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22/02/2012
The Pinterest Effect: Conde Nast Casts ‘Easy Living’ In The Mold Of Hot New Social Network
22/02/2012
Hot On The Heels Of Spotify, Rdio Expands Music Streaming To Spain, Portugal
22/02/2012
Daily Crunch: Moonlight
22/02/2012
Alert: Social Media Is Eating Into Carrier Revenues, And It’s Only Getting Worse
22/02/2012
Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad
22/02/2012
Revel Wants To Bring iPad-Powered Point Of Sale Systems To The Hospitality And Retail Industries
21/02/2012
Now You Need Quora Credits To Ask Questions, But Can Also Use Them To Promote Content
21/02/2012
WhyIsFacebookInsightsNotWorking.com Is A Site That Tells You….
21/02/2012
Why Mobile Game Devs Should Port To Mac OS -Advice From Cut The Rope’s ZeptoLab
21/02/2012
EVE Online Saw $66M In Revenue Last Year, Mulls IPO
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Done right, it can also help the imitator tap into the zeitgeist and pick up more followers as a result.
That looks like it might have been some of the logic behind the relaunch of the website of Easy Living, a UK magazine published by Conde Nast, which relaunched this month with a Pinterest-like grid interface on its home page.
The landgrab for music streaming customers is on, and Rdio -- the U.S.-based startup from Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis -- is joining that race in earnest.
The company today announced that it is now live in Spain and Portugal, just one month after it launched in its first European service, in Germany. The total number of countries where Rdio now works is up to eight, including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia and New Zealand -- and hints that there will be more to come.
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Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have long counted on the rise in smartphone usage to help fuel their growth: that trend, however, seems to also be taking a toll on mobile carriers -- specifically in the form of revenues.
The analyst firm of Ovum, part of the Informa Group, has estimated that operators lost $13.9 billion in SMS revenue in 2011, as a result of their customers using services like Twitter and Facebook to message each other instead of the carriers' own text messaging services -- a big rise on the $8.7 billion Ovum estimates was lost in 2010. A separate report from mobile analytics firm Bytemobile has also charted huge growth in the use of social media on mobile -- with operators getting virtually no benefit as a result.
Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its users have curated a total of more than 3 million social objects. And now you can do that curation from your iPad.
The company was already mobile, in the sense that stories (which are essentially curated timelines of content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and more) created with its tools could be viewed on smartphones and tablets. But with the new Storify iPad app, you can create those stories on a mobile device, too. In fact, co-founder and CEO Xavier Damman argues that this may be the first great app for content creation (rather than consumption) on the iPad.
The addition of the iPad into the point of sale system or cash register isn't a new trend. Many small businesses are swapping out traditional cash registers for iPads and credit card processors like Square. But large restaurant chains and other establishments still need a complete front-to-back-of-house (i.e. a system that can send receipts to the kitchen) solution. 
Quora has 
.... Whether or not Facebook's in-house analytics product, Insights, is working. Due to product changes in recent weeks, the tool has been 
Last week, a Mountain Lion roared "Mac is the next big gaming platform." Apple is 
CCP Games, the makers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game EVE Online, says the company brought in $66 million in revenue last year.
The game, a science fictional adventure set in a star cluster dominated by five major civilizations, first launched in 2003, and its subscriber base (currently about 400,000) has grown every year since launch. Revenue has been growing too, at a compound annual growth rate of 53 percent, bringing in total revenue of $300 million over the game's lifetime. As for profits, CCP would only say that it has "very healthy margins" — a claim backed up by the fact that it has grown to more than 450 employees despite only raising $3 million in seed funding.