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Interior design and decorating resource Houzz is the overall best Android app of the year, according to Google, which this evening announced the results of the first-ever Google Play Awards at its developer conference, Google I/O. While in previous years, the company had rounded up large numbers of apps for “Best of” lists, the new Google Play Awards instead follows… Read More... →

Posted by Tom-AnthonyApp search is growing and changing, and there's more opportunity than ever to both draw customers in at the top of the funnel and retain them at the bottom. In today's special British Whiteboard Friday, Tom Anthony and Will Critchlow of Distilled dig into everything app search and highlight a future where Google may have some competition as the search engine giant. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video TranscriptionTom: Howdy, and welc... →

In today’s tech-driven business world, the title “serial entrepreneur” is a coveted badge of honor. It’s easy to understand the appeal of the phrase. It suggests that someone is so full of groundbreaking ideas they can’t channel all of them into just one company. Instead, they choose to focus their genius on creating an array of world-changing, money-making… Read More... →

After Google’s decision not to provide end-to-end encryption by default in its new chat app, Allo, raised questions about the balance of security and effective artificial intelligence, one of the company’s top security engineers said he’d push for end-to-end encryption to become the default in future versions of Allo. Allo debuted with an option to turn on end-to-end… Read More... →

Mobile ad company UberMedia is expanding its measurement and attribution business in a big way. You may remember UberMedia as the company that owns social apps like Echofon and UberSocial. While that’s still the case, it has shifted its attention over the past few years to its mobile ad platform, which uses the apps as a source of data — and which can tell advertisers whether… Read More... →

Posted by David_FarkasCreating content for local link building can be intimidating.Sure, you know your business. You know your area, but do you know what locals want to read about?You can always guess, and you might strike gold. My guess is you don’t have the time, resources, or budget for guesswork.I don’t either, which is why I like to go in educated.Enter Moz Content.Even if you don’t have a Moz account, Moz Content allows you to audit any website and find its most popular content. You can figure out whi... →

Пользователи Казахстана 20 мая заявили о недоступности в стране Facebook, «ВКонтакте», а также других сервисов и мессенджеров. Об этом пишет TJ со ссылкой на жителя Алматы и подтверждает один из читателей vc.ru.... →

Decentralized chat app FireChat is adding a new feature that could help disseminate critical info like storm warnings, health advisories, and so on, when the normal communications grid is down. Truth be told, Alerts aren’t terribly different from the normal chat function, which passes data from phone to phone over an ad-hoc network that doesn’t rely on cellular signals. In the case… Read More... →

For all their being motion-enabling platforms, wheelchairs are themselves rather static. A frame of steel and aluminum supporting foam-filled leather or plastic, with a handful of settings that may or may not accommodate the user’s specific condition. A London design firm has worked for two years to create an alternative: a 3D-printed wheelchair made to fit the shape and needs of its rider. Read More... →

Bummer, dude! That’s what you say when you find out that your whole keg of Heiney is totally skunked but it doesn’t matter because you’ll totally still drink it after you finish the pony keg of Sammo’s Irish Red. But what if I told you that folks in Spain have figured out a way to use an app to tell if your beer is a mess? Whoa, right? Whoa, indeed. Chemists at the… Read More... →

At a glance E-ink display Eight months of battery life Tracks steps, sleep, running and swimming $80 Pros Long battery life Water resistant Modular form factor Cons Limited display functionality Not cheap enough to truly be “budget” Limited data insight Drop the price $20 and add a bit more functionality and you’ve got a compelling product on your hands. The way… Read More... →

A wide-scale study of online trackers carried out by researchers at Princeton University has identified a new technique being used to try to strip web users of their privacy, as well as quantifying the ongoing usage of some better known tracking techniques. Read More... →

Reddit posts are going to get the chance to live beyond Reddit itself, thanks to new embedding capabilities. If you’re an online writer or publisher, that means you can start including live Reddit content in your stories. If you’re a reader, that means you might start to see more Reddit posts on other sites, the same way you can see embedded tweets and YouTube videos. After all… Read More... →

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

Oakland, Calif.-based Edyn  started selling a new, smart gardening device this week, an internet-connected water valve that lets users irrigate their food, flowers or lawns automatically. The Edyn Water Valve uses data from the company’s Edyn Garden Sensor, a soil sensor, along with local weather systems, to adjust the moisture levels in the soil. If a user wants to, they can… Read More... →

Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter, a buyer’s guide to the best technology. This is a condensed version of several Wirecutter guides; you can find links to the full guides in the discussions below. Quick survey: How much time have you spent setting up your starred channels and notifications in Slack? How often have you rearranged the home screen on… Read More... →

As someone who has worked in technology his entire adult life, I can say the following with complete conviction: Somewhere at this moment a young entrepreneur is developing a product, service or business model that will transform the way our world thinks, works, plays, communicates, dates, sleeps or wakes up the day after. He or she doesn’t live in the Valley and probably has no intention… Read More... →