How To Create A Minimum Viable Product

There’s been a lot of talk on the concept of minimum viable product lately, but not much has been written on how to actually implement one. Having gone through the process of developing one of the earliest social software mashups (GROU.PS) in PHP six years ago, and LoveBucks, a node.js Javascript app

BAE Systems speaks about unmanned ASTRAEA: no reason it can’t stay in air ‘for weeks’

BAE Systems’ ASTRAEA isn’t a new concept — the company’s been playing up its unmanned potential for quite some time now — but it’s all seeming entirely less pie-in-the-sky now that the Farnborough Airshow has kicked off. Typically, UAVs are thought to be smaller, drone-type apparatuses; these things

Savi People app brings ‘smarter’ contacts to iPhone, integrates with your favorite social networks

If you haven’t been completely content with the stock Contacts app on your renowned Cupertino handset, and were wishing there was a little more to squeeze out of it — there might just be something in the App Store waiting to meet your needs. Enter Savi People. The 99-cent application essentially brings

A Flash Sales Site for Modest Fashion

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Square threatens legal action against mPowa

Mobile payment leader Square has issued a cease and desist letter to mPowa, one of the newest players in the emerging market of turning smartphones and tablets into portable credit card terminals. But the details aren’t exactly what you’d expect. Square doesn’t care about mPowa’s

XBMC for Android app revealed; source code available now, beta APKs soon (video)

Surprise surprise, after popping up on the iPad last year, XBMC developers revealed tonight that they’ve created a version of the software that runs as an Android app. Currently the team has it stable on the Pivos XIOS DS set-top box, and posted a video (embedded after the break) showing it running on

Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn’t A Failure, It Was A Beginning

“Don’t let him climb a wall. We haven’t finalized his life insurance plan.”

That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site, and I was on my third day. It was widely known that Kevin was an

Spiderman: Superhero of the Social Web [INFOGRAPHIC]

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LogMeIn’s Cubby offering up 1GB for referrals, tells Dropbox where it can store it

Seems like everyone’s aching to store your files, these days — Dropbox, Sugar Sync, that new startup, Google. Logmein’s gotten into the game as well, launching its Cubby service in beta earlier this year, letting folks share files on their Windows machines, Macs and iOS and Android devices. The company’s

Hulu’s first non-English show announced

Hulu is expanding. Literally. For the first time, the streaming video service is bringing a television series that is targeted at an audience other than English speakers. For years, Hulu has been a place for Americans to watch their favorite American TV content, but now it’s time for the tastes