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- Ballmer sells off $1.3 billion of his Microsoft shares [TNW Microsoft]
- For Verizon LTE, it’s not “the network”, it’s the ecosystem. [TNW Mobile]
- Shwowp Open for Business For Beta Testers [TNW Canada]
- Quebec City Gets Its Own Apple Store Nov 13th [TNW Canada]
- PostRank Adds Posting to Facebook & Analytics to PR Connect [TNW Canada]
- ‘National UnFriend Day’ brought to you by Jimmy Kimmel and William Shatner [TNW Social Media]
- Mobio Adds Android Client to Mix & iPhone 4 Contest [TNW Canada]
- Electronic Medical Records come to an Ottawa Hospital on the iPad [TNW Canada]
- Pixus, an app that creates wallpaper to the tune of Pandora [TNW Apps]
- Microsoft breaks the law to promote Windows Phone 7, their PR firm ducks [TNW Microsoft]
- Say goodbye to ‘Sponsored Links’, hello to ‘Ads’ on Google results pages [TNW Google]
- ClickyTouch: A slick, 3rd-party iPhone app for Clicky [TNW Apps]
- CBC Radio App for iOS Updated for iPad and Multitasking [TNW Canada]
- Microsoft: TNW’s Week in Review [TNW Microsoft]
- 20 New York City Start-Ups You Need To Know About [TNW United States]
- Windows Phone 7: no copy and paste until 2011 [TNW Microsoft]
- Mail.ru has a big first day on the London Stock Exchange [TNW UK]
- The Sandpit: A tilt-shift video that will fool your mind [TNW Shareables]
- TweetDeck sees a growth explosion with latest version; has biggest day ever. [TNW Social Media]
- Try This: Skyara launches slick new marketplace for unique experiences with a special offer for TNW readers! [TNW Apps]
| Ballmer sells off $1.3 billion of his Microsoft shares [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 05:53 PM PDT
According to Reuters, which sourced securities regulators, 54-year old Ballmer still owns 359 million shares, or 4.2% of Microsoft (or $9.6 billion). Ballmer, who didn’t get his full annual bonus in the last fiscal year because of disappointing mobile performance by the Redmond giant, is the second largest stockholder of Microsoft behind Bill Gates. This news comes right before the launch of the Kinect for Xbox as well as the Windows Phone 7 worldwide launch later this month. Thoughts? Did Ballmer make out well or should he have held onto those shares? UPDATE: Reuters had a few corrections in its story – for one, Ballmer owns 4.2% of Microsoft not 12% – instead the shares that he sold this week, brought his total shares of the company down by 12%. Also, he is said to be planning to sell a total of 75 million shares by the end of the year, which would lower his overall stake by 18%. Bill Gates, owns 621 million shares or 7.2% of Microsoft. Ballmer was quoted as saying on a Microsoft website:
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| For Verizon LTE, it’s not “the network”, it’s the ecosystem. [TNW Mobile] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:56 PM PDT
For years now, we’ve heard Verizon’s claim about “it’s the network”. Fair enough, Verizon does have more complete coverage for 3G than anyone else in the US, but its LTE plans have been shrouded in a bit of mystery. We’ve heard that, supposedly, we’ll all be carrying multiple devices and be perfectly fine paying for multiple data plans. Fortunately, Schulz and the people behind Verizon’s LTE don’t see that as the case. LTE, for Verizon, is about the ecosystem. It was the right choice, over WiMax, because the structure exists worldwide. It’s not just about phones, or data cards or USB dongles, either. For Verizon, LTE is about every device in your home. As Schulz said, “everything is going to have a display and it’s all going to be connected”. Using her example, your refrigerator will no longer have a flashing light to tell you when the filter needs changed. Instead, it will sense that need, go online to find out what filter you should buy and then provide you with a list of retailers from which you can purchase it. A couple of simple taps and you’ll have purchased the filter, charged it to your PayPal and you can get on with your day. Schulz admits, however, that everyone walking this path is still doing so in the dark. Nobody is certain of how the infrastructure for the ecosystem needs to be handled because it’s simply not been done before. However, she appears confident that Verizon is going to be a major player in the building of that system within the United States. As for the future? The immediate plans are already known: Verizon intends to roll out LTE service to 38 metropolitan areas and 60 commercial airports by the end of 2010. Of course, support will continue for 3G networks for the foreseeable future as the company continues even today to increase 3G service across the US. I’m told that November will be a heavy launch month for Verizon 3G devices, including of course the Droid Pro and Samsung Continuum. Beyond that, however, there was no talk of LTE handsets other than to say that there would of course be some. Oh, and for those wondering – Schulz affirmed to me that she knows nothing of any Apple-related announcement in the near future. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Shwowp Open for Business For Beta Testers [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:39 PM PDT
According to Techvibes the first batches of of logins are being sent out and users will be able to start sending Shwowp their receipts soon:
I’ll have to bug co-founder Tara Hunt about my invite getting lost in the mail or something… While you and I are waiting for our invites (request one from the Shwowp site) you can read my recent “touching base with…” with Tara and watch the video Chad shot with the whole Shwowp team:
Shwowp founders talk about how shopping and data portability can work together from The Next Web on Vimeo. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Quebec City Gets Its Own Apple Store Nov 13th [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PDT
That just leaves Saskatchewan , the North, and all of the Maritimes needing Apple Stores. Ontario, btw, has the most Apple Stores (7) with 6 around Toronto and one in Ottawa. Funny enough all of the Apple Stores in B.C. are connected by the same transit line (Canada Line).MobileSyrup, Photo credit Flickr [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| PostRank Adds Posting to Facebook & Analytics to PR Connect [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:42 PM PDT
If you’re a PR Connect user you can just edit your existing blog settings to allow not only publishing to Facebook, but also gather data on how your readers and fans interact with your content there. I already have my personal blog set up with Connect, but since I haven’t been posting there much, I’m also claiming this blog to get data on it as well (hence the little icon here for claiming purposes). Once I’ve claimed this site I can have PostRank post articles from here to my own Facebook wall and the TNW Canada Facebook page, then I can also glean information from how people read and share the content on Facebook as well as the information I get from my regular stats.
I’ve been a big fan of PostRank since it was called AideRSS and focused mostly on filtering feeds (they still do an awesome job at that), this is just adding another cool thing for me to look forward to getting in my email every morning (when my PostRank stats come in).PostRank [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| ‘National UnFriend Day’ brought to you by Jimmy Kimmel and William Shatner [TNW Social Media] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:13 PM PDT Jimmy Kimmel thinks that you can’t possibly have as many “real” friends as you have on Facebook, and as such he has unilaterally declared November 17 National UnFriend Day – or NUD – with mild support from William Shatner. Do you agree with what the late night talk show host says? Are “real” friends only the ones that show up to move your furniture? Discuss! [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Mobio Adds Android Client to Mix & iPhone 4 Contest [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 03:13 PM PDT
Mobio isn’t going for just the QR code reading market, they have developed technologies and tools to easily enable payments through QR code and have more flexible and interactive QR codes than “traditional” ones. For example, what if you were at a restaurant and could just scan a QR code to pay the bill and add a tip. Then the server gets an email that the transaction has been completed and you’re off on your merry way. Or be able to update the destination that a QR code eventually ends up at by having the QR code go to a server first then the site?
To help build some buzz around QR codes and their app, Mobio has been running contests with the Jacksonville Jaguars and the BC Lions football teams. Okay, football might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but what about an iPhone 4? Yeah thought that would get your attention. For once here is a legit “win and iPhone 4” promotion on Facebook. I use Mobio as my primary QR code reader for when I’m out and about. It’s a fast reading and rendering app that works with almost all QR codes (I’ve run into a few glitches with some codes). The most interesting things with Mobio, I think, is the potential for making mobile payments easier. Starbucks is trialing paying through QR codes, no reason why they couldn’t use Mobio to power that right now. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Electronic Medical Records come to an Ottawa Hospital on the iPad [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:35 PM PDT
The developers, just 18 months out of university, beat out several competitors to make the app for the hospital in 60 days. Well the devs met the challenge and even through in some inspired elements like a Nav Canada (air traffic control up here) inspired way to track patients coming and going from surgery. By all accounts the hospital is very happy with the initial rollout with 100 iPads because over the next 18 months 1,800 more iPads are coming into the hospital to replace the standard doctor’s clip boards. With the high-res screen of the current iPad model (which will only get better I’m sure) I can imagine doctors being able to analyze x-ray, CT, and MRI results quickly at a patient’s beside without having to leave to go to another terminal or even wait. Instant delivery over the network is not a far-fetched idea in the least. In case you’re wondering, Select Start makes other iPad apps including a cool deskclock that I think I might scoop up. Hat tip: TechvibesOttawa Citizen, Photo credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Pixus, an app that creates wallpaper to the tune of Pandora [TNW Apps] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:35 PM PDT The Pixus app lets you create and save abstract wallpapers based on what song you are listening to on Pandora.  The app, which came out less than a week ago, is perfect for 9-5 music lovers looking to spice up their workspace. Pixus lets you “remix” a composition until you see something you like. Hit save and the wallpapers are then saved in a JPG format. The app lets you view fullsize album artwork that inspired each composition. The app includes a built-in auto-updater to ensure you always have the latest version. Works on Mac, Windows and Linux and requires Adobe Air 2.0 and an Internet connection.
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| Microsoft breaks the law to promote Windows Phone 7, their PR firm ducks [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 02:21 PM PDT
It turns out that we called it, the sidewalk graffiti did turn up in the lovely SF, it just isn’t going over very well.
According to WMPoweruser, the Microsoft PR firm is running from the acts (we are unsure of their involment), and government is not enthused:
We have said it once, we will say it again, if you have Microsoft’s budget, who cares? At worst, the company could be fined, and their punishment (assuming again that Redmond was behind the act, which is pretty obvious) will probably be just removal of the print. Still, the concerts are coming up as is the launch of Windows Phone 7 here in the US. Never underestimate the drive of Microsoft to have a successful launch. A big thanks to MissionLocal for finding the images and sending them to us, great guys.WMPoweruser, MissionLocal, Top Image Credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Say goodbye to ‘Sponsored Links’, hello to ‘Ads’ on Google results pages [TNW Google] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 01:12 PM PDT ‘Sponsored Links’, the phrase that made Google billions, is being phased out by the Mountain View search advertising giant, to be replaced by the simpler ‘Ads’.
This seems to be purely a cosmetic change to AdWords, but is nonetheless interestingly timed, as Google has been making significant changes to its search result pages lately, including the integration of Places into the main search results. Google sent a statement to Search Engine Land, which had noticed and reported the change, saying,
So really, not much other than a confirmation that it is rolled out on English domains. But why this change now? Well, obviously, Google does everything very analytically, so it must have tested the conversion rates of ‘Ads’ versus ‘Sponsored Links’ and found that ‘Ads’ converted better (otherwise we can’t imagine that it would change the text). Also, with the new Places integration, as well as the new relevant search results features, Google may be thinking that it needed to more clearly differentiate AdWords from the increasing number of options on the results page. What do you think about this change? Do you pay for AdWords, and if so, do you see this change as a plus or minus? Please let us know in the comments.Search Engine Land [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| ClickyTouch: A slick, 3rd-party iPhone app for Clicky [TNW Apps] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 11:51 AM PDT
The recently-released iPhone application for Clicky is hoping to change that, and it’s looking really slick so far. Dubbed ClickyTouch, it brings the majority of the depths of Clicky analytics into your pocket. You need to be aware that this isn’t made by Clicky, nor was it commissioned by the company. It was built by Steve Reynolds, so don’t be angry when it costs you $3 to download it. According to Reynolds, he’s integrated some of the most important features of Clicky into Clicky Touch:
If you want more depth than that, you’ll need to head to the Clicky Website and log in to your account. However, for an on-the-go look, this is pretty much unbeatable. While there is a mobile version of the Clicky site at http://m.getclicky.com (or http://i.getclicky.com for the iPhone-specific site) it doesn’t produce the “pretty” versions that ClickyTouch does. Kudos to Reynolds, and to the Clicky crew for playing nice with the third-party app.
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| CBC Radio App for iOS Updated for iPad and Multitasking [TNW Canada] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 11:41 AM PDT I got a tip from CBC Manitoba to check out the updated CBC Radio app for iOS. The CBC Radio was one of the first apps I loaded onto my iPad and iPhone, but while it was great for listening to the CBC on the go (or when I didn’t have a radio handy), it had a couple of gaps. The biggest one was that it didn’t support multitasking and on the iPad it ran in iPhone size. Beyond that, hey it worked.
Now, however, the game has changed with v2.0.0…
Yeah the release notes don’t do it justice. If you look at the iPad screenshot at the top and the iPhone screenshot to the right here… you can see that with this new universal app (one download covers both devices), the CBC is really taking advantage of the iPad’s UI and size. Much more to see and do. Much easier to find programs like browser through Radio 2:
The iPad app also offers a nice sleep timer (only when the app is in the foreground) and if you’re running iOS 4.x…multitasking! Hey, don’t scoff. Sometimes you want to listen to the CBC and do other things at the same time! The multitasking works great on my iPhone, I’m just waiting for iOS 4.2 to drop so I can use it on my iPad. So you combine the CBC Radio app with a nice deskclock app on your iPad and you can have a rather expensive and stylish clock radio! In all seriousness, adding a nice UI and background multitasking makes the CBC Radio app on the iPad a smart, easy download. Especially for all your expat Canadians who might be pining for the sounds of home. Hits: Multitasking, iPad UI, universal app, iOS 4.x compatible Misses: Timer only for iPad, Timer only works when the app is in the foreground Rating: 4.5/5CBC Radio in the App Store, Photo credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Microsoft: TNW’s Week in Review [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 11:26 AM PDT
In case you missed any of our coverage here on TNWmicrosoft, we’ll bring you the biggest and best from the Redmond giant every week in a roundup, let’s get into it: Internet Explorer 9 Crushes The CompetitionIt was a banner week for Internet Explorer 9, even as IE8 had some troubles. The browser has been picking up measurable market share in the global market, has been driving more search traffic than Firefox 4 Beta, and has not had any major flaws come to light in recent days. Not bad for a beta, right? Even more, Internet Explorer 9 won a major (and controversial) test of HTML5 compatibility, trouncing the competition in strong form. If that shocks you, you are not alone. Silverlight vs. HTML5The world was abuzz with HTML5 and Silverlight innuendo after the SL platform was all but ignored at PDC10. Silverlight developers were furious over what they deemed to be something of a betrayal by Microsoft, nullifying endless hard work. Microsoft backpedaled to stem some of the bleeding, making verbal propitiations to the effect of “we aren’t dropping it, we are just going to focus on HTML5 for cross-platform compatibility.” Fair enough, but the controversy was reignited when Bing began to move certain features from Silverlight exclusivity to include HTML5 compatibility. We said that it shows the future of what Microsoft has in mind, while many people told us that we were wrong, mostly Silverlight developers. This is a story that we are going to keep tracking closely.
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| 20 New York City Start-Ups You Need To Know About [TNW United States] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 11:24 AM PDT
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes NYC’s start-up center “Silicon Alley,” is superior to California’s Silicon Valley in a number of ways; everything from IT and advertising to fashion and culture as he’s touted numerous times at conferences over the past several months. And it’s true (although I may be slightly biased). This is not the kind of city you come to and kick your feet up. Creativity is far from scarce and the competition is fierce. We’ve all heard about the big name start-ups like Foursquare, Tumblr, Bit.ly, Etsy and MeetUp but here are a few NYC based start-ups you may not know yet– but you should.
1) Kickstarter, a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers and other creative types is one of those incredible start-ups that has the ability to spawn other start-ups. Founded in April 2009 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler, the site is undoubtedly one of the coolest growing businesses in New York City. Artists create videos to outline their projects, set fundraising goals and users come to the site to pledge money in exchange for rewards like small tokens of art, CDs, concert tickets, etc. instead of equity. The trick is, no one is charged and no one gets any money unless the full goal is met. If the goal is met, Kickstarter takes a 5% cut of all successful funding drives. Projects funded on Kickstarter so far include Diaspora, which received over $200,000 to fund a “privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network” and read our article on The Glif, an iPhone 4 tripod mount which raised $137,417 for production.
 5) Yipit: “The daily deal space is going completely crazy with more than 200 deal sites in the U.S.,” says Jim Moran, the co-founder of Yipit, a daily deals aggregator that tracks 1,000 deals a day and streamlines curated offers (only the ones you want) into your inbox. When Yipit launched in February 2010 they had 2,000 users. Now, they boast a growing 65,000 in 19 U.S. cities with two more launching per week. Their 5-person company is growing with a network of nation-wide curators. This summer Yipit raised $1.3 million from Ron Conway, RRE and DFJ Gotham. Founders Vinicius Vacanti and Jim Moran were recently listed on the SAI 100.
8) HowMutch: While still in the relatively early stages and completely self-funded, this NYC start-up wants to become a platform to help brands, small businesses and startups figure out the optimal price for new products and services. It’s about time supply and demand got a 2.0 upgrade. CEO Ari J. Greenberg has worked on a number of NYC startups including Magnify.net, theU.com and MrYouth and Director Gabriel Baldinucci was the former VP of Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson’s Venture Arm. 9) Solvemedia: This is perhaps the most brilliant advertising idea since the age of the Internet. Solvemedia is reinventing the annoying CAPTCHA by replacing random text and numbers with relevant branded messages. A less time-consuming type-in for consumers and a certain win for advertisers and publishers. CEO Ari Jacoby and his other co-founders are ex-Googlers who previously founded VoiceStar, which was acquired in Sept 2007 by Marchex for $28 million.
10) Lot18: Like a Gilt Group for the wine industry. It is “a membership by invitation website for wine and epicurean products from coveted producers at attractive discounts.” Lot18 members have access to fine wines and specialty foods at discounted prices. Founder and CEO Kevin Fortuna was formerly the CEO of Quigo, an advertising technology company that was sold to AOL Time Warner for $360 million in November 2007.
13) Aviary: is a free suite of online photo-editing tools that is far more advanced similar programs like Picnik or 14) MakerBot is a “Robot that make things.” Essentially it is a 3D printer. Download software and it makes plastic anything with about the mass of a coffee cup. While not your traditional start-up, the MakerBot isn’t your traditional anything, which is why it’s the coolest business you’ve probably never heard of. Their product, “The Makerbot” has spawned a 3D printing revolution, dropping the price point on machines that cost tens of thousands of dollars to a paltry $750. Their newest product the MakerBot “Thing-O-Matic,” ($1,225) which debuted at this year’s Maker Faire, is a 3D printer assembly line, printing item after item of thing after thing. 15) Rent the Runway, like a “Netflix for dresses,” is an NYC start-up founded by two Harvard Business School graduates, Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Carter Fleiss. The site allows women to rent dresses from notable fashion designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Hervé Léger and Proenza Schouler for about one-tenth of what they would cost to buy in a retail store. Dry cleaning is included in the price and damage insurance costs $5. The renter is responsible for the full retail price in case the dress is completely destroyed. While their long-term business plan hasn’t been laid out yet, NYC fashion consultant Felicia Tumaneng envisions the brand opening up outlet stores to sell dresses that have gone out of season.
16) SquareSpace makes elegant publishing software. The company began in a dorm room at the University of Maryland in 2004 but has since moved to Soho, New York City. Their publishing platform powers tens of thousands of websites for businesses, bloggers, and professionals worldwide and currently serves billions of hits per month. SquareSpace is killing it with a small team, boasting a 713% 3-year revenue growth. In July of this year, they raised $38.5 million from Index Ventures and Accel Partners, representing the first outside capital the company raised to date.  17) Carbonmade is a simple tool for photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, animators, film makers, models, fashion designers and more to easily manage an online portfolio. The site offers a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work online, keeping your images or videos at the forefront. Users can choose from one of two plans: "Meh." (free) or "Whoo!" ($12 per month). The site currently has nearly 300,000 portfolios. Carbonmade was founded by Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson. Post your portfolio in the comments below for a chance to win a Whoo! upgrade!
19) SinglePlatform recently graced the pages of TNW. This New York City start-up wants to ease restaurants into the next course of internet marketing and social media. Restaurants provide SinglePlatform with their information like menus, photos, events and specials through an easy-to-use portal and SinglePlatform updates it across their hundreds of publishing partners including hotels, city guides, restaurant review sites and application developers. Founder Wiley Cerilli is an established entrepreneur in the restaurant scene. His previous venture SeamlessWeb practically pioneered online food delivery in the early 2000s. 20) VYou is like a combination of Formspring
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| Windows Phone 7: no copy and paste until 2011 [TNW Microsoft] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 10:27 AM PDT
Yes, as it turns out Microsoft has reconfirmed that it will not be trotting out a fix in the next few days as was once hoped, but will instead issue an update in early 2011. That’s right, next year. Oddly enough, Microsoft called that “a matter of weeks,” which may indicate that Microsoft is confused of the current date, or is perhaps going to ship it on the first of January. At least in our books, a minimum two month wait is not “a matter of weeks.” This is the statement in question:
And there you have it. The wait begins now, people, get ready for pasting come the new year.WPcentral, Arpan Shah, Image Credit [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| Mail.ru has a big first day on the London Stock Exchange [TNW UK] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 10:16 AM PDT
The stock was offered at $27.70 a share but quickly went to $37 according to the AFP. Right now, these are only conditional shares, and won’t be available for open trading until November 11. Mail.ru was valued at $5.71 billion at flotation, and all of the shares were 20 times oversubscribed in a two week period. Of course, for international investors, the bigger prize would be if DST’s overseas investments were floated (in addition to Facebook, DST has significant shares in Groupon and Zynga). How much that 2.38% of Facebook will eventually be worth is anyone’s guess, but right now, the consensus valuation of Facebook is somewhere around $33 billion, so even at that valuation, it is worth a pretty penny/ruble.AFP, Paid Content [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
| The Sandpit: A tilt-shift video that will fool your mind [TNW Shareables] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 09:22 AM PDT I’m a sucker for really cool photography and videography. Whether that be macro shots, odd angle or just an incredibly unique aspect, I’ll flip through pictures and videos for hours. The Sandpit, a tilt-shift photography-come-video that details a day in the life of New York City, is worthy of being put on repeat: The music, in case you’re wondering, is an original score by Human, a New York-based audio design company. You can find more work at their site. But the interesting story is what it took to get The Sandpit to come to reality. Aero Film has recently done an interview with one of its own, Sam O’Hare, who is the brain and eyes behind The Sandpit. His methods are very cool, to say the least. There are some interesting take-aways from the interview however:
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| TweetDeck sees a growth explosion with latest version; has biggest day ever. [TNW Social Media] Posted: 05 Nov 2010 08:50 AM PDT
According to an email to TNW from Dodsworth, yesterday was TweetDeck’s biggest day ever in terms of active users over a 24 hour period, and today seems to be shaping up nicely as well. As Dodsworth was replying to our inquiry, he started by stating that there were around 6,000 people either on the TweetDeck site, or viewing the new splash page within the application. By the time he finished his 1-paragraph email, “…it’s telling us there’s around 6k people upgrading their TweetDeck’s right this second – actually now it’s 6,129″. We’re likely to see an update to the TweetDeck blog today, detailing the growth since the last release, so make sure to give it a click. Also, if you’ve not seen what the updates to TweetDeck can do, check out our video of what happens when you have real-time streams coming in from 6,000 people that you follow. API limits? No longer an issue with user streams. According to Dodsworth: “Real time streaming in new TweetDeck is extremely cool but did you realise there’s now no update API limit either”. [Notice: this is the RSS feed for ALL stories from across The Next Web - that means a lot of stories every day - for just our top stories, subscribe to our Top Stories RSS feed here.] |
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