Tools Egypt: Tor Use Skyrocketing as Users Route-Around Internet Blocks As we reported yesterday, the Egyptian government appears to be locking down Intrernet access in Egypt. Access in or out of the country seems to be blocked. GigaOm provides some analysis on how this might work. However, some Egyptian Internet users are still able to access the outside Internet. The Washington Post lists some ways that Egyptians… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Privacy It's Data Privacy Day Today is global Data Privacy Day and companies all around the world are marking it in different ways. Below we've highlighted some of the activities of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Opera and IBM. Those actions range from implementing new technologies through making blog posts highlighting existing policies. Do you feel like these companies are… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Android StackMob: The Complete Technology Stack for Mobile Apps StackMob is a new startup with a brilliant idea: make mobile development easier by offering a single platform for integrating backend services into mobile apps. Company co-founder Ty Amell describes the service as "Heroku for mobile," referring to the way Heroku, a platform-as-a-service provider, provides add-ons to Ruby developers looking to… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
SaaS Enterprise Startup Spotlight: Buddy Media In its own words, Buddy Media offers "power tools for Facebook." Its service is, in essence, a content management system for Facebook geared towards the needs of large organizations. For example, Starwood Hotels uses Buddy Media to manage Facebook pages for its hotel chains. Each individual hotel can have its own Facebook page, and all the pages… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Android POLL: What Would You Fix First in Google's Android Market? At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco this week, Android platform manager Eric Chu admitted to the audience (and quite a bit of press) that Google is "unhappy" about the purchases of paid applications in the Android Market. Chu said that that Google will address this issue with the introduction of an in-app payment system… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments