Location Facebook Places: Google-backed SCVNGR Says It Will Win SCVNGR, a Google Ventures backed mobile location startup, will become one of the first few trusted partners to be allowed to write updates to Facebook through the Places API today. The company says it has already brought its game and challenge-based service to more than 600 companies, museums, universities, conferences and other organizations… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google The Great Big Spreadsheet of All Known Android Devices Everywhere How many Droids are there? How much RAM is in the Nexus One? Does the Samsung Galaxy S support Wi-Fi N? Does the Droid X have a bigger screen than the Droid 2? Can you get Android in a TV? In a car? If these are the sort of questions you've found yourself wondering about (or even Googling about with limited success), there's a new resource out… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Tips Facebook Partners with Y Combinator to Support "Deeply Social" Startups At Tuesday's Demo Day, the latest batch of Y Combinator startups raved about the experience, the guidance, the resources, the networking that their participation in the incubator program gave them. As of today, YC startups can add another benefit to that long list: priority access to some of Facebook's technologies. Audrey Watters View comments
User Generated Content Peace Corps Uses Video Sharing to Mark 50th The Peace Corps, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in October, is commemorating the scope and intensity of the Peace Corps experience with YouTube. The National Peace Corps Association is conducting a contest called "My Piece of the Peace Corps." Participants are upload short videos, no more than two minutes, on "how the Peace Corps, a… Curt Hopkins View comments
Reviews Get Social Insights From Email Contacts With Flowtown Since it launched late last year, social email marketing tool Flowtown has gained over 15,000 customers, most of which are small businesses, with its unique combination of email and social analytics. The startup showed it might be onto something yesterday when it announced it raised $750,000 in seed funding from a group of well-known angel… Reviews John Paul Titlow View comments