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Simple-to-Use Paywall System Signs First Publishers

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 5 Comments
Metal slot machine sign for nickels & dimes

TinyPass, the simplified paywall/micro-payments startup, launched at the beginning of the year, has signed its first four publishers.

Tinypass is trying to simplify the whole ‘charging for content with small payments’ issue from the publisher’s end, and from the user end.

Publishers have a flexible range of customised options for charging for their content, through plugins (Drupal, Joomla, or WordPress) or customised code:

A La Carte Access and Bundles: Charge for an article, a video, an issue, an Continue Reading

Facebook Timeline is Launched

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 1 Comments
Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook has finally rolled out its eagerly anticipated awaited new format, “Timeline”.

Soon all (800+ million) Facebook users will get a notification that they can switch to the new format, or they can wait till it happens automatically. If you want to try it now, then you need to go to www.facebook.com/about/timeline. It is also available on touch devices using m.Facebook.com and Facebook for Android.

Timeline coverts your posts and photos into a continuous log of everything you’ve Continue Reading

New Startup TripFab Promises Inadvertent Awesomeness-Induced Defecation

by John O'Nolan RSS 5 Comments
tripfab

What if you could book a trip, or even an entire holiday, in a single place… without paying any commission to an agent or booking service?

Straight out of… Costa Rica… TripFab is a new startup promising to make some waves in the travel industry. Their first promotional video (below) gives you a rundown of the general aim of the site. Effectively they want to cut out the middle man, by becoming the middle man. The difference Continue Reading

Christmas Spirit Tree Powered By Social Media

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
Christmas tree in Union Station, Toronto

Santa and his elves have been hard at work in Canada, creating the ultimate social media Christmas mashup.

Actually it’s not Santa. He’s a bit busy at the moment and has sub-contracted the Christmas Spirit Tree to Canadian Tire, a company that sells tires (or “tyres” if you’re on the other side of the Atlantic) and other stuff.

They have installed a Christmas tree at Union Station in Toronto with 3,000 LED lightbulbs that respond to Christmas themed Continue Reading

Do you know where you are going next? Amazon might!

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 0 Comments
Hand holding a trekking compass

“They” know where you are, but do they know where you’re heading?

Amazon were granted a patent by the United States Patent Office on 6 Dec which indicates that they are developing a method for tracking people through their mobile devices, analysing their travel patterns and predicting where they might go next, in order to serve them more cleverly targeted advertising and promotions.

A CBS Moneywatch writer, Eric Sherman, has been examining the patent application which Continue Reading

Google+ ‘Find My Face’ – Clever or Creepy?

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 1 Comments
Matt Steiner, lead engineer on the Google+ Photos team

Last week Google began rolling out its new ‘Find My Face’ feature on Google+, enabling the system to identify you in any uploaded photos and flag you up to your friends for name tagging.

It works like this.

1) You tick the new opt-in option in your Google+ settings.

2) You get photographed (for better or worse) by one of your friends who uploads the photo to Google+

3) Google+ automatically scans the photo Continue Reading

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