This week saw the first inaugural use of the word “gay,” the premier of FOX’s scary-as-shit serial killer show, ‘The Following’ (good stuff) and way too many headlines about lip-syncing and ‘Star Wars’. Turns out, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is getting that sequel after all (filming starts in May), and Hollywood is cranking out a shit-ton of TV pilots (mostly […]
Techcrunch guest author, Vinod Khosla, calls these the “unhyped” new areas in internet and mobile. Khosla goes into much greater detail in his post, and includes a couple of more. Data Reduction or Filters (Siri, Recorded Future) Recorded Future: We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. Big data or Analytics (Billguard, The Climate Corporation, […]
For the month of January, ‘The Comic Bug’ will match the price of any item on Amazon.com. Likely feeling burned by the holiday release of Amazon’s new iPhone app, Flow, which allows users to shop online for products they find in stores often at a discounted price, the local shop took to Twitter to announce their stance and remind […]
In 2011, “we used mobile apps more than opening up a browser window to access Web-based services.” According to GigaOM, the trend will continue in 2012: Hyper-local mobile: Apps and services will take advantage of the river of information that’s now available from a variety of sources about where we tend to go, what we tend […]
Wander is a free app that connects penpals and Instagram, and gives users the opportunity to immerse themselves in new cultural experiences through their iPhones. Wander’s built-in translation feature lets users translate text to be able to converse with their guides. After the week is over, users are given a new guide in another part […]
” [...] Providers are realizing that platforms are the future – for devices, software, services, buildings, and even cities. If you help people extend and expand their own capabilities and those of their devices and others around them, it’s a move in the right direction. There is a slowly dawning awareness that if you build that platform – […]
“GO is a new mobile application for the iPhone that allows users to broadcast and share photos, videos and commentary with others and post them to a live streaming portal. The app offers real-time access to geo-located, tagged media presented in both a stream and map view. GO also supports complete anonymity. GO is the first product from Hollr, founded […]
“[...] Mr. Malkoun emphasizes that he is not looking to displace traditional media, but instead complement it and raise its standards through citizen journalism. “Signal provides traditional media companies a faster, wider, and more reliable access to real-world events,” he says. “Viewers and reporters will have access to images almost immediately as they’re being taken.” […]
