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PaperKarma’s Mobile App Tries to Eliminate Junk From Your Mailbox

in Commerce on February 8 at 10:58 pm PT

PaperKarma is a new app that helps you reduce the amount of unwanted coupons, catalogs and postcards that clog your mailbox.
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Factual Kicks Off Universal Translator for Places

in Social on August 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm PT

Big data provider Factual has launched a new free API called Crosswalk that unites the mess of online place pages for various businesses. Fwix, Hunch, CityGrid, Citysearch, Urbanspoon, SimpleGeo, Loopt, GrubHub, Gogobot, OpenMenu, GreatSchools, Retailigence, HotelsCombined, Menuplatform and Allmenus are all contributing their entries (U.S. only for now) to Factual’s canonical database of URLs. This could open up cool opportunities to integrate and analyze data from the oh-so-many local reviews and social sites.

So Hot Right Now: Pictures and Ratings of Food

in Social on December 23, 2010 at 1:38 pm PT

Even the greatest menu in the world has all-star items and dishes that are just blah. A bevy of dedicated apps and recently launched features for existing local apps now enable smartphone users to take pictures of memorable dishes and rate or comment on them. Here’s a sampler.

A Shopping Trip To the App Store For Your iPhone

in The Digital Solution on July 22, 2008 at 6:50 pm PT

The best feature in Apple’s second-generation iPhone 3G is the “App Store,” a distribution mechanism for third-party programs. In general, the process of choosing and downloading apps is easy and quick, and most of the programs are useful or entertaining. Here’s a guide to choosing the apps for your iPhone.