Peter Thiel’s “full-on rager” ends with a 25-minute “elevator pitch”

The NY Daily News reportsthat 44-year-old billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel, president ofClarium Capital, threw quite the party last Saturday night. The dinner party turned “full-on rager” took place in his $25,000 per month on the fourth floor of his apartment at 15 Union Square West in Manhattan. Sources say 40 plus guests were in attendance including Ian Reisner of Park View Developers, Jonathan Stambolis, an adviser to the Australian Permanent Mission to the UN and Michael Warner from Global Social Network....

2 min · 320 words · Haley Brown

PhiGolf brings real golf swings and photorealistic world famous courses into your home

TLDR:The PhiGolf Mobile and Home Smart Golf Simulator bring real world golf swing mechanics into your home in the coolest virtual golf experience you’ve ever seen. The odds are that you’ve never plunked a shot into the waters of theSwilcan Burnwhile playing the historic and world-famous St. Andrew’s Links in Scotland. Or that you’ve braved the uphill climbs and treacherous elevated greens of the stunningSpyglasscourse in Pebble Beach, Calif. But as a golfer, wouldn’t it be cool to really feel like you’ve tackled the world’s most famous (or infamous) courses?...

3 min · 501 words · John Mendoza

Philanthroper is the Groupon of crowdsourced social giving

Philanthroper, a Chicago startup that is focusing on improving the world of charity, is a wonderful mixture of Groupon, Woot, and the spirit of giving. Every day Philanthroper works with one charity, and spurs as many people as it can to give a single dollar to that group. However, to avoid losing all of that money in transaction expenses, the company has teamed up with a second Chicago company, calledmPayy, to handle their payments....

2 min · 379 words · Scott Bauer

Philippine government wants mandatory SIM registration. Maybe it’s a good idea.

Mobile phones in the Philippines have come a long way – from only 2 million subscribers back in year 2000 to what it is today – reaching even the farthest of the 7,000 islands in the Philippines. It’s no surprise that the country is known for being the “Text Messaging Capital of the World,” which is brought by lenient regulations and free distribution of prepaid SIM cards and mobile devices that took the country by storm....

5 min · 1060 words · Karen Cain

Philippine Revolution in 1986 retold using Facebook

ThePeople Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986, was a series of popular nonviolent revolutions and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines, which marked the restoration of the country’s democracy. GMA Newsretells the story using the widely popular social network, Facebook. It’s actually interesting that the country is thefifthin the world in terms of number of Facebook users with almost 23 million. If Facebook did exist during that time, it’s not unlikely that these are the updates we will be seeing on our feeds, just like what happened withEgypt....

2 min · 215 words · Donna Malone
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