Blind Dating Gets Eyeballs With FaceTime iPhone App

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:20 p.m.
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It's tough finding a date these days. Craigslist is unreliable and dangerous; eHarmony and Match.com are costly and exclusive; and other online personals usually turn out to be scams. How's a suitor supposed to plan a romantic rendezvous in the digital age? Say hello to Visual Friend, a new and free Internet dating service that brings "singles, FaceTime, and your iPhone 4 all together in one fantastic, engaging place." ... Visual Friend is essentially a curated version of Chatroulette, where

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Guy moving to New York wants a roomie who doesn't have an iPhone

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Published Aug. 6, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
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An ad posted to Craigslist yesterday is from an open-minded sort of guy who wants a roommate for an apartment in Soho. Sounds typical, right? Here's the catch: He insists that prospective roommates not have an iPhone or an iPad ... The ad states that "I refuse to live with anyone that has sold their immortal soul to Steve Jobs." He's also looking for a guy with Starcraft II experience, and wants any potential live-ins to post a link to their battle.net profile and to prove to him that they don't

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Your Computer Is Punk: A Rock Star's View of The Influence Project and Social Media

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Published Aug. 6, 2010 at 2:14 p.m.
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This interview is part of our ongoing series related to The Influence Project ... When I saw that Dave Allen--the original bassist for the seminal post-punk band Gang of Four and the digital anthropologist at the Portland-based ad agency/production shop North--was involved in The Influence Project, I knew he should talk to Jason Harris. Harris is the president of the SF-based ad agency/production shop Mekanism--the company producing The Influence Project with Fast Company--and a bassist who

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Sex industry embraces FaceTime, world feigns surprise

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Published Aug. 1, 2010 at 9:00 p.m.
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When I first saw the iPhone 4 FaceTime demo, I knew it wouldn't take much time before rule 34 took effect. It was inevitable that Apple's video chat tech would be used by the sex industry as a new way to deliver live adult content to customers ... Despite Steve Jobs' best efforts to keep the iOS platform porn-free, the sex industry continues to find ways to work around the edges. While the iOS platform may be carefully guarded in terms of adult-oriented applications, there's little Apple can do

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How to Report Scams on Craigslist, eBay

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Published May 2, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.
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You've been scammed on eBay, so what's next? Here's our guide to reporting financial fraud on commerce websites ...

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Craigsphone 2.0 brings maps, images, and more

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Published April 25, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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Next Mobile Web sent us a heads up that they're set to release version 2.0 of Craigsphone, an app for the iPhone that allows you to browse popular online classifieds site Craigslist quickly and easily. We talked about the app when it first came out, but apparently version 2.0 brings a whole rewrite and a few new features as well. As you can see in the video above, you can now chart a map of your search results (only in the housing categories), see an image preview while browsing, and make more

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Square payment dongle demoed for iPhone toting hippies and you (video)

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Published Jan. 18, 2010 at 1:53 a.m.
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Ever wonder what the offspring of an after-party Twitter and Digg copulation might look like? No, well aren't you pure and normal. Regardless, we fantasize about it all the time but never expected this iPhone payment dongle to be first from the litter. Square is Jack Dorsey's (Twitter co-founder) new startup that now has Kevin Rose (Digg founder) on board as an investor and YouTube pitch man for the prototype payment device that plugs directly into the iPhone's headphone jack. We've covered

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SocialCycling Turns Unrecyclable Products Into Usable Items

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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.
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We write a lot about upcycling, or the practice of reusing products for new purposes to prevent waste. Now DMD Green, an environmental management consulting company, wants to make the process even easier with its new SocialCycling program, which takes items that are nearly impossible (or impossible) to recycle and finds new uses for them ... The program, announced earlier this month, gathers reclaimed materials and post-consumer products from DMD Green clients at a central SocialCycling site.

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The Great Gizmodo Halloween Roundup [Halloween]

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
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Since I'm feeling festive evening, I thought I would leave you with some of our Halloween posts. OK, really I just can't pass up a chance to put up these masks of Chen and Blam again. Happy Halloween everyone! ... • This Is Why You Shouldn't Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV ... • Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating ... • Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are Only In Your Head ... • Twelve Beautiful Jack-o'-Lanterns ... • Ghostbuster Proton Pack Uses Real Lasers, Can

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How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch

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Published Oct. 27, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
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Rembrandt painted The Night Watch between 1640 and 1642. It was commissioned by 16 members of a civic militia guard company who paid 100 guilders each.But while the Rembrandt is famous, the same guard company commissioned seven other artists to paint their portraits around the same period. This made the artist nothing more than a commodity.And it makes Rembrandt's work one of the most famous early examples of sponsored content ... This was on my mind last week as I attended a conference on media

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