Foursquare now lets users check into specific events like movies, concerts, and sports games in addition to locations. (Foursquare Blog)
Friday, August 19, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Summer Office @ Watch Hill Beach
Monday, June 27, 2011
RunKeeper Adds New Integration To Its Health Graph In Hopes Of Building ‘The Facebook Of Fitness’
You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to RunKeeper, this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, for those unfamiliar, was founded three years ago as a simple iPhone app and a small online fitness community designed to help runners and other fitness enthusiasts employ smartphone technology to better track, measure, and improve their fitness. Since then, RunKeeper has expanded across mobile platforms, growing into a community of 6 million strong.
Monday, June 20, 2011
ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domains, Prepare For .whatever
A handful of not very descriptive top-level domains, such as .com, .net, .org, as well as country-specific TLDs are what the web is currently made of, but this is about to change drastically. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international authority over top-level domain names, has approved the expansion of generic TLDs which will allow companies and organizations to create domains for their branda (such as .coke) or simply create generic names (such as .car or .green). The option won’t come cheap, though: The application fee alone is $185,000, and the annual fee is $25,000. Still, we can imagine large corporations spending millions on these very soon. If you’re in the business of making phones, owning a “.phone” TLD sounds like a great idea — if you can afford outbidding other phone manufacturers.
Read the full article from Mashable found on linkedin.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The Top 10 VC Firms, According To InvestorRank
via techcrunch.com
Boston has a great tech entrepreneurship community!
*This list is based on "network centrality" and not on actual returns.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Facebook is a Failure - Gawker
Facebook wants to be your life. They want you to chat, exchange messages and publish your photos using their services. That's ok. It's a good concept. Too bad Facebook's technology sucks to the point of being unusable at times. [Gizmodo]
via gawker.com
Who doesn't agree?
NFC payment methods are coming your way.
MasterCard Study: Youngsters Will Be The Catalyst Of Mobile Payment Adoption
NFC payments have already become somewhat of the norm over in Japan, but here in the States, near field communication technology hasn’t quite taken off yet. However, that’s not to say that U.S. Americans aren’t ready to use their cell phone as a wallet, as shown by a study conducted by MasterCard.
via mobilecrunch.com
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