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It’s Facebook Day! Say Hello To The Three Tier App System
Posted from TechCrunch 4 hours ago
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Today is definitely Facebook day as they hold their second annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year they released their developer platform, which led competitors to hurriedly release their own competing offerings. What’s in store for tomorrow? We’ve made our prediction... (original story)
MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space
Posted from TechCrunch 4 hours ago
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The medical industry is one that thrives on innovation and evolution. New procedures, medicines, diseases, and theories are released practically every day. In such an environment, the need for a website to reflect and allow for documentation is apparent. MedPedia is a new project, currently in dev... (original story)
Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg
Posted from TechCrunch 4 hours ago
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Robert Scoble caused a stir yesterday with a post on how tech bloggers are failing our readers. We all chase the same stories, get spun like a top by the PR machine, and can’t sustain a conversation about a single topic for more than a few days before we all rush to the next [...] (original story)
More Funding for Casual Games: Zynga Raises $29 Million
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 4 hours ago
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Casual gaming on the web must look like quite an attractive market to VCs right now. Jeff Bezos already invested in two casual gaming companies this year, Kongregate and SGN, after SGN had already raised a $15 million Series A round in January. Now, Mark Pincus' Zynga, another online gaming site, an... (original story)
Glam Media Snags A Google Exec To Head Up Corporate Development
Posted from TechCrunch 4 hours ago
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Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google Adair was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and he has an MBA from Harvard. He’ll be responsible for making investment... (original story)
IORG Discusses Solutions for Info Overload
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 5 hours ago
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On July 15th, the Information Overload Research Group (IORG) held their inaugural conference in New York City. The group, whose founders include IBM, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and a dozen other companies and academic institutions, is on a mission to find solutions to today's information overload pro... (original story)
Max Levchin To Facebook: Developers Need More Certainty (And A Payment System Would be Nice Too)
Posted from TechCrunch 5 hours ago
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Slide was not too happy when Facebook temporarily pulled one of its most popular applications, Top Friends, from the social networking site for exposing too much profile information to people who were not friends. Ahead of today’s F8 developer conference, I asked Slide CEO Max Levchin what F... (original story)
A Quick Look at the Beats by Dr. Dre Noise-canceling Headphones
Posted from TechCrunch 5 hours ago
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Thought this might be interesting for the jet-setters in the Web 2.0 world. Monster Cable, the makers of cable, just sent us the new Beats by Dr. Dre, a pair of noise-canceling “studio” headphones aimed at the mid-range audio consumer. At $349, these are priced at exactly the same point ... (original story)
Mobile Search Trends Show Economic Decline And Rise In Pizza
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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V-Enable, a voice-enabled mobile 411 system, conducted a study by taking a random sampling of 20,000 searches in major metropolitan areas from customers of several V-Enable partner carriers including Alltel and MetroPCS. The findings clearly represent interesting trends caused by the recession. Fo... (original story)
Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a Whole New UI
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 6 hours ago
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Is This Future for the Firefox UI? You may remember a project called Enso, a software program developed by Humanized - the same folks who brought you Songza. The program is an application launcher which provides you with a different way to navigate and interact with your computer through the use of... (original story)
Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
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Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures also participated in the round). The company is also announcing the acquisition of YoVille, a vir... (original story)
TicketLeap Gets $2 Million For Modest-Sized Event Ticketing
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
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TicketLeap, a service that helps promoters sell tickets to their events though a self-serve platform, has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round led by MentorTech Ventures and Ben Franklin Technology Partners. TicketLeap differentiates itself from large ticket vendors by catering to small com... (original story)
Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 17 hours ago
PractiProj NewsBeet : Tech news
The future of software development is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and an abundance of basic libraries, it no longer takes a village to build a good piece of software. These days, a couple of engineers can deliver complete systems. These days, a couple of engin... (original story)
Apple Launching App Store Beta Program
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
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Apple’s App Store has seen an unprecedented amount of success and exposure since its launch, with millions of total downloads and 909 applications already available. Unfortunately, Apple has been unable to keep up with the influx of submissions from developers (each app must be approved befor... (original story)
Chad Dickerson To Leave Yahoo For Etsy
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
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Chad Dickerson, a long time Yahoo exec and the head of their Brickhouse special projects group, is leaving the company to become the CTO of Etsy, a a website that allows users to buy and sell handmade items. Mike Folgner, the former GM of Yahoo Video, will take Dickerson’s place at the head of... (original story)
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