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EASTER EGG: Yelp Is the iPhone’s First Augmented Reality App

Augmented Reality was not meant to hit the iPhone 3GS until at least the release of iPhone OS 3.1. Augmented reality uses your iPhone’s camera, GPS, and compass to show virtual items in the real world. Put your camera in front of a restaurant and i…


Leslie Nielsen

“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re finished.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.”


Community Management Tips & Resources

Many of our clients use KickApps to power their online communities for fans, customers or employees. While the purpose may differ, these communities often share common traits and challenges:
Q. How do I get people to participate?
Q. It looks and works…


6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations

Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We’ve chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you.
You don’t have to s…


Public Speaker Fail

Submitted by Lydia W


The Netflix Before There Was Netflix

I’m sure I wasn’t alone in thinking that Netflix invented the rent-movies-by-mail business. But Hacking Netflix has unearthed a gem about a company called Video Mailbox that offered rent-by-mail — on VHS, no less — way back in 1987, long before…


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