Deja Vu uses image recognition to organize your visual memory

While it’s common to take visual notes of things you want to remember using a mobile phone camera, organising and keeping track of those images can a pain.Deja Vu, an app from Switzerland’sKooaba, aims to change that and it’s just launched Evernote integration, making it even more useful. Deja Vu is aniPhone appand Web app that lets you take smarter ‘picture memos’. Image recognition technology is built in, meaning that many book covers, CDs, DVDs and wine labels can be automatically identified, along with pages from participating magazines and newspapers....

2 min · 387 words · Ryan Franco

Delete LinkedIn — you’ll have zero fucking regrets

Delete LinkedIn — you’ll have zero fucking regrets When was the last time LinkedIn gave you value? It was my birthday the other day. I am slowly hacking my way into the jungle of my 30s, with a machete of tea, scones, and Castle reruns. I spent the day receiving over 500 (!) birthday greetings from LinkedIn contacts, whose names and faces I didn’t even recognize, who had clicked on a notification prompt....

4 min · 836 words · Randall Mitchell

Deleting a circle from Google+ may not stop the posts from coming

Google+ started allowing you toshare cirlceswith the public, and it’s a great feature, especially if you’d like to follow a group of photographers or geeks. But there’s a bug that makes it a little difficult to unfollow said circle after you delete it. After checking my Google+ stream today I was presented with an item from someone who wasn’t in any of my existing circles. This gentleman, who works at Google, was a part of a Google team public circle I followed yesterday....

2 min · 293 words · Victor Webb

Delicious finds a new owner in YouTube founders

You might remember a few weeks ago when it appeared that Yahoo! was getting rid of Delicious, the social bookmarking site. Rumors had it that the selling price was around $5 million, but nobody knew for sure [full story here]. Along the way, we found a number of you were interested inhow to exportyour bookmarks and somesolid alternativesto the service. As of today, it appears that you don’t need to find a new home because it appears that Delicious will live on in the hands of YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen....

2 min · 372 words · Stephanie Carr

Delicious relaunches with new link playlists, an improved design and simpler navigation

Following itsacquisition by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chenat the end of April, popular link-sharing websiteDelicioushas relaunched, keeping many of the features that helped draw users to the service but now offers more social features to help organize the best websites around topics that users know about. Hurley and Chen, now operating under a new business called AVOS, transitioned into the leadership roles for Delicious and were forced to take Delicious back to the drawing board, rebuilding the eight-year-old site from the ground up....

4 min · 694 words · Ashley Hernandez
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