TechCrunch May 2012: Invest in your friends and favorite places, build your portfolio and raise your social value.
TechCrunch May 2012: What if snipping a coupon was as simple as snapping your smartphone camera? That's the idea behind SnipSnap, the first app to scan, save, and redeem printed coupons on your mobile phone. Prepare to save some serious moolah.
TechCrunch Disrupt May 2012: "Mirth only requires a one-time sign-up with your 16-digit credit card number to get started. No app, no check-ins — all you need is your credit card. From there just visit your favorite spots like normal. If you visit the same restaurant twice in a rolling 30-day period, you instantly become a regular, meaning you’ll not only receive 3 percent off every purchase you make, but that the merchant will have a direct line of communication with you."
New social commerce / group gifting site launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012
Symptom look-up with a guided dive into what's ailing you and what may be the most likely explanations
TechCrunch Disrupt 2012: social gifting site to plan group gifts, discuss ideas, get feedback from recipient. Not bad
TechCrunch Dsirupt 2012: The Chat& software is a NO DOWNLOAD "SaaS" collaborative chat application that allows a company's live sales and support staff to connect directly with customers via 1-to-1 real-time sessions. Chat& delivers a virtual "e-showroom" that recreates the face-to-face experience a customer has with a real person in a retail showroom. When needed, the online assistant can take over website navigation for customers as if they were live and in-person with that individual.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2012:
Babelverse relies on people to preserve the quality, context, cultural relevance, tone and emotion of the spoken word. Better than any algorithm! Machine translation is just not reliable for real conversations.
Skilled multilingual and professional interpreters alike can earn money for their time, creating a new source of income for people all over the world. It also opens up a global market for interpretation.
Babelverse interpreters receive a 70% cut of the per minute interpretation price. Rates are set by Babelverse(per language pair) according to several parameters such as cost of life in the relevant countries. Thus avoiding a bid to the bottom, both in terms of pricing and quality.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2012: Aurality makes it easier than ever to listen to blogs, news, articles or any website you love. Tell us exactly what you want or tune in to our recommendations.
- Not my thing but there's probably a good audience for it
“This was already a big part of my job, but now what we’re trying to do is figure out how to package this information in a way that benefits our clients and hopefully the rest of the industry,” said 360i vp of emerging media David Berkowitz, who is leading the effort.
“This is about focusing on what we do best and providing strategic guidance to our clients,” he said. “It’s not about creating a whole new business model.”
A list of Foursquare badge campaigns - useful for anyone considering this
"Control your desktop and interact with apps through natural hand and finger movements with The Leap."
- Ordered one of these. Can't wait.
a) The spelling of this startup's name offends me on so many levels. It is actually painful to type.
b) I haven't seen anything new here at all in terms of social news, except for how long it took to enter my preferences.
c) Brett Petersel just joined as CMO. Good luck, Brett!
These are great visuals to understand the options with 3D printing
Facebook only began this year to allow ads directly in users' "news feed," and to permit advertisers to pay to make sure their ads are seen by those they wish to reach. And the social media giant has a Trojan horse in Facebook Connect, argues David Berkowitz, vice president of emerging media at 360i. The tool, launched in 2008, allows more than 9 million other websites and mobile apps to let their users log in using Facebook. That enables them to use social information that Facebook has captured about the user to, for instance, show what their friends "like" on the site. Facebook could go a step further and also allow sites that use Connect to incorporate individual user data into their advertising systems.
“The IPO means Facebook will have to pay more attention to its marketers because that's where the money is coming from,” said David Berkowitz, 360i's VP of emerging media. “Historically, marketers have needed Facebook more than it has needed marketers, but now the tables have turned and marketers are going to demand more accountability.”
Berkowitz said Facebook can improve its offering through several ways, including improving its analytics, its search capabilities and potentially becoming an ad network similar to Google...
Facebook has around 150 million users in the US alone. Facebook also has more information about users than Googcurrently has, Berkowitz said. “Social advertising works and Facebook is in a position to show this better than any other company on the planet,” Berkowitz said. “It needs to focus more on what the value is and it needs to tie it to more ROI metrics.”
Interesting way to connect various services. Not sure what use case I'd have for it but something may well come up:
Connects your Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, and other web services / apps to Dropbox.
Drag & drop files into a predefined folder on Dropbox and have them automatically converted and synced to your favorite places.
New microfinance model, giving credit to people based on trust
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