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Friday, 28th August 2009

Weekly Wrap-ups

Weekly Wrapup: Augmented Reality Apps, Top U.S. Websites, Tweeting Teens, And More...

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twitter statistics suggesting that teens don't tweet, review recent Wikipedia changes, and more. We also check…

Richard MacManus comments

Micah Baldwin on Startups That Suck

Micah Baldwin has heard his share of pitches, and at Gnomedex in Seattle, he spouted off to us about startup failure, including bad ideas, saturated verticals, the "rule of three," YASE (yet another search engine) syndrome, and changing jets mid-runway. All in all, Micah is overwhelmingly positive. For someone who preaches the virtues of…

Jolie O'Dell comments

The Future of the Facebook iPhone App, According to the Man Who Made It

Apple approved the first update to the Facebook app on the iPhone in almost a year yesterday and it was a huge hit. The app was built by Joe Hewitt, whose previous work includes the co-creation of Firefox with Blake Ross. With 12 million downloads, Facebook's app was the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora. I…

Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Lotus Connections 2.5: Real Social Features Finally Arrive

Reports of an update for IBM's Lotus Connections software have been circulating since early 2009. Many analysts talked of a major upgrade that would instill the suite with some substantial social functionality for the first time. After surveying the new Lotus Connections 2.5 that was released today, we can confirm those reports. IBM has seriously…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

S4ve.as: Upload Any Size File, Get a Bit.ly Link for 24 Hours

For anyone who deals with large files or multimedia content, file sharing can be the bane of one's existence sometimes. And trying to find workable solutions for these individuals involves a ton of capital expense and overhead in terms of server storage and bandwidth. S4ve.as has a nice stopgap solution: They'll host any file, any size, for up…

Jolie O'Dell comments

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