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Take A Sneak Peek at the Gorgeous Design of SlideDeck 2.1

SlideDeck 2, the WordPress plugin that lets bloggers create gorgeous, customizable content sliders without any code, is about to receive its first update, and thanks to a teaser by SlideDeck’s creators,…

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Brekkie: Daily Servings of Design Inspiration on the iPad

As I wrote yesterday, sometimes the simplest of apps serve the greatest purpose. On this note, an app by the name of Brekkie has caught our attention, with its daily,…

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Bad Ads, Big Returns

The higher-quality the ad, the better its impact? Maybe not, in today’s saturated market. In April, the Plenty of Fish Ad Blog put out a post that quickly made waves among…

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7Digital Supports and Recruits Developers with New Technical Academy

London-based content and technology 7digital is showing some interesting results from its developer program ‘Innovation Time’. Launched in the UK in 2004, 7digital’s download store and mobile applications give consumers…

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How MoogMusic Survived the Google Doodle

We’ve seen a number of stories in the past about the sort of traffic that being the subject of a Google Doodle can bring. But this is the first time…

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Panic Launches Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad

Panic has just released two brand new apps today: Coda 2, the long awaited update to the popular Mac Web editor, and Diet Coda, a wonderfully slimmed down Web editor for…

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Google Updates its APIs Explorer

Continuing Google’s spring cleaning, the Google APIs Explorer has just received a redesign that makes the overall experience much prettier, mirroring the latest Search, Docs and Drive experience. Only last…

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Facebook App Developers Now Get More Detailed Analytics

We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative. Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content…

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Kinvey Teams Up With Cloud Foundry

I remember seeing Kinvey at TechStars Demo Day in Boston a bit over a year ago. The company was doing something that I’d not heard of before – providing backend infrastructure as…

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Facebook's Holding an Open Graph Challenge in the UK

Facebook has a new road show now that it’s a public company, and it wants to find the best Open Graph hackers there are in the UK. During the Over…

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US Gov Announces the "Presidential Innovation Fellows"

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Steven VanRoekel, the US Chief Information Officer and Todd Park, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President announced the Presidential Innovation Fellows, a six month…

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Kony Solutions Raises $15M For Mobile App Development Platform

Kony Solutions (perhaps not the best company name in the world) has secured $15 million in a Series C financing round led by Insight Venture Partners. The company provides a…

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75% of Top 10K Sites on the Web Served by Open Source Software

Uptime monitoring service Pingdom analyzed the top 10,000 websites on the web and unsurprisingly found out that 74.6% of them are served on web servers run by open source software….

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This Hackathon is All About Shifting the Gender Balance in Tech

We at TNW have spent quite a lot of time attending and covering hackathons around the globe. We’ve seen a ton of great results, ate plenty of free burritos and have…

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The Guardian's n0tice launches an Open Journalism Toolkit

The Guardian‘s n0tice project launched last year as an experimental new way of sharing local news and community events. Now the platform behind it is being opened up as a…