Categorie: apps

Punchfork Tells Foodies Which Recipes Are Hot Right Now

apps, Punchfork, social, Startups, TC

punchforkYou’ve seen too many recipe websites. It’s okay – so have I. But Punchfork is doing things a little differently by leveraging hardcore algorithms to curate the best recipes found on the Web based on social network chatter, in realtime.

Punchfork has built a sophisticated algorithm that measures a how many times a recipe posted by its publishing partners gets shared on social networks like Twitter and Facebook and sites like StumbleUpon. The higher a recipe’s score based on Punchfork’s technology, on a scale from 1 to 100, the more it should have been talked about and shared on the Web.

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It’s Here! Facebook Timeline Now Available To Users Worldwide

apps, facebook, facebook timeline, social, TC

timelineYou’ve been anxiously waiting for it, and now it has finally arrived. Facebook Timeline, which MG likened to ’the story of your life on a single page’ when it was first announced back in September at the F8 event, that is.

We told you how to get it early (and millions of you did) and what it looked like, but most of you earthlings – not living in New Zealand – had to wait patiently until the glorious day Facebook decided to flick that on/off switch.

This morning, they did.

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Flipboard Adds 1 Million Users Its First Week On The iPhone

apps, Flipboard, social, Startups, TC

FlipboardLogoOnly one week after Flipboard’s highly anticipated launch on the iPhone (and iPod Touch), the company is announcing it has added 1 million users to its service and has tripled its engagement. According to the company, that means it now has over 5 million users in total using the app across the iOS platform.

Before last week’s release, Flipboard had registered 650 million flips per month on the iPad. Now it’s trending towards 2 billion flips per month.

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Chat Service Meebo Launches New Version Of Site Designed Around Competitive Sharing (!)

apps, social, TC

Screen Shot 2011-12-13 at 6.11.24 PMYou probably know Meebo as a service that lets you easily chat with friends across different IM services, but the company is now rolling out a reimagined version designed around sharing. Think competitive sharing, like who can get the most traffic from their articles. It’s a big switch from the former Meebo Messenger IM site (which you can still find here).

I’ve been playing around with it, and here are some initial impressions.

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Facebook Changes Helping Developers Reach Users (Including Zynga, Ahead Of Its IPO)

apps, Gaming, social, TC, Zynga

Screen Shot 2011-12-13 at 11.25.54 AMWith its initial public offering coming up later this week, Zynga is making a few notable traffic gains on Facebook and mobile. Older games like FarmVille are growing, not just new ones like CastleVille. The obvious reasons include it doing more advertising and cross-promotion — and getting some extra publicity out of new launches and media events.

But it looks like there’s more going. Facebook appears to have made a few adjustments to how users see app activity within the last month or so.

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With Watch It Button, Plexus Creates A ‘Super Netflix Queue’ For Movies Across The Web

apps, ecommerce, GoWatchIt, Plexus Entertainment, social, Startups, TC, WatchIt

WatchIt_Logo_LargeDespite its struggles of late, Netflix is still one of the most popular sources when it comes to online streaming of movies and TV shows. (Although things may change if it’s acquired by Verizon.) For many of us, the Netflix queue is our go-to source for bookmarking films that we’d like to watch at a later date.

One new startup, called Plexus Entertainment, wants to take the Netflix formula and apply it to a broader scale. In the big picture, Plexus’ goal is to connect films and filmmakers with their audiences, so to do that, they’ve launched “Watch It” in public beta to allow users to keep track of movies they’re interested in, where those movies are playing, and to be proactively notified of all the different ways to view those films. Huzzah!

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Agile: In Mobile Era, Not Just for Developers Anymore

apps, B2B, Google, innovation, iPad, mobile, Tech & Gadgets, technology

I’ve never worked in IT, but I imagine that the relationship between system administrators and their programming counterparts is often tense, with each camp jockeying for resources and alpha-dog status. So I hope I’m not opening a can of worms by suggesting that IT could learn something from their developer pals. In the past decade, […]

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Razors and Blades: Nothing Wrong with the $199 BlackBerry PlayBook

apps, B2B Marketing, B2C, Blackberry, iPad, mobile, mobile marketing, RIM, tablet, Tech & Gadgets, technology

I don’t think you can compare HP’s $99 TouchPads with RIM’s $199 PlayBooks. The former was a fire sale by a company exiting the (non-Windows) tablet business. RIM, on the other hand, is showing its firm resolve to stay in the tablet game. I once proposed that a formula for determining user satisfaction for a […]

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