Personal journal service Penzu now has 250,000 registered users, launches iOS and Android mobile apps

We first reviewed Penzu when it firstlaunchedover 3 years ago, and with all the changes that have been made, it may as well be an entirely different application. The changes include adding an inordinate amount of features, offering pro and basic accounts, and most recently, launching Android and iOS apps. Penzu has also recently hit a huge milestone, reaching over 250,000 registered users on the site. At its most basic, Penzu is a private online journal, which you can try out without having to sign up at all, but if you want to save your entries, signing up for a free account takes seconds....

3 min · 538 words · Laura Tran

Personera: Make money from your Facebook fan pages with personalized products [video]

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. 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. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now! Personerais a personalized products platform for brands on Facebook.I caught up with founder Sheraan Amod, co-founder and CEO, who told me how the company works and gave me a demo....

2 min · 275 words · Jennifer Garrett

Personyze customizes sites according to visitor interests

Personyzeis a new service that provides powerful tools for customizing web content for market segments and individual users. Drawing from a range of sources such as a user’s browsing history andFacebookprofile, Personyze determines demographics and interests and adjusts advertising and content on a website to suit that person’s interests. Such a degree of personalization will help sites using the service to increase their traffic, convert more users to customers, and increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns run on the site....

2 min · 324 words · Sharon Richards

Personyze offers insanely targeted personalization with Rapleaf integration

Personyze, the companywe covered a while backthat gives you ultimate control in customizing your website for specific demographics, has announced a partnership withRapleaf, a company that aggregates public information and personal interests to give site owners more effective demographic targeting tools. Personyze gives users access to many metrics, such as geolocation, keywords of interest, links clicked and linked Facebook profile data, but Rapleaf integration fills in more specific personal demographics such as gender, age and location....

2 min · 325 words · Kelly Melton

Peter Thiel on how to solve 40 years of stagnation in Silicon Valley

In mid-July, our TNW Video Director Hermione Way wrote a story called “The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself” in which she wrote: …I’ve interviewed around two hundred startups and there’s only two, out of two hundred, I think are game changers. Now, don’t get me wrong, Silicon Valley is an incredibly inspiring place to be. Everyone is doing something amazing and trying to change the world, but in reality much of the technology being built here is not changing the world at all, it’s short-sighted and designed for scalability, big exits and big profits…....

4 min · 800 words · James Velasquez
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