Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has launched Glitch, a massively multi-player online game that he created with his company TinySpeck.
The game is an imaginative journey through the minds of 11 giants that is somewhat fun to play, but will probably require a little explanation. We spoke with Butterfield about Glitch.
In a sign that healthcare is moving to the mobile, a company called HealthTap is launching an app that offers a Quora-like experience from the cloud.
HealthTap Express allows the 89% of patients who turn to search engines instead of their local doctors for health information to do so in an objective and relatively “clinical” environment on…
It’s official. People are spending more time on Facebook than on Google – a total of 41.4 billion minutes – making it the first time the social network has surpassed the search engine in this category.
A report released by Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney does not take into account last week’s sharing changes, or the Thursday Timeline…
Facebook is offering up to $10 million in free advertising to small businesses in the middle of slight changes to how the social networking site allows brands and consumers to interact on its Pages.
The social networking site will give at least $50 to up to 200,000 small business in a partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National…
Amazon.com added FOX movie and TV titles through its Prime Membership platform today in a deal that will roughly double the number of available titles to 11,000 by this Fall.
The announcement comes two days before Amazon is expected to launch one of two Kindle tablets to compete with the iPad.
Amazon issued a press release moments ago that may put to rest rumors of a tablet thought to be forthcoming from the e-retailing giant.
The company is holding an invite-only event in New York on September 28 but they are not saying what the event is about.
So, what just happened at F8, the Facebook developer’s conference? In a word, Facebook has promised a re-imagined content and personalization platform for the Web.
If you believe the F8 conference hype, on Sept. 29 when Timeline opens to the public, Facebook is the place where every single inch of your life can be displayed, from the time you…
The iTunes app store will contain just over 13,000 healthcare-related apps by 2012, a sign that the caring and treatment for the sick – or even those fearing they are sick – is moving to the mobile device.
Analysts also say that these apps are increasing in price during a period of rising healthcare costs and a significant rise in the number of…
Facebook developer George Lee threw down the guantlet at F8 today by saying that he wants each of its 800 million users to have a relationship with at least one developer and that relationship should be focused on content.
“Every single user who is on Facebook should have some relationship with some developer that creates distribution,” said Lee…
Facebook launched Timeline at F8 today. It allows you to cover your entire life. And it works on mobile.
Timeline is a graphic-heavy chronological display of your entire life. Facebook no longer works like a blog that puts the newest stuff on top.
