Pressly Goes DIY: Will Turn Tumblr, WordPress & Twitter Into Touch-Friendly Websites
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Following its November debut, HTML5 publishing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Pressly, is preparing to launch its self-serve platform for bloggers. Planned to go live this spring, the platform will allow publishers of any kind - big or small - to transform their WordPress sites, Tumblr blogs, Twitter updates and other social feeds into tablet and touch-friendly sites that work on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook and Android tablets. In-App Birdchases: Play Angry Birds On Facebook For Free, But Pay To Win
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Angry Birds has just launched on Facebook, and developer Rovio is trying out a different business model that flocks together with other freemium games on the social network. Rather than make you pay $1 up front for a mobile download, there's 4 new powerups that you can buy for cheap - just $1 for 20 uses.
By expanding its in-app purchases beyond the level-beating Mighty Eagle, Rovio could earn higher a higher average lifetime revenue per user for itself and Facebook rather than squeezing a single golden egg from players upon install. ScottEVest Releases The Transforming Transformer Jacket
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How often has this happened to you: you're trapped in a Wampa cave on Hoth and your sleeve is trapped under a fallen icicle and you can't reach your light saber. The only way out is to pull your sleeve off quickly. But if you unzip your sleeve, you'll wake the Wampa. If you had the ScottEVest Transformer, you could simply pop off the sleeve with one swipe, freeing your blaster arm and saving your life. Instead to lie there and wait for the sweet release of an icy death or, barring that, the razor sharp teeth of the Wampa.
A Month In, Facebook Timeline Brings New Growth For Myspace, Yahoo News, Pinterest, And Others
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Having rolled out Timeline at the end of last year, Facebook followed up in mid January by letting third-party apps integrate with the reverse-chronological scrapbooking feature. Apps like Pinterest, Yahoo News and Fab began letting you post stories that stay as permanent reminders of news stories, designs, photos or anything else that you experience via a web or mobile app.
What difference is this making for developers? The early results are in, and according to Facebook data, Timeline is creating some new growth, particularly for non-gaming apps. Mobile Address Book—Much Heat, Little Light
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The controversy that began last week with mobile startup Path being exposed for downloading users address books from their mobile device exploded over the weekend.
Nick Bilton at the New York Times opined on the matter and declared Path to have been let off way too lightly due to the Silicon Valley echo chamber and its lack of concern for privacy. Path investors, and my good friends, Mike Arrington and MG Siegler weighed in, to resist Nick's points, and now Kara Swisher and others have responded.
Oh boy.... Lots of heat, but where oh where is the light? European Commission OKs Google-Motorola Deal, But Will Remain “Vigilant”
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While Google waits for the United States Department of Justice to sign off on their proposal to merge with handset maker Motorola Mobility, the European Commission has officially given the deal their approval.
The decision is a welcome one for the folks in Mountain View, as the European Commission initially showed some hesitance about the matter. When first tasked with reviewing the $12.5 billion transaction, members of the commission called to Google to provide additional information to support their cause. What's more, a U.S. consumer advocacy group publicly called on the commission to strike the merger, citing fears of a Google-dominated mobile space. Identified Hits 1.5M Active Users, 202M Profiles, But Can It Beat BranchOut (Or LinkedIn)?
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The professional networking space has been heating up over the last few years, with a number of players vying for control of our digital resumes, job and employment searches, and career buildings. For all intents and purposes, LinkedIn controls the mindshare, but a couple of newcomers are beginning to give the leader a run for its money. The first is BranchOut, the professional networking service built on top of Facebook, which, like everything Facebook, has been growing like gangbusters since its inception in 2010.
Then there's San Francisco-based Identified.com, a professed "data and analytics company" that development its eponymous "Identified Score" to measure how "in demand" users' professional backgrounds are to companies -- right now. Of course, both companies have a long way to go before they catch up to LinkedIn, which, going on Q4 numbers has a membership of 150 million-plus registered users. Keen On… Vertical Media: Glam’s Big Hairy Arsed Idea (TCTV)
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Founded just seven and a half years ago, Glam Media is one of Silicon Valley's few media success stories. Beginning in the women's interest vertical and expanding to entertainment, health and wellness and now food, Glam acquired Ning last September and is rumored to be preparing an IPO for later this year. Glam's great achievement, it claims, is to pioneer "vertical media" and thus to "transform the way consumers interact with content". ThinkGeek’s 8-Bitty Gamepad Promises Fun Times And Blistered Thumbs
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The folks at ThinkGeek, bless their souls, have a knack for taking off-the-wall ideas and turning them into real products. After their tablet-friendly arcade cabinet made the leap from joke to reality last year, ThinkGeek has turned their attention to whipping up a retro gaming accessory for the on-the-go crowd, and the resulting 8-Bitty already looks like a winner.
Oh, and did I mention that it has fake wood-grain trim? Be still my heart! Libsyn Offers MyLibsyn, A Cross-Platform Premium Content Repository For Podcasters
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As everyone and their dog moves to online production, podcasters have long hunted for a way to monetize their goods. Apps are available that let you sell podcasts for a set price, but what about aggregation over multiple platforms and using varying monetization models? More important, podcasters don't want to do all the computerin' to make these things work. That's why Libsyn created MyLibsyn, a cross-platform (web, iOS, and Android) system for disseminating free and paid content from a central app.
Libsyn has just created something akin to the Netflix of content syndication. Podcasters who join must offer one piece of premium content per month as well as make their back catalog subscriber-only. Although they already offer standalone Android and iOS apps for certain podcasts, MyLibsyn assists in podcast discovery by putting all the popular podcasts in one place and, by ensuring only quality product appears in the app, it reduces the chance that podcast listeners will be disappointed and move on.