During Ad:Tech San Francisco we met up with Lisa Leung of Modiface. Modiface has launched a new consumer-personalized Online Ad Platform that they claim to have a 75% higher interaction rate. The way it works is consumers upload a personal photo directly into ads for a life-like beauty simulation. Modiface grew out of face…continue reading.
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The new MSN City Guides http://cityguides.msn.com/ features a new design, integrated Live Search and Live Search Maps, video, content-sharing and more. It offers a range of features to help people explore, make plans and share information with their friends. Specifically, new integration with popular social networking services such as Windows Live and Facebook makes planning…continue reading.
New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and: Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook. Send messages or call people in your Friends list. Manage your profile…continue reading.
In the recent past, “realtime” has become one of the most overused buzzwords around (right up there with “social” and “community”). And nothing realtime has been more talked about than search.twitter.com. It’s been touted as a Google killer, though in it’s present state Twitter‘s search is an entirely different beast. For one thing, it currently…continue reading.
TechZulu catches up with an old friend Ben Katz of Coveroo (Formally Wallop who then became Coveroo after Etchstar acquisition) at the OnHollywood 09 Conference. Ben goes over a few of the changes he has gone through that took part after the Wallop Acquisition. He also shows us some of the amazing new products and…continue reading.
Google is now expanding its map-based, location-aware service Latitude beyond the the Latitude destination in new ways with a public location sharing badge for third party sites and other apps that incorporate location. The first of those other apps is Google Talk. In the first example, Google has enabled those already signed up for Latitude…continue reading.
Never mind the torrent trackers, Microsoft’s official download links for the Windows 7 release candidate are now live! At this point, the downloads are still moving along at a good pace (560K/s in my case). Don’t forget what happened last time, though. The surge of Beta downloaders proved to be too much for Microsoft’s servers…continue reading.
Coremetrics is a online marketing and business optimization solution. They help your business by finding you the most profitable customers and analyzing their online interaction with your website. If this is sounding pretty familiar it’s because most analytics services, such as Google Analytics, Omniture, and others do pretty much the same thing. They are really…continue reading.
The White House just put up a Flickr Stream (291 photos uploaded yesterday, 1 uploaded today) of their comings and goings. These are some pretty good shots. If you can’t get enough of your Obamas and Bidens and Emanuels and presidential dogs, look no further. If not, look at little further. < Also, if you’ve…continue reading.
Engadget recently posted an interesting story about an ultrasound device being developed for Windows Mobile phones. According to the article, two computer science professors at Washington University have created a USB ultrasound probe for Windows Mobile smartphones. The device could be used by traveling medical staff, emergency workers, in ambulances, and anywhere else there was…continue reading.
