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Thursday, 24th February 2011

Designer of Google Images Launches Search Engine for Hotel Rooms

Not all hotel rooms are created equal. Room77 is a new hotel room search engine unveiled to rave reviews at the Launch conference today. It shows you floor maps, a photo of each room's view and when available, a photo of the room itself. That way when you make a reservation, you can request exactly the room you know you want to stay in. The…

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Instagram Adds Real-Time Notifications To Its API

Today Instagram is adding real-time notifications to its API. What this means in practice is that developers will now be able to get instant notifications when new photos are added by specific users or with specific tags, geo-tags or a more general location. Developers can now add subscriptions to these notifications to their apps. For example…

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Anyone For Squirrel Fishing? Stomp.io is Your Social Networked Bucket List

I don't know about you, but when I hear the words "Wanna go squirrel fishing?" I think "Heck yeah!" The same would go for a hot air balloon ride, a ride in a wind tunnel or tracking down some bison in Golden Gate park. But how could I get all these ideas? Stomp.io, explained the company on stage at the LAUNCH conference, is "a social adventure…

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Weekly Poll: For Hosting Providers, Is the Cloud's Future in the Small Business Market?

We've spent the past few days at the Parallel Summit, talking with people about the hosting industry and the small business market. Parallel executives have reiterated that the cloud's future is in the small business market. In talks yesterday, Parallel Executive Chariman and Chief Architect Serguei Beloussov said it will be a $50 billion…

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NPR's Andy Carvin Shows How to Retweet Globally (Map)

NPR's Andy Carvin Shows How to Retweet Globally (Map)

There's no better way to see Tweets about the Middle East than by following NPR Senior Strategist Andy Carvin. He's curating, verifying when possible and reporting on Tweets from and about the contentious region day and night. How diverse are the Tweets Carvin is curating? We used the handy web app Needlebase to scrape, analyze and map the…

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