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By now, the ugly sweater has become ubiquitous — with even staid office parties now hosting ugly sweater contests. That means it’s time to move on to something more edgy. And, at least in London, that would be — no you did not guess this — the Christmas Beard. First conceived by London artist Katya Wildman, this bit of hairy holiday couture kicked off mid-month as a celebration of the release of Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge (Xmas beards are edgy, get it?). Wildman (a name that may partially explain the affinity for beards) spent six hours creating four hirsute designs – The Reverse…
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Once upon a time the second-screen experience was expected to rule the living room. That actually didn’t come to pass and today we’re seeing a casualty of that bright future that never was. TVtag has informed its users via email and on its site that it will be shutting down on January 1, 2015 and that its mobile apps will cease to function. TVtag — which was originally called GetGlue — let users check in to shows they were watching to earn stickers. Like Foursquare for watching TV shows. Gigaom reports that after a failed acquisition and name change, many users…
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In our Apps of the Year series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for our favorite apps of 2014. Remember when I said I do a lot of interviews? Maybe you don’t, but I do talk to people all the time. That means setting up a ton of meetings and for that I use Mynd. The calendar app for iOS presents your schedule as a series of easy to digest cards with a tiny map showing where you meeting is, the weather, the people you’ll be meeting with and when you need to leave to make that meeting. If you…
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In a Save the Date note it sent out today, Facebook announced that its 2015 F8 Developer Conference will be held on March 25 and March 26, 2015 – the first time the company has expanded the event to two days. The company said the expansion comes because the “developer community is bigger today than it ever has been.” By allotting two days for the event, it hopes to “double the number of technical sessions, product demos and onsite experiences for Facebook’s growing developer community.” Facebook previously said that its next F8 Developer Conference will be held in Fort Mason Center in San…
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