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Wednesday, 26th January 2011

Corona for Windows Now Available

Remember the story of the 14-year-old Robert Nay whose Bubble Ball iPhone app knocked out Angry Birds from the #1 spot on the App Store's free apps list? Well, the software development kit (SDK) Nay used, Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK, has just been made available on Windows. That means that PC developers can now develop Android apps using Corona's…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter?

The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information. Popularity and relevance are the most common metrics through which to filter that content - but are they the best? We asked three people building cutting-edge social software what they think the…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Users on Twitter 2+ Hours/Mo

New data from stat-tracking firm Experian finds that U.S. Twitter users are now spending two hours and 12 minutes per month on Twitter.com reading and replying to tweets. That's up from one hour and 51 minutes last year. However, the time spent during any given Twitter session has declined. In November 2010, a typical Twitter session was 13…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Zuckerberg's Page Hacked, HTTPS now "Always On"

Facebook announced this morning that it was making several security changes to protect users' accounts, including boosting the availability of accessing the site using a secure connection. The announcement comes less than a day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile was hacked, and while the announcement isn't necessarily a result of this…

Social Audrey Watters comments

Tuesday, 25th January 2011

Facebook Acquisition Aimed at Improving Local Deals

Facebook's acquisition of Rel8tion, a stealth-mode startup out of Seattle, may hint towards the social network's growing interest in the local advertising space. Rel8tion was developing a system for matching up a person's location and their demographic profile with relevant ad inventory, according to AllThingsD, which was able to pull a bit of…

Social Sarah Perez comments

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