Planet 9 Studios’ RayGun could make GPS fun
Can someone build a GPS system that’s not a boring necessity and instead is a fun way to socialize with your friends? That’s what Planet 9 Studios, a San Francisco startup, wants to accomplish with RayGun, a GPS navigation and social networking application. It is already available in 2D and is about to launch a 3D version.
With RayGun, you can create an avatar to represent yourself, and move around in the application. You can also share… Continue Reading
Caught up? Here’s everything from Blekko, Dash’s price, to Android sighting
The holiday break felt especially long this time, so here’s a longer roundup than usual — of everything you may have missed over the last few days:
Ebay’s Kijiji tries to tar Craiglist’s reputation — The NYT has a story about Kijiji, a competitor to online classifieds company Craigslist. The remarkable thing about the story is that it lets Kijiji executives associate Craigslist with offers of “sadomasochistic encounters and prostitutes,” without some sort of response from Craiglist…. Continue Reading