New App Lets You Search Inside Local Restaurants

EveryScape, a startup working to create visual guides for local search, is today rolling out its Eats application for iPhone and iPad to users in the Seattle, San Francisco and SoHo areas. The application takes mobile users inside nearby restaurants for a more up-close and personal search experience.

Using Eats, application users can essentially explore the interior of local restaurants in a virtual walk-a-round fashion, similar in style to Google Streetview for mobile, but infinitely more practical for would-be restaurant diners.

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YouTube Users Uploading 35 Hours of Video Per Minute

Now you can watch even more videos featuring cats running into walls, children doing adorable things and angsty teens whining about their lives, as YouTube is reporting that it now sees 35 hours of video uploaded every minute.

Back in March Mashable noted that the video-sharing site was receiving 24 hours of video every minute — i.e. an entire day’s worth of entertainment in just 60 seconds. Now, according to the YouTube blog, that number has increased by more than 10 hours.

The jump makes sense — back in July, YouTube bumped its upload limit up to 15 minutes for non-partners (it was previously 10 minutes). Also, according to YouTube, more companies are integrating its APIs to support uploads from outside of the site itself, and YouTube’s upload file size has gone up as well.

The increase in content also means that there’s now more for users to sift through, so hopefully new features like YouTube Discovery will make navigating that content easier for video fans as the site continues to grow.

From: Mashable

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New T-Mobile Flash Mob at Heathrow

"T-Mobile Dance," shot in Liverpool Station, had racked up an amazing 35 million cumulative the last time we checked, and their sing-along in Trafalgar Square also spent considerable time on the chart last year. Their newest version "Welcome Back" was also created by Saatchi & Saatchi, and filmed -- where else? -- at Heathrow Airport. The video launched just before Halloween and drew a little over 2 million views last week.

Square Now Processing Millions Of Dollars In Mobile Transactions Every Week

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After ten months of a private pilot limited to only 50,000 users, Square has finally opened its doors to the public. The brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square was unveiled last December as a small credit card reader that could turn any iPhone into a mobile cash register. The startup has since unveiled apps for the iPad, Android and iPhone. And Dorsey brought on PayPal and Slide veteran Keith Rabois as General Manager in August. As Square exits its pilot, the startup is hitting an impressive milestone: Square is now processing millions of dollars in mobile transactions every week.

So where is Square seeing the most traction? Without a doubt, small businesses, independent workers and merchants comprise most of Square’s rapidly growing user base. The technology only requires its tiny credit card scanner that fits into your audio jack and Square’s app. The device and the software are free, but Square takes a small percentage of each transaction (2.75% plus 15 cents for swiped transactions).

While merchants have to qualify for the app, Square’s qualification rules are more relaxed than those of standard credit card processors, There are no initiation fees, monthly minimums, and when merchants apply for a reader, Square doesn’t just focus on a credit check, but also takes into account the influence a company holds on Yelp, Twitter or Facebook.

quare is going to continue to grow in terms of employees, he says; the startup has been averaging three to six hires per month. And when we asked if here any new funding rounds in the future (Square raised $10 million From Khosla Ventures and a number of other prominent angel investors last year), Rabois didn’t really say yes or no. “We are getting an email per day from interesting investors and there are certainly lots of interesting things one could do with more capital.”

Read the full article at TechCrunch

Creating a Patient-Centered Future for Health Care

Minneapolis firm Worrell looked at the future of health care through the patient's perspective.
When it comes to designing new medical devices, most of the talk is about how easy products are for physicians to use, noted designer Kai Worrell at last week's Body Computing conference at USC. There's almost no conversation about the experience from the patients' perspective, he said -- a shift which could radically change the health care industry.

Phil Libin Keynote - How to run a business in a nutshell. A big shell.

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This is a talk by Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote at the quarterly Founder Showcase in Silicon Valley. Phil discusses the detailed revenues and underlying statistics, including conversion rates, of Evernote. Phil is a Mentor at the Founder Institute, where this talk was first given.

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Kno’s Tablets Coming Later this Year for $599 and $899

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Tablet maker Kno plans to launch a single and a dual-screen 14.1-inch tablet before the end of this year, the company has announced.

The single-screen version of the tablet will go for $599, while the dual-screen variant will be significantly more expensive at $899, but still shy of breaking the $1,000 mark.

The tablets are primarily aimed at students, and, according to Kno’s co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid, the 2010 launch will be limited and mostly aimed at 10 college campuses across the U.S.

However, Kno is also currently accepting a limited number of pre-orders for an initial shipment that is expected to reach the customers by the end of the 2010.

As far as content goes, Kno will sell digital textbooks through the Kno bookstore, which will also be accessible on every Kno device. Kno claims the bookstore will include tens of thousands of the most popular textbooks and supplement materials; the company is working with major publishers such as Cengage, McGraw Hill and Pearson, Macmillan, Bedford, Freeman & Worth, Holtzbrinck and others.

In September, Kno announced it had closed a $46 million debt-and-equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop its tablets.