Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 6, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 6, 2013

Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday

At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as... read more

Apple's Tim Cook Met With Beats To Talk About The Company's New 'Daisy' Streaming Music Service

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Beats Electronics CEO Jimmy Iovine in L.A. in late February, according to a report from Reuters today. The news comes just as Beats... read more

U.S. Galaxy S IV Screenshots Leak, Backing Up Smart Scroll Claims And Some Hardware Specs

The Galaxy S IV leaks are coming fast, from a number of sources including the company itself, and this morning brings two in rapid succession. First, as Matt... read more

YouTube To Launch Music Subscriptions

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Hand Recognition, Gesture Support Landing On Microsoft Kinect For Windows Soon

The Kinect is arguably Microsoft's most important innovation of the past decade, and has done more for changing the nature of computer interaction than pretty... read more

Watch The Grand Lighting For 'The Bay Lights,' The $8.8M Art Project Backed By Some Of Tech's Biggest Names

The Golden Gate Bridge has been an artistic landmark since it was finished in 1937, even serving as a modern-day muse for tech industry visionaries such as Jack... read more

The $99 Roku 3 Launches With A New Processor, UI, And Remote Control With Built-In Headphone Jack

Roku is launching its new, $99 Roku 3. While keeping a similar form factor to previous Roku set-top boxes, the latest in its series should be much faster and... read more

As Moveline, The TechStars-Backed Moving App, Expands To New Cities, We Test Out The Service

Reports suggest, and I have independently confirmed, that moving is one of the most awful, stressful, painful processes you can experience in a lifetime. Yet... read more

After Focusing Mainly On Mobile, FreedomPop Is Now Bringing Freemium WiMAX Internet To Your Home

FreedomPop has spent the past year trying to turn the wireless industry on its ear with its freemium mobile internet service, but the Niklas Zennstrom-backed... read more

Raspberry Pi's Eye Landing In April, Call For Testers To Put Camera Through Its Paces

The Raspberry Pi mini computer won't be blind for much longer: a video camera unit shown off last month that will allow Pi owners to build video applications is... read more

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

6 things your blog readers WISH you knew

The only person that will determine the success 
of your blog is the person reading it. 
 
That's a fact. 
 
Today I take a different approach to what some
people refer to as the Psychology of Blogging
 
Instead of talking about you (the blog owner), 
we dive into the mind of your readers. 
 
 
This post will give you ideas on how to make 
sure your people are being taken cared of. 
 
... as well as actionable steps.
 
The better their experience with your blog, 
the more likely they are to share it with their 
friends. 
 
As always, I look forward to your thoughts
in the comments. 
 
Talk soon
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Top Stories of the Day // March 5, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 5, 2013

Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, "Google Shopping Express"

Google is stealthily preparing to launch an Amazon Prime competitor called "Google Shopping Express." According to one source the service will be $10 cheaper... read more

Is This The Galaxy S IV? No – Just An Expansys Web Designer's Mock-Up

Don't worry, the Samsung Galaxy S IV won't look like an iPad mini with the camera relocated after all. Famed Android device leaker Evleaks tweeted out a render... read more

Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation

Fitness technology and hardware startup Fitbit is raising north of $30 million in growth capital at a $300 million-plus valuation, according to multiple... read more

Amazon Turns The Screws On Google, Microsoft Azure With EC2 Discounts

Amazon is cutting deep in its bid to compete against Google Compute Engine and Windows Azure as the cloud platform of choice for enterprises. Today Amazon Web... read more

Tablets Are Eating Into Smartphones' Share Of Mobile Content Usage, While Android Remains In Lead Overall, Finds Jumptap

Tablets are continuing their rise as the preferred screen for consuming mobile data, according to the latest figures from mobile advertising network Jumptap.... read more

Mark Pearson's Markco Media Invests $225K In Customer Loyalty Platform Stamp.it

Stamp.it, a newly launched UK startup that is building a mobile platform to help independent retailers offer their own customer loyalty scheme, has raised... read more

Apple Patents Squeeze Sensitive Device Housings That Could Be Used In Future iPhones And iPads

Apple received a patent from the USPTO today (via AppleInsider) that describes a technology that would allow device casings to employ a combination of pressure... read more

VMware Exits Collaboration Market With Sale of SlideRocket To Clearslide, A Sales Engagement Platform

VMware is exiting the collaboration market with the sale of SlideRocket to Clearslide, which will use the rich slide creation too to buttress its service that... read more

Hybris Raises $30M Led By Meritech And Greylock To Take Its Multi-Platform "OmniCommerce" Solution Global

As consumers and businesses continue to move to a multi-screen world where they expect services like payments, and their e-commerce back-end systems, to work... read more

iPlayer Shortcut (Not App) Heading To Windows Phone 7.5 & 8 In "Next Few Months" After Microsoft Inks Deal With BBC

Windows Phone fans are still waiting for Instagram to land on their mobile platform of choice but there's some good news for U.K. owners of Microsoft-powered... read more

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 4, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 4, 2013

Apple's iWatch Could Arrive By The End Of 2013, Says Bloomberg

Apple's iWatch is the new primary focus of speculation for the company's unannounced products, and a new article at Bloomberg today detailing its market... read more

Samsung Stays Secretive With Its First Galaxy S IV Teaser Video

Now that Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S IV will be revealed in a grand event in New York on March 14, mobile nerds only have one mystery to mull over... read more

Google, Microsoft Dominate Forbes' List Of Tech Billionaires; Zuckerberg, Moskovitz Are The Youngest

Forbes has today published its annual list of the world's richest people -- and once again tech and its related tentacles continue to lead the top of the list.... read more

Canon's New Full-Frame Video Sensor Can Shoot Clear HD Footage In Exceptionally Low Light

Canon today announced the successful creation of a new full-frame CMOS sensor, designed exclusively for shooting video. The new sensor can capture full-HD video... read more

If You're Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter

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Steve Newcomb's Famo.us Raises $4M To Power Fast, Beautiful Apps In HTML5

Famo.us, which offers a JavaScript framework that's designed to power HTML5 apps that are faster and better-looking than what's currently possible, has raised... read more

Apple iWatch Will Reportedly Run iOS, Still Has To Overcome Battery Issues Before Launch

Apple's iWatch will run full-flavored iOS, according to a new report, and the company is indeed targeting an end-of-year approach, but will first have to tackle... read more

HelloFlo Launches To Be A Little Fish In The Big Pond Of Tampon Subscription Services

Aunt Flo got you down? The Crimson Tide wearing you out? Well, the good news is that you no longer have to make that awful run to the drug store for tampons and... read more

FoodPanda, Rocket Internet's Answer To GrubHub, Now Delivering Food In 25 Emerging Markets; Launches First Mobile App

Rocket Internet-backed FoodPanda, an online platform for aggregating and delivering food from take-out restaurants, has expanded into two more emerging markets... read more

U.K. Phone Retailers Offer Cheaper BlackBerry Z10 Tariffs A Month After Launch -- Soft Demand For First BB10 Handset?

After taking so long to transition to its next-gen OS platform, BlackBerry has an awful lot riding on its first BB10 handset, the Z10. The device launched at... read more

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // March 1, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Mar 1, 2013

Payments Startups Stripe Launches Limited Beta For UK Payments, With Euros On The Way

Stripe, the payments startup, has today opened a closed Beta of its platform in the UK. For now it will be limited to an undisclosed number of partners, but... read more

Google Launches Zopfli To Compress Data More Densely And Make Web Pages Load Faster

Google just launched Zopfli, a new open source compression algorithm that can compress web content about three to eight percent more densely (PDF) than the... read more

Meet Cubie, The 500 Startups-Backed Messaging App With 5.5M Users & A Sense of Humor

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Sony Xperia C670X Specs Leak, Suggesting A New Android Flagship To Take On The HTC One

We didn't see a new phone from Sony at MWC this year, though it did take the opportunity to show off the Xperia Z it demoed early this year at CES, but a new... read more

Big Dog Can Now Throw Cinder Blocks, Thereby Making It The Scariest Robot Ever

While I'm sure there's some scientific reason for demonstrating how the quadrupedal Big Dog can pick up and throw cinder blocks across a workshop ("Ahem, urm,... read more

Happy Birthday, Raspberry Pi! A Chat With Creators Eben And Liz Upton, Pi-Friend Limor Fried

The Raspberry Pi project is one year old today, having launched on February 29, 2012 (they're going to have a rager of a party in 2016.) I sat down with the... read more

FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban

Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to... read more

Watch SpaceX Launch Its Second Dragon Supply Mission To The ISS

In what has ended up being a weird couple weeks for Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX founder should have a better day today after the launch of the Dragon... read more

Layoffs Hit Logitech As The Company Refocuses On Mobile Accessories

Logitech just took to the wires to announce an "organizational alignment" that will closely focus on new "strategic priorities". This "alignment to the... read more

Arro For iPhone Tells You What To Buy While In The Store...And What To Avoid

Arro, a new mobile shopping companion app for iPhone, is publicly launching this week with a different idea about how to help shoppers in store aisles make a... read more

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