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Friday, 14 June 2013
Controversial Lulu App Lets Women Rate Former Boyfriends
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HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook review: a first attempt at Chrome OS that cuts too many corners
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Plum District Has Acquired AngelPad-Backed Spotivate For An Undisclosed Amount
Plum District, the hyperlocal deals site built by moms, for moms, has just acquired Spotivate, a startup led by ex-Googler Anthony Lee and former Telenav engineer Jorge Chang that launched out of AngelPad to offer local experiences to parents. The terms of the deal were undisclosed.
For those of us who don’t have miniature terrors traipsing through our lives, here’s a little background on Plum District: The company was founded in 2009 by Megan Gardner as a local deals site that is not only dedicated to moms, but actually powered by moms. Plum District lets local moms hop on board as regional sales people who would then source the deals in their neighborhood for the site.
The company saw a number of large investments, namely from Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst, which has led to a total of $30.6 million in funding over the past few years. Plum District even dabbled in some acquisitions, picking up DoodleDeals Inc. and Chatterfly in 2011.
But then the hyperlocal deals market went through its own winter, as clarified by Groupon’s more recent tribulations, but Plum District held on. The company reorganized a bit, with a relatively large round of layoffs in August of 2012, and then founder and CEO Megan Gardner stepped down, making room for ex-Googler and longtime member of Plum District’s leadership team Susan Kim to take the helm.
Things have been quiet, but seemingly smooth, at Plum District ever since.
The Spotivate acquisition is the first big deal under Kim’s leadership, but seems like a strong fit and a good way to expand into experiential goods like summer camps, ballet lessons, etc. The deal began as a partnership between Plum District and Spotivate, wherein Spotivate content was being distributed through the Plum District network.
According to Kim, the open rate on emails increased by 50 percent, and the click-through rate doubled. That said, it wasn’t long before both Spotivate and Plum District were discussing a merger of some kind. Lee relays that after Plum District made an offer, a number of other offers came in as well (alongside the option to continue Spotivate), but Plum District felt like the right fit.
Both Lee and Chang will move over to Plum District, as VP of Product and VP of Engineering respectively, and both seem pleased to get back to developing excellent products instead of running a business from the top-down.
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8 Ways to Customize Your Windows Desktop
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Don't Bother Texting Me: I'm at Digital Detox Camp
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Office for iPhone Is a Design Triumph, But Needs More Features
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TweetDeck for Mac updated with sidebar-focused design
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Latest leak suggests Nokia EOS to pack 41MP camera, possible metallic variant also spotted
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Distro Issue 95: The past, present and future of gaming converges at E3
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Sharp branching into robo-vacs, grow lights, e-whiteboards to offset slow LCD sales (video)
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Dots Updates iPad App For Improved Full Screen Gaming
It was but two weeks ago that Dots, the highly addictive connect-the-dots-style betaworks-backed game, migrated the app to the iPad and added multiplayer support. Today, however, the company has a brand new update that may address some of your woes on the iPad.
The update lets users zoom to 1.5X or 3X the game view, so that the gameboard and the dots fill out more, or all, of the screen real estate on the bigger iPad.
“When we first pushed the iPad app, we thought that people would want to play the game at the same size that it was on the iPhone,” said Patrick Moberg, co-founder. “But we soon realized that our users had been playing Dots for iPhone at 2X mode (zoomed) on the iPad, and that they wanted the same blown-up experience with the iPad version of the app.”
Clearly, the Dots/betaworks team is ready to iterate as quickly as possible to keep up momentum.
When the app first launched on May 1st, I called it the most beautiful mobile game I’d ever seen. Matt joined in on the chorus, and in a week’s time, a million other people had downloaded the app too.
And just as Paul Murphy explains in the interview, Dots cares much more about engagement than user acquisition, which is good news considering the app has seen well over 25 million games played.
And surely acquisition, as well as engagement, must be growing as the gamemaker introduced multiplayer mode. However, that’s not to say the new multiplayer functionality is without its flaws. As it stands now, users must pass and play from a single device. Both users play the exact same board, as opposed to leaving anything to the luck of the draw.
As Greg points out in his post, this alone makes the game that much more competitive and addictive, but there’s still room to grow. Moberg didn’t go into too much detail, but did explain that the team is thinking more and more about how to improve multiplayer mode in a way that doesn’t just copy other games out there, but does it in an entirely different way.
The update is available now on the App Store.
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Bosch offers $3,000 wireless chargers to Leaf and Volt owners
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Microsoft's Andy Lees exits corporate development role, will announce a new job after his holiday
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Microsoft Office Finally Comes to the iPhone
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Microsoft releases Office for iPhone, available now for Office 365 subscribers only (hands-on)
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Microsoft Office Mobile for iPhone quietly launches, requires Office 365 subscription
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Casio G-Shock Breathalyzer: el reloj con alcoholímetro incorporado
Si bebes no conduzcas o mejor aún si bebes primero soplas por el tubito y luego ya decides según el resultado si puedes conducir o no. Aunque parezca un diseño de mentirijillas es un reloj real llamado Ciroc X G-Shock Breathalyzer que va a comenzar a vender Casio, en colaboración con Ciroc, a partir de agosto. Lleva un analizador de alcohol en sangre según el análisis de la respiración, como los alcoholímetros normales y corrientes. Estará disponible en transparente y en varios colores.
(Vía HiConsumption.)
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Asus K009 tablet clears FCC with apparent Nexus branding, Qualcomm CPU
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Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 APS-C zoom lens priced at a surprisingly reasonable $800
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Sprint's updated contract lays out your choices when WiMAX ends
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Fujifilm and Panasonic's organic CMOS image sensor boosts dynamic range and sensitivity
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Sony RX100 sequel leaks in Japanese manual images, adds tilting screen, hot shoe and WiFi
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Cómo se fabrican las impresoras que fabrican cosas
Este pequeño vídeo de Gizmodo muestra cómo la gente de Makerbot fabrica, prueba y embala la popular Replicator 2 y otros modelos de impresoras 3-D de la compañía.
Por cierto, adivina quién ha abierto una pedazo tienda de impresoras 3-D, accesorios y consumibles. Pues sí: Amazon.
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Vodafone Smart Mini delivers cheap-as-chips Android for £50
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iCoil Keeps Your Headphones Tangle-Free
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Facebook to kill off Sponsored Results, streamline its advertising efforts
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La máquina del tiempo de Foursquare
Los obsesionados con hacer check-in, check-in, check-in allí donde pisan con Foursquare ahora pueden recibir otra dosis de cuantificación visual con la preciosa Foursquare Time Machine . Se trata de una peculiar «máquina del tiempo» donde se muestran visualmente todos los puntos visitados en el pasado junto con impresionantes gráficos y estadísticas.
El resumen puede verse en forma de película animada por la que desplazarse «temporalmente»; todos los datos quedan también plasmados en una gigantesca imagen resumen que puede compartirse en las redes sociales o guardarse de recuerdo.
Este el tipo de desarrollo impresionante que muestra la potencia de estos sistemas y sobre todo de la actitud de ser metódico y guardar toda la información digital disponible, que además de que llegue a la CIA y la NSA en tiempo real ;-) queda también al alcance del propio usuario en un formato visual sencillamente precioso.
Pese a desarrollos tan geniales dicen que la moral está bajo mínimos en Foursquare, así que vaya desde aquí un ¡buen trabajo y ánimo!
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Yahoo Sports 4.0 arrives for Android and iOS with UI overhaul, team sync
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Steve Wozniak hablando sobre iOS 7, el espionaje de PRISM y otros temas relacionados
Toda una suerte encontrarse de casualidad con Woz en el aeropuerto y que además acceda a dejarse grabar en una pequeña mini-entrevista con sus impresiones sobre iOS 7, PRISM y otras cuestiones más mundanas – pero no por ello menos importantes: el Estado y la privacidad, la porculización aplicada por Estados Unidos a las libertades civiles y lo engañado que se siente en diversos asuntos.
Cuando era pequeño nos decían que los comunistas rusos iban a matarnos, lanzarnos bombas, torturar a la gente, arrestarlos, meterlos en cárceles y todo eso. Ahora los Estados Unidos nos parecemos cada vez más a esa Rusia comunista. Y con todo esto del mundo digital prácticamente no puedes ser el dueño de nada; casi todo funciona por suscripciones. Le das al OK, OK, OK y aceptas todo lo que te piden, renunciando a tus derechos.
Todo un pedazo de documento de la gente de FayerWayer.
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