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The team behind dubious projection watch Ritot: ‘If all goes according to our plan, then it’s real’

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by on August 4, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Last week, we cast doubt on the Ritot projection watch Indiegogo campaign, which we had previously written about, after learning more about the technical hurdles and shifting identities behind the project. In spite of growing concerns from backers, the campaign has continued to raise money, surpassing $750,000 without a working prototype in sight. While digging for information about the project, we offered the Ritot team a chance to defend their work. Founder Michael Medvid has promised to share more detailed technical information with backers later this week, but in the meantime, we’ve published the entirety of his responses to our…

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Rhapsody snaps up music startups SoundTracking and Exfm

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by on August 4, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

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Music-streaming service Rhapsody is gobbling up music-related startups today. First music discovery service Exfm announced it was being acquired and then SoundTracking dropped the news its parent team, Schematic Lab was joining Rhapsody. With today’s acquisitions, the 14-year-old streaming music service gets two features that could help the international company grow beyond its 2 million subscribers. Exfm tracks your web traffic to determine what songs you play on various sites and uses that data to surface songs and artists you may like. Apple’s Beats Music launched touting its human and computer curated discovery system, but that information is tracked inside Beats Music….

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Eventbrite and Swiftly offer event organizers a $19 professionally designed banner for their events

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by on August 4, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re an event organizer you understand the power of a well designed flier, poster or event page banner. But if you’re not a designer, your stab at creating art usually ends in a mish-mash of fonts and images. Global self-ticketing service Eventbrite and on-demand design service Swiftly want to help solve your design problem. Now when you create an Eventbrite event, you have the option to have a banner designed for $19 via 99designs‘ Swiftly service. Event organizers can describe what they want on Swiftly’s site and a designer will create the banner in an hour. The finished design…

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Confused with data analysis? The noob’s guide to creating conversion funnels

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by on August 4, 2014 at 7:45 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's, Insider

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David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. You’ve probably been reading tons of articles telling you to start setting up metrics for your website, measure your website KPIs and take data-driven decisions. If you’ve already begun setting up metrics and tracking events on your website you probably know that it’s not easy. We spent quite a bit of time getting it right. In this article we’ll try to explain what you should be measuring, how to measure it and what types of tools you can use to…

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Twitter is testing showing you tweets from accounts your friends follow

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by on August 4, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter tests new features on unsuspecting accounts all the time. The latest experiment involves showing tweets to users from accounts that they don’t follow, but instead from accounts their friends follow. Twitter user @aleefbaypay posted the follow two tweets: WTF @twitter, why am I seeing tweets from accounts that I don’t follow but are followed by someone whom I follow? — aleefbaypay (@aleefbaypay) August 3, 2014 @EliLanger yup. The buzzfeed tweet is the one in question. pic.twitter.com/FTbHTXs2Z9 — aleefbaypay (@aleefbaypay) August 3, 2014 Apparently @aleefbaypay doesn’t follow BuzzFeed, but someone he follows does. As stated earlier, Twitter tests new features like this all…

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