Blog Archives for the tag San Francisco

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Need a Beer at the Giants Game? Hire Exec

The last time we told you what Exec was up to, it was running a campaign for charity in which you could “rent” a startup founder to ask them any…

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Companies Like Airbnb Might Owe San Francisco a "Hotel Tax"

In this day and age it’s easy to get swept up in all of the innovation and disruption that is happening thanks to technology, but at the end of the…

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Apple's Signage for the iPad 3 Event is Nearly Complete

As we all know, Apple has made the iPad 3 all but official with the announcement of its event in San Francisco on March 7th. The event will be held…

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Musaic Takes Album Discovery to a New Level

This past weekend was Music Hack Day San Francisco, which was the third in the city and the twentieth overall globally since 2009. There were over 200 developers in attendance…

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Former Facebook Exec Gideon Yu Named President of 49ers

Gideon Yu has had quite an illustrious career in technology, having been the former CFO at Facebook and before that, YouTube. Yu led the negotiations for the $1.65B sale of…

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Instagram Usage in 2011 Heaviest on West Coast

It would be easy to argue that 2011 was the year of mobile photography. At the top of the app list facilitating this trend is Instagram, sporting over 15 million…

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San Francisco's Map in 1853 Thanks to Pastmapper

This is a ridiculously cool and unique usage of Google Maps’ API. Developer Brad Thompson aims to launch a platform where you can not only see what city blocks looked…

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Check Out Twitter's New Office Of The Future

Today at the Twitter press event, which was held at Twitter’s new office on Market Street in San Francisco, we were shown some interesting new designs for the service, but…

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Instalook Helps You Discover Instagram Photos By City

The Instagram API has brought us all new ways to interact with the service, and new apps utilizing its platform are popping up almost daily. If you want to play…

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Flavorpill celebrates its 10th birthday

This week Flavorpill, a New York City born cultural media outlet, celebrates its 10th birthday by launching a revolutionary email newsletter, that “thinks.” The newsletter, in fact, learns and changes…

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UrbanDaddy's indoor park series

It’s just below freezing in New York City right now. Our noses are running and flu season has already taken its first wave of victims. So, when local media guru UrbanDaddy…