Trends Can You Get Paid to Tweet? (Part 1) Here's a little secret about Twitter that you may not know: some people are getting paid to tweet. We don't mean it's their job to Twitter as the PR front-end for some large corporation, either. They're actually getting paid to post advertisements to their Twitter stream. When their followers click though, the end result is cold, hard cash. The… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Data Services SimpleGeo Now Indexing 1m+ Locations Per Hour Location is going to be big, that seems to be the consensus among geeks, but just how big is it going to be? One metric to wrap your brain around came out over Twitter earlier today. According to SimpleGeo founder Joe Stump, the still-unlaunched but much anticipated service is now indexing more than 1 million location-based objects every… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features First Peek at Path.io: Stealth Startup From Facebook's Dave Morin & Sean Fanning of Napster Three weeks ago Facebook Platform Manager Dave Morin announced he was leaving the company to start a stealthy new startup with Napster founder Sean Fanning. The new company is called Path and you can sign up to request access to the closed beta at Path.io. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell Google that the new company was in hiding and so… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Apple 2010 Winter Olympics iPhone Apps iPhone applications are no longer just toys for techies. There are now thousands of iPhone apps in the App Store designed for mainstream usage. Yesterday we looked at examples of health and fitness iPhone apps, today we check out what's available for a current big sporting event: the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There were relatively slim… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Startups AR App Development: Metaio Releases Unifeye Mobile SDK At today's Mobile World Congress, augmented reality company Metaio unveiled its Unifeye Mobile SDK and Android demo at Sony Ericcson's Creation Day. The company is offering developers a chance to experiment with feature tracking, 3D animation rendering and real-time interaction. In other words, the world of augmented reality applications is about… Dana Oshiro View comments