Love books and hate carrying a wallet? The BookBook iPhone case is for you

Twelve Southhas a history of making very well thought out cases and stands for iPhone, iPad and Mac. TheBookBook for iPhoneis its attempt to shrink down the success of their book-inspired cases for the MacBook and iPad into something that you’ll want to carry around in your pocket. It is successful for the most part as the BookBook is really a gorgeous case, with a lovely stitched design, pleasant detailing and a patina that has only gotten better as I’ve scratched and scuffed it during my testing....

4 min · 835 words · Natalie Shields

Love free concert tickets? Check out SeatGeek’s sweet Facebook giveaway

One of New York City’s darling startups,SeatGeek, a sweet secondary ticket market, is launching its “Three For Free Summer Ticket Giveaway” to send a group of three Facebook friends to a summer concert or sporting event of their choosing, absolutely free. To enter, simply do the following: LikeSeatGeek on Facebook.2. Search for the event you’d like to attend on SeatGeek.com, copy the link and share it on SeatGeek’s Facebook Wall, mentioning two friends you’d like to bring with the following message: “I want SeatGeek to send me to this event for FREE with @Name, @Name....

2 min · 282 words · Nicholas Smith

Love Instagram but want a web interface? Try Followgram

We are huge fans of Instagram at The Next Web. Just before Christmas, the wildly popular servicehit 1 millionusers. We love everything about the quirky photo-sharing app, butwe are impatiently waitingfor its web interface to arrive. To hold us over, a segue site has launched calledFollowgram, which allows users to receive an RSS feed of their Instagram photos and share their profile with others. Followgram, while not the most beautiful site, lets users browse other user’s photos based on interests....

2 min · 294 words · Rachael Hubbard

Love it or hate it, MTV’s Jersey Shore knows social media

Unsurprisingly (but perhaps aggravatingly so),MTV’s Jersey Shorehas managed to dominate the TV/social media charts onSocialGuide.comfor the second week in a row. While some obviously have their qualms with the popular series (our editorBrad McCarty, for example, expressed his disbelief that I wasn’t immediately fired for admitting Jersey Shore is my favorite TV show, claiming that it makes him “feel a deep, profound sorrow for humanity”), the strategy behind the social success of Jersey Shore is spot-on....

4 min · 851 words · David Gray

Love listening to the radio? You’ll love the PURE Lounge app

According toRadio Mag Online, Apple began rejecting single station radio apps, comparing them to “FART apps” that represented “spam in the iTunes store” and Apple “will no longer approve any more radio station apps unless there are hundreds of stations on the same app.” Currently in the iTunes store, there are hundreds of radio apps, with hundreds of stations on each one so how will you pick the best? PURE Lounge is a radio app from a company that’s been in the radio business for quite some time....

3 min · 530 words · Chad Kelly
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