Men get their clothes shopping done for them with BRANDiD!!!!!

BRANDiD is a marketplace connecting men who hate shopping with people that love to shop. Whilst shopping from anywhere on the web, shoppers use the BRANDiD bookmarklet to fill out a unified basket for their chosen man. Once a basket is complete, men engage in rich discussions with their shopper, remove what they do not like and ‘try on’ everything else. BRANDiD collects anything that doesn’t fit after 5 days for free.

Wantering Ranks The Fashion You Want!!!!!

Wantering helps you discover clothes you’ll love. They do this by crawling the web for the hottest products, and recommending the ones that match our user’s personal style.
They are building the easiest and most elegant way to shop online. They are getting there by using big data and machine learning to create the world’s richest taste graph.

Wantering analyzes over 100 million data points for you in what they call the “WantRank” algorithm. Wantering can help narrow down your search and point you to the best deal by deal, brand, category, color, print, fabric, or any other category. Then, the web platform can take you to a destination to purchase.

A Brief History Of Social Media (1969-2012) [INTERACTIVE INFOGRAPHIC]!!!

What’s your first memory of social media?

Twitter, perhaps? Or maybe Facebook?

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll likely remember when MySpace was very much #1 amongst all social platforms. Roll the years back a little further, and you could have been one of the (relatively) few who were amongst the pioneers of modern social networking on Friendster.

But here’s the thing: the history of social media actually goes back a lot further, and its roots can be found in blogging, Google, AOL, ICQ, the beginnings of the world wide web and, perhaps surprisingly, CompuServe. This infographic from Creative Ramblings takes a closer look at the history of social media, 1969-2012.

Four Strategies for Overcoming Degree Requirements!!!!

Four Strategies for Overcoming Degree Requirements (via Dice News in Tech)

Matt Goldenberg’s client wanted to get into Web marketing and analytics. He had an aptitude for his work at a real estate company but faced one big hurdle: He lacked a Computer Science degree, and many of the job postings he’d seen required one.…

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WebFWD IV: Community Mixer!!!!!

WebFWD is Mozilla's accelerator to help entrepreneurs around the world build products to make the web more open. We take the best practices from both open source development and entrepreneurship to help them build the future of the web.

Mobile is a treasure chest, if you can just unlock it!!!!!

Mobile is a treasure chest, if you can just unlock it (via Pando Daily)

By Kevin Kelleher On August 8, 2013 A year ago, the mobile Web was seen as something of a conundrum, a magical box of treasures with a lock clasped on it that nobody seemed to know the combination of. In the past few months, however, things have changed…

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Filecubed is a web app for Dropbox!!!!!!

Filecubed is a web app for Dropbox to help you organize, share and showcase your files in style. Bogota, Colombia.

AppScale makes it possible to implements Google's Cloud Platform, in open source!!!!

AppScale implements Google's Cloud Platform, App Engine, in open source. In addition to executing your scalable web apps and mobile endpoints on Google's resources, AppScale lets you execute them everywhere else -- on your laptop, behind your firewall, on your datacenter, or on your favorite public or private cloud infrastructure. AppScale is free and easy to use and thus brings Google's "best practices" to devs, giving them the ability to focus on their innovation and MVP without lock-in. 

AppScale Systems, Inc. provides tiered support, training, and product plugins that give devs the help they need when they need it most. The ScaleSafe plugin for example, certifies that your app is portable and can move across clouds at the drop of a hat (without changing your app), providing you with multiple options for transparent app/data backup and migration, and hybrid cloud use. ScaleSafe is an insurance policy for your apps that protects you against downtime, unforeseen changes, and differing customer requirements. AppScale is a Google Cloud Technology Partner.

Here is a video of Woody Rollins, Co-Founder and CEO of AppScale:

THE RISE OF THE APP ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New business initiatives are focused on building interactive customer experiences through the web and mobile apps. Applications and developers are gaining in power and prominence in this new world where the app developer is now viewed as part of the business team. Learn more from this interactive discussion between New Relic CEO and founder Lew Cirne, known as the Coding CEO, and Red Monk analyst Stephen O'Grady, the author of "The New Kingmakers, How Developers Conquered the World."

Moderated by:

Barb Darrow - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:

Lew Cirne - Founder and CEO, New Relic

Stephen O'Grady - Partner and Principal Analyst, RedMonk

CONSTANT PROGRESS: KEEPING ONE BILLION USERS HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Facebook continues to be the leading consumer web application out there, leading many to quip that the world wide web has evolved into Facebook. With over one billion users, Facebook continues to push the edge of scalable web technology, pioneering and disrupting the infrastructure value chain for the industry. We talk to its chief about his perspective on some of the critical decisions that will act as a pattern for the rest of the industry.

Moderated by:

Stacey Higginbotham - Senior Writer, GigaOM

Speakers:

Jay Parikh - VP, Infrastructure Engineering, Facebook

How to brand a consumer hardware startup!!!!

How to brand a consumer hardware startup (via Pando Daily)

By Rob Coneybeer On June 29, 2013 Branding a world-class consumer hardware company is dramatically different than for consumer software, Web, or mobile companies. Branding begins with storytelling, and crafting compelling stories for hardware requires…

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Pubble makes a community around your social website!!!!

Pubble is a community engagement platform that brings the social web to your site. Change how you interact with your audience while continually enhancing your web site. Pubble is a startup from Ireland.

Pubble is for any organisation that interacts with its users online. From large education providers to online retailers, small businesses to charities. If you are answering customer queries by email right now then pubble can help you.

Pubble is the most effective way to build engaged, active communities on your site. The web is being rebuilt around people. Now is the time to put people at the centre on your site.

Here is a video about pubble: