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Appistry Joins Cloudscale Storage Fray, and Brings Hadoop With It

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Appistry today added another element to its cloud-computing application platform, announcing the April availability of CloudIQ Storage. With it, St. Louis-based Appistry joins the growing ranks of companies seizing on demand cloud storage solutions that maintain performance in the face of rapidly growing data volumes.
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CustomMade helps woodworkers move to the web

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
There are a growing number of websites serving shoppers looking for hand-crafted products. Now a startup called CustomMade hopes to find a similar audience for custom furniture. If you’re familiar with artist marketplace Etsy, custom-jewelry site BlueNile, or custom-apparel site Zazzle, CustomMade.com may feel a bit underpowered. The site doesn’t include options to customize a product for yourself, like you can on BlueNile and Zazzle. You can’t even browse and buy products like you can on Etsy. [...]
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AnyClip opens its quote database for movie buffs

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Many of you have probably had a moment where you wanted to quote a favorite line from a movie, but couldn’t quite get the wording right. A site called AnyClip can help. The New York City startup first launched at the TechCrunch50 conference last fall, promising to help users search for and watch their favorite movie moments. We called AnyClip our favorite company of the show, but some of the judges were concerned that the team might have trouble making needed deals with the movie studios to show the clips. [...]
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iPhones — They Only Come Out At Night

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
iPhone users tend to use their devices in the evening and on the weekends, reports Localytics, a Cambridge, MA-based start-up offering mobile analytics services. According to as study conducted by the company, the mobile app usage in the US peaks at around 9 pm EST on [...]
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Make mobile commerce site checkout process simpler

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
One of the biggest grumbles about buying through mobile devices is the checkout process. For multichannel retailers, the solution is close to home.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/wPBiXjwjKd0" height="1" width="1"/
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Gomez upgrades platform to better ID mobile Web performing issues

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
Gomez upgraded its platform for managing Web performance across multiple browsers and load testing both mobile and Web applications.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/6BAO--D4wXw" height="1" width="1"/
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Five tips to get the most out of Google Buzz

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
How to get the most out of the Google Buzz for mobile Web application experience? Here are some tips from the company.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/58cDmbh74PI" height="1" width="1"/
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SkyVu uses mobile to boost Battle Bear App Store ranking

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
SkyVu Pictures ran a mobile ad campaign to boost the ranking of the Battle Bears iPhone game.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/tur7zrIY9uI" height="1" width="1"/
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Barnes & Noble to launch iPad app that directly competes with its nook - Mobile Commerce Daily

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
Mobile Commerce Daily today - Barnes Noble to launch iPad app that directly competes with its nook; PixyMe app drives sales of virtual, physical postcards.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/MntV3eKBeX8" height="1" width="1"/
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CNN Mobile TV debuts on AT&T, Flo TV

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
Turner Broadcasting has expanded its partnership with mobile broadcast television company Flo TV Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., to bring consumers CNN Mobile programming.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/ZsscjDTfk9Y" height="1" width="1"/
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KFC, Southwest Airlines break March Madness campaign on Yahoo mobile

Monday, March 15, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
Quick-serve restaurant giant KFC and Southwest Airlines are driving college basketball fans to their respective mobile sites via banner ads within Yahoo Sports’ “Tourney Pick’em” mobile portal.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/KNJd5Y-bcIk" height="1" width="1"/
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RateItAll helps businesses build their own Foursquare

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
RateItAll, the review site that has described itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything,” is going mobile. But it’s not just by releasing an iPhone app of its own — RateItAll wants to help companies build their own location check-in services. There are a number of different companies that may want to build their own customized version of Foursquare, said chief executive Lawrence Coburn. A conference might want to encourage attendees to share their location with each other. [...]
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Marketers Miss Hispanics on Social Sites

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics
Only two in 10 engage Hispanics on the social Web
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Local Shoppers Look Online First

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics
90% search online for nearby businesses
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TechStars Grades Itself

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder (Colorado), Boston and Seattle, recently decided to graded itself. So far, the group is not doing to badly. Out of the total 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five were [...]
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Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on Privacy

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members the product team spoke on a inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as some cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter & researcher Danah Boyd.
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SXSW: Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on Privacy

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members of the product team spoke on an inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter & researcher Danah Boyd.
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Digg announces new “blazing fast” site, Mashable partnership at SXSW

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Social news site Digg announced an upcoming launch of a radically overhauled site, new.digg.com, that will go public in the next few weeks. Personalized homepages and faster performance are among the site’s major changes, as Digg struggles to compete with Twitter and Facebook for the attention spans of Internet news junkies. The site, new.digg.com, is currently collecting email addresses of people who wish to be notified when the new site is ready for user testing. Digg CEO Jay Adelson described the site’s changes to attendees at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas on Sunday. [...]
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“How to be Black” grabs SXSW audience

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Baratunde Thurston is The Onion’s Web and Politics editor. Thurston — best known as @baratunde on Twitter — is a comedian who understands the power of bar charts. Sunday afternoon at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, Thurston gave a just-the-right-amount-of-edgy talk on the Internet’s influence on black Americans, and vice versa. While we wait for video to become available, @baratunde’s slides are online. How do black people differ from white people on the Internet? They use Yahoo more than Google. [...]
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Five ways mobile games differ from apps

Sunday, March 14, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Games are apps, in theory. In practice, they’re a special kind of app. That’s what mobile analytics firm Motally learned after its first year providing in-game statistics for developers to use in defining or refining their products. Motally’s app tools can tell, for example, how long a gamer spent on each screen of a game, and where they are located geographically. (For example, my BlackBerry is often mistaken for Canadian by Google and other sites that do geotargeting. Motally claims their toolkit can tell that I’m a Verizon customer in San Francisco. [...]
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