Washington, D.C. based startup LivingSocial is actually a discovery, organization and catalog network which lets users share and review their favorite stuff which includes movies, books, games, music, restaurants, TV shows, etc. So far more than 6.4 billion users have catalogued over a billion items by integrating into various social networks which includes MySpace, Facebook, hi5, Bebo and Orkut. You can also search a specific title or publisher. To use the service, you have to go through a simple process of registration. The potential is there, it is just how they use that potential. Overall the service is good.
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If you are fed up with registering to sites with different usernames then UserNameCheck is the place for you. You just have to write your desired username and the site will let you know if the specific username is available or not. The startup uses Dojo as it perform all the checks with the help of Ajax.
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Glue for iPhone from AdaptiveBlue on Vimeo.
Glue for iPhone is a free application that lets you enjoy Adaptive Blue projects. Now you can use the application while on the go and access the information stored in the Glue Network. The application not only shows your liked but also the favorites of your friends. To access the information from the network, you can use three buttons which are:
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Swedish BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay has gained huge popularity in the last couple of months. Now the number of users downloading pirate stuff such as music, movies, TV shows and softwares, have passed the total amount of people living in the Scandinavia. Almost two months ago, the site went up to 15 million peers. These numbers have now changed to 25 million which is a tremendous amount of change. Also the site owners have requested the Guinness Book of World Records to consider it as the world’s largest torrent tracker.
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Yahoo’s co-founder Jerry yang has finally step down as the company’s CEO. He will return to his former position as Chief Yahoo! and will remain board member. He took the role of CEO on the request of the board in June last year. Things under his tenure didn’t go well and the company lost billions of dollars along with a number of executives.
Current development means that the search for new CEO has begun. We can’t say who will be the next CEO of Yahoo, but it is sure that he/she will have a very challenging time ahead. Here is the press release:
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Madrid, Spain based company Wuonm has released a speed dialer app for the iPhone, FaceCall. The app puts the image icon of your contact on the home screen of the iPhone. The application is best for one touch dialing and you can add as many icons as you want. You can easily create an icon by following three steps:
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Michael Zimbalist, the vice president of The New York Times’ Research and Development, has demonstrated a news reader based on AIR 1.5 at Adobe Max conference. The company used the content of International Herald Tribune for the demonstration, but the reader for The New York Time will also be released. Though a desktop reader already exists for Times, but it is heavy. Flash 10 capabilities, which are also used by AIR 1.5, have been used in the latest app.
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Tricky Software Inc., a development studio has released Armando which is a 3D gaming platform for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. The company is staffed by the former employees of the gaming giant EA and have worked on hit games such as Godfather and Spore Origins. With such an experienced team, it won’t be surprising to see the game gaining success.
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