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		<title>Booting Up: Just Kidding, Some of You Aren’t Getting Google Glass After All</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:34:47 -0400</pubDate>
					<link>http://betabeat.com/2013/03/booting-up-just-kidding-some-of-you-arent-getting-google-glass-after-all/</link>
			<dc:creator>Jordan Valinsky</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_83453" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-28-at-8-25-42-am.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-83453" alt="See ya! (Photo: Wikipedia)" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-28-at-8-25-42-am.png?w=300" width="300" height="226" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">See ya! (Photo: Wikipedia)</p></div></p>
<p>How quickly Google giveths, it takes away. The company said it rescinded its Glass offer to some of the #ifihadglass contest winners for not complying with the rules. Bitchy! [<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57576706-93/google-uninvites-some-winners-of-google-glass-contest/">CNet</a>]</p>
<p>Sue Gardner, the "driving force" behind Wikipedia's rapid growth, is stepping down. But don’t edit her page just yet! She isn’t leaving the company for another six months. [<em><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wikipedia-to-step-down/">NY Times</a></em>]<a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wikipedia-to-step-down/"><br />
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<p>Blackberry posted a profit last quarter but Blackberry owners are still waiting for the news to load on their phones. Perhaps BBM it to them? [<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130328/blackberry-posts-surprise-quarterly-profit-sells-1-million-z10s/">AllThingsD</a>]</p>
<p>Speaking of not-dead messaging apps, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> digs into the rapidly growing sector of texting apps that's siphoned $23 billion in revenue from carriers in 2012. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323466204578382733261211950.html?mod=e2tw"><em>WSJ</em></a>]</p>
<p>The BBC has a pretty great feature on the rise of dating websites aimed at people with sexually transmitted diseases, because everyone needs to be loved. [<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21955126">BBC</a>]</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_83453" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-28-at-8-25-42-am.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-83453" alt="See ya! (Photo: Wikipedia)" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2013-03-28-at-8-25-42-am.png?w=300" width="300" height="226" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">See ya! (Photo: Wikipedia)</p></div></p>
<p>How quickly Google giveths, it takes away. The company said it rescinded its Glass offer to some of the #ifihadglass contest winners for not complying with the rules. Bitchy! [<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57576706-93/google-uninvites-some-winners-of-google-glass-contest/">CNet</a>]</p>
<p>Sue Gardner, the "driving force" behind Wikipedia's rapid growth, is stepping down. But don’t edit her page just yet! She isn’t leaving the company for another six months. [<em><a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wikipedia-to-step-down/">NY Times</a></em>]<a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/a-driving-force-behind-wikipedia-to-step-down/"><br />
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<p>Blackberry posted a profit last quarter but Blackberry owners are still waiting for the news to load on their phones. Perhaps BBM it to them? [<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130328/blackberry-posts-surprise-quarterly-profit-sells-1-million-z10s/">AllThingsD</a>]</p>
<p>Speaking of not-dead messaging apps, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> digs into the rapidly growing sector of texting apps that's siphoned $23 billion in revenue from carriers in 2012. [<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323466204578382733261211950.html?mod=e2tw"><em>WSJ</em></a>]</p>
<p>The BBC has a pretty great feature on the rise of dating websites aimed at people with sexually transmitted diseases, because everyone needs to be loved. [<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21955126">BBC</a>]</p>
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		<title>GroupMe Won Mindshare Wars at SXSW</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:55:49 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Ben Popper</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2218" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/17/groupme-won-mindshare-wars-at-sxsw/groupme/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2218" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="groupme" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/groupme.jpeg?w=300&h=300" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>The group texting app most talked about at SXSW, at least on Twitter, which is what really counts, was GroupMe. That's according to some analysis from folks at the <a href="http://www.pop.us/">interactive Pop Agency</a>.</p>
<p>Pop looked at tweets from March 11-15 about GroupMe, Beluga, Fast Society, Kik and Yobongo. Not only did GroupMe garner the most chatter, 19 percent of that chatter was positive, nearly double the next most popular.<!--more--></p>
<p>Kik, recently funded by Union Square Ventures and RRE, grabbed the third spot in terms of overall buzz, but also had by far the highest level of negative sentiment.</p>
<p>The idea behind these apps is that they let people form intimate little cliques, although it seems like this didn't always pan at at SXSW. "In practice group messaging is kind of weak on the exclusivity thing, because you’re almost always roped into groups with at least one person you don’t like which prevents you from sharing potentially useful information regarding your whereabouts," <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/16/groupme-won-the-sxsw-group-messaging-wars-says-infographic/">griped Alexia Tsotsis.</a></p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2217" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/17/groupme-won-mindshare-wars-at-sxsw/sxsw_horse_race/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2217" title="sxsw_horse_race" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sxsw_horse_race-e1300362719202.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="2240" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/16/groupme-won-the-sxsw-group-messaging-wars-says-infographic/"></a></p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-2218" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/17/groupme-won-mindshare-wars-at-sxsw/groupme/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2218" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="groupme" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/groupme.jpeg?w=300&h=300" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>The group texting app most talked about at SXSW, at least on Twitter, which is what really counts, was GroupMe. That's according to some analysis from folks at the <a href="http://www.pop.us/">interactive Pop Agency</a>.</p>
<p>Pop looked at tweets from March 11-15 about GroupMe, Beluga, Fast Society, Kik and Yobongo. Not only did GroupMe garner the most chatter, 19 percent of that chatter was positive, nearly double the next most popular.<!--more--></p>
<p>Kik, recently funded by Union Square Ventures and RRE, grabbed the third spot in terms of overall buzz, but also had by far the highest level of negative sentiment.</p>
<p>The idea behind these apps is that they let people form intimate little cliques, although it seems like this didn't always pan at at SXSW. "In practice group messaging is kind of weak on the exclusivity thing, because you’re almost always roped into groups with at least one person you don’t like which prevents you from sharing potentially useful information regarding your whereabouts," <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/16/groupme-won-the-sxsw-group-messaging-wars-says-infographic/">griped Alexia Tsotsis.</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/16/groupme-won-the-sxsw-group-messaging-wars-says-infographic/"></a></p>
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