Start-Up Scribr Wants to Help Your Twitter Feed Survive the Coming Web-pocalypse

Scribr is trying to keep your Facebook profile from becoming like the lost GeoCities of Atlantis.
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SocialFolders: Like Dropbox for Social Networks — But All on Your Desktop, Not in the Cloud

Would a local backup of your cloud-based pictures and documents make you feel more comfortable? That’s how SocialFolders wants to help. Today it launches a Dropbox-like desktop tool that downloads copies of Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google Docs and other content. Plus, users can use SocialFolders to sync and upload content as well, so they can, for instance, drag and drop their Flickr albums into Facebook.

Spreecast and LiveLead Tackle Social Video From Different Angles

A couple of new start-ups, Spreecast and LiveLead, are focused on the social side of video, working on helping groups of people broadcast themselves or enjoy videos together, respectively.
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Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
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Here’s the Most Popular Image From Getty’s Flickr Collection

There are 249,999 more.
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Only One Yahoo Fearless Leader Note This Week: Please Ignore the Unignorable Rumors!

Here’s the weekly internal management email from the Silicon Valley Internet giant (just because I can).
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Flickr Offers Official Android App and Virtual Photo-Viewing Parties

Flickr today debuted a couple of new photo creation and sharing tools: Its first official Android app and a new communal photo-sharing experience.
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Flickr Founders Bring Latest Artistic Creation to Life. It’s Not a Facebook Game!

Glitch, a highly anticipated multiplayer online game, is finally launching today, after more than two years in development.
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Last Night’s Amazing 9/11 Memorial Photo Is a Year Old

But more important: Photographer John de Guzman isn’t particularly happy that the image went viral.
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Exclusive: Backupify Closes $5 Million in Round Led by Avalon Ventures

Even in the cloud, data gets deleted by mistake. Backupify aims to have your back.
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