PeekYou Pivots From People Search To Social Analytics With The Launch Of PeekAnalytics
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Well here’s a blast from the past. Remember when people search was big? Back before Facebook swallowed up all our personal data there were like, a dozen different search engines out there devoted entirely to helping you stalk your friends and ex-girlfriends online. But times have changed and pretty much anyone you’d ever want to find online is one Google or Facebook search away.So what’s a people search engine to do? Well, if you’re PeekYou, you use the data you’ve collected over the years to get into the suddenly lucrative social analytics market[...]
Continue ReadingWhy Reddit is cracking down on your favorite sites
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Community news sharing site Reddit is now restricting its users from submitting links from a handful of high-profile web publications, including BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Phys.org, GlobalPost, and ScienceDaily.
The ban has also caught at least one high-profile Redditor as well.
Reddit claims these sites, among others, are guilty of artificially promoting their content to make it appear more popular. In other words, they were cheating.
“Banning is not something we take lightly. It’s really a last resort,” Reddit General Manager Erik Martin told VentureBeat.
The question is whether the news sites themselves were cheating, or whether they were taken down because of their ass[...]
Continue ReadingThe ban has also caught at least one high-profile Redditor as well.
Reddit claims these sites, among others, are guilty of artificially promoting their content to make it appear more popular. In other words, they were cheating.
“Banning is not something we take lightly. It’s really a last resort,” Reddit General Manager Erik Martin told VentureBeat.
The question is whether the news sites themselves were cheating, or whether they were taken down because of their ass[...]
Facebook, Google Top List of Firms Tracking You Online, Report
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Evidon's Global Tracking Report says the biggest Web trackers are Google and Facebook[...]
Continue ReadingCarat: The Brilliant App That Increases Your Battery Life By Showing What Other Apps To Kill
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“Kill Pandora – Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes” This is what you’ll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that’s the first to give you personalized mobile battery life-saving recommendations.Carat quietly takes measurements from you device, does some math, combines is with other people’s anonymized data, and sends back tips on if you should update your OS, kill or restart apps, and how many more minutes of tablet or phone fiddling you’ll gain.As battery tech to is expected to improve slowly, some say increasing life just 5% a year, and as we get faster processors, more powerful apps, and brighter sc[...]
Continue ReadingKickstarter project aims to reimagine classic Atari game M.U.L.E. (exclusive)
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Kickstarter’s crowdfunding has become the way to bring back all of the games that we’re nostalgic for. After Christopher Williamson saw the success that game developers have had raising funding through crowdsourced donations, he decided to raise money for his own pet project: an updated version of the classic Atari game M.U.L.E.
Over the next 31 days, Williamson is trying to raise $500,000 for his DreamQuest Games in Lafayette, Colo. to make the updated version dubbed Alpha Colony: a Space Tribute to M.U.L.E. Williamson has the rights from the family of the original developer, and he plans to publish the new game on the PC, Mac, iPhone, and iPad. On top of that project, the Kicks[...]
Continue ReadingOver the next 31 days, Williamson is trying to raise $500,000 for his DreamQuest Games in Lafayette, Colo. to make the updated version dubbed Alpha Colony: a Space Tribute to M.U.L.E. Williamson has the rights from the family of the original developer, and he plans to publish the new game on the PC, Mac, iPhone, and iPad. On top of that project, the Kicks[...]
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