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0 NUDE IT: Augmented Reality Gets Naked on the iPhone [VIDEO]

Two of the hottest trends right now are Augmented Reality and iPhone apps. Some iPhone apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Wikitude have utilized AR for...

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0 Failed Online Navigation Software Maker Sues Google, Yahoo And More Over Patent

Bone-headed patent lawsuit number 573482: a company called WebMap Technologies is suing a host of technology companies over an online map patent that...

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0 Why Aren't VCs Backing Augmented Reality?

Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world,...

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0 Mobile Social Network Wars: Loopt Acquires GraffitiGEO

Loopt, the New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia-backed mobile social network, has acquired a relative newcomer to the scene - Y Combinator startup...

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0 AWESOME: Urbanspoon iPhone App Adds Augmented Reality

The mobile augmented reality space continues to heat up, with Wikitude and Layar on Android and the Yelp Monocle debuting AR on the iPhone.

Today...

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0 Top 100 Real-Time Web Companies

As part of the lead-up to our inaugural event this Thursday 15th October, The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, we're pleased to announce our list of...

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0 Smarter Food: How Social Media is Making Our Cities Tastier

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog.

Social media has certainly...

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0 Augmented Wikipedia Reality Has Arrived on the iPhone

A month ago, we covered Wikitude, an augmented reality app for Google Android. Augmented reality takes virtual data, places it on your phone, and...

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0 Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World

What is that mountain you're driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry. Science fiction? Not anymore. Two...

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0 Place Pages: Google Launches Rival to Yelp

Yelp has built a social media empire by becoming the top destination for finding information and reviews on local businesses and restaurants. Now...

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0 MerchantCircle Answers lets small businesses show off their expertise

MerchantCircle creates and manages profile pages for small businesses, and it says it has built a sizable user base and reached profitability earlier...

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0 Hyperlocal Business Directory MerchantCircle Launches Consumer-Facing Features

Hyperlocal business directory MerchantCircle has been steadily growing as an online network and business directory for merchants in smaller towns to...

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0 Yelp Is Growing 80 Percent A Year, While Citysearch Remains Flat

Say what you will about the quality of the reviews on Yelp or the lengths it will go to get verboten features into its iPhone app, it has made the...

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0 RobotVision: A Bing-Powered iPhone Augmented Reality Browser

Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won't find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone's...

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0 What’s Next: a Wikipedia for small businesses?

Three years after Alexander Graham Bell spoke the telephone’s first words in 1875 – “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you” – the first phone...

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0 Augmented reality browser war heats up with Wikitude’s latest version

Prepare for another battle of the browsers — augmented reality-style.

Austrian-based Mobilizy is pumping up user-generated geotagging in the latest...

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0 Center’d Brings Its Local Discovery Engine To The iPhone

Center'd, the service that looks to help you figure out what to do with your day, has released a new iPhone application that lets you tap into the...

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0 Urbanspoon Is Now Taking Online Reservations: Takes on OpenTable

Urbanspoon is getting ready to take on OpenTable, the popular and publicly traded restaurant reservation service. Urbanspoon just started a pilot...

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0 Delicious Not Dead: New Search Adds Filters and Graphs

Prior to this week it had a been awhile since we’ve had anything newsworthy to report about Delicious. The Yahoo owned social bookmarking site...

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0 Top 15 Social Media Resources for Foodies

Ah, food… who doesn’t love food? It’s essential to our survival, of course, but more importantly, it acts as a universal language. Every culture has...

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0 6 Resources for Tomorrow's Happy Hour

It's a common fact of life that many work-related conflicts can be solved over a drink. Thousands of secrets have been divulged under the tawdry...

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0 Whuffaoke or Bust: RWW's Road Trip Resources

After publishing her book about social capital and the power of

social networking,The Whuffie Factor, Tara Hunt is doing what any change agent...

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0 MojoPages grabs $5 million

Local search startup wants to aggregate listings from Yelp, CitySearch and YellowPages

MojoPages, a local search listings startup, announced it...

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0 MojoPages Raises $5 Million For White Label Local Business Search Engine

MojoPages, a local listings search engine, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Austin Ventures. MojoPages's search technology powers...

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0 Geodelic raises $3.5 million

Location based discovery engine for smartphones grabs funding and partners with T-Mobile

Location based search is becoming like second nature for...

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0 Places Directory is Google’s Version of Yelp for Mobile

Finding gas stations, restaurants, clubs, and other locations while-on-the-go is a service that is high in demand. There are also a lot of options...

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0 LetsEat.at Helps Local Restaurants Build Targeted Websites

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup...

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0 Yelp Closing in on Citysearch

Every time I’ve been trying to decide on a new place to go with friends recently, someone has inevitably said, “Check it out on Yelp,” but rarely has...

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0 11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip

Whether you’re driving 20 miles or 2000, being able to find gas, grab a bite to eat, keep up with the news or check the map for your location are all...

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0 Sense Networks: 4 Million Sensors to Help You Find a Party in San Francisco

Yesterday we discussed MIT's project WikiCity, which monitors location data in cities via mobile sensors and creates visualizations from that. That...

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