Imagine the visual aesthetic of social bookmarking site Delicious, mixed with the sociability of Facebook and Twitter, with a bit of Google+ organizational sophistication for good measure, and you’ll have the web’s best up and coming social media network. Already at number three, can Pinterest make a dent in Twitter’s marketshare? Here’s a few reasons why that answer is a resounding YES.
Why Pinterest will outdo Twitter
— By Brajeshwar
Germans Invent Weed-Killing Laser
— By Robin Wilding
Before my pothead readers get all bent out of shape about the German’s weed-annihilating laser, know that it isn’t designed, specifically, to work on that type of weed. Nope this little gardener’s friend from the Leibniz University of Hannover is designed to zap the average backyard or farm weed (and no, not THAT type of ‘farmer’).
Coda 2 comes built-in with Sass Mode
— By Brajeshwar
Sometime back in November last year, I was contacted by Steven Frank, Co-Founder of Panic. Panic wanted to officially support Sass with their upcoming new version of Coda, and wanted to start off from our Sass.Mode (maintained by me and Tom-Marius Olsen).
Well, why not. That was an awesome thing. Today, Panic released Coda 2, complete with Sass Mode built-in. It is being sold at 50% discount at the Mac App Store.
Business Intelligence with Retailigence
— By Robin Wilding
Peter Christianson’s resume, as he tells it, is like a who’s who of NASDAQ success stories – so when he lent his talents to new startup, Retailigence, people paid attention.
Retailigence and its founder, Jeremy Geiger, are leveraging Peter’s thorough portfolio of skills: business development, revenue growth, supply chain management, operations research, statistics, management consulting, business-process re-engineering and mathematics; skills Peter is using to help turn Retailigence into the next big thing. Retailigence is a hodge podge of all those skills, mashed together to create a data-driven, traffic-management platform that connects the 3 prongs of the retail sector: retailers, brands and developers – all without an app or search engine.
MissTravel – the Next Frontier of Digital Pimpery
— By Robin Wilding
If you pay a woman for sex, that’s illegal — it’s prostitution. If you film it it’s legal — it’s porn. If you put a soft lens on the camera — it’s art. What do you call a website that assists rich men in plying attractive young gold diggers with ‘free’ trips around the world? Digital pimpery? Perhaps. Brandon Wade calls it MissTravel.com.
How to choose the right mobile development framework
— By Shabda Raaj
Not so long ago you could only develop in Objective-C (for iOS) or in Java (For Android).
A lot has changed recently and many new mobile app development frameworks have come up. You have PhoneGap, Sencha, jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Kendo UI, Corona, Titanium Appcelerator, RubyMotion and many others. Among these they allow building apps using Javascript, Java, Lua and Ruby.
How-to: Numbered Pagination for your WordPress Blog
— By Brajeshwar
There are a bunch of awesome WordPress Plugins that can do Numbered Pagination for your WordPress powered blog. However, it may be noted that WordPress have the option to do it without relying on a plugin.
Let’s do a clean, nice and simple numbered pagination as seen on this blog. You can choose to have either the light or the dark version.
Congress creates (another) superfluous Task Force to examine possible Government Spectrum Auction
— By Robin Wilding
After being told so repeatedly, the U.S House of Representatives thinks they might not be using their wireless spectrum block to its full potential, so like any good bureaucracy — they formed a task force. They assuredly hope it will be more effective than pretty much every other task force the government has ever made, or maybe not. The U.S congress is aiming to free-up government-owned spectrum for airwave-hogging 3G and 4G consumer networks and appliances as wireless spectrum availability becomes a strong issue in the country as available spectrum wanes despite less than half the population having upgraded to high-speed 3G and 4G networks.
This bipartisan task force, dubbed the Federal Spectrum Working Group, hopes to trim the fat from their spectrum use to help solve a good chunk of the spectrum crunch. The U.S government is currently the largest owner of wireless spectrum. The FSWG will focus on freeing-up airwaves, especially on spectrum-hogging departments like the Defense Department, who uses a large bulk of government spectrum in surveillance and, surprisingly, weapons testing.
More about Raspberry Pi
— By Deeptaman Mukherjee
Early in the 1980s, affordable computing was a craze in the market. However, learning about them was a difficult process to the users. Machines such as Atare 400 and early Apples’ were already helping people in exploring the whole new world; giving rise to some of the pioneers in the computing world including the gaming industry.
That continued, till a lot of inventions took place in the tech world. One amongst them, is the — Raspberry Pi.
Flex-tronics: The Next Hardware Frontier
— By Robin Wilding
If you’re reading this then you’re likely a techie; if you’re a techie then you’ve likely already heard of flexible electronics, aka flex circuits, aka flexible printed circuits. And you surely already know that flex-tronics will be one of the next big things, but did you know that as of 2012 they are a $10B business? Yup, they are a multi-billion dollar industry thanks to the support and start-up capital injected by the Flex Tech Alliance (alliance members include Fujifilm, HP, Qualcomm, Lockheed Martin), “it is an industry that is nascent but will grow rapidly. We’re already starting to see new kinds of applications in plastic memory for toys and sensors for aircraft,” says Flex Tech Alliance chief Dr. Malcolm Thomas.