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0 Loopt aims for that mobile, social and real-time sweet spot with Pulse

Mobile social network Loopt is getting into the real-time game with Pulse, which will bring recommendations for things to do to depending on where you...

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0 Web 2.0: Google to roll out a social search engine

The elephants in the room of social and real-time search certainly made themselves heard today.

Google’s rolling out a social search product in Labs...

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0 Are you creating or stealing customers?

(Editor’s note: Michael Greenberg is COO of Loyalty Lab. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)

It’s easy to think that your start-up is centered...

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0 Mr. Know-It-All on Angry E-mails, North Korean Tweets, Napping on the Job

So your boss nixes the idea of power-napping on your 15-minute break? Mr. Know-It-All recommends fighting this battle with cold, hard data. And he...

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0 The Very Strange Story of the Startup That Says It Made $10m Before Launching

Ben Behrouzi came from the shadowy Lead Generation business, but some people in that field said he played too dirty. Now he's got a real-time search...

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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 Man who posted 2-star Yelp review finds enraged business owner on doorstep

A man who posted a two-star review of a local independent bookstore on Yelp seems to have inadvertently torn open a whole big box of crazy.
The man,...

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0 Cartoon: Java-Enabled

Of all the technologies powering the social Web, few are as under-appreciated as the espresso machine.

We go gaga over great mashups, we drool over...

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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 10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips

Ross Kimbarovsky is the co-founder of crowdSPRING, a community of 43,000+ graphic designers that helps small businesses from around the world with...

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0 Your Augmented Future: The 3 Hottest Videos From International AR Symposium

3D virtual pets to hold in your hand and interact with, software that turns drawn objects into movable 3D objects subject to the laws of physics and a...

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0 CrunchBoard Jobs: Yelp, Edelman, Scribd and More!

If you’re on the hunt for a new job, check out our CrunchBoard. We’ve added nearly 50 new jobs from leading internet businesses in the last two...

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0 More Details On Loopt’s Acquisition Of GraffitiGeo And Its Plans For The Future

Last night we broke the news that location-based mobile social network Loopt had acquired GraffitiGeo, a fellow Y Combinator-backed startup that...

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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 Yahoo Lap Dances Get No Applause from Twitterati

The co-founder of Flickr helped lead a chorus of criticism against Yahoo over strippers; an NYU professor a sex blog post; and Sarah Silverman...

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0 Devs Hack iPhone API for True Augmented Reality

An international team of computer scientists has created software that lets anyone perform on-the-fly analysis of live streaming video on the iPhone....

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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 Blogged.com Gets A Real-Time Makeover

Blogged.com, a news blog aggregator and directory, is adding real-time functionality to its site to engage users. Launched in 200, Blogged was...

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0 On Yelp, Every Restaurant is Very Special

Reviewers on Yelp aren't very discerning: They award four or five stars 69 percent of the time (see chart). The local ratings website could combat...

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