On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, "Pro" option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services...

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The long wait for the popular Twitter client Tweetbot to arrive on the iPad is over. The robot-themed app has a definite reputation to live up to as it has become one of the de-facto alternatives to Twitter’s increasingly newbie focused official clients. This release follows today’s earlier launch of Tweetbot 2.0 for iPhone, an app which we reviewed here and quite liked. We’ve been using Tweetbot for iPad for several weeks now and have had time to acclimate to using one of our favorite apps on ...  show all text

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Hot off the press release presses: tech blog GigaOm has acquired paidContent (and parent company ContentNext) from The Guardian. Rumors of the acquisition were first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. Wrote GigaOm founder Om Malik in a blog post: “ The ethos of paidContent and our company are in sync. GigaOM’s core belief is that as connectivity becomes ubiquitous, it changes everything from society to business to we the people. paidContent from the very beginning has been built on the idea...  show all text

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For the last ten years, I've attended SxSW Interactive, a wonderful conference focused on changes in the way people interact, especially online. When I started going to SxSW, it was a much smaller conference and more like a fan convention than a typical industry convention. I felt as if I had found my tribe and met lots of new people that I have kept in touch with ever since. I learned a tremendous amount and hopefully added to the discussion a bit myself. The trip was a sabbatical from my corp...  show all text

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Först ut i E-handelsonsdag är hörlursbutiken Headler. Butiken startades den 20 oktober 2010 och har sedan dess växt mer och mer. Bakom sajten står de trevliga killarna Anton och Eric. De lyckades faktiskt dra igång butiken på ynka tre månader och med ett fantastiskt resultat. Ingen är väl i och för sig förvånad över resultatet. Anton och Eric har jobbat tillsammans tidigare och både är extremt duktiga på det de gör. De har valt att leja bort all logistik till en tredje part, mycket på grund av ...  show all text

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Details are sparse and we have calls in, but the two execs at Klarna, Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, were arrested at the W Hotel in New York for alleged molestation. The victim was a 19-year-old tourist from Texas. Saltin and Adalberth are currently out on $10,000 bail. According to the report: “defendant Adalberth straddled informant, both defendants removed informant’s clothes, and defendant Adalberth grabbed informant’s breast. Deponent is further informed that she did not consent to said  show all text

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Part creative studio, part business consultancy. If you have something big in mind, or just need an extra set of hands, Uppercut is for hire.

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As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues. The new rules, which apply to all of the corporation's correspondents, reporters and producers, were announced on Wednesday a day after it was revealed Sky News had told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster...  show all text

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong presence on the East and West coasts and in Europe, and coverage of everything from media and big data, to the cloud and mobile, to book publishing and online video—not to mention the startup scene in various markets. It’s a very exciting development for us, as ContentNext and GigaOM share so many of the same goals and have such similar cultures. We both believe fu...  show all text

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Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Tweetbot — A Twitter Client with Personality for iPad on the App Store. Download Tweetbot — A Twitter Client with Personality for iPad and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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It’s been awhile since our last major Tweetbot update, but today we are proud to announce Tweetbot 2.0 for the iPhone! We hope the wait was worth it. Tweetbot 2.0 is a free upgrade for current users. So What’s New? This version comes with many significant improvements to the Timeline and Direct Messages. Here are the major changes in more detail: Updated timeline view Image thumbnails in timeline Links now colored and single-tappable “Retweeted by” bar now integrated and tappable Cell colors ad...  show all text

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Ever since the launch of Tweetbot, many of you have been asking us for an iPad version. Unfortunately there’s a lot of work involved because it’s not as simple as just making everything bigger. Our goal for the iPad app was to provide a familiar Tweetbot experience while making use of the iPad’s larger size. Well today we are happy to announce Tweetbot for the iPad! As with the original Tweetbot for iPhone, version 1.0 is about getting you a solid first version. We still have a lot of work ahead  show all text

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Tapbots are simple utility robots designed and engineered with care for the iPhone and iPod Touch. These applications are fun, easy to use, and extremely useful for everyone.

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Image from: J Corey Davis Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network’s functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google’s social platform, which links together personalized search, a customizable social network, and the ability to add value to any page on the web with the new and highly versatile +1. 2011 was certainly an exciting year for the company, with over 37.9 billi...  show all text

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Kerry Wilkinson's Jessica Daniel detective novels sell more than 250,000 copies on Kindle A self-published author has beaten names including Lee Child, James Patterson and Stieg Larsson to become the bestselling ebook author on Amazon.co.uk for the last three months of 2011, the online retailer said on Wednesday. Kerry Wilkinson, 31, self-published Locked In, the first book in his Jessica Daniel series of detective novels, last year, only to find it shoot up the UK's Kindle charts. The three-bo...  show all text

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We learned yesterday that some folks in Silicon Valley think that having apps upload a bald copy of your address book to their servers is an “industry best practice” for spurring quick viral growth.  To us it sounds like an unnecessary and serious disrespect of address book privacy. We hope that a quick look at the way Textie Messaging handles your address book data will illustrate that there are better “industry best” practices out there.  You needn’t settle for less. Let’s say you’ve installed  show all text

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Dejta ihop: hur firar du som singel Alla hjärtans dag? Carnebro Såhär är det. Jag är singel. Det är helt okej för det mesta, men finns det en dag då man blir extremt tydligt påmind om det så är det Alla hjärtans dag. En del hävdar att de inte bryr sig, andra att det är ett kommersiellt jippo, en del drar ihop ett gäng singlar eller kompisar och gör nåt tillsammans, åter andra struntar i det. Men jag är också ganska aktiv på twitter. Och inför det här årets Valentines Day skulle jag faktiskt vil...  show all text

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations see to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ha...  show all text

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Jag har akademikerföräldrar. Jag är skilsmässobarn. Uppvuxen i Solna och i Upplands Väsby. Mitt första jobb (säljare) betalade så dåligt att jag plankade på tåget och levde på mjölk, ris och nudlar varje dag i ett år. Jag har 160 hp men ingen examen. Jag har en studieskuld på 115,000. Jag har misslyckats med fyra företag. Ett av dem kostade mig 200,000. Jag startade ett femte. Jag jobbar minst 50, oftast 60, timmar per vecka. Min hopsamlade pension är 127,000. Jag är 26 år gammal. 2011 tjänade ...  show all text

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It’s beautiful, it’s addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history. In fact, users are spending so much time sharing their favorite images that now only Facebook and Tumblr have more social media time on site than Pinterest. Who’s propelling its rise? 18-34 year old upper  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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