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Digg is almost dead, tech team hired by The Washington Post
- Multiple sources are reporting that the Washington Post has hired Digg’s technology team from the once-thriving social news site. The new staffers will be tasked with maintaining the publisher’s Personal Post project and Social Reader app on Facebook while the…
Over $175 million pledged with Kickstarter in just three years
- Kickstarter, a crowd funding website where individuals pitch their ideas to the masses and ask for funding, just celebrated its three year anniversary. The site opened on April 28, 2009 and since then, nearly 50,000 projects have sought financing with…
Crytek-backed Gface unveils social gaming platform with OnLive-like streaming
- Crytek, the studio behind the Crysis series and the CryEngine technology behind it, is helping develop a new social network service centered around gaming. Dubbed Gface -- a mash between gaming and Facebook, perhaps? -- the service is currently in…
PayPal launches Facebook app, send friends money
- Mega online payment provider, Paypal, has conjured up a Facebook application which allows Facebook users to send money to their friends. As long as the funds come directly from your bank account or Paypal balance, there are no additional fees.…
First look at Microsoft's 'social search' project Socl
- Back in July Microsoft accidentally revealed an internal test version of a social search service named "Tulalip" -- reportedly after a group of Native American tribes. The non-functioning site was hosted at socl.com and promised a new way to "Find…
Flash 11 coming soon with GPU-assisted 3D graphics engine
- Adobe's Flash Player is about to receive its largest update since the introduction of hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding in 2009. Version 11 of the software is set to go live early next month and will reportedly introduce a GPU-assisted rendering…
Microsoft accidentally reveals internal social project "Tulalip"
- Microsoft is not going to sit back and let others have all the fun when it comes to social networks. The company today accidentally revealed an internal test version of a social search service named "Tulalip" -- reportedly after a…
Facebook takes on traditional e-mail with Social Inbox
- Facebook has announced a new product that will compete directly with the e-mail services provided by Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and AOL. Facebook believes traditional e-mail is too slow and cumbersome; it needs be brought into the modern world of messaging.…
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