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Slowly rebuilding something as massive as a Google social network is a total pain in the ass. I have requests for invites from friends-of-friends from high school clogging my inbox. And every Google page I turn to: Gmail, Calendar and Google Search has these little pop-up notifications in the top-right corner, beckoning for me to check my Google+ activity. My willpower has never felt so exhausted. Right now, the process of building Circles are dizzying....

The Newsstand feature of iOS 5, which gathers periodicals that have opted into its service into one convenient place, is either a love it or hate it feature for most users. On one hand, you have all of your magazines and newspapers in one place and they all get an automatic publish once a day, very cool. On the other hand, it takes the form of a folder and, as such, cannot be placed inside any other folder on your springboard....

Last month, Google attractedattentionfor a +1 Chrome extension which appeared in a TV ad. While we’re yet to see this extension emerge in a form which we can download, that hasn’t stopped an enterprising developer pushing out an unofficial solution. Italian Stefano Pochet’s extension, which can be foundhere, does pretty much what you’d expect it to. Click it while on any web page and it will show you how many +1s the page has....

As Twitter use continues to boom, the associated services that allow users to share their photos are also seeing a boost. In May 2011,we looked intowhat many of the Twitter image-sharing services did with users’ photos. Most immediately assumed the commercial rights to uploaded photos, but services like TwitPic and Plixi (before it was acquired) have actually signed deals with news agencies so they can sell popular photos to the media, profiting directly from the sale and giving nothing back to the Twitter user that originally uploaded it....

When you launch a techstartupwithout a tech background, going headfast into the unknown, you might encounter problems with practically everything tech-wise. But fine, a tech startup does not sound very specific, so let’s narrow down this broad topic. If your tech startup idea has something to do with tracking, counting, or monitoring some activity, it’s probably in the realm of IoT and this article is meant to guide you with your first steps....