It’s a function of Twitter’s largely unfiltered feed. It zips by so quickly that even great content can get lost. Your closest friends and sparring partners might easily miss your tweets. And unle
Twitter’s making changes and nothing is sacred. Today’s change, while not as dramatic as making tweets editable or more than 140 characters, is definitely something that you’ll notic
I've never really been a fan of tapping a "Like" button on Facebook. Mostly because it doesn't always mean that I like something. I use that button as a way to say "hey I looked at this and it meant s
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Last week's<a target="_blank" href="https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/06/20/bringing-like-to-mobile/"> announcement from Facebook</a> about the new ability for app developers to integrate
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/like1.png" />As what exactly the Google +1 Button does continues to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/10/see-you-in-another-life-broth
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Japan's newest electric car isn't made by one of the nation's many major automakers, but sometimes it need
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/riyalogo-215x134.jpg" width="215" height="134" />Facial recognition service <a href="http://www.riya.com">Riya</a> will shut down on August 21
<img alt="" />Silicon Valley based Like.com managed to raise a monster round of financing at just the right time: <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/like">$32 million</a> in Series C round of
Is a picture worth a thousand clicks? You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the page. Visual-shopping searc
I can’t really say much about Tuyuan yet since it’s in Chinese and there isn’t much information (translated page here), but it certainly looks like they’re trying to tackle the
Most people have thousands of digital photos sitting on their hard drive. And the vast majority of those photos aren’t tagged or searchable. Want to find the 300 pictures of your youngest son am
Fred Wilson lit a fire today suggesting that certain bloggers need to step it up a notch to improve quality and be more like mainstream journalists. A fair point if spoken generally, although I’
Yahoo Hack days are a lot of fun, and some pretty interesting stuff comes out of them. But a persistent question is whether or not they are much more than fun – and if any of these hacks ever ma
Last November, Munjal Shah made a fairly tough decision and did an about face on his startup, Riya. Instead of continuing to focus on Riya’s existing product – facial recognition and taggi
Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the compan