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Here are some facts that you probably didn’t know: The facts you probably do know? Finding a tutor is difficult at best and word of mouth recommendations are about the only way to find a good one. Tutorspreeis looking to toss the entire tutoring ecosystem firmly onto its ear. By offering anAirbnb-style platform for finding, hiring and giving feedback on tutors, it’s putting more money into the right pockets and keeping quality at its highest....

I spend a rather ridiculous amount of time watching foodie shows.Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,The Best Thing I Ever Ateand shows like them are my guilty pleasure, and just about the only reason I’d ever consider paying for cable again. Given that I also travel quite a bit for my job with TNW, I like to try to track down the restaurants that I see on these shows, but it’s a difficult task....

Different generations of media consumers have been shown to digest different types of content at different times of day. Depending on the age demographic, media can use the following information to target which types of users they hope to market to. In a recent survey provided toAdAgebyMagid Generational Strategies(a firm that provides clients with unique insights within generational media consumption, family dynamics and influence etc), the times of day certain media is currently being used were examined....

The next great frontier for social media is TV. While apps likeGet GlueandMisohave introduced viewers to the idea of ‘checking in’ to their favourite shows,TvTakwants to make the process quicker, easier and more useful for viewers, broadcasters and advertisers alike. Presenting today at the Techonomy conference in Tel Aviv, TvTak is an iPhone app that allows you take a picture of your TV screen. Within one second, it will work out exactly the show or ad that you are watching....

Despite the fact Twitter quietly removed access to RSS feeds, there have beenseveralotherwaysto gain access to them anyway. One of the latest methods to emerge takes things a step further to create the ultimate Twitter-meets-RSS Reader solution. WithTweepFeedyou can access anyone’s Twitter RSS feed, but rather than generating a list of their tweets, it tracks the links that they’ve shared and creates an RSS feed of the content for you to use on your RSS reader of choice....