Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

Time for some reading beyond 140 characters!
zombie380

What Color Has Actually Done Right

Not to be mean, but “hapless” might be the best word to describe mobile social start-up Color. Still, Color’s not all bad.
New Color

Hipstamatic Goes Social With Communal Photo Albums

Hipstamatic is now trying for some social pixie dust, through a cute idea to bring back the feeling of a shared disposable camera.
HipstamaticDSeries

Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO’s L.A. Tech Studio (Video)

The well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur joins Mike Jones at Science.
Peter Pham headshot

Jawbone Debuts UP, Which Tracks, Well, You (Video)

It’s UP to you to get in better shape.
up1

Hipster App Gives Digital Postcards a Spot on the Map

A new app called Hipster helps users post geo-tagged digital picture postcards from their iPhones.
hipster_screen

How Big Is the “Social Discovery” Opportunity?

Want to meet someone new with whom you share common interests or perhaps a location? Web services for that stuff are, oddly, kind of rare. But here are some companies that are trying.
making_friends

BuzzMob Launches Social Events App to Bring People Together

It’s not a novel idea, but it may be a well-timed one: A start-up called BuzzMob is launching an app to help users meet and interact with people around them.
BuzzMob

Flixlab Tackles the Last Thing an iPhone Does Slowly: Export Video

The iPhone user experience is pretty snappy — unless, that is, you are trying to export a video. Flixlab is trying to change that by moving the hard part to the cloud.
Screen Shot 2011-07-23 at 4.22.12 PM

iPhone Video App Collabracam Makes a Case for Co-Creation

The only thing newly social about media right now is the ability to share it instantly. Now, the iPhone app Collabracam allows a team of users to collaborate on creating live video the way TV studios do it. Will it be opening the door to a new kind of really social media?
Screen shot 2011-06-16 at 5.13.03 PM

Viral Video: Facebook Live vs. Google Beat