ISwifter’s TheWorx iPad app recreates Facebook, but with games

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Just days before Facebook’s big IPO, the company is getting a lesson from another Silicon Valley startup on how to improve its iPad app. ISwifter is showing how it can create a full-fledged Facebook app that also includes Flash gaming

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With Its New Google+ iPhone App, Google Finally Gets It Right

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Some people just love Google+ and others just hate the company’s efforts to create a social network and a social layer across all of its services. Google itself seems to be pretty happy with the results it is getting from Google+ so far – or at least that’s what the company is saying publicly.

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Identify and hone your work that could become timeless [Quotables]

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No matter what your profession, it's easy to get caught up in the grind and lose sight of your work's legacy. Instapaper developer and blogger Marco Arment decided to renew his focus on work that would be relevant decades down the line. More

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Thumbtack Revamp Makes It Even Easier To Find A Service Provider

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Thumbtack.com , a site that helps people find local service providers (from house cleaners to DJs to math tutors, to use the three examples on the company homepage), unveiled a big redesign earlier this week. Co-founder Sander Daniels says the original version of Thumbtack tried to make finding a service provider easier by avoiding the standard search interface — people posted what job they were looking for, then Thumbtack connected those posters with a professionals who were qualified to do the work

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This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like

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You know how all Android developers complain about fragmentation? Yeah, this is what fragmentation looks like.

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TenderTree Rolls Into Beta To Help You Find Reliable Senior Caregivers

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It’s always refreshing when a startup tackles a real-world problem instead of building another photo-sharing/local reviews/social calendar service. Case in point: TenderTree , a company that’s trying to improve the way people find reliable care for their aging family members, and then pay them for their work.

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The Art. Lebedev Bulavkas Pairs 4GB Of Flash Storage And A Safety Pin

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Sometimes you just need to clip some files to a document. In that thought Art. Lebedev Studios, makers of their infamous OLED keyboard first shown in 2006, created the Bulavkas flash drive , which can literally clip 4GB of data onto a document thanks to its safety pin design

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In a SoHo Lab, HuffPo Mafia rekindles the old magic

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After the Huffington Post was acquired by AOL last year , HuffPo chief technology officer Paul Berry estimated 15 percent of his time was spent dealing with corporate politics. A year later, that figure had zoomed to 85 percent while 15 percent of his time was devoted to building technology. Now, just a few months after leaving the Huffington Post position he held for more than five years, he’s back to creating things again on a full-time basis

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Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination; CrunchFund Invests

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Back in September, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, unveiled their new mobile travel guide, Triposo , setting out to do for travel content what Google and PageRank did for search. The startup developed a set of algorithms to crawl and parse the Web’s biggest travel information databases (like Wikitravel and Open Street Maps), before ranking the data to determine which pieces have the most relevance to its users and serving them up as rich travel guides

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Ze Frank raises $750k to kickstart his media empire

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Video blogging pioneer Ze Frank quietly raised around $756,000 late last month from Marc Andreessen, Buzzfeed co-founder John Johnson and Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti. The financing comes just two months after a successful Kickstarter campaign to relaunch his web series that netted close to $150,000. Frank told me that he intends to use the funding to start “a new kind of media company” that develops and produces shows with active audience participation

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