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- Lost In Val Sinestra: A Mesmerizing Movie Trailer Featuring Your Facebook Friends -
Double rainbow awesome. There’s no other modern way to describe this.
I won’t spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won’t be disappointed.
- HTC Beefs Up Management Team But Loses A Top Executive -
Mobile phone maker HTC this morning announced a series of executive promotions and newly created management positions.
The Taiwanese company said it had poached two senior execs from rival Sony Ericsson and that it had promoted three others to its management team. Buried in the press release, however, is that a senior executive of its own has quit the company.
- Zynga Confirms Softbank Investment. They’ll Confirm Google Investment Later -
Zynga issued a press release tonight confirming the more than month-old news of an investment by Softbank - $150 million - and are announcing a joint venture to “develop and distribute social games across Japan.”
Zynga didn’t talk about the other $150 million they took from Google in connection with a partnership over the new Google Games property. Although they soft-confirmed it to the New York Times in a recent article about the company.
Zynga has raised a whopping $519 million in venture capital, including that chunk from Google. Here’s the press release:
- Postcards Go Virtual With SwingVine Gallery For The iPhone -
People don’t send postcards anymore. Why bother when you can photo MMS a friend? Attempting to restore some of the social experience behind photography. SwingVine has created SwingVine Gallery an app that attempts to bring back some of the mystique and enjoyment of social photo sharing, sort of like a mobile photo game of tag.
Using your iPhone’s camera and GPS, the SwingVine Gallery app allows you to send a photo to a friend “secretly,” which they are unable to see unless they also participate by sending a photo back.
