There is no doubt in our mind, by now, of the power of Twitter. What started as a confusing project 5 years ago has become one of the best ways to share and find information on the Internet. As Twitter celebrates its 5th birthday today, the service hasgiven us a listof some of its favorite Tweets for the past 5 years. Here they are, in order as Twitter sent them:...
There are a variety of iOS apps that will enable you to discover new music through friend recommendations or tracks that you or your friends have downloaded. The problem is, it doesn’t always find music that sound like your favourite artists. Discovris a gorgeous music app that brings users a new way to discover bands and artists through the use of interactive maps. To discover new music, users simply input a band or artist name which generates an interactive graph that displays similar musicians....
Disdus, Indonesia’s leading group buying site that Groupon acquired earlier this month, has a new home: groupon.co.id, and has expanded to 4 other cities according toDaily Social. The official domainhttp://groupon.co.id, which previously pointed to Groupon Singapore, is now pointing to the front page of Disdus. There is also the addition of four more cities — Surabaya, Bali, Yogyakarta and Medan, aside from the initial offering of only in Jakarta and Bandung....
Satellite TV giant Dish Network is planning on launching a streaming movie service to compete with Netflix,reports Blooomberg. The service will launch next month, according to a person with direct knowledge of Dish’s plans. The announcement of the service was apparently timed to take advantage of theincrease in Netflix’s pricesfor its combined DVD and streaming services. Dish has yet to set a price for its service but will be basing it on the Blockbuster assets that itacquired in Aprilfor $320 million afterBlockbuster filed for bankruptcy....
Today Dish and Blockbusterannouncedthat it is announcing Blockbuster Movie Pass. This is a service that will offer movie streaming, DVD and Blu-ray discs by mail and on-demand movie channels. The service will launch October 1st. The service includes over 100k movies and TV shows by mail with no extra charge for Blu-ray discs. There are 3,000 movies available by TV and more than 4,000 movies that you can stream to a computer....
