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  • November 21st, 2012

    Google Maps Is Now Giving Out Profile Badges To The Most Helpful Community Members

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    One of the really interesting things about Google Maps is that there’s a huge, thriving community of people who love to help make the product better. Basically, when a road closes, or something is incorrect, there are tools via Map Maker that let them report it. It involves the community in ways that serve both sides of the fence.

    Today, the Google Maps team has announce a bit of a “reward”… → Read More

    November 21st, 2012

    Instagram Launches Embeddable “Badges” To Help You Promote Your Beautiful Profile On The Web

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    Instagram is definitely not taking its foot off of the gas, even after being acquired successfully by Facebook. Today, the team is introducing a widget to help you spread the word about all of your great random Instagram photos, wherever you live on the web.

    Since Instagram launched its web profiles, the thoughts of what Instagram could expand to past mobile has been a topic of heavy… → Read More

    July 7th, 2011

    Gogobot Brings Game Mechanics And Rewards To Online Travel

    With the rise in prominence of the social graph, we’ve seen the proliferation of services like Facebook Connect, which have brought the social web to third party sites and helped make sharing an integral part of the Web’s new plumbing. Social seems to be the default setting these days, but as is often the case, there are a few exceptions. The online travel industry, for one, is composed of sites… → Read More

    September 30th, 2008

    Laptops to begin shipping with completely unnecessary "Mobile Broadband" badge

    Rehashing the idea set forth by all of those useless “Intel Inside” and “Designed for Windows XP” stickers that have been on laptops for years, 17 companies (including Asus, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, Toshiba, and 12 other heavy hitters) have banded together to bring out a new and equally useless “Mobile Broadband” sticker. What the hell is the point of these… → Read More