Glassmap just launched today. It’s an app that persistently shares your location with your friends.
Yup, it tracks your friends very closely.
Co-founder Geoffrey Woo says the app aspires to let you ”point at your friends, see what they’re seeing, and jump into their context.” Glassmap is designed to know where your friends are and how long they’ve been there.
The app was conceived at Stanford University with the help of YCombinator. Currently 10% of Stanford undergrads are using the app. It has since rolled out to 10 other colleges.
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Tablet devices like the iPad and Amazon Kindle are shaping the lives of our current youth.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to today’s parents. Most parents probably use these devices for quiet time and education.
Often referred to as the Generation Z or Internet Generation, these kids are already heavily using tablet devices for gaming and education.
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While Facebook is preparing to go public, Twitter is far from doing so.
New emails obtained by CNNMoney show potential dissent in Twitter ranks.
You might remember Evan Weaver resigning back in August of 2011. He was the man responsible for fixing the Fail Whale issues Twitter faced almost daily.
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Augmented reality is about to change the way we browse the Internet and consume digital information.
Today, we use our mouse or fingers to interact with our screens and devices.
Tomorrow, our hands will be free to interact and consume content like never before.
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Klout just announced that they have bought out Blockboard which is a company with a proven track record of creating a new hyper-local experience for mobile users.
The team at Blockboard have been working hard at connecting neighbors with the goal to build stronger communities using mobile technology.
Let’s face it, how many of us really know our neighbors? We probably try to avoid them too at times. But Blockboard (from it’s original $1m round of seed funding) wants to change this. Now with Klout involved, the possibilities are endless.
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Super Bowl XLVI will be the first super bowl in history to connect fans and the game with mobile and social media (on this scale).
It doesn’t matter what team you’re a fan of, Sunday’s Super Bowl will have something for everyone. Even fans of the commercials!
Fans of the teams and fans of commercials will be able to have access to a variety of apps that will transform the way you view the game.
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3D Printing is set to become mainstream in the coming years.
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay wants to make sure they are in the fore-front of making it possible for people to download physical goods from the internet.
Yes you heard right, download physical items. But how you say?
“Physibles” are designed to allow people to share data files that essentially contain the blue print for printing a physical item with 3D printing technologies.
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A new study released today by BCG shows that the web economy for G20 countries is going to double by 2016.
It also reports that the driving force behind the rapid growth is Mobile Internet.
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If you’ve been laid off recently or simply looking to change careers, then you may be looking to pick up a new skill quickly. In the past that would probably mean you’d need to enroll in some classes at a college or university.
The Internet is now home to several online learning websites that (in some cases) can be better than college.
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With Facebook quickly approaching nearly 1 billion users and the increase in new web applications like Spotify and Foodily, the famous “Like” button is in dire need of some siblings.
And we’re not talking about the “dis-like” button.
Facebook has announced that more than 60 new apps are going live. These apps will be apart of the Open Graph allowing people to tell their stories and add things they love to their timeline.
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