Punchfork uses social networks to aggregate the most popular recipes

Punchforkis a web app that puts the spotlight on the recipes that are getting the most attention on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. While Punchfork does a number of things, its most prominent feature is sorting recipes from major sites like Epicurious, Serious Eats, The Kitchn and Food Network by the number of shares they are receiving on the social web. The recipe is assigned a popularity rating between 1 and 100 that indicates how much that recipe has been discussed and shared online....

3 min · 440 words · Katherine Galloway

Push Browser brings Google’s ‘Chrome To Phone’ to iOS

Google’sChrome To Phonewaslaunchedlast summer, allowing users to easily push open web pages on their desktop browser to their Android phone, perfect if you’re about to head out the door. Now an independent developer has created something that does the same thing for iOS devices. It’s beautifully simple, and unlike Google’s app, it works both ways. Push Browsercomprises two elements – a Chrome extension and an app for the iPhone or iPad....

2 min · 410 words · Kayla Lopez

Pushkart, a new deals app for your social networks. Free coffee, no strings attached!

There are hundreds of daily deal sites based in New York City, offering a myriad of services ranging from spa treatments to rock-climbing excursions and of course thousands of restaurant deals from low end sandwich shops to high-end sushi dinners. Pushkartis a new kind of deals service that launched this past summer, 2010. First, the company has chosen to partner with a wide range of businesses extending into different boroughs as opposed to focusing only on Manhattan....

3 min · 617 words · Taylor Bryan

PushStart to give Australian tech startups mentoring, seed funding

PushStart, an incubator dedicated to helping Australian tech startups grow, launched today at SydStart. PushStart’s main focus is on providing startups with experienced mentors to guide less experienced entrepreneurs and save them from making mistakes others have made the hard way. “The underlying PushStart philosophy is that relevant, contextual advice and guidance is the highest value help you can offer an early stage tech business,” said General Manager Kim Heras in a statement....

2 min · 223 words · William Pineda

Putting Facebook’s rumored $100 billion IPO in perspective

Remember that overplayed line fromThe Social Networkthat went something like: “a million dollars isn’t cool – you know what is? Abilliondollars.” Well, as it turns out, a single billion is now chump change for Facebook, as they appear set to go public next year at a valuation of aroundone hundred billion dollars. It is hard to figure out how much money that is in your head. We are here to give you a touch of perspective on the matter....

4 min · 656 words · Ryan Cunningham
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