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Looking Forward at Facebook’s Next 25 Million Users
Facebook has hit the 350 million milestone, months after exceeding the 300 million user base earlier than expected. With such rapid growth, Facebook could see 375 million users by the end of the year, and that is officially less than a month away. An open letter from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicates some ...
The Impending Doom of Black Friday Upon Us?
It happens to the best of holidays. Commercialization. Even George Washington and Abraham Lincoln haven’t escaped the extreme cliche of "Huge Savings" on Presidents Day. Thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the same holds true for Thanksgiving. On a global scale. Blame it on Christmas. The shopping we need to achieve between Thanksgiving and ...
Livescribe App Store: Should Everyone Be Doing It?
Livescribe is a pen that records audio and tracks the text that you write. It’s also a electronic toy (device) that has its own developer’s platform. That’s right. A pen has its very own platform for developers to create applications to run in cooperation with its device. It’s kind of a cool idea but it ...
What MySpace’s Acquisition of Imeem Means
So MySpace has acquired Imeem. It seems like an attempt for MySpace to continue its aim to revive its socil network. Will it work? MySpace likely purchased Imeem for a relatively low price, according to GigaOm. That indicates that MySpace is looking to have quick implementation towards achieving its revamping goals. It’s something that many ...
Mobile App Development and the Impact on Freelance
I’ve been writing for online publications for a few years now, and that leaves me in a twilight career path ultimately determined by my ability to manage my own time. While a web-based economy has helped me thrive in my industry, there have always been certain obstacles that just halt my productivity. Plane rides, car ...
Coming Soon to a Screen Near You: App Store Price Wars
A report from Distimo, the independent application analytics company, has revealed that Blackberry mobile apps cost more on average than apps found in the iTunes App Store or Google’s Android store. This is in part due to the $2.99 minimum placed on paid apps in Blackberry’s App World, but that in itself renders a debatable ...
Exclusive Interview: Threadless CTO Harper Reed Heads to Rackspace [What’s A Nepholologist?]
[Editor’s Note: This afternoon at about lunch time, I got pinged on the new hire of Harper Reed, former CTO at Threadless, as something called a Nepholologist at the Rackspace cloud division. In fact, I was pinged about six times from several different people, which was why it was pretty serendipitous that our own Kristen ...
Twitter’s Evolution to a Straight-Up Datapipe
Twitter’s valuation reached $1 billion last week, validating the microblogging service that has taken the concept of status updates to a new and more social level. In reaching such a milestone, we’re also reminded of the vast ecosystem that Twitter is evolving, providing support for a plethora of third party applications. Many of these applications ...
On Facebook’s 300 Million and Profitability
So Facebook has announced that it has reached the 300 million milestone for number of active users. Whew! That’s a lot of poking going on. And as several sources have pointed out, the 300 million marker makes Facebook nearly as populous as the United States of America. Wowzers. While a reported 70% of Facebook users ...
Toybots Wows TechCrunch50 with Woozees
If my talking Teddy Ruxpin could have traveled with me, given me tidbits about our new location and played games with other kids in a virtual environment, I think I’d be a smarter person today. Or maybe not. Either way, I would have had so much fun with that kind of toy. So I’m pretty ...
