Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Preparations For Last Flight Ever
Well this stinks. Space Shuttle Discovery is in the closing stages of preparation for its final flight ever. After that I guess American astronauts will have to hitchhike their way into orbit, which...
View ArticleStockTwits Gets Even More Social, Rolls Out Discovery Tools
It’s been a good start to the year for StockTwits. For starters, as we reported last week, the realtime info-sharing hub for investors and traders, has doubled its monthly visitors since December. It...
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How Discovery Will Drive Transactions
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter...
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PhotoAppLink Ties iPhone Photo Apps Together, Makes Multi-App Editing Simple
Several iPhone app developers have teamed up to launch PhotoAppLink, a new open source initiative that aims to simplify photo editing by tying multiple photo-editing apps together. As you know, there...
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Netflix, Discovery Ink Expanded Two-Year Licensing Agreement
Even more news from the Netflix camp, which has just signed an agreement with media juggernaut Discovery Communications to renew and expand their licensing deal. The companies this morning announced a...
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The Everything Project: Building A Google For The Mobile Web App Ecosystem
One of the biggest challenges we’re facing as we move into the post-PC era is the challenge of navigating through a disconnected web of applications. Bought and sold as self-contained packages of code,...
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Amazon’s Biggest Deal Yet: Discovery Brings 3,000 More Titles To Amazon...
Amazon announced a new licensing deal this morning with Discovery Communications, the media company behind cable TV channels including the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery...
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Sir Richard Branson & Flipboard Investor Jerry Murdock Put Nearly $1M Into...
MySocialCloud is a new, and somewhat stealthy, startup that aims to organize your online life through bookmarking, stream consolidation, filtering and auto-login capabilities. The service, which until...
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Engineering Serendipity
I don’t know if Highlight, Glancee, Banjo, or any one of those other startups you’re now officially sick to death of hearing about are going to make it, but I know that for the first time in a long...
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Lightbank-Backed Social Travel Planning Service Gtrot Shifts To Local Discovery
Social travel planning service Gtrot is changing its focus and is now officially relaunching its website with a new emphasis on local discovery. Somewhat reminiscent of Foursquare’s “Explore” feature,...
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Hoppit Launches The World’s First Ambience Search Engine For Restaurants
Finding a good restaurant – even in a city you’ve never been to – has never been easier. Thanks to Yelp, Urbanspoon and its various brethren, a good place to eat is generally just a few clicks away....
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Tipflare: Two MIT Seniors Build A One-Stop Shop For Recommendations On Anything
With so much information, content and so many services now living online, there’s a lot of choice — even for something as simple as where to go to buy a new pair of socks. Oh, and there’s a lot of...
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App Map For iOS Lets You See What Apps Are Popular In Your Area
One of the things that I usually end up doing at a bar, either after a few drinks or massive boredom, is discuss my latest favorite iOS apps. You know what I’m talking about, a bunch of nerds sitting...
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Good News For Discovery Apps: Apple Allows Apps To Sell Other Apps Directly...
Apple recently changed its developer guidelines to indicate that it might not be so happy with apps that essentially replicate what the App Store already provides, in terms of providing lists of apps...
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GetJar Shifts Focus From Distribution To Discovery And Commerce, As Its...
You may know GetJar as the largest independent, cross-platform app store, and one of the largest distributors of Android apps outside of the Android Market. With more than 2 billion downloads and some...
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Backed By $1.4M From Celebrity Investors, Qloo Launches A Netflix-Style...
As the Web evolves and hundreds of sites collect data every day on who we are and what we love to do, personalization has become fundamental to user experience to help users find signal amidst the...
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Twtrland: A Social Analytics Tool And Simple Way To Discover New People In...
Twitter does a lot of things well, but it hasn’t really nailed context yet — or search. After you first join the service, it takes a significant amount of following and unfollowing before you settle on...
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Let’s Visit A Nobel Prize Winning Lab That Does “Lots Of Science”, Shall We?
Creating stem cells out of adult cells. Amazing. Winning a Nobel Prize. Amazing. Saving lives potentially? Outstanding. Check out this video from David Prager and Glenn McElhose, formerly of Revision3,...
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Social Discovery Platform At The Pool Emerges From Beta With Funding, A...
At The Pool, a Los Angeles-based social discovery network that aims to be the anti-Facebook (and anti-Twitter for that matter), today announced it has emerged from beta and is in the process of closing...
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Last.fm Founders’ Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To...
Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, two of the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation two years after selling their early-moving, prescient...
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