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Lunch.com Communities Let You Build Your Own Niche Reviews Site

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:10:34 +0000

Last August, we wrote about Lunch.com , a reviews site that’s setting out with the goal to make the world a better place by changing the way people think about each other (as I wrote then, it’s a pretty lofty goal). Today, the company is launching a new feature called Communities that lets users build their own review sites around any niche topic. If you’d like to try founding a community, you can do so using the beta code “techcrunch”

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Update: In Time For SXSW, Twitter Officially Turns On Geolocation

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:37:09 +0000

A few days ago, we spotted Twitter’s initial roll out of a geolocation feature on its Website. It appeared that Twitter was testing the feature because it quickly turned it off

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Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:59 +0000

Apple’s App Store approval process is one of the great black boxes in the mobile industry, a bizarre place ruled by emotion, erratic logic, and an uneven application of censorship that has driven some developers to the very brink of insanity since the day of iPhone OS 2.0’s release. Well, folks, here’s the bone just thrown your way from Cupertino: a new dashboard where you can watch closely as your pride and joy makes its way through the bureaucratic assembly line. Before, all you could do was submit, pray, and wait indefinitely for your app to get accepted or rejected, so consider this an almost imperceptible step in the right direction. Next on our list: emulators. You know you want to, Apple.

Filed under: Cellphones

Apple lets devs bite their nails in real time as iPhone apps navigate approval process originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Current TV Staff Suffer A “Major Bloodbath” As 80 Employees Lose Their Jobs

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:58 +0000

Today is another sobering day for the tech and media world. Current TV has confirmed that 80 people are being let go, leaving the company with 300 employees worldwide. We heard multiple reports of significant layoffs at Current TV earlier in the day

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Current TV Staff Suffer A “Major Bloodbath” As 80 Employees Lose Their Jobs

AOL’s Big SXSW Bet On Seed and “Bionic Journalism”

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:24:31 +0000

Editor’s Note : This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net . Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of the key the places to launch new software products. For the folks at AOL, South By Southwest—know also as SXSW—will be a debutant party for AOL’s new Seed form of journalism

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Seven Alternatives to the Apple iPad

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:54 +0000

Wait! Stop.

Confession: I Pre-ordered My iPad And Breguet Made Me Do It

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:14:28 +0000

I’m a sucker. It’s true.

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Confession: I Pre-ordered My iPad And Breguet Made Me Do It

Formerly Cc:Betty, Threadbox Emerges As A Realtime Collaboration Platform

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:10:06 +0000

Recently, startup Cc: Betty, a nifty service that organized and managed group email threads, decided to rebrand and relaunch its service.

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NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:19:32 +0000

It’s been well over a year since we last saw the laser-guided, self-docking wheelchair developed by folks at Lehigh University, and now the team is back with an altogether more ambitious project. According to associate professor John Spletzer, the recipient of a five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the goal is to “extend the autonomy of the wheelchair so it can navigate completely in an urban setting and take you wherever you need to go.” This will be done by equipping robotic chairs with laser and camera sensors (which the team developed for the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge) as well as exhaustive, Google Street View-esque maps of the city where they will be operating. Of course, these guys will be operating in a busy urban environment, so in addition to large-scale 3D maps, they must be equipped with motion planning features for operating in dense crowds and a changing environment. It’s too soon yet to say when these things might become available commercially, but if you’re a resident of the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown, PA, you might have your chance to test one soon enough.

[Via PhysOrg]

Filed under: Robots

NSF backs development of laser-guided robot wheelchairs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amidst Controversy Storm, Kwedit Reveals Repayment Rate Already At 26%

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:20:51 +0000

Kwedit , the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data. The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card payment when they want virtual currency for social games like Farmville.

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Amidst Controversy Storm, Kwedit Reveals Repayment Rate Already At 26%