Get Satisfaction’s Drew Olanoff just launcheda community-powered support networkfor Hurricane Irene to help people get Hurricane Irene news, share ideas on how to prepare for a hurricane and help one another with preparing. The network is one of many support communities onGet Satisfaction, a white label community platform that can be launched quickly and easily in events such as these. Get Satisfaction, a San Francisco based company that launched in 2007 primarily helps businesses better engage with their customers online....

Anew theorypublished in the APS physicsjournal seeks to explain the origin and proliferation of dark matter through the introduction of a simple concept: what if dark matter can turn regular matter into dark matter? Up front:Physicistshave long suspectedthat dark matter has either existed for as long as the universe or that it was created as a byproduct of the Big Bang event. We’re not quite sure, but that’s because nobody’s ever directly observed dark matter....

We’ve been negative about Windows Phone 7’s current commercial outlook over the past several weeks as sales data has been scarce, and we have not heard a peep that pointed to things leaning in a positive direction. However, today,new datahas come forth from Millennial Media that might indicate that we have been a touch too antagonistic. According to the company, ad impressions on the Windows Phone 7 platform grew 31% in the last quarter....

While online dating is no longer the embarrassing little corner of the Internet which it used to be, this now socially acceptable way of finding a new partner still feels a bit detached from the wider social Web. That could be set to change with the launch of a new ‘API for dating’. Called quite simplyDating API, the project comes from San Francisco startupVisionSyncand is setting out to “do for dating what Apps have done for Facebook....

TNW Quick Hit: New details of the forthcoming Windows Store have leaked, giving new view into the much rumored and hyped product that is roughly the Windows 8 app store. The new information comes viathe Windows8Italia blog: For each application, the following information will be provided: The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art....