“Mozilla’s push system will be especially useful for websites that want to send notifications to their users’ smartphones without having to build a native mobile application.” —
Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
Oh hello, Mozilla. Welcome to the game. We’ve been here since 2009 and we’re here to stay, too.
Look towards the bottom.
Oh hey there.
Not a developer? No worries — you can now build your own provider for Boxcar without ever touching a line of code. I promise.
Go forth and deliver notifications. It’ll be awesome.
“There’s this weird area that you can fall into as a social consumer app if you don’t have a million users or more,” Culver said in an interview this week. “You have plenty to keep you busy, but it’s not enough to get advertisers interested, it’s not enough to make venture capital firms interested. So the question becomes: What do you do with a middling social app?” —
Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for businesses — Tech News and Analysis
That’s the siren call of social - and why social is so very, very tempting but rarely works out.
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“A good story simplifies a complex truth and makes it mentally digestible.” — @rands
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(via The Real Startup Dogs of Silicon Alley | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.) - my boy Caesar made Betabeat!!!!! =)
So awesome!!! Desktop software “Plug Spy” - sends you a Boxcar alert when someone potentially tries to steal your Macbook Air!!!!