Getting people to pitch in and fund a new project is commonplace, but here’s something new. Using crowd funding to develop a scientific breakthrough.
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We all tend to forget about the thousands of email and social networking contacts we have, but a new program called “Nimble” brings them together in one place.
It’s a business-oriented program, something like “Salesforce,” but more social. The CEO is Jon Ferrara, who founded the contact management software company Goldmine and sold it for more than $100 million several years ago.
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We nearly always forget to carry business cards and we may not be alone in this. “InTooch” (sic) is an iPhone/Android app aimed at making business cards unnecessary.
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Readers who don’t use Gmail accounts have written us to complain that junk mail is overloading their in-boxes.
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Avocado, for iPhone and Android, helps couples create to-do lists, share pictures, send quick notes and private pictures. It’s named “Avocado” because avocado trees only bear fruit when they’re near each other. Isn’t that cute?
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When Joy was logged into Bob’s Facebook account the other day, she was riveted by a news story about celebrity cellulite. Clicking on it, she was asked to install the Social Reader app, which automatically announced to all of Bob’s contacts that he’d just been reading about celebrity cellulite. His actual interest in celebrity cellulite is zero.
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“Dice With Buddies” is a free Yahtzee-style game that has hooked Joy’s brother. You can play with friends, family or random opponents on either an Android or iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.
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“Small Town Rules,” by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray, $25 is new from quepublishing.com.
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Sidecar for iPhone and Android phone lets you stay with a phone call while sharing videos and photos. As the person you called turns to look at their phone to see what you’re sharing with them, their phone automatically goes into speaker phone mode so they can still talk with you.
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