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  • bridge

    7 Startups Proving Berlin Is A Startup Empire In The Making

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    For most of history, location determined a city’s destiny. With access to waterways and thereby access to trade, a city could become an empire. While technology and modernization have decreased the economic impact of location, access remains one of the  determining factors for a thriving economy, especially for a startup economy.  For a thriving startup culture to emerge, startups [...]

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    Oops! Facebook Flaw Reveals Zuckerberg’s Private Photos

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    Launch.is reported this afternoon that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook account was compromised after a security flaw was discovered in Facebook’s privacy settings. The photos include some personal pictures from intimate moments in the CEO’s life. One of the most intriguing photos shows Zuckerberg, known to only eat what he kills, holding up a chicken carcass. The full set of [...]

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    Cuban Government Launches Facebook Clone: “Red Social”

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    In an attempt by Fidel Castro’s government to constrain the flow of digital information, the Cuban Ministry of Education launched a social network called “Red Social” a few days ago without any major press coverage; outside of third party Cuban blogs. Red Social looks almost identical to Facebook. Everything from the logo placement, user registration form, and [...]

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  • startupsmackdown

    Startup Smackdown: Path 2 vs Gowalla

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    On Tuesday November 29th, the San Francisco-based startup Path relaunched its application, Path 2, as a “smart journal” that records your daily life and shares these moments with your top 150 friends. This similarity left some speculating that Path was setting itself up for acquisition.That is until around 9pm Friday night when CNN reported Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla.

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  • inbedme

    A Hostel Takeover Launched by InBed.me

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    Connecting the adventurously grungy world of hostel-hopping international travel to the social web seemed like a colossal task. Most hostels have outdated systems or just use pen and paper to register guests, making it difficult for people staying in them to make new friends with fellow travelers in foreign lands. InBed.me is a social booking [...]

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    Who’s Using Google+ Infographic

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    So Google+ has been live for a few months now, but who’s actually using it? Over the last several months Google has been integrating Google+ branding and design across the entire Google product lineup. They’ve also been killing off some of their unused products such as Google Buzz, Gears, and Wave. Although Google has been creative [...]

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  • worsimplefi

    WorkSimple: Making ‘To-Do’ Lists Easy

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    I’ve been a habitual list maker as long as I can remember. Although my planner is color coded for birthdays, appointments, bills due and payday, papers get lost and ink runs together. In an effort to help people like me, the team at WorkSimple created an easy-to-use platform to keep track of projects while sharing [...]

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  • grandmakindle

    5 Reasons to Buy Grandma a Kindle

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    If you’re an entrepreneur chances are you are bootstrapping and living off of Velveeta this holiday season. The holiday budget is thin this year and figuring out what to buy isn’t a fun process. Grandparents always seem to be the most difficult member of the family to shop for. Let’s face it: at this point [...]

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  • Youtubeanayltics

    Google Announces YouTube Analytics

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    Google announced in a blog post earlier today they are releasing the next generation of Insights called  ”YouTube Analytics” which will be rolled out over the course of the day. Youtube Analytics is replacing a pervious Youtube feature  called ‘Insights ‘ which had enabled channel creators to track who watched their videos and where those vistors came from. [...]

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  • facebook

    Zodiac Signs, Trampy Children & Steve Jobs: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011

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    Today Facebook released the ‘Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011′ ( see list below), fittingly through a note on their media fanpage. The list is interesting, but does it really take the pulse of our culture’s content consumption? Two articles on Zodiac signs, one on an unusually large crocodile and another on Facebook itself rank in the [...]

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  • dude

    The Beat Goes On At Songkick

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    Tired of missing the latest gigs? Sick of being the one who reads about them on Facebook or in a paper the next morning? So were the founders of Songkick, a startup created out of the realization that to be kept up to date about live music acts you either need to trawl dozens of [...]

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    Op-Ed: Arrington Is Right: Quit Whining

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    My friend and fellow writer at Tech.li, Jason Rowley, wrote an excellent editorial today on Michael Arrington’s recent article about people “whining” at startups. Jason brings up the suicide of Ilya Zhitomirskiy at Diaspora and quotes some other people talking about the importance of expressing your feelings and not getting burnt out. Arrington included a [...]

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