If you’ve ever exchanged IMs with a friend while watching the same show, or discussed family photos via email chains, then you’re probably aware of the limitations around simultaneously sharing audio, image, and video files. And, you’ve probably noticed that it’s near impossible to create a real-time feedback loop.
Connecting the dots between video conferencing applications like Skype and content platforms like YouTube is Watchitoo, a private beta site launching today that lets users create real-time community around Web content.
Watchitoo users can use the site to create shows (ie - mini social networks around content), view public shows, and check out what’s popular. Full story...
It seems that Kanye West is doing a tour of the Silicon Valley’s nerd hubs.
The American Museum of Natural History today unveiled the American Museum of Natural History Explorer app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, designed to help users better navigate through the Museum’s various exhibitions.
Groupon’s model has always been to serve to up a single daily deal per city, per day. Yesterday, the company nearly reinvented itself when it kicked off its Personalized Deals initiative.
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer.
Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera’s Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing.
Today, Amazon announced the newest generation of Kindle, its popular e-reader.
As hardware is wont to do, the newest version of the Kindle has become smaller and lighter while retaining its 6-inch reading area.
Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes adding a new font…
Facebook’s newest feature, Questions, has the potential to bring social Q&A into the mainstream.
A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has demanded a Russian ISP block access to YouTube because the site hosted “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist video.
Android users, rejoice! Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will now be forced to feel your pain.