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- Citrix' First Seed Investment: Search And Backup Cloud Data With Primadesk
- AppBoy Releases A Check-in SDK For iOS Apps
- What 'The Social Network' Won (Three Awards, But Not Best Picture) #Oscars
| Citrix' First Seed Investment: Search And Backup Cloud Data With Primadesk | Top |
| Citrix Systems recently established a Silicon Valley-based seed investment vehicle dubbed Startup Accelerator . Today, the fund is announcing its first investment (PDF) – Citrix has invested an undisclosed sum in Primadesk , which will be touting its wares later today at DEMO 2011 . The company basically aims to help users search, manage and backup their personal cloud data from multiple devices and browsers, using a single interface. A beta version of the Primadesk technology will be demonstrated later today, but you can sign up for access at some point in March right here . Primadesk was founded in 2009 and lets users search their personal cloud data, access multiple emails in one interface, securely store passwords and login information, manage, drag-and-drop and backup online documents, photos and whatnot. Primadesk is also the company behind Fotolink , which lets users drag and drop photos from their computers to Facebook and back, between Facebook albums and from friends’ albums and other photo services such as Flickr, Google Picasa and Smugmug to your Facebook albums. The Citrix Startup Accelerator program provides companies with seed funding ($100k-$400k) but also business mentoring, office space and technical resources. CrunchBase Information Primadesk Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| AppBoy Releases A Check-in SDK For iOS Apps | Top |
| With the number of iOS apps now well over 300,000, app discovery is becoming an increasing frustration for users. It’s also become a major challenge for developers as the increasing number of apps is making it more and more difficult for them to attain exposure for their apps. Now, straight from the “What Took So Long for Something Like This to be Released” department, mobile developer community site AppBoy has released an iOS app check-in SDK . The SDK requires pretty simple integration. Once wired, users can check-in to apps in much the same manner they check-in to locations on Foursquare. Check-ins can be pushed out, of course, to Facebook and Twitter. AppBoy included additional functionality that helps developers reward users in contests. Badges are available for most check-ins during a contest, for timing-based check-ins (for example, the 50th check-in past a certain hour), and for checks-ins closest to specified times. CrunchBase Information AppBoy Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| What 'The Social Network' Won (Three Awards, But Not Best Picture) #Oscars | Top |
| Despite losing Best Picture to The King’s Speech , Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s epic Facebook creation myth The Social Network did pick up three Oscars tonight, more than any film about nerds has ever garnered, unless you count A Beautiful Mind. The Social Network won Best Film Editing (Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter), Best Original Score (Trent Reznor) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) at tonight’s 83rd Academy Awards Ceremony. The film, which picked up four awards including Best Picture at the Golden Globes and was nominated for eight Oscars, was definitely the Twitter and tech crowd favorite but apparently not the Academy’s. We did indeed have something to to root for despite David Fincher losing to The King’s Speech’s Tom Hooper for Best Director, Jesse Eisenberg (who played Mark Zuckerberg) also losing to the very-deserving Colin Firth in the Best Actor category, and the film itself losing to The King’s Speech in the most important category of the night, Best Picture. The King’s Speech, with twelve nominees and four wins, was perhaps the “biggest dog in this fight, ” to borrow a term from the film. Traditionally the Best Editing award is usually an indicator of what film will win Best Picture (only nine films have taken the coveted Best Picture award without winning Best Editing) but that rule didn’t hold in this case. Both Inception and The King’s Speech beat The Social Network at sheer amount of awards won, at four to The Social Network’s three. Here’s the full list of what The Social Network won, what it was nominated for and who it was up against, via Slashfilm ( Bold = Winner). BEST PICTURE: Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King's Speech 127 Hours The Social Network Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter's Bone DIRECTING: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan David O. Russell, The Fighter Tom Hooper, The King's Speech David Fincher, The Social Network Joel and Ethan Coen, True Grit ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Javier Bardem, Biutiful Jeff Bridges, True Grit Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The King's Speech James Franco, 127 Hours ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini CINEMATOGRAPHY: Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins FILM EDITING: Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter ORIGINAL SCORE: How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross SOUND MIXING Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick The King's Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland @keisertroll Tom Keiser I WANT TO THANK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL #reznor #oscars about 8 hours ago via web Retweet Reply @dtrinh Danny Trinh Sandra: "Jesse, you've inspired lonely young men around ye world hunched over keyboards." We got a shoutout! about 6 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone Retweet Reply @alexia Alexia Tsotsis Tech bloggers of the world rejoice! You don't have to write another post tonight. #Oscars about 6 hours ago via Seesmic Desktop Retweet Reply @parislemon MG Siegler The Social Network isn't cool. You know what's cool? The King's Speech. about 6 hours ago via Twitter for Mac Retweet Reply @brandchannelhub brandchannel The Social Network wins Best Editing nod, while Facebook won't let you edit what you post. #hmm #Oscars about 7 hours ago via web Retweet Reply CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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