Startups Any Given Sunday: 7 Sports Tools You Can't Live Without Touchdown dances, chest painters and rally caps - if you're not a sports fan, it's hard to understand why a perfectly upstanding citizen would wear a gigantic foam hand or engage in the politically incorrect Tomahawk chop. But if you are a diehard sports addict, you've probably been one since you were a kid. We watched in awe when Nolan Ryan… Dana Oshiro View comments
Google Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs Social Search just went live in Google Labs. Google announced that it was working on this Social Search feature at the Web 2.0 Summit last week, but at that time, Google's Marissa Mayer announced that it would only be available "in a few weeks." Social Search taps into a user's social network profiles and displays relevant links and status… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Augmented Reality Your Augmented Future: The 3 Hottest Videos From International AR Symposium 3D virtual pets to hold in your hand and interact with, software that turns drawn objects into movable 3D objects subject to the laws of physics and a Microsoft hiring-coup. Those are the stories behind the hottest videos from the eye and brain-candy world of Augmented Reality, as seen at last week's International Symposium on Augmented and… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Semantic Web GetGlue.com: Distributed Networking & Recommendations Made Simple & Fun Once just a browser add-on that allowed users to surf smarter across several verticals, AdaptiveBlue's Glue is now a site-centric product that acts as both a hub and a spoke of the social web. Glue's synaptic web-esque technology is based on a user's browsing across common sites such as Amazon, Wikipedia and YouTube, and those visits and any… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Facebook Facebook Launches Live Counts & Stats for Sharing Widget Joining the ranks of tools such as Tweetmeme and Digg widgets, Facebook's Share button will now be showing the number of users who share items in real time - and with a new set of analytics features. Facebook Platform product manager Mark Kinsey writes on the Facebook Developers blog, "Today we're making the sharing experience on Facebook and… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments