Dec 29
90 million unique visitors a month has to be good for something. But so far Reddit hasn’t been able to stay consistently profitable even with all those people (yeah, you) banging down the door.
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Nov 04
If you’ve been thinking of upgrading up a new iPad Air, or if your old iPad is just gathering dust, Target is offering a rare opportunity to get decent trade-in value for ancient hardware.
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Sep 06
eBay acquires price comparison engine Decide; will shut its services down by month’s end
Posted in: Today's Chili
Credit where it’s due: eBay recognized that the online auction train wouldn’t keep chugging along at a breakneck rate, so it’s snapping up complementary companies in order to better bolster its portfolio. A few years, PayPal; today, Decide. The three-year old company was engineered to give overwhelmed consumers a way to more easily see what products were worthwhile and which weren’t — from there, it helped to find the best deal, completing the process.
eBay’s evidently hoping that Decide’s predictive analytics will “help over 25 million eBay sellers make smarter decisions and be more successful,” while the Decide team will be headed to eBay’s Seattle offices. As these things tend to go, Decide’s services, website and mobile apps will no longer be available after September 30th, which is pretty awful news for those of you who dug it. For those curious, paying members will be reimbursed for their subscriptions, but you’re on your own for any tissues required to sop up the tears.
Filed under: Internet
Via: GeekWire
Source: Decide (1), (2)
Apr 17
Osom mashes up Craigslist and Instagram, lets you sell your beautiful things
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Perhaps after wading through one too many bleach bypass photos of someone’s scooter, a trio of Swedish developers thought an Instagram-like app would be an ideal way to sell such things. To wit, they developed Osom, an iPhone app that pays homage to the social shooter in concept as well as design by letting you create photos with a variety of filters, price them and put them up for sale. Other users can find your artwork by following you, filtering by geography, watching a global feed or seeing it on Facebook via a cross-posting option. To buy a photo, they’ll need to contact you directly through the app, as there’s no built-in payment option. According to TNW, the team hopes to keep images in the feed beautiful and upscale, though so far the selection isn’t curated — and we saw a fire extinguisher and other run-of-the-mill goods alongside vintage dresses, antiques and the like. Osom will eventually include “featured” and “Osom’d” ads to make money, so if you want to enjoy the unsullied version while it lasts, hit the source to grab it.
Filed under: Software
Via: TNW
Source: Osom (iTunes)
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