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Facebook’s Acquisition of Oculus VR May Usher The ‘Second Life’ View of Your Social Graph
Facebook has gone ahead and made another bold purchase. On Tuesday, the social networking company announced that it had paid $2 billion in cash and stock for Oculus VR, the creators of a virtual reality headset useful in 3D gaming. Some were befuddled and chagrined by the move, wondering what benefit Facebook would have with […]
Twilio Adds Open-Source ‘Rapid Response Kit’ To Help Teams Deploy Apps In A Crisis
It’s no surprise that technology has played an integral part in times of disaster, emergency, or crisis. Companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google have all offered their support to assist people in affected parts of the world to ensure they can communicate with their loved ones and help share eyewitness accounts. One of those companies […]
Path Discovers Its Way To Being Useful With 2.0, But Could It Be Social Media Overload?
I’ll admit it…sometimes it takes me a while before I can really get into some form of technology. Why? Because it doesn’t make sense to me. It’s rare but I don’t know what the business’s use case will be and how it will cater to those people who are beyond the range of Silicon Valley. […]
1000memories Puts Your Family Tree In The Cloud & Lets You Cultivate It
As we move forward with our lives and grow our families, how often are we keeping track of the past? Are we keeping track of who our grandparents were and what their lives are like? Family history is probably one of the most important things in our lives since it’s a powerful force in defining […]
Urbandig Gets You Lost So You Can Explore Hidden Locales
Nearly four years ago, I moved to San Francisco to find a job. During the first two years, it was then that I decided to get out and explore the new city that I now lived in. For me, and perhaps lots of people who visit new places, looking for things that are off the […]
Cake Health Aims To Prove Healthcare Costs Can Be Managed & Simplified
Perhaps one of the most financially troubling and stressful things that people have to deal with is managing their health insurance. Often, we get our insurance from our employers or through our loved one’s workplace and then get taken care of. But then again, there are those people who get insurance through other means who […]
5 Useful Applications Marketers Should Have on Their iPads
The invention of the Apple iPad revolutionized how presentations and other tasks were done without being constrained to a desktop computer. Being mobile has really helped change the way we do business, and while there are a plethora of tablet devices out there, like the Samsung Galaxy S, the HP TouchPad (okay, not really), Motorola […]
Going Colorblind: How An App Once Had Promise, But Left Customers Confused
The world is full of promise. There are a lot of talented individuals waiting to produce the next Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Foursquare. It is the understanding that investors and people who want companies to succeed will pick the ones that will show promise and that people will understand. And here in Silicon Valley, we […]
MUNI Cheapens Its Brand By Not Updating Its Web Presence
We’re all in a crisis now…economically speaking, of course. Budgets are as tight as they possibly could be, but things just aren’t getting any better. As a result of this budgetary crisis, businesses and even government agencies are resigning themselves to cut services to their constituents. One such organization that has affected me is the […]
Checking In: VaynerMedia Shows Geolocation Can Reap Business Benefits
The team at VaynerMedia, operated by brothers Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk, released a case study that attempts to prove to the marketing and business world that geolocation services can be used to help drive business to your brand. What is geolocation? Known also as location-based services, this technology has recently grown more popular thanks to […]
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