Startup Wants You to Order Dinner Without Leaving Facebook
Facebook’s purchase of social-gifting app Karma on Friday shows not only
that the company is looking to beef up its mobile services, but that it’s
also looking to diversify its revenue stream beyond advertising.
Karma alerts you when your friends have milestones approaching, and makes
it easy for you to send them a gift, even if you don’t have their address.
Ordr.in, a Google Ventures-backed startup, has a similar strategy, but
addresses a need more primal than what to get a friend for her graduation
from college: what to have for dinner.
“We’re dealing with food, and food is in... more »
Order Dinner Without Leaving Facebook
Now it's easier than ever to nosh while you're posting a status update.
Ordr.in, a Google Ventures-backed startup, offers a Facebook app that turns
ordering food for delivery into a social experience.
“Food is inherently social,” David Bloom, CEO of the five-employee New York
City shop, said in an interview. “It lends itself well to Facebook.”
At its heart, Ordr.in is an API for building social food delivery services.
Restaurants share their menus with Ordr.in and pay a commission every time
they receive an order through the application. The app can sit on a
restaurant’s fan pag... more »
Read/Write Daily: The Animals Are Pwning Us
Today's theme is *wild technology*. We *homo sapiens*-type people are
proud of our technology, but we'd better give credit where credit is due.
Lots of other species can literally eat us without having to invent any
weapons to help them.
Some can even outsmart us.
This rich infographic goes into depth about the amazing eyes of some of the
world's hardiest species.
Here are six animals that are so smart, it's creepy.
Namit Arora contemplates the inner lives of animals in this intriguing
essay.
Japanese scientists have invented a "dolphin speaker" that may enable us to
communic... more »
Tracking the Performance of Past Tech IPOs
With the lackluster first day issue of Facebook on Friday, we thought we
would take a moment to look at the memorable tech IPOs of the past and see
how they have fared over the years. While the first day "pop" of some
companies can generate news, what is more important is the longer-term
performance of the stock - say, after three years of trading. The chart
above shows some of these percentage gains – and losses.
One of the more memorable first-day increases was the doubling of share
price for Netscape Corp. when it went public back in 1995 to raise the
then-unheard-of sum of $1.... more »
Liberals want another tax on job creators (Fuller)
*Also published at the Bakersfield Californian*
Last week, Chief Executive Magazine ranked California as the worst state
for business for the eighth year in a row. That's right -- a survey of CEOs
across the country said California was the last place they'd want to do
business because of high energy, labor and land costs, regulatory burdens,
transportation congestion, and of course, high taxes.
This is critical because California's unemployment rate has remained at its
highest levels in history, and the jobs we need have been disappearing.
Kern County has seen record unemployment ... more »
Internet Society: ICANN, Internet Transitions and Why IPv4 Won't Die
When your job is to be open to everyone's ideas, sometimes the hardest
part for you is to just go with the right one. In Part 2 of ReadWriteWeb's
interview with Internet Society (ISOC) senior public policy manager Sally
Wentworth (Part 1 of which was published on Thursday), we discuss how
difficult it can be to navigate the routes of change in Internet
architecture, especially when everyone out there - ICANN, Comcast, Russia,
etc. - seems to have a different idea.
While maybe hundreds of white papers are published every day leading off
with the statement that the Internet is cha... more »
Social reading should focus on common interests rather than friend status
Joe Wikert at O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. - 7 hours ago
In this TOC podcast, we hear from ReadSocial co-founder Travis Alber on why
they're building their platform without tying it to your social graph.
Amazon Streamlines Mechanical Turk With Automatic Categorization App
The idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk is pretty simple - break
programming work down into bite-sized chunks, and put it in front of a
large workforce that can do the work quickly and cheaply. Part of the
challenge of that is making it easy for requesters to create the bites that
workers are chewing on. The new categorization app from Amazon removes some
of the hurdles of creating HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that ask workers
to pick the best category for items. The result could make the crowdsource
coding marketplace even more usable and popular.
Creating a request for Mec... more »
Health Information Technology: putting the patient back into health care
Andy Oram at O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. - 8 hours ago
In health information technology, we have a rare chance to ensure that the
most affected members of the public actually have their own direct
representative. A letter in support of Regina Holliday.
Why Every Startup Founder Needs a Mentor - And How to Find One
Why does founding a startup sometimes feel like the loneliest journey on
the planet? Yes, you may be surrounded by family and friends who want to
support you emotionally, but do they really understand what you’re going
through?
The answer: Find yourself a mentor.
No "Yes Men"
Surrounding yourself with “yes men” is a stupid startup move. Instead,
“all” you need to do is find someone who’s “been there, done that,” and is
willing to tell you the truth. Don’t scoff. There’s true value having
someone you can bounce ideas off of or who can offer a different
perspective.
“Why wouldn... more »
What do mHealth, eHealth and behavioral science mean for the future of healthcare?
Alex Howard at O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. - 9 hours ago
We're just at the beginning of discovering how to best develop and utilize
mobile technology to improve the health of individuals and the public, says
Dr. Audie Atienza.
Disassembling Android Part 2: Who Wields the Blowtorch?
*This is Part Two of a two-part series on* *Disassembling Android.*
"Android is open for disruption.” That's what Stewart Putney, CEO of the
mobile gaming company Moblyng, said last August. He was talking about the
potential for HTML5 Web apps to disrupt the Android Market (now Google
Play), but he may have been oddly prophetic. Android has not been riding
high in 2012. More than one competitor is lining up to strike a decisive
blow.
To truly disrupt Android, other OS makers face an uphill battle. It is no
longer 2009, when Android stepped into a mobile market hungry for option... more »
How Social Video Could Kill YouTube
Startups like SocialCam and Viddy, two of the fastest growing social
networks for sharing video on smartphones, may be on a collision course
with Google-owned YouTube. While initial indicators are far from
conclusive, rumblings of a possible market tsunami are afoot.
From January to March, people spent 10% less time watching YouTube videos
online, while users of mobile video apps increased their viewing time by
52%, according to San Francisco-based Flurry, a mobile advertising and
analytics platform provider. In March, each active user averaged 425
minutes on YouTube and 231 minut... more »
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