Re-Vinyl CEO raps to investors at DreamIt Ventures’ Demo Day [Video]

What isRe-Vinyl? Re-Vinyl is “re-inventing the album” by bringing all the features you love about vinyl albums-lyrics, liner notes, tracks, music videos, interviews, artist bios, album art and photos to your iPad. “Digital downloads come to us like Chinese food; we gobble it up no matter the quality and it’s a problem for consumers and for the music industry,” says CEO Michael Morgan. Re-Vinyl is a mobile platform for artists to distribute their music and sell their brand in a whole new way through apps....

3 min · 428 words · David Perez

Reachlocal acquires daily deal site DealOn for $10M

Reachlocalthe site that helps local business connect with mobile and web advertisers has acquiredDealOn, a daily deal website for $10 million today. Groupon doen’t need to worry though, as Reachlocal does not want to enter their market-space directly. Reachlocal wants to work with smaller publishers and help them deliver their own deals. Some publishers like Yelp provide deals for its customers. However that requires a strong sales team, something that smaller publishers will not have access too....

1 min · 190 words · Joseph Marshall

Read and Write Fun Collaborative Stories with Foldingstory

When I was little, for playtime in English lessons the teacher would make us sit around in a circle. I can still see my 7-year-old self getting excited about ‘folded story-time’. A Folded Story is a story created by a group of people that do not know what the whole story contains. Different people write different sentences only knowing what the person before them wrote. Folding the paper and passing it along when they were done would keep the whole story a secret till the end....

3 min · 560 words · Mark Bailey

Read articles offline in your browser with this Instapaper Chrome app

When you’re a busy person trying to keep up with all the great stuff there is to read online,Instapaperis invaluable. Now a handyChrome apphas made it even more useful when you find yourself away from an Internet connection. If you’re not familiar with Instapaper, it’s a service that lets you save articles to read later by using a bookmarklet button in your browser. The articles are then stored in a stripped-down, easy to read format in your Instapaper account....

2 min · 298 words · Charles Grant

Read it Later gets a hot looking new web app with sorting, filtering, tags and more

Popular link digest service Read it Later just got a newweb appthat is rolling out in live preview to all users right now. The new web app looks absolutely fantastic, with a clean new theme and big, easy to browse thumbnails. The new app features a revamped look and feel that is miles ahead of the bare app provided before. Clean, simple iconography and typesetting makes this a pleasure to use....

2 min · 415 words · Victoria Cisneros
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