EdTwinge surfs Twitter for fringe event reviews and produces
uk.techcrunch.com — EdTwinge (@edtwinge) is a new “Twitter-powered” review site that scrapes any tweets mentioning a show or festival and works out whether the comment is positive or negative. It then produces a real-time leader board of the highest-rated acts currently happening. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
FanDuel turns fantasy sports betting into a social game
uk.techcrunch.com — The people that brought you HubDub, the prediction site that effectively turns news content into a game, have had a new idea. FanDuel is a premium, paid-for game focused on fantasy sports. Running in private beta for the last month, the game opens up today. The site is totally focused on U.S. sports (baseball, NFL). (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
Jive.ly - A One-man Attempt to Build A Better Twitter?
uk.techcrunch.com — Jive.ly is a new app in full beta, billing itself as a Twitter-like site for mobile. Created by UK-based developer Martin Buhr, the app is designed as a place to update your social network accounts with images and videos from a mobile without having to hook up third party services like Twitpic. (Submitted by BuzzEdition) More...
As snow hits the UK the Twitter mashups storm in
uk.techcrunch.com — There’s nothing like a breaking news event to show off the usefulness of Twitter. Today large swathes of the UK were blanketed in snow, but the Twitter feeds and mashups came to the rescue of anyone wanting real-time updates about what was happening. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
Twitter Going Manistream In The UK, Use Inreases Ten-Fold+
uk.techcrunch.com — Twitter’s penetration per head is even deeper in the UK than in the US. It ranked as the 291st most visited website in the UK, while in the USA it ranked 350th. It’s big amongst the young, but the fastest growing age group of users is 35-44 year olds, who now account for 17.3% of UK visitors. (Submitted by gamebittk) More...
Twitter Has Done News. Now It’s Doing Global Charity Events
uk.techcrunch.com — We’ve already seen that Twitter is turning into a source of breaking news. But it’s also clearly turning into a way of organising social movements extremely quickly. “Tweetup” (as in a meetup facilitated by Twitter) has passed into common parlance amongst regular users but now the concept has spawned a global event for charity. (Submitted by inactive) More...
HubDub’s news ‘game’ secures it a $1.2m Series A funding
uk.techcrunch.com — The investment gives HubDub a runway of 18-24 months during which they expect to build up their partner base and be “at or near” profitability. The site now has a team of six and 6 part time category editors but isn’t planning on expanding. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
Government to Allow Firms To Monitor Every Move You Make!
uk.techcrunch.com — It will cost £12 billion, be run by private companies and track every move you make on the internet, every call, text message and every transaction. Yes, this is the UK government proposal to manage and run a communications database that will make Chinese attempts to control and monitor its citizens look like “light touch” regulation. (Submitted by tnerd) More...
UK government wants to regulate the Inter Tubes
uk.techcrunch.com — In the US tech scene you have weekend “bitchmemes”. In the UK, there is a kind of equivalent known as “government minister opens mouth and inserts foot”. This weekend it was the turn of Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for the Department of Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS), and as such supposed to take an interest in the Internet. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
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