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Retro Handheld Gaming on Your PC with Pica Pic

by GameGuru

Remember the days when hand-held game and watch consoles only featured one game which was basic and simple in premise and gameplay? I recall owning two or three of these back in the day so I found it a pleasant surprise to find at least one of the previous game titles I owned on Pica Pic, a brand-spanking new site that allows you to play over 19 classic games for free online.

Doggies Do The Chew - Dog Food Promotion Goes Viral

by Jamie Reygle

You can now use your smartphone to feed your pet.

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Get Fixed - An Addiction Site That Gets Real

by Brilliant

A new website helps you recover from addiction, by being real about it.

Social Media Booty Calls By Virtual Cloud Girlfriends

by Ron Callari

In 'Lars and the Real Girl' - as delusional as the lead character was in the movie, at least he had something "real" to hold onto. With the beta launch of a site called "Cloud Girlfriend," the goal is to offer virtual love affairs to male users in the form of what they might conjuring up as perfect mates. Giving a whole new meaning to the sexual innuendo "faking it," this new Internet startup wants to help guys move their status from "single" to "in a relationship" on Facebook.

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From PageRank To Panda, Google Bends The Web To Its Will [Infographic]

by Ron Callari

With Google's ever-evolving algorithm, SEOBook posted a detailed infographic that took on the burdensome task of piecing together how Google continually try to reinvent itself. From the rudimentary beginnings that surfaced with the launch of PageRank a decade ago to the the recent release of its Panda update to curtail...

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Color Your Social Network With Complete Strangers

by Ron Callari

Like Blanche DuBois' famous line in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," sometimes you just "have to depend on the kindness of strangers." Not to be lumped together with anti-social networks such as Avoidr, Color.com does however have the ability to allow its users to connect with strangers. And on the heels of coming off a $41 million round of funding, apparently investors feel that 'people you don't know' do have something in common - if only being at the same place, at the same time.

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Take It And Leave It - BMW Announces New Car Sharing Scheme

by Jamie Reygle

In Munich, you can find a car on the side of the street, take it, and leave it wherever you like.

GroundLink, A Car Service App That Circumnavigates The Globe

by Ron Callari

While car service apps like Uber and Flinc seem to be populating our mobile devices in rapid number, GroundLink appears to be the only one that has global coverage around the clock - allowing geek cred to 'virtually' replace the old school street cred of hailing a cab.

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Facebook Search vs Google Search - Battle for Internet Domination

by Ron Callari

Before the recent All Facebook report, titled “Facebook Testing Web Search Box At Top Of Site” was changed to “Facebook Not Testing Web Search Box At Top Of Site (update)” I can imagine the reaction from Google's top brass. There has been a lot of speculation about Facebook potentially adding social media search to its core product, presenting the Big G with its first major threat in over a decade. Is that day close at hand?

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Relief Yourself - A One-Stop Disaster Relief Center

by Jamie Reygle

A new application has been designed to provide as much disaster relief as possible in one place.