Storific Storific’s app could do away with restaurant waiters forever 29 December '10, 04:26pm Follow One thing I hate about eating out is the waiters. This iPhone app will allow you to ‘check in’ to a restaurant and then order items from its menu without having to wait around for table service. It’s an idea with some real potential. Storific’s founder and CEO, Michael Cohen says that during beta testing, it’s been found that the tool considerably increases the number of orders made by a single table and thus has a direct positive impact on restaurants’ takings. The Paris-based startup is currently self-funded and plans for 2011 include hunting down angel investors and venture capitalists to help grow the business faster. Services like Storific won’t necessarily do away with waiters entirely. We’ll certainly be keeping an eye on Storific’s twist on geolocation as it progresses in 2011.
Geomium | What's going on around you? 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011 When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011. Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees. Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love. Geomium LikeOurselves Storific Datasift SuperMarmite Viewdle Screach Shutl
diigo voor uw favorieten Met diigo kunt u uw favoriete websites handig bijhouden. Maar met diigo kunt u meer. U kunt namelijk uw aantekeningen en commentaar aan webpagina's toevoegen.Stap 1 Surf naar diigo.com en klik op Create New Account. Met diigo kunt u uw favoriete websites handig bijhouden. Stap 1 Surf naar diigo.com en klik op Create New Account. Stap 2 [afbeelding0]Ook het installeren van de toolbar verloopt net als bij Del.icio.us IE-gebruikers slaan het programma op en starten het, FF-gebruikers installeren direct vanuit de browser. Stap 3 [afbeelding0]Het importeren van uw Favorieten verloopt bij Diigo iets makkelijker. Stap 4 [afbeelding0]Stel u bent een workshop op de site van Computer Idee aan het uitproberen (bijvoorbeeld deze) en u hebt een opmerking bij die pagina, bijvoorbeeld dat je bij Stap 2 ook alle foto's kunt markeren met Ctrl + A. Stap 5 [afbeelding0]De geselecteerde tekst wordt nu met een virtuele markeerstift gekleurd en er verschijnt een geel memoblok-venster. Stap 6
A First Look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb, or Android for Tablets The pad format suffers from lack of hardware more than lack of software. My wife has an iPad and I have a rooted Pandigital Novel running Android. The Novel is almost fast enough to get out of its own way, but at least it has given me a chance to compare interfaces, hardware, and pad apps between the two platforms. Maybe there are 200,000 apps for Android, but as of today, the hands-on quality really suffers compared to iPad. Apple has nothing to worry about for awhile. In my opinion the coolest apps use the high tech hardware. The iPad wifi is not perfect either.
Find and Delete Duplicate Images on your Computer This video tutorial describes how you can quickly delete duplicate images and photographs on your computer with free software tools. You can have duplicate images on your computer for three reasons: You transferred a set of pictures from the digital camera to your computer but did not erase them from the camera. Thus when you re-connected the camera, they got copied again to your hard drive but in a different location. If you are only looking to find and remove images that are “exact” duplicates of each other, Google’s Picasa desktop software could be a good solution. While removing duplicate images with Picasa, please remember that the software will list all copies that are found of an image including the original one. Alternatively, create a separate folder that’s not included in Picasa and move all the potential duplicate photographs to that folder instead of deleting them. Related reading: How to Backup your Photos Find and Delete Similar Images (not exactly duplicates)
Visually Discover the Most Popular Links on a Page Learn how you can visually discover the most popular links on any web page – like the CNN homepage for example. Compare these two web pages – page A and page B. They have identical content, just a bunch of external links, but the latter page makes it really easy for you to visually discover how popular the various links are on the social web. From Wall Street to the White House: Obama Taps JPMorgan Exec William Daley for Chief of Staff This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: President Obama has announced his new chief of staff to steer the White House ahead of his reelection bid next year. On Thursday, Obama named William Daley, a top financial executive and former commerce secretary in the Clinton administration. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Few Americans can boast the breadth of experience that Bill brings to this job. JUAN GONZALEZ: In his acceptance speech, Daley praised Obama by invoking the memory of a childhood visit to the White House under President John F. WILLIAM DALEY: Fifty years ago this month, I visited the White House with my parents and my brothers and sisters to visit a young president, who went on to show great strength, leadership and vision in the face of enormous challenges in those times. JUAN GONZALEZ: Daley replaces Rahm Emanuel, who resigned last year to run for mayor of Chicago. Well, talk first about William Daley. ARI BERMAN: Well, thanks for having me.
Facebook appears on path toward IPO, possibly next year By Matt Krantz and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Popular social-networking site Facebook is the latest Internet company rumored to be preparing to go public, causing some investors to wonder if there's a tech IPO revival on the way. Facebook expects to hit the 500-shareholder threshold that would trigger regulations prompting it to publicly disclose financial statements and launch an initial public offering next year, according to a document given to potential private investors by Goldman Sachs, Reuters reports. Facebook and Goldman Sachs declined to comment. If Facebook did go public, it would continue a reluctant return of technology companies to the IPO market. Facebook, though, isn't the only Internet company eyeing an IPO. It's far from a tech IPO bonanza. Yet, Facebook's prospective IPO is an about-face for the company, whose CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had repeatedly downplayed the idea.
For Goldman Sachs, Facebook Investment Comes With Many Benefits Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters 8:50 p.m. | Updated Goldman Sachs and Facebook have friended each other. In investing $450 million in the social networking giant, Goldman has established itself as the leading candidate to win the lucrative and prestigious assignment of Facebook’s initial public offering, whenever that day comes. But Goldman’s bold move is also likely to focus the attention of regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission, which last month began an inquiry into the surge in trading shares of privately held Internet companies. While the investment by Goldman is being hailed as a huge coup on Wall Street, the deal — in particular the investment pool being formed for its clients — could become a lightning rod for regulators and policy makers as they examine the growing shadow market in Facebook shares. For Goldman, the investment in Facebook is in many ways a return to the firm’s roots. Mr. A Goldman spokesman declined to comment.
US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists 8 January 2011Last updated at 18:09 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is currently fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP. The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of classified diplomatic cables. Reports indicate the Department of Justice may seek to indict him on charges of conspiring to steal documents with Private First Class Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst. Mr Manning is facing a court martial and up to 52 years in prison for allegedly sending Wikileaks the diplomatic cables, as well military logs about incidents in Afghanistan and Iraq and a classified military video.
Acrylic - Pulp for iPad News shouldn't be like email. Pulp takes your favorite news feeds and presents them in a beautifully friendly & familiar format, making it easy to quickly scan through headlines, previews, and photos to find the stories that interest you most. It's like your very own personalized newspaper, designed for your Mac & iPad. See What's New The latest articles are automatically highlighted, letting you see what's new and how long ago they were posted. Read Later Save interesting articles to the shelf, the perfect place to queue up stories that you want to check out later. Customize Click the Edit button at any time to add, remove, or re-arrange your feeds and pages. Welcome to Pulp. Tap the Edit button at any time to add, remove, or re-arrange your feeds and pages. Pulp is unlike any other newsreader you've seen. Coffee breaks aren't endless, so Pulp makes it easy to save articles you want to read later. Dealing with RSS and URLs can be a pain.