7:00 PM PDT Thu, Oct 13, 2011
Ngmoco hired Michael Staskin, the former vice president of marketing and communications for
Sisal S.p.A, as its chief marketing officer.
Ngmoco
Website: http://blog.ngmoco.com/
Twitter: @ngmoco
Michael Staskin...
4:37 PM PDT Thu, Oct 13, 2011
Knewton, the education company, closed a $33M Series D funding round led by Founders Fund.
Knewton
Website: http://www.knewton.com/
Blog: http://www.knewton.com/blog/
Twitter: @knewton
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Knewton
Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO
Twitter: @knewton_jose
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joseferreira
3:36 PM PDT Thu, Oct 13, 2011
YouTube recently launched a new grid design for related videos that now features 12 videos.
Considering that YouTube acquired Next New Networks in March, it's no surprise that YouTube's end screen closely resembles Next New Networks'. The only difference is that the Next New Networks end screen shows viewers a preview of the videos, while YouTube only features still images [ see screen shot after the jump ].
2:13 PM PDT Thu, Oct 13, 2011
Apple's Siri app, the personal assistant for the iPhone 4S, isn't all business, as the Tumblr blog ShitThatSiriSays proves.
For example, a user asks Siri, "What's the meaning of life?"
"I don't know but I think there is an app for that," the cheeky assistant responds [ see screen shot and more examples below ].
1:27 PM PDT Thu, Oct 13, 2011 Obsessive readers, take note: just-launched Small Demons collects user-contributed details -- real-life people and locations mentioned, things like foods characters like and cars they drive, historical references and other books and movies based on the book -- so you can easily find new things to enjoy as well as read.
Founded by former Yahoo! product VPs Valla Vakili and Tony Amidei, the then-stealth company raised $3M in May from undisclosed investors.
Here's how it works. Type in "Harry Bosch," the protagonist in author Michael Connelly's mystery "The Black Echo," and you will see pages created for items like the history of the character's name. In this case, the detective is named after Hieronymus Bosch, an early Netherlandish painter of religious and moral concepts. From there you can find books about the painter...
