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Social Tool Gtrot Helps Travelers Solicit Advice From Globe-Trotting Friends

Toss that dog-eared Lonely Planet guidebook from your backpack--travel-advice service Gtrot taps your vast network of Facebook and Twitter friends to help you figure out where to travel, and where to stay and what to do once you get there. READ»

4FOOD   |  Comment

4food "De-Junks" Fast Food With Doughnut Burgers

A flat ring of meat is not a hamburger. 4food, New York City’s newest attempt at a healthy restaurant, thinks it is.READ»

Do Mobile Apps Like Yelp Herald a Boom for Mom-and-Pop Shops?

Consider what a site like Yelp does for a small but excellent cafe: For travelers and locals alike, a good mobile-Web app should make it as easy to find as the nearest Starbucks. Does that signal a shift in the market, sapping the ...READ»

IRAN   |  Comment

Iranian Protests Becoming Crowd-Sourced Cyber War

Protesting Iranians were already using new technology like Twitter to coordinate their efforts, as we noted on Monday. Now those protests are taking a new direction--with simple crowd-sourced denial of service (DDos) attacks being ...READ»

Iranian “Correspondents” File by Twitter and YouTube

Does Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran?READ»

QUIRKY   |  Comment

Quirky: A Crowd-Sourced Way to Produce Your Designs

The creators of Kluster--an online tool that allows designers to collaboratively workshop their ideas--have just announced another foray into crowd-sourced product design: Quirky. The site is an interesting mishmash of a bunch ...READ»

FREELANCE   |  Comment

Democratizing Design?

Questions over quality become the issue on Crowdspring.com where professional design is crowdsourced daily.READ»