm so addicted, that the few times I've accidentally clicked on the old "regular" Inbox view in the past week have really annoyed me. So much so...
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Six Apart’s Vox Heads To DeadPool
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When Six Apart launched Vox, a blogging/social network platform with strict privacy controls, in 2006, investor David Hornik had high hopes. Vox is an "amazing blogging platform," he said, because "Finally I have a place where I can post...
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Founder Institute: How To Launch In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000
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For any entrepreneur, the challenge of taking an idea to launch can be a daunting and expensive journey. Fortunately, Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded and startup accelerator, Founder Institute, has a ten step plan.While there is no...
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Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
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Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can...
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Foursquare Takes Over Times Square With A Massive Display Ad
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In terms of brand recognition, it's hard to top a huge live display billboard in Las Vegas. But Foursquare has managed to do it. As you can see above, they now have a massive, multi-level and multi-angle display practically screaming about the...
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Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid”
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This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product...
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Football, Twitter, Beer. TweetQB Provides Two Of Three
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We've written about Fanvibe (formerly FanPulse) a few times because they do a nice job mixing some of the hottest elements of the web these days (tweets, check-ins, gaming elements) with sports. And now we're about to enter the peak time for...
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