The RaxList for August 29th
29 August 2010
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These are my links for August 29th from 12:08 to 13:12:
- Foursquare building self-serve tool for brand profiles – Foursquare gets requests from hundreds of brands per week looking to offer tips on their own branded profiles. In an interview with Advertising Age, CEO Dennis Crowley said the company is building a self-service tool where brands will be able to create their own profiles.
- Technology allows digital nomads to work anywhere – Online digital storage devices and innovative internet connections mean working from anywhere in the world while travelling has never been easier. For the 20% of UK workers who spend three hours or more commuting each day living as a digital nomad could be more than just a dream.
- How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech – Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology. The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality. One of Sunlight Labs’ early entries is their Recovery.gov mashup. Another example is Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum, which highlights virtual reconstructions of Satricum and the Forum Romanum. But while there are early leaders, non-profits generally lag behind in market experimentation.
- Nurph closes angel round for realtime Twitter chat – Nurph, the boostrapped startup working on a platform which turns Twitter into realtime chat, has closed it’s first round of angel funding from a private investor. Terms were undisclosed.
- Search The Future with Yahoo Time Explorer – PSFK – Yahoo’s research labs team in Barcelona are working on a search engine application that is built to predict the future.
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