Twitter Takes Another Step On Its Road To Killing TwitPic And Yfrog
Twitter has unveiled its photo upload API, which lets third-party developers add Twitter’s own photo-upload service to their apps, VentureBeat reports. Twitter has been “filling holes” on its platform, taking control of mobile apps, adding link-shortening and now photo uploading, to the detriment of third-party apps who were doing these things. This is to provide a [...]
Read MoreBookLamp Launches a Pandora For Books
You don’t want a book recommendation from someone who hasn’t read the book. So why, asks a new project called BookLamp, would you want to rely on an electronic recommendation based on marketing data rather than book content? BookLamp is launching a new kind of book recommendation engine today that scans the texts of its [...]
Read MoreTheRoot.com Introduces The Root U for College Students and Young Professionals
School is back in session, well at least for most. Freshmen are moving in and everyone is gearing up for a new school year. College students are some of the busiest people between classes, extracurriculars, etc. it is a lot to juggle. Keeping this in mind TheRoot.com created a fresh extension called The Root U. [...]
Read MoreJamaican Tech Entrepreneur Uses Crowdfunding for Caribbean Film
The planned return of passenger rail in Jamaica is what sparked tech entrepreneur, David Mullings’s interest in making a film. After talking to several people about his experience he learned that many people knew nothing about the train system in Jamaica. He wanted to do a short film that not only told a personal story [...]
Read MoreWill.i.am Promotes Tech and Science Education With i.am FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll TV Special
Last night the idea of science and technology became cool with the i.am FIRST: Science is Rock & Roll special that aired last night on ABC. Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas teamed up with inventor/ For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) founder Dean Kamen for an exciting television special promoting education [...]
Read MoreStartup in the NewMe Accelerator Receives First Funding for Mobile App OneSchool
It was only two weeks ago that the first minority accelerator, NewMe, hosted their first demo day in San Franciso, Cali. The 11 founders in the program displayed their companies to a crowd of about 70 attendees. Each one had a unique startup to bring to the table and now one of them has received [...]
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