Google Glass gets the first news app for the ‘connected generation’
Google Glass owners now have a news aggregation app. Straight from Glass, they can flag content for later, "like" and "dislike," or listen to an entire article.
Google Glass owners now have a news aggregation app. Straight from Glass, they can flag content for later, "like" and "dislike," or listen to an entire article.
Mass Relevance, a startup that brings calm to a crazy sea of social activity, is rolling out a new 'Digital Mosaic' product today at SXSW that essentially builds an image using tweets, Facebook updates, photos, and even Vine videos.
San Francisco-based Ajent is all about curation, and feeds its users just one "look" per day.
48 percent of the most popular pins on Pinterest lead to expired pages on top retailers brands, according to a new study by Curalate, the social curation company.
Educational app-store-inside-the-app-store KinderTown is releasing data about which educational apps parents want for their kids, based on over 120,000 parental app searches.
The most surprising results? Parents want apps for very, very young kids. And they very definitely want iPad …
Cull TV, a site that features curated playlists of music videos from indie artists, has been acquired by social video network Twitvid, the companies announced today.
Cull TV is sort of what the internet version of Mtv would probably look …
Scoop.it, a tool that lets people gather and distribute content from around the Web based their interests and passions, is launching publicly today after a year in an invite-only beta. A robust algorithm helps you find relevant articles and videos, …
News aggregation site Digg unveiled Newsrooms today, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content on specific topics like technology or politics.
Here’s how it works: Digg takes content from a number of sites it curates, …
A little over a month after launching, music curation social network Rolling.fm has more than 85,000 registered members who have collectively made over a million friend connections through the service, the company announced today.
The “friend connections” metric the company …
Music curation social network Turntable.fm is developing a mobile application for Apple’s iOS devices, according to a report from TechCrunch.
Turntable.fm turns its users into DJs who can share musical tastes within specific virtual rooms classified by subject or genre. …
People who have grown up online might be more eager than most to make the switch from Facebook to Google.
The search giant’s social network — which delivers data in bite-sized chunks thanks to the use of Circles — is …
Thoora is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Looking to help consumers …
Website discovery engine StumbleUpon had 500 million hits last month and its traffic has doubled in 6 months, the company announced today.
StumbleUpon lets users jump through websites by adding a navigation toolbar to the top of every website visited. …
A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. Chief executive Amit Kapur said he left MySpace, the troubled News Corp. Internet portal, because his new company Gravity …
Pearltrees, a social tool for discovering and organizing Web content, has announced it secured a second round of funding for €1.3 million (US$1.6 million). The funding will be used to expand globally, especially in the US.
Pearltrees is a free …