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Twitter Found Love In A Fave-Less Place
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 And Vine Choose Hearts Over Stars And Smileys
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
Twitter Is Testing A “Like” And “Star” Button In Lieu Of “Favorite.” Isn’t The Concept Of “Like” Already Broken?
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
There’s A Fine Line Between Private And Public, And Facebook Might Have Just Crossed It
<a target="_blank" href="http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/10/04/facebook-confirms-it-is-scanning-your-private-messages-for-links-so-it-can-increase-like-counters/?utm_source=Twitter&awesm=tnw.t
Facebook’s Hidden “Like” Isn’t Just Good For Mobile Developers, It’s Good For Facebook
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
Like+1 Turns Facebook Likes Into Google +1s
<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
"Like": Japanese venture begins accepting orders for new electric car
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/mitsuoka_like-620x420.png" />
Japan's newest electric car isn't made by one of the nation's many major automakers, but sometimes it need
A Sad Day. Goodbye, Riya
<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
Like.com's Perfect Timing: $32 Million Series C Round
<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
Like.com's Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads
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
Chinese Photo Site Tuyuan May Do Facial Recognition. Or It May Just Put Boxes Around People's Heads
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
Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let's Pay People To Tag Photos
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 – Hypocritical, Wrong and Conflicted
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’
Hacks Make Their Way Into Yahoo Products
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
RockYou Integrates Like.com Image Search Into Slideshows
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
Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search
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