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Some closure on the story of how Yandex — the Russian search giant — built a social discovery app that relied on Facebook interconnection to gather data, and then found Facebook blocking its service within hours of launching. Today Yandex said that after discussions with the social network, Facebook has finally, terminally said that the app violates its Platform Policies, specifically on the point of Wonder being a competing search engine. Facebook will not reinstate the ability to use Facebook’s Graph API, so as a result, Yandex is planning to pulll the app from the app store and put it on hold for now.
Drimmit is a simple, straightforward online platform that allows users to create “dream boards” filled with visual representations of their hopes and aspirations. The Web site, which placed second at spring’s Startup Weekend Taipei, opened for public beta at the end of last month and currently has 1,000 users, whose goals include “Be Covered in Bees,” “Learn Parkour” and “Travel to Antarctica.”
“The best and the worst of everything” app Amen, which lets users make simple votes on straightforward statements — “amen” and “hell no” being the operative words — has now amassed one million Amens (votes) from its users, says the startup. And now that it’s picking up significant amounts of crowdsourced data and traction around the best places to eat, visit and other tips, the developers are making a little more of a play on it. Today, it’s releasing that data in a new version of the app with far more discoverability. Available now on the Appstore, the “Explorer Release” now lets users browse by topics and offers more location-based features alongside it.
Social discovery service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alumni) Sonar has some big news today, and just in time for SXSW: it’s arriving on Android. According to founder Brett Martin, support for the Android platform has long been users’ most frequent request for the service.
But that’s not the only thing that’s new. Along with the Android launch, the company is also making a slight, but important shift, in terms of how it will show its users recommended people nearby.
Lees meerSocial discovery service (and TechCrunch Disrupt alumni) Sonar has some big news today, and just in time for SXSW: it’s arriving on Android. According to founder Brett Martin, support for the Android platform has long been users’ most frequent request for the service.
But that’s not the only thing that’s new. Along with the Android launch, the company is also making a slight, but important shift, in terms of how it will show its users recommended people nearby.
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Social video browsing app Showyou just launched version 3.0 of its iPad application, a major update with a ton of new features. Competing in a hot space with competitors like Fanhattan, Shelby.tv, Squrl, Vodio and others, Showyou offers a grid-like view for browsing the videos your friends are sharing on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube and Vimeo. Once connected, you can watch any of the over 30 million videos indexed by the Showyou search engine.
With version 3.0, four months in the making, the focus is offering users a better way to find content and new ways to drill down deeper into their favorite videos and topics.
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Tagged first announced its acquisition of struggling social network hi5 in December. Now, the company says it’s ready to talk about what’s going to happen to the property.
Basically, Tagged will continue operating hi5 as a separate site, but one that starts to look more and more like Tagged — as vice president of sales and marketing Steve Sarner put it, it will become “a Tagged.com experience with a hi5 wrapper.” Even though Sarner says hi5 won’t actually change for another six to eight weeks, hi5 users should start getting emails later today notifying them about the plans.
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Social network Tagged seems to have found a model that works — the company says that 2011 was its fourth consecutive profitable year, and that its revenue grew 35 percent to more than $43 million.
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