You’ve seen the news, the once mighty social networkMySpaceis all but dead, the company recentlycut halfof its worldwide workforce with traffic falling month on month. Withreportsthat Jack Kennedy, EVP of operations for News Corp Digital Media, has been given the task of looking for a potential buyer of the website, rumours have circulated that online gaming company Zynga could be poised to make a bid. Over the past week, we have noticed more and more mentions of a new bidder, an organisation that is looking to crowdsource donations to collectively buy the stricken website and inject some fresh impetus....

If you happen to be in London or New York, and looking for a good place to settle down and work for a while, this Web app should help you do just that. Let’s Meet and Workis the brainchild ofAlasdair Monk, a user interface designer and app developer. So how does it work? Well, people based in London or New York complete arecommendation form(a Google Spreadsheet), which asks for the name of the venue, its address, website, description and whether it has WiFi....

Digital video surveillance systems can’t just identify who someone is. They can also work out how someone is feeling and what kind of personality they have. They can even tell how they might behave in the future. And the key to unlocking this information about a person is the movement of their head. That is the claim made by the company behind theVibraImageartificial intelligence (AI) system. (The term “AI” is used here in a broad sense to refer to digital systems that use algorithms and tools such as automated biometrics and computer vision)....

Level-up your customer service with these 4 dynamite strategies It’s all about the customer after all. Make it simple Consumers crave simplicity. For example, if a potential customer has a question about one of your products, they don’t want to spend 30 minutes scouring your website for your contact information. Or let’s say your customer has to return a product. They don’t want to go on a fact-finding mission to figure out your return policy (including calling your customer service line) — only to find out that they’re ineligible for a return or refund....

The company behind the popular real world gaming and location appSCVNGRis officially launching its new payment and reward app, LevelUp, for merchants and consumers today in San Francisco and New York City. SCVNGR’s mission is to build a game on top of the whole world, and add game mechanics to the real world. Since SVNGR’s location-based challenge app launched, there has been 2 million players and 5,000 companies on board. The company has seen a huge social adoption of its app....