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Social commerce is like a unicorn: beautiful, alluring and almost totally imaginary
Call it the unicorn problem: beautiful, alluring, magical, and totally non-existent. Social commerce, according to the latest Monetate eCommerce report, is almost as elusive. In fact, social media referrals represents just 1.55 per cent of all
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Love, muesli and Nigeria – how the internet changed everything
This is the latest guest post from Adam Fletcher and Paul Hawkins, collectively known as both The Hipstery and “those two guys who should really get real jobs”… Anthropologists and other such smart people
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GIF-based movie charades anyone? Hip Stockholm students gamify Loopcam
If you’re a movie buff, you might like the new Loopcam-based hack that transforms the GIF-animator into an online #MovieCharades. Built by Julia Wallin and Love Krok Attling, two students from Hyper Island‘s digital media
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O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures’ Bryce Roberts: we need a “third way” to finance startups
Caught between venture capital and a hard place? Founders trying to get companies off the ground may see only two options: bootstrap – work in a garden shed, build desks out of scrap wood – or
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Twitter #Music launches – but will it make it to Germany?
Twitter has finally launched its much-rumoured Twitter #Music service, a standalone app for iOS and web dedicated to music discovery. The company announced the news via a blog post by We Are Hunted founder Stephen Philips: “Today, we’re
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Social networks: wild expectations versus grim reality
Here Startup Hipster – the most elusive member of the Berlin Startup Scene, pens his thoughts on the hard-won truths of social networking. It all comes down to stalking, Twitter-induced seizures, food, and Justin Timberlake’s face… There’s
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No more tips for tweets – Twitter cuts off social micropayments service Flattr
Swedish social microdonations service Flattr is no longer allowed to use the Twitter “favourite” button for donations due to what the microblogging site says is a breach of its terms. Users of Flattr were
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Need an animated LOL? Loopcam launches version 2.0 with brand new features
Are you a fan of looping your LOLs? Today Berlin-based Loopcam – a predecessor to Twitter’s Vine app – has released version 2.0 of its GIF-animating app with a stack of new features, including
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Don’t hate your inbox: why email is your gateway to more meaningful connections
Is email on the way out – doomed to replacement by ever-shorter forms of instant messaging? Or, as Matthew Bostock argues, is it one of the last electronic mediums actually able to forge an
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Moped gets touch of Instagram with new photo editing tools
Moped, the Berlin-based private messaging service backed by a clutch of Silicon Valley investors, today added new photo editing and meme generation tools. The platform – for desktop and mobile – started off as
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