Category: Personal

  • Obama campaign deploys Square for mobile fundraising

    Originally posted on Gigaom: UPDATED: Square, the mobile payment acceptance tool, has gotten a big endorsement from the President of the United States. The Obama re-election campaign said today it is equipping staff, field organizers and volunteers with Square hardware to allow them to process campaign donations from their mobile phone. The news, announced in Politico, marks…

  • Originally posted on Gigaom: You might not have heard about Mobify, but it’s helped 20,000 customers optimize their websites for mobile, and clients include Starbucks (s sbux), Bonobos, Threadless and many others. The company said it had 167 million unique visitors  visit Mobify-powered mobile websites last year, about 20 percent of all smartphone users. That’s…

  • 2012: The year websites optimize for tablets

    Originally posted on Gigaom: You might not have heard about Mobify, but it’s helped 20,000 customers optimize their websites for mobile, and clients include Starbucks (s sbux), Bonobos, Threadless and many others. The company said it had 167 million unique visitors  visit Mobify-powered mobile websites last year, about 20 percent of all smartphone users. That’s…

  • Codecademy launches platform to let anyone create coding lessons

    Originally posted on Gigaom: Codecademy, the startup that makes an interactive and social web application aimed at teaching people how to write computer code, has gone the platform route. On Monday, the company debuted Course Creator, a platform that allows anyone to make educational courses to teach programming techniques. Up until now, Codecademy, which launched…

  • Originally posted on Gigaom: Codecademy, the startup that makes an interactive and social web application aimed at teaching people how to write computer code, has gone the platform route. On Monday, the company debuted Course Creator, a platform that allows anyone to make educational courses to teach programming techniques. Up until now, Codecademy, which launched…