Despite having been around for a couple of years,Bitcoinhas really taken off this year. The peer-to-peer currency is being billed by some as having the potential to replace the current international monetary system. You can read more about what Bitcoin is, how it started, where it’s going and its problems in our guidehere. One important part of the scene are the exchanges that allow you to easily convert you ‘normal’ currency into Bitcoin....

Growth hacking isn’t just a buzzword — let these 20K+ new users be your inspiration How my team got a startup 20K+ new users with a simple idea Collaboration between developers and clients In modern software engineering, we software development firms try to work alongside the clients from the bottom up, and in every phase of the project. The immediately apparent consequence of this is that the now continuous process of requirement specification becomes collaborative, and better decisions tend to be made because the client and the technical team are aligned....

Social Meals startupGrub With Ushas just anounceda new charity mealwith investor Howard Hartenbaum ofAugust Capitalat the restaurantTamarine, in Palo Alto on Monday Sept. 26. The restaurant is a favorite with the venture crowd, and the charity meal is a great opportunity for a few plucky founders to pitch their companies. Even if those who can’t secure funding from the encounter are in for a memorable meal. Tamarine is a Vietnamese restaurant where the Yelp reviewers tend towax poetic....

In today’s wired world, we are able to form multitudinous connections very quickly. This has spurred multi-billion dollar online social networks and constant opportunities for networking parties in the real world. So now it’s all about cutting through the noise, and what better way to accomplish that than over a nice meal? Grubwithus, a YC startup out of Chicago, is a dinner reservation site that brings those connections into real life, allowing diners to both network with new people while enjoying a proper meal....

At the beginning of May,AOL announcedit was to start working with Google to allow users of its AIM messaging service would be able to chat with Google Talk (or “Chat” within Gmail) users without having to log into both services. Today that feature has begun gone live. Although there hasn’t been an official announcement, Pidgin developer Mark Dolinerannounced the feature had gone liveon the Pidgin mailing list: The interoperation magically started working for me....