Turntable.fm Upgrades, Aims to Make DJing Easier
Turntable, the most original and interesting music service to come along in years, launched an overhaul of its interface Thursday in a bid to make itself less intimidating to newcomers. Once you get inside a Turntable room, everything’s peachy: avatars cluster together amiably, chatting and listening to tunes spun by up to 5 DJs, bobbing [...]
Read MoreNokia Creates Foursquare-Enabled Vending Machine
Location-based technology and vending machines seem like a natural match, but Nokia is among the first, perhaps the first, to make the connection. To celebrate Social Media Week, the mobile brand released the video above detailing how such a machine works: All you have to do is check in to the machine on Foursquare using the #NokiaConnects [...]
Read MoreThe Power of Social Media Couldn’t Save Troy Davis’s Life
The fight came to an end after the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia last night. People protested right up until there was word that U.S. Supreme Court denied his last appeal. Along with protest at the White House, Supreme Court, among other places around the world, people protested online. A clear way to reach [...]
Read MoreMobile Startup Paga Provides Banking Services for Nigerians
It is evident that Nigeria has numerous mobile users. The country currently has over 90 million cellular phone users and is not just Africa’s largest mobile phone market but one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. But banking is where Nigeria’s numbers are not as high with only 20 million having bank [...]
Read MoreVimeo Launches Audiosocket-Powered Music Store To Bring Tunes To Video
At F8 on Thursday, The Social Network will by all accounts be making its official foray into music, with scrobbling and music content galore headed straight for our news feeds. Ahead of Facebook’s new music service, Vimeo is announcing its own musical news, thank you very much, that has some interesting implications for artists and filmmakers [...]
Read MorePresident Obama to Answer Questions on Job Creation at LinkedIn Town Hall
What better place for the president to address unemployment while staying up on his social networking game than LinkedIn? Well there really isn’t, that is probably why President Obama will participate in a town hall at the LinkedIn headquarters next Monday Sept. 26. President Obama will answer questions about job creation and the economy from [...]
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