Kukunu is a social travel planning service that puts you, your fellow travelers and your friends in the driver’s seat when it comes to planning your vacation(s). The company, which was one of the winners of Seedcamp Week 2009, has been operating quietly so far, having launched a private beta version at Le Web 2009.
Kukunu is now available in public beta, and the fledgling company has also… → Read More
Fwix, a news site that offers a stream of hyperlocal, realtime news by location, is launching a new portal today that aims to give anyone a real time view of what’s happening in a location. You can access the new search portal here.
Fwix Local Trend Search allows users to search for anything that is happening at any geo-point. The search feature rounds up news, events, government data, business… → Read More
Last week, Offerpal Media announced that, as a direct result of Facebook transitioning games and applications from their proprietary currencies to the newly-launched Facebook Credits and partnering with rival Trialpay, the company saw itself forced to lay off people who worked on its Facebook monetization initiatives.
Today, the company is launching a new product that should make it clear it… → Read More
Pan-european startup programme Seedcamp has released the names of the teams appearing at the Mini Seedcamp London next week. Seedcamp says they “saw many teams applying with innovative ideas in the mobile space and we are seeing more and more dedicated, smaller applications adressing very specific markets.”
Teams applied from all over Europe and beyond, and there is a trend towards self-financing… → Read More
Waste Management and its subsidiary Greenopolis are diving into social gaming with a new Facebook app called Oceanopolis. The game will launch in beta, with a full rollout expected in the coming weeks.
In the game, players maintain their own island by recycling trash to build a sustainable community and interacting with friends. Points earned virtually turn into printable coupons that can be used… → Read More
Location-based social networking service Brightkite has experimented with the concept of badges in the past, threading in the footsteps of Foursquare and Gowalla, who have popularized if not pioneered the now-familiar virtual loyalty and rewards system.
Last May, the startup partnered with coffee chain Starbucks to create a set of branded badges, self-reportedly the biggest brand integration they… → Read More
Mark Angelino, formerly vice president at IBM and President at Sprint, was responsible for the adoption of Salesforce’s sales, call center and platform services in North America from May 2009 until last month.
As you can tell from the screenshot above, he left Salesforce.com in June to become Senior Vice President at another company, but he played coy and marked his new employer’s name ‘Guess… → Read More
After months of waiting, it’s finally here. Streaming music service MOG has launched its mobile applications for Android and iPhone, giving subscribers unlimited access to its library of 8 million songs, which can be streamed or downloaded over both 3G and WiFi. If you listen to a lot of music, or just like being able to listen to music on-demand without having to sync to your PC, this… → Read More
Foursquare may be helpful for seeing what your friends are up to, but the act of checking in — standing in a bar, face buried in your phone’s screen as you hunt for the right venue — is anything but social. Now, hot on the heels of its partnership with the New England Patriots, location-based gaming service SCVNGR is announcing a nifty new feature that could go a long way toward resolving… → Read More
On an unofficial Twitter account today, a VZW Tech Support employee stated that the much-anticipated, much-improved Froyo update will be available for both the Motorola Droid and the HTC Incredible by late July/early August. → Read More
The app store train seems unstoppable. According to a Juniper Research report out today, the number of “consumer-oriented handset downloads” is expected to rise from less than 2.6 billion per-year in 2009 to more than 25 billion in 2015.
The trend, notes the report, is being driven by industry players who are seeking to emulate Apple’s success with the App Store by launching their own branded… → Read More
Viral video monitoring startup PopScreen aims to save you from the disgrace you deserve when you email all your friends and relatives a link to that super funny video on YouTube only to find out they’ve all seen it a couple of times yesterday.
The company is today launching what they dub a ‘video prediction engine’, which they claim is capable of detecting which videos will spread across the Web… → Read More
It doesn’t take much to break a phone screen. I know plenty of people — and I’m sure you do, too — with the tell-tale mark of a dropped phone dividing their screens into so many pieces of shame. Samsung feel your pain, fear, and shame, and want to do something to help you out.
Samsung have created an “unbreakable” AMOLED (the source suggests that it isn’t of the “super” variety, unfortunately)… → Read More
Karsa Flash Payer offers a way for content creators to monetize their online video using a bait and switch model in which payment is only requested mid-viewing, once the user is already hooked. The service was developed by UK-based Steven Carroll, the guy behind Documentary-film.net, which came very close to entering the Deadpool after he found it difficult to generate enough revenue to cover the… → Read More
Tonight seems to be the night for 3D. A design team released a proof of concept video showing how it’s possible to use an iPad to project a 3D image to the naked eye. It requires some special hardware, but it’s still pretty damn amazing. Check out the video after the jump. → Read More
QinetiQ’s solar-powered Zephyr aircraft attempting to stay aloft for 14 days Designy Danish headphones have a kink and a twirl Portable watermelon cooler Wooden NES sculpture fails to sell on eBay Fix Apple’s boo-boo with a Band-Aid → Read More
Sugar Inc., the media company behind the popular collection of sugar-centric blogs (PopSugar, FabSugar, BellaSugar), is now dipping its well manicured toe into virtual gaming with the launch of PopSugar’s Retail Therapy. As the name suggests, this Facebook app aims to be the FarmVille of shopping.
After a quiet, soft launch last week, the site has grown from 50 users to nearly 4,000, says … → Read More
Not a huge update here, but that 360-Degree display that we told you about last year is going to be on display is the US. The display is still a prototype, but it is an excellent proof of concept. It’ll be interesting to see what Sony does with the technology. [via The Awesomer] → Read More
Everyone you know is on Facebook, and most people have added their resume information. But you can’t search by companies and even searching within your friends for company names is virtually impossible. So if you want to research which of your friends work at a specific company, or which friends of friends do, you head on over to LinkedIn.
Well, not anymore.
BranchOut launched this evening, a… → Read More
When I hear the name UltraViolet as it pertains to Hollywood, good things don’t come to mind. Namely, I think about the 2006 Kurt Wimmer film of the same name that was awful. But that apparently isn’t stopping the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (an awful name in its own right) from choosing UltraViolet to be the name of its forthcoming new digital security format. The one much of… → Read More
A week rarely goes by that we don’t see someone clone all or part of hot group buying site Groupon. See, for example, Copy/Paste Innovation: Groupon Gets Cloned In Russia And China and this post discussing the hundred or so Groupon clones in China alone.
ScoutMob isn’t one of the guys copying the Groupon website wholesale. But our guess is they certainly took a look at the video Groupon plays… → Read More
Startup PiCloud is launching its platform to the public that allows for batch processing, high performance computing and scientific computing applications. PiCloud, which was incubated at Lightspeed Ventures, claims to “obviates servers,” and enables developers, scientists and engineers to set up applications on the cloud easily.
The PiCloud platform aims to simplify cloud computing through three… → Read More
Looks like Sony may be up to something, two new patents recently showed up with a possible alternative to the traditional split screen view. → Read More
A new study by ForeSee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index finds that U.S. consumers regard social media sites Facebook and Myspace as lowly as they regard cable providers, airlines and the I.R.S.
The Annual E-Business Report for the A.C.S.I. study encompassed thirty online media brands in the categories of: portals and search engines, news and information sites and for the first… → Read More
Perhaps now you’ve read Fred Vogelstein’s feature about the relationship between AT&T and Apple in this month’s Wired magazine. If not, you definitely should, it’s available online. It reads a bit like a story about a couple who after three tumultuous years of marriage are about to split up. Not get divorced, mind you, but separated.
In this scenario as laid out by Vogelstein, Apple seems a… → Read More
After looking at the new Cruise Sport watches and wearing them, I must say that they actually look better while on the wrist. That is a rare quality, but I feel that it is correct for this collection. For example, once you put the Cruise Sport Chrono on your wrist, you realize how nicely its curved round case with integrated strap, has a nice flowing look on the wrist. You just don’t get that view… → Read More
Why no one wanted to pay hundreds of dollars for this NES made out of wood is beyond me. It’d go well with my wooden horse, my wooden shoes, and my wooden teeth. Hello, I’m George Washington, and I approve this message. → Read More
It seems like launch hiccups are going to be part of the bargain with all these new superphone launches. With all that cutting-edge technology packed in there, you can expect a few issues — like faulty USB controllers or wet glue — and in the Droid X’s case, some display problems. → Read More
So you’re really into cosplay, and want to build the ultimate Iron Man armor. Easy enough right? It’s the flying thing and weaponry that’s the problem. Well, here’s a little help with the weapons. Ok, so maybe it’s not really a repulsor, but if you build it properly you could use it to temporarily blind your enemy. → Read More
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