There’s no question that mobile apps are a booming business and a new website called Apptopia wants to help developers captilize on this by selling their apps. And we’re not talking about selling an app to users — we’re talking about selling complete ownership of an app, handing over the reigns to a big company or business. Apptopia is a marketplace for developers to sell their mobile apps — including code, users and revenue — after they move on to another great idea , take other responsibilities or just want to make some additional cash. Apptopia is a self-serve platform like
Read MoreWhen it comes to networking, there is no shortage of ways to connect with other professionals. LinkedIn has become the most popular professional networking platform, with over 100 million users using the site to post their work experience, look for jobs, and connect with prospective employers. Facebook, too, has its own professional social network in BranchOut. When it comes to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, there traditionally haven’t been many substantial resources for gay professionals to network and make business connections, especially with other gay professionals. Bill Stewart and Richard Klein co-founded dot429 to help address this
Read MoreSharing is natural. We share a lot of things in our daily lives whether through social networks, email or IM. The problem arises when we share sensitive information with others. We easily send emails with usernames, passwords or other important information to our friends, co-workers and clients without thinking. Its simple and quick to do and we tend to trust those we share this information with. However, there are always digital traces left behind that we never think about. Consider this for a minute. You just emailed your wife the pin number to your ATM account. Was the emailed deleted or
Read MoreSearch engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content. But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using? And, what if you want to know what the tech trends are across the 130 million largest sites on the web today? You could just dig through the source code for each site you’re interested in to answer these questions piecemeal, or you could repurpose other web site profilers designed for search engine optimization or other jobs. Or, you could use BuiltWith. Built by one-man team Gary Brewer in
Read MoreOf course we are skeptical when we are buying clothes online cuz we never know just how well those purchases will actually fit. When you walk into a clothing retailer or browse an online fashion site, they have no idea of your body size, shape or style. So online shoppers, please welcome breakthrough piece of augmented reality technology from Bodymetrics. Bodymetrics body-maps you within a few seconds and gets hundreds of accurate measurements and analytics of your shape. Then, it matches data to the exact dimensions of a garment and allow you to virtually try it on your own body
Read MoreWe know that Wikipedia gets additions, edits, and deletions all of the time, but without a visualization we just have to assume that’s the case. With Wikistream, we can see exactly what’s happening on Wikipedia in real-time. The background image on the page updates randomly, and sometimes the stream goes so fast it’s impossible to even see what’s going on. It uses node.js, socket.io and redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime. You don’t really have an idea of how much content gets tweaked on Wikipedia
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