EveryPlat, created by Dwolla’s Michael Schonfeld at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, lets you immediately connect with new friends on multiple platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Linkedin, Dwolla and more. As the number of ways we interact with each other online grows, it is becoming a complete hassle to have to manually connect with other users across multiple services. EveryPlat is a surprisingly helpful fix to a simple problem that needs to be solved. From Dwolla’s blog: What is EveryPlat? How annoying is it to connect on every social platform when you meet someone you like? There is everything from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare to Linkedin, Dwolla, and more. Everyplat was built to immediately connect you with your new friends on every platform. Authenticate your account information ... Continue reading →
Humor engine Funny or Die has given Fifty Shades of Grey the parody treatment, enlisting pop star Selena Gomez to spoof the erotic book trilogy. Titled “50 Shades of Blue,” the video begins with Gomez greeting painter Carl Blue at her front door. Gomez’s character never says a word to the ungenteel Blue in the 208-second clip. Her thoughts instead are spoken in a lusty voice-over with romantic background music. “What was that contraption? He was introducing me to a whole new world, and I was ready,” Gomez fantasizes when Blue pulled out a caulking gun. The racy novels center on young billionaire Christian Grey’s kinky relationship with recent college graduate Anastasia Steele. Grey requires Steele to sign a sexual contract, and the two routinely ... Continue reading →
It was one of the Internet’s most popular memes. But as of Wednesday, the Rickroll is no more. Rickrolling is the practice of promising victims one link but directing them instead to Rick Astley’s 1987 music video, “Never Gonna Give You Up,” instead. It’s a bait-and-switch that has been embraced by everyone from the New York Mets to the White House. However, the collective joke ground to a halt when AVG Technologies took the original video down from YouTube with a copyright complaint, TorrentFreak reported. “Taking down a five-year-old video with tens of millions of views is strange enough, but it is far from clear why AVG Technologies—the people behind AVG Anti-Virus—would want to do so at all,” enigmax wrote. For its own part, YouTube ... Continue reading →
The World at Work is powered by GE. This new series highlights the people, projects and startups that are driving innovation and making the world a better place. Name: Givey Big Idea: Givey provides a free payment platform for users to easily donate to charities through Twitter and text messaging. Why It’s Working: The service lets people make “on-the-fly donations” with short tweets and SMS that benefit charities. Givey 2.0, launching in August, will act as a record of all donations and rank users by their charitable acts. Most messages on Twitter inform or entertain, but UK startup Givey wants some tweets to help charities. Since launching in May 2011, Givey has pulled 6,000 charities onto its online platform, which allows people to quickly register ... Continue reading →
“The web is what you make of it,” reads the parting text in Google Chrome‘s latest commercial featuring Lady Gaga. It’s a simple eight-word slogan for Google’s web browser but it represents so much more when you connect it to Gaga, who took to the web this year to create an inescapable marketing spectacle for her Born This Way album. In the months leading up to the May 23 album release — and even now — Gaga has paved a path for stars and brands to get inventive with the ways they use digital and social media to promote themselves and connect with fans. The 25-year-old is no stranger to success on the web. She remains a heavyweight on major social networks: In the past ... Continue reading →
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