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TopThat: a website to compete with your friends
10/11/2012, TopThat is part of a category of applications that I like to label “ego-driven apps”, and for example, Foursquare is one of them. TopThat was launched in public beta back in August 2012 and today, it is making its official [...]
DeviantART online drawing app muro to feature Redraw
05/08/2012, With 60 million unique visitors a month* and 20 million registered members, deviantART is the largest online art community that allows artists to exhibit and comment on artworks. In August 2010, during deviantART’s 10th birthday , the company launched muro, [...]
Facebook IPO: Price Range Set Between $28 and $35 Per Share
05/03/2012, According to an article by Evelyn M. Rusli on the Dealbook / New York Times, Facebook sets the share price for its IPO at between $28 and $35 per share, a pricing that could value the company at around $86 [...]
President Obama on YouTube today at 2.30 pm PT to answer questions
01/30/2012, President Obama is well known for his brilliant use of social media and early adoption of the Web 2.0 tools to promote his political ideas. The digital strategy for his election campaign has been made a historical case study on [...]
Google Chromebooks New Design and Price Cut
11/21/2011, When Google unveiled its Chromebook in May at Google I/O, two models were shown, the Samsung WiFi model, made available on June 15th for $449 ($449 Wifi+ 3G) and the Acer model, sold for $349. Today, Samsung is introducing a [...]
Is SOPA supported by Apple, Microsoft and others?
11/18/2011, Yesterday, we’ve posted a 5mn introduction to Stop Online Piracy Act (aka SOPA) proposed law, that is being debated right now. If signed into law, SOPA could let anyone sue -and shutdown- a site like YouTube because one user uploaded [...]
Amazon Silk Web Browser raises privacy concerns
10/14/2011, We’ve previously mentioned that Amazon’s Silk Web Browser isn’t exactly new technology – Opera has been doing it for years now. While the latter company has gone about its business without raising any concerns, it looks like Amazon isn’t faring [...]
Verizon makes changes to its privacy policy
10/13/2011, For Verizon customers: just in case you haven’t noticed or haven’t bothered to pay attention, the carrier has recently made a significant change to its privacy policy for mobile users this week. Its privacy policy now mentions that in order [...]
Google+ Traffic Dives by more than 50% [Chitika]
10/10/2011, Advertising network Chitika has released internal data suggesting that Google+ has lost momentum shortly after its public availability. After a spike on September 23 and 23, Chitika shows that the Google+ traffic dropped back to previous levels. While this is [...]
Podio Launches Employee Network
10/06/2011, Podio, a very smart, easy to use and easy to customize collaboration platform, is adding a cool feature to its already successful application: the Employee Network. Podio offers standard business applications for project management, CRM, accounting, HR, and enables users [...]
Viadeo Opens Public API and Launches Developer Contest
09/06/2011, Viadeo is a business social network similar to LinkedIn and very popular outside the USA, the service is number one in China and number two in India, with a global user-base of over 35 million members. Since the re-design of [...]
HTML5 Developer Conference – Sept. 27, San Francisco
08/29/2011, Today, the Silicon Valley International Game Developers Association is announcing the world’s first-ever HTML5 developer conference, and Ubergizmo is a media partner of this event. The conference, which will take place on September 27 at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco, [...]
Websites like Hulu and MSN found to be using “supercookies”
08/18/2011, What’s tougher than a cookie? A supercookie of course! Don’t be surprised if you’ve never heard the term before – even though it’s something most of us encounter on a daily basis, it’s just that we don’t know it. The [...]
