ReadWriteWeb:
If you've ever had the urge to write your name in wet cement, then you understand what it's like to want to leave your mark on the places that define you. Rather than vandalizing construction sites or tagging your old high sc (Read More)
Mashable!:
Back in July, we wrote about Face.com’s Photo Tagger app for Facebook, which was then in beta. The successor to the popular Photo Finder app, Photo Tagger lets you tag all photos in an album in-bulk and automatically publish (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Israeli facial recognition tech startup Face.com made quite a splash when it launched Photo Finder, its first Facebook app, back in March. It soon followed suit with a new app called Photo Tagger, a tool that is capable of fi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Shazam, the music discovery iPhone application which gained widespread adoption thanks to its appearance in an iPhone TV commercial, is now getting a ton of new features thanks to the launch of a premium application called Sh (Read More)
paidContent:UK:
—BBC Canvas: Richard Halton, the man in charge of the BBC-convened open IPTV project Canvas, says the project’s partners are working on social networking features to tie in with TV programmes. He says “people could play along (Read More)
Lifehacker:
There are a whole lot of mobile, desktop, and helper apps tied to Flickr. The team at the photo sharing service decided to make those apps easier to find and install by opening a free "App Garden" to everyone. Like you might (Read More)
Submitted by andydavies
from Google Reader:
Lately I've been digging into research on testosterone. Over the past decade, scientists have been placing players in competitive situations and then measuring how their testosterone fluctuations predict future behavior. Wh (Read More)
Noupe:
By Cameron ChapmanWe’re approaching the end of 2009, and many people are wondering what the future will bring. While no one can predict for sure what the Internet holds in its future, there are indicators and trends that can (Read More)
Submitted by pawoli
from Google Reader:
So I’ve been really busy lately. For one, we’ve been planning the seminar that’s taking place this up-coming weekend, November 7th and 8th. We’re almost sold out, which is exciting and I want to thank all of you who have purc (Read More)
Lifehacker:
If you're looking for a better way to quickly find royalty-free stock images, Cyclo.ps makes searching multiple photo sites a breeze. Cyclo.ps let's you search a large number of stock photo sites in a single swoop. You can se (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Twitter is on the verge of rolling out its Geolocation API (actually, it’s already partially rolled out). That feature should be a boon to location-based services which can now send their location information back to Twitter (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
While Crowdflower has forged some amazing partnerships in the past, including a deal with Samasource to launch a training program for Kenyan refugees, the company's latest partnership has a somewhat questionable benefit state (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, has added Facebook-like people tagging. The purpose behind people tagging is to easily tell people when you upload a picture that includes them. In short, it is a fun way to make your (Read More)
Lifehacker:
One of the better features in Facebook (and now both Picasa and iPhoto) is people-tagging—allowing users to identify who's in a picture by mousing over the image. Starting today, Flickr's joined in the fun. Using this feature (Read More)
TechCrunch:
My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don’t take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it’s a billion times better for pictur (Read More)
Mashable!:
The website 9to5Mac is reporting on a tip they’ve received claiming that Apple is working on an in-house radio app for the iPhone and iPod touch.Apple introduced FM radio functionality in the new iPod nano, including the abil (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Oh, that this weren’t true. Last week, Yahoo made news by disclosing that it had quietly dropped support for the meta keywords tag. As a long time hater of that tag and the insane questions it has produced, I was thrilled! Bu (Read More)
Mashable!:
On Saturday, photo number four billion was uploaded to photo sharing site Flickr. This comes just five and a half months after the 3 billionth and nearly 18 months after photo number two billion.As impressive as four billion (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Yahoo in the past few months has stopped using the META keywords meta tag as part of their ranking algorithm. We just learned this in a session at SMX East in the Ask the Search Engines session.I have the live blogging of th (Read More)
Submitted by lemasney
from Google Reader:
winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface. It lets you set up the encoding (Read More)