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Background checks are simultaneously one of the coolest and one of creepiest things you can do on your iPhone. Intelius made a splash at the most recent DEMO conference (co-produced by VentureBeat) with its DateCheck app, but users have to pay anywhere from $10 to $200 for each background check. BeenVerified, on the other hand, released an app a few days ago providing three free checks per week. It sounds like iPhone owners are getting plenty of use out of that offer. Since BeenVerified released its app on Dec. 18, the company says it has been downloaded and opened 54,423 times. It’s ranked 50 on the iTunes list of most popular free apps, and seems to be gaining steam, with 18,203 downloads yesterday, compared to 7,084 the day before. Those users have performed 110,829 background checks so far. (BeenVerified sent me those numbers at around 1:30 Pacific time today.) The New York company’s data includes criminal records, property records, social network accounts, and more. You can check...

With mobile-optimised operating systems like iPhone OS, Android and Symbian readily available, why would you want your phone to run Windows XP? If China’s In Technology Group (ITG) has its way, that’s exactly what you could be doing in 2010. ITG has been slowly releasing information about the touchscreen device with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for [...]

As Enviroblog readers may recall, we've been talking about cell phone radiation quite a bit this fall. In addition to a rigorous science assessment and tips on reducing your own radiation exposure, we've suggested that phones carry radiation labels (SAR values, actually) so consumers can make an educated choice when choosing a phone. Well, good news from the west coast, then. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing local legislation that would make that city the first in the country to require such consumer-friendly labeling. Hear all about it in this TV interview with EWG's California Director, Renee Sharp: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Lieberman Betrayal Illustrates Why Senate Filibuster Rules Must Change By Robert Creamer | Huffington Post Senator Joe Lieberman's successful maneuver to eliminate any form of public option from the Senate health reform bill makes one thing perfectly clear: to pass the most important elements of the progressive agenda, the Senate must change its filibuster rules. The current 60-vote requirement to cut off debate empowers a tiny minority of Senators to prevent up or down votes on measures that clearly have majority support in the Senate, and overwhelming support among the American people. It is a fundamentally undemocratic procedure that is now used regularly by the most entrenched economic interests in America to prevent change. If it is not changed, it will severely limit the ability of President Obama and the Democratic leadership to enact the most important changes that are necessary to build a foundation for long-term prosperity in America. The 60-vote cloture requirement would...

Windows/Linux only: Google has so many different services these days that installing a notification app for each one gets cumbersome quickly. Free system tray utility Googsystray watches Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, Reader, and Wave so you can set it and forget it. After installing Googsystray, you can configure which services you want it to watch and what you want it to do for each—upon receiving a new email, SMS, calendar alert, RSS article, or wave, you can have it play a sound and even run a command. The icon of the given service will also pop up in your system tray. Right clicking on it gives you a Growl-style popup with more detailed information about the notification, such as email subject or SMS content. You also have limited actions you can take depending on the service. Google Voice is the most feature-filled, allowing you to send SMS messages with a hotkey and read voicemail transcripts. You can have Gmail monitor your inbox or specific labels for new messages, as well as... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Physicists create a hybrid biological-mechanical system: Bacteria swimming turn tiny gears.

With a hacked wiimote, scientists are able to make a cheap, accurate water-level sensor. They say the same technique could be used to make all sorts of sensors for field work.

"Ah, the MIT Media Lab, home to Big Bird's illegitimate progeny, augmented reality projects aplenty, and now three-dimensional gestural computing. The new bi-directional display being demoed by the Cambridge-based boffins performs both multitouch functions that we're familiar with and hand movement recognition in the space in front of the screen -- which we're also familiar with, but mostly from the movies. The gestural motion tracking is done via embedded optical sensors behind the display, which are allowed to see what you're doing by the LCD alternating rapidly (invisible to the human eye, but probably not to human pedantry) between what it's displaying to the viewer and a pattern for the camera array. This differs from projects like Natal, which have the camera offset from the display and therefore cannot work at short distances, but if you want even more detail, you'll find it in the informative video after the break." - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML from Bookmarklet

video on FF http://friendfeed.com/smluniv... :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

WebstatsHq was born out of curiosity and the need for a unique website ranking algorithm. The WebstatsHQ website analysis tool currently reports data for over 1 million active international websites and gathers information by using it's custom web crawler module in cooperation with over 15 open Application Programming Interfaces.

Simply put, Ajaxo is a new search engine which has comprehensive information when it comes to groceries, retail products, and local business services. It hopes to find a niche of its own by placing its focus squarely on weekly circulars and maintaining up-to-date specials and promotions from grocery and retail chains in various locations. That is, it aims to become the one-stop for people wanting to find anything in their neighborhoods, quickly and accurately. Read more Learn more about Ajaxo.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Ajaxo.com is worth with Stimator.com

The field of communications is obviously the one where we expect to see the most groundbreaking developments as far as the Internet goes. The service under review right now is not necessarily a pivotal advance but is certainly interesting and considerably useful. Named Neatcall, what it does is to provide users with a new way to coordinate, schedule and initiate communications of every denomination. Read more Learn more about Neatcall.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Neatcall.com is worth with Stimator.com

If you have a website and feel that editing it and keeping the whole project running is becoming too time-consuming, chances are you will find a solution like SiteCake worth a good look. Essentially, it is a simple CSS editor that has the distinctive advantage of working with your existing website, right in your own hosting. In essence, it turns everything editable by way of a toolbar that you can drag and drop and that observes contextual relevance. Read more Learn more about SiteCake.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much SiteCake.com is worth with Stimator.com

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Pearltrees Quick Pitch: Pearltrees is a new visual way to organize content on the Web and connecting people’s interests. Genius Idea: How do you organize the web on the browser? Since the time of Netscape, we’ve been using bookmarks and a wide series of folders to manage our favorite websites and web pages. Perhaps in some instances you use something like Google Reader to organize your articles and favorite things on YouTube, but the result is the same: it’s a messy affair. Pearltrees is nothing less than a reinvention of how we organize the web. The service provides a completely unique and visual experience to saving your favorite websites, organizing what you find interesting, and even seeing what others are saying about specific web...

AFP - Hostility between US and British military leaders in Iraq ran deep, with one describing his US counterparts as "group of Martians," the Daily Telegraph reported Monday, citing leaked government documents.

If you are someone who like me, is always on the lookout for alternative free softwares for your expensive commercial paid software, AlternativeTo is a handy website to find such software alternatives. AlternativeTo lists down softwares for both computers as well as mobile devices. Based on AlternativeTo user’s recommendations, the site lists down alternatives to application [...]

Rippol, the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at today's RealTime CrunchUp. We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who haven't seen it yet, here's a recap: Rippol looks at your video watching activity on the site, as well as that of your friends and people in your demographic. It then looks at meta data from video content ingested from sites like YouTube and Hulu, and uses machine learning to identify videos it thinks you'll like. From there you can browse through various genres to look at recommended videos

Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on Facebook and Twitter in real-time as you browse the web. We have 500 invites exclusively for TechCrunch users. You can redeem these invites simply by clicking here. It's important to note that Qwisk is a browser extension, not a plug-in to a browser. On the site's page, you sign into your Facebook and Twitter accounts via Facebook Connect and oAuth. Qwisk will then add a sidebar to your browser that will show a feed of Facebook status updates and Tweets. You can also share any link or content to Twitter and Facebook from the sidebar itself.

Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability and API that looks up most recent social information about any of your friends, from their LinkedIn profile to their Flickr account to their Facebook profile. In order to understand Knx.to's virtue, it's best to see the technology implemented in an application. Ribbit Mobile, a Google Voice competitor and cloud-based VoIP telephony service, recently launched with the capability of integrating any calls to a contact with your social networks, which was powered by Knx.to.

At today's Real-Time CrunchUp, Mozzler launched its real-time search engine based on Twitter. Mozzler, which has real-time functionality, searches Twitter for the most popular content in the last six hours based on retweets. You can search Mozzler by keyword, similar to searches you can do on OneRiot and other search engines that include Twitter results. Results can include videos and images as well. Mozzler has also created numerous categories of searches under technology, entertainment, sports, business and more.

SiteCake is drag’n’drop web page editor. SiteCake toolbar is dragable. So you can move it around the screen if it stands in your way. Most of the time toolbar will be empty, options will appear only when they are meaningful. How To Edit? Clicking on every content element let you edit it. Clicking outside quits edit mode. Just like that. How To Add Content? By draging Heading /Sub Heading / Text / Image buttons onto the white surfaces. Just drag and let go. How To Move Content? Just click and drag them around. Content is taking up styles predefined in CSS so if you move text from main column to side column it will use styles defined for that part. http://www.sitecake.com