Here's an Animoto video consisting of photos I took on the opening day of Social Capital Markets 2011 at Fort Mason in San Francisco — a breathtakingly beautiful day in the Bay Area that brought together 1,500 attendees at this year's SOCAP conference to discuss social entrepreneurship, collective action, crowd-funded investmentments and lots more. Great [...]

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When it comes to corporate blogs, looks do make a difference. Now, it isn’t unusual to see companies sweat out every design and layout detail. This is sensible – you want to address brand considerations, deliver a great end-user experience and generally not be ugly. It’s not unusual, however to spend the bulk of your design time on the blog’s theme and not the content. Bring design into your post, and the results are more compelling.

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Few smartphones have a camera that is as good as a standard digital camera, but they are good enough for snapshots when you are out with friends. One area in which smartphone cameras excel is in effects, which compensates for low resolution by turning pictures into works of art. Paper Camera turns pictures that you take with an Android or iOS phone into drawings.


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A feature not in the Android camera app is the ability to take panoramic photos. Pano is a new Android app that makes it very easy to take panoramic photos. You can buy it now from the Android Market for around $2.00 for a limited time.


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So, we just exposed the awesome secret that Facebook's iPad app is actually already out there, hidden inside of the iPhone app. Now it's time to show it to you.

I've been playing with the app for much of the night, and it seems solid. Of course, there's no guarantee that this is what Facebook will launch when the iPad app does officially hit, but this looks and feels about right.

After months of downplaying the importance of having an iPad app, and instead playing up HTML5, Facebook has clearl [...]

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