Posts tagged Discovery
AlikeList raises $5M to help local businesses get discovered
Dec 15th
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AlikeList is applying social networking to the discovery of local businesses. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said today it has raised $5 million in a first round of funding to expand its social-local platform for listing, referring, and discovering trusted local businesses.
The financing came from Syncom Venture Partners. The company plans to use the [...]
The Surprisingly Deep Benefits of Walking
Dec 14th
Readers of my previous articles will know that I try to live as effortlessly as possible. This all started (in a conscious way, at least) when many years ago, as a teenager, I discovered the ancient Chinese idea of Wu Wei – ‘action without action’ or ‘non doing.’ The discovery came quite by accident – [...]
Last chance to sign up for DiscoveryBeat (via postie)
Dec 6th
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DiscoveryBeat is approaching on Tuesday and I’m glad to report that we’re nearly sold out. When we planned this event, we had no idea we would get such a good response from the apps community. But the event is about solving one of the toughest problems in the social/mobile/gaming ecosystem: how do you [...]
Zynga, Flurry, YouWeb, GetJar and more (via postie)
Dec 1st
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We’re excited to make some new announcements about the speakers and content at DiscoveryBeat, our event on Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. The event is all about how to get apps noticed in an age of noise. We’ve got a maximum capacity of 200 and we [...]
DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest deadline is today (via postie)
Nov 30th
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The deadline for entries into our DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest is end of day today. With this competition, we’re trying to unearth some of the most interesting unknown apps.
It’s all part of our DiscoveryBeat event to be held on Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. The DiscoveryBeat [...]
