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Google+ Gets a Bit More Pinteresting
— Google introduced yet another design revamp for its Google+ social product at its I/O developer conference on Wednesday, the second visual overhaul for the service in about two years. — And guess what? Like many other startup visual layouts today …
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To Ease Small Screen Nesting, Pinterest Mobile Adds Search Suggestions, Mentions, And Notifications
— Pinterest works best on the web, with its big images and pinning from other browser tabs. But mobile is the future and Pinterest needs to play catch up there.
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Salesforce.com buys Clipboard, in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30
— Salesforce.com has purchased Clipboard, the Seattle startup led by former Microsoft researcher Gary Flake which drew comparisons to Pinterest. — It appears to be more of a talent …
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Pinterest Tweaks Its New Look, Improves Search And Brings Features Like Pinned From And Mentions Back
— While Pinterest is still rolling out its brand new look to users, it decided to listen to some feedback along the way and make some tweaks. — Since the site relies heavily, or completely …
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Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta
— Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for Nginx …
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Microsoft Adds Pinterest Support to Bing's Image Search, Lets Searchers Pin Image Results Directly to Boards
— Microsoft on Friday announced a new partnership with social network Pinterest. Bing's image search has received a new “Pin to Pinterest” feature, letting users pin image results directly …
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Amazon Likely Paid $1 Billion for Goodreads
— Valuing a social network is part art, part science, and part nonsense, but the spectrum has narrowed a bit in the past couple of years as sites like Pinterest and Twitter closed financing rounds and companies like LinkedIn hit public markets.
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Pinterest Acquires Livestar, The Mobile Recommendation Startup Founded By Fritz Lanman
— Pinterest said today it's acquired Livestar, the mobile recommendations app founded by noted Microsoft alum (and Square and Pinterest investor) Fritz Lanman. — Pinterest tells TechCrunch …
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Pinterest Shares Its New Look and Pin Discovery Features With All
— Avid Pinterest users, prepare for some changes to your pinboards. Today the content-sharing site, which allows users to “pin” photos, videos, articles, graphics and other objects to their own boards …
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).