Pebble ties itself up in Twine: sounds so rustic, couldn’t be any less (video)

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Take an e-ink smartwatch that's got plenty of willing customers, throw in a WiFi-connected sensor box and well, imagine the possibilities. The founders behind Pebble and Twine hope you are, because they have announced that the pair will be connectable through the latter's web-based interface

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Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests

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Twitter has just finalized a deal to  hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine , a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you’ve missed.

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Bing Gets Social in Search With a Little Help From Facebook and Twitter [Video]

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Microsoft rolled out a completely revamped version of its Bing search engine today that promises to provide better and more relevant results from a wider array of sources than Google.

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Rebecca Black’s 2,000th Tweet Is Very Bad [Video]

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Have you been waiting for this moment as long as we have?

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Doodle.ly wants to be Twitter for drawings

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If drawing is the universal language, Doodle.ly wants to be the app for that. The NYC-based startup, a Web site and iPad app for sharing drawings online, announces new social features today

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Twitpic Launches An iPhone App, But Is It Too Late?

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Twitpic was once the de facto standard for photo sharing on Twitter. Before Instagram and Twitter’s own photo-sharing solution, the service worked a treat, allowing us to compress our photos and share them in the twinkle of an eye. The app resided as sort of a symbiotic pilot fish near Twitter’s gaping maw.

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Twitter’s Mobile Site Now Uses One-Third Less Bandwidth

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Twitter just announced an update to its mobile site that is meant to bring it up to par with the new version of Twitter the company introduced in December. According to Twitter, the idea behind this update is to “give every person on the planet a consistent Twitter experience.” Because of this, the company says, the new version of the mobile site now uses one-third less bandwidth than the previous iteration and should work significantly better on feature phones, older browsers and low-bandwidth connections.

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First rule of DevOps fight club, don’t talk about DevOps fight club

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A cadre of top-flight DevOps practitioners will gather later this week at an undisclosed location in Northern California. It will be considerably friendlier than Fight Club , thank goodness, but it’s nearly as mysterious. The goal: To hash out important issues they see in their own deployments, to compare notes on problems they see and to talk in a way that they feel they cannot do in vendor-driven trade shows and conferences, according to one DevOps expert who will attend the invitation-only event

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Frrole Makes Twitter Into a Local News Source for 51 Cities Worldwide [Webapps]

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If you like to follow news and events for your city and happen to live in one of the 51 cities worldwide that Frrole curently covers you'll get a kick out of the webapp. More

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Twitter Says Farewell To Adam “MCA” Yauch

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Earlier today, GlobalGrind broke the news that Adam “MCA” Yauch, a founding member of New York’s pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, had died of cancer at the age of 47.

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