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Google Ventures-backed Rumr launches its semi-anonymous chat app for iOS and Android

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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You’ve probably heard a whisper of a secret that anonymous messaging apps are hot right now. Behold the latest: Rumr, a group chat app that tells you who’s in the chatroom, but doesn’t show who’s saying what. Rumr uses a color scheme to provide what co-founder James Jerlecki calls “sliding scale anonymity.”  Participants are each assigned a different color chat bubble, and the colors are shuffled around whenever someone joins or leaves the group. If your group is too small, it will be easy to figure out who’s who, but Jerlecki said in an interview that at around 4-5 participants,…

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First Follower shows who the first person to follow you on Twitter was

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

Twitter turned eight last week, and a tool that locates your first tweet surfed that wave, becoming popular among users of the microblogging service. Following on from that is First Follow, a service from Socialrank that tells you the name/handle of the first person who followed you on Twitter. Personally, I think this is a lot more interesting than your first tweet since it isn’t something that you are in control of. In my case, it’s a way to remember the person who introduced me to Twitter — thanks @rashi! ➤ First Follower Headline image via Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty…

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Twtrland launches a new version of its powerful social data toolset, this time aimed at businesses

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Social analytics platform Twtrland has been providing fancy stats about individuals for over a year, and today the Israeli startup behind it is launching a business-focused product called, unsurprisingly, Twtrland for Business. The new service provides the ability to track accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, monitoring KPIs like brand impressions and the number of new followers against rivals’ performance. It can break down your social audience by age, location, interests and attributes such as whether they’re a celebrity, a power user, casual user or social media novice. Twtrland for Business also suggests the best time of day to tweet…

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Shazam boosts its dance music credentials, inking deal to access Juno’s arsenal of electronic music – including vinyl

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Music-tagging service Shazam has announced a new tie-up with dance music store Juno, one that will see millions more dance tracks added to Shazam’s database. This news comes a little more than a year after Shazam announced a similar deal to reel in Beatport’s arsenal of electronic music. With Juno opening its library to Shazam, this means more than four million electronic tracks will now be ‘taggable’ by Shazam’s mobile apps, and it also includes thousands of new releases that are only available on vinyl. “Vinyl music is seeing a resurgence in the industry, with sales at their highest for 15…

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OnePlus, the startup founded by a former Oppo exec, will unveil its first smartphone on April 23

Mar25
by on March 25, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile

OnePlus has been teasing its first smartphone, simply called the ‘One’, for a few months now by drip-feeding features and specs in its forums. It promised to launch the device in the first half of 2014 and finally, the company has given a date for the handset’s grand unveiling: April 23. So what do we know so far? It offers a 5.5-inch 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor (the 800 version was confirmed before) a 3,100 mAh non-removable battery and a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, doubled-up with a 6-megapixel version on the front. It will also feature replaceable ‘StyleSwap‘ covers…

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