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Monday, 30th August 2010

Nearby Friends: New Cyber-Stalking App for Tracking Facebook Places Check-Ins

Nearby Friends is a new Facebook application which taps into the recently launched Facebook Places check-in service to locate all your Facebook friends plotted on a Google Maps interface. The app, a simple tool that places Facebook profile photos as a pin on the map, doesn't limit itself to where your friends are right now, it actually displays…

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Skype's Business Service Graduates from Beta - Will You Use It?

Today Skype officially moved Skype Connect (formerly known as Skype for SIP), its first product targeted at enterprise customers, out of beta. Skype Connect will enable business customers to use Skype over regular PBX phones or unified communication systems from Avaya, Cisco, SIPfoundry, ShoreTel and others. The announcement follows a rumor that…

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Digg User Rebellion Continues: Reddit Now Rules the Front Page

Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg. If Kevin Rose and the rest of the Digg team thought that a long weekend would be enough to calm the furor over the latest changes to the popular site, they were clearly mistaken. Not only did Digg's users declare today "quit Digg day," but in order to protest Digg's new auto-submission system, users are…

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Lessons Learned from a Failed Acquisition

While a successful exit in the form of an acquisition may be the goal for many startups, the experiences of Backblaze, an online back-up and storage startup, demonstrate how time-consuming, challenging, and expensive the process can be, particularly when, as was the case with Backblaze, things fall apart. Backblaze was in the process of…

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Augmented Reality

Polar Rose Shuts Down Its Flickr/Facebook Facial Recognition Service

Polar Rose, a Swedish-based facial recognition startup launched in summer 2007, is shutting down its consumer-facing service that allowed users to tag people in photos anywhere on the Web. Last spring, the innovative company introduced facial recognition to popular photo-sharing site Flickr by way of a third-party browser plugin. With the plugin…

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