December 2011
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RWW's Top 10 Startups of 2011 →
What happened to startups in 2011? E-commerce and mobile payments continued to grow, and group buying startup Groupon went public. Facebook, the biggest social network around, expanded in a huge way, announcing Timeline, frictionless sharing and a settlement (finally) with the FTC. It also swallowed up many promising startups, including group messaging service Beluga, social network-enhancing...
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7 Solid CSS Resources
Tets+: 30 tutorial videos that walk you through html and css from the very beginning - for free.
CSS Tricks: Blog w/ designer interviews, code snippets, downloads, forums, and more. The content is pretty advanced, so it’s best suited for those already with an understanding of CSS.
Lea Verou: An incredible designer who has developed a set of CSS3 tools that showcase and help you develop...
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Adapt.ly - Social Media Ad Buying
Adaptly offers one consolidated platform to complete a social media ad buy across multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, StumbleUpon and more.
Founded in 2010 by Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom, Adaptly was incubated through DreamIt Ventures and is now based in New York City. Investors include First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, Lerer Ventures, kbs+p Ventures and...
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Crowdtwist: Social Loyalty and Rewards
CrowdTwist is a social loyalty and rewards platform that engages and activates a brand’s audience wherever the brand is, both online and offline. It’s service gives brands the ability to track, incentivize and reward customer engagement across any online, social or mobile channel.
Founded in 2009 by Irving Fain, Josh Bowen and Mike Montero, CrowdTwist is based in New York City and is...
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Local Response: Real-time, Location-based Mobile...
Local Response is the world’s first cross-platform “check-in” based ad network. Founded in 2005, it’s based in Chelsea NYC, and is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 & early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse. It has received $6.5 million in funding to date.
How It...
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Foodspotting - Brand Integration Brainstorm
Foodspotting is a mobile and web app available for all devices that allows users to find and share the foods they love by sharing photos and knowledge about their favorite dishes at their favorite restaurants. It has more than 1.5 million users and has worked with brands such as Zagat, the Travel Channel, Bravo, and Thrillist.
While some would say “Why the heck would I take pictures of my...
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My Love/Hate Relationship w/ Facebook Timeline
Facebook rolled out its new timeline profile to everyone last week. Like a kid in a candy store, I clicked-through and put mine together.
Positives
It’s Prettier: For the first time, Facebook added a much needed aesthetic touch to its platform. The large cover photo gives people a great way to showcase something epic to represent themself.
Timeline Functionality: This added...
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4 BIG Reasons that #NewnewTwitter is Awesome
In April, I wrote a post completely bashing Twitter for its faults on Tech.li. These faults consisted of the following:
Conversation
Discovery
Content Lifespan
Dumb People
But after using #newnewtwitter for the past week, I have to admit that the Twitter team has reconciled all their weaknesses and that I am officially falling back in love with the platform.
For those of you that...
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Silicon Alley All-Stars’ Marathon Coding Session... →
Hacktivism goes far beyond Anonymous.
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Inside an 80 year old "smart" NYC building →
smarterplanet:
Manhattan’s density, supported by its mass transit infrastructure, is the principle reason the average New Yorker has a smaller carbon footprint than her counterpart in another large US city. At the…
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Enterproid: Separate Work and Personal within One...
Cool product that allows you to separate work and personal profile within one mobile device. They provide business class solutions, which would be huge for the BYOD (bring your own device) movement that I’m a fan of. Learn more on their website.
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OGILVY YOUTH: STARTUP GENERATION: The New American... →
We’re co-hosting Startup University with Ogilvy Youth tomorrow. See what it’s all about below.
In certain circles, you can’t turn around these days without hearing of your friends’ latest startups, of twenty-somethings aiming to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and of the latest 30 Under 30 lists. For the majority of Gen Y, roughly defined as those born between 1980-1995, “making it”...
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All Tweets are Now Embeddable - Is Twitter Killing... →
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Turntable.fm: Branded Rooms and Exclusive Offers
My crush on Turntable.fm is no secret. DJ Wooooo’s House/Dance/Electro is where I reside just about every workday. Although it offers no advertising opportunities for brands to date, here’s something they should consider soon…and I’d like to pioneer.
Brands should launch custom branded rooms that offer specials periodically throughout the day for listeners.
For...
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Android Phone Name Generator →
So this is how they come up with all those crazy names for Android phones.
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Learn HTML and CSS in 30 Days for Free with Tuts+ →
30 days of 10-minute video tutorials that teach you html and css from the very beginning.
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Immersive Labs: Serving Ads to the Right Faces
In short, Immersive Labs has facial recognition technology that analyzes a person’s demographics and serves an ad that would be most relevant.
Already impressive, but they go beyond that by providing full analytics and ad optimization. Immersive Labs cross-analyzes the number of glances and average time of glance with their demographic information and optimizes itself automatically to...
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Social Guide: Social TV Data, Widgets, and More
Social Guide collects a ton of social data surrounding television shows and movies. This data is a huge asset for brands, networks, media buyers, and production houses.
Here are some use cases and ideas:
Social TV Guide: Networks should all license Social Guide’s data and implement an interactive, social TV guide where shows are ranked by the buzz surrounding them, and social content...
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Uberhype: Hype Machine's Android App
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The Hype Machine is an essential site for music enthusiasts looking to discover new sounds. The site aggregates songs shared on a wide variety of music blogs, making them available in one place. While it’s had a slick, official iPhone app for some time, there hasn’t been anything anywhere near as good for Android – until now.
UberHype is an unofficial app that is essentially what...
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Senseg's tactile display gets demoed on a tablet,... →
This is incredible. Senseg created technology that allows you to feel different textures on a tablet screen. It uses an electrostatic field-based system that allows different parts of the screen to produce varying degrees of friction, ultimately producing the feeling of different terrains and textures on the device screen. This is going to be huge for gaming as seen in the video upon...
