Tagg For iPhone Uses Fa...
Tagg is a newly launched iPhone application that uses offline facial recognition to detect the faces of your friends in your photos, so you can tag them and upload them to Facebook or post them to Twitter. The app takes advantage of new frameworks in iOS5, like CoreImage , for example,...StubHub Founder Launche...
StubHub co-founder and investor Jeff Fluhr is launching his next project today—social video broadcasting platform Spreecast. Simply put, Spreecast is a social video platform that lets people broadcast together. Fluhr tells me that he saw a gap in providing a video communications...Social Analytics Platfo...
Kontagent , an fbFund winner and social analytics platform has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with Maverick Capital and Altos Ventures participating. To date, Kontagent has raised $18 million in funding. As we’ve written in the past,...Facebook Brings Recent ...
Facebook is rolling out an update to News Feed that lets people sort information by Recent Stories or Highlighted Stories. The update adds a “Sort” link at the top of the News Feed. Clicking it brings up two options for organizing News Feed content: “Highlighted Stories...Google Adds +1 Button T...
Google is adding its +1 button to images surfaced through Google search results, the company is announcing today via blog post. That means that when you’re doing searches in the Google Images vertical, you’ll now see a small “+1″ button appear when you hover over...
Social Planning Service...
Location-based social planning platform Hotlist (formerly “The Hotlist”), is launching a revamped website and iPhone application today, with an increased focus on ease-of-use, improved discovery of upcoming activities and events, and better tools for coordinating plans with...Flash Sales Site And Gi...
Flash sales site Beyond The Rack has raised $36.6 million in new funding led by Panorama Capital with Export Development Canada, Tandem Expansion Fund, Rho Canada, Inovia Capital, Highland Capital Partners and BDC Venture Capital participating in the round. This brings the...