PlacePop Gives Facebook Places The Dashboard It Should Have Launched With

Facebook Places appears to be off to a strong start, with integration into services like Gowalla, Yelp, and SCVNGR. But it also has some pretty glaring omissions, namely the fact there’s not really a good way to do much with Places data from the browser. Now PlacePop , a startup that launched at our CrunchUp in July, has fixed that with a new Facebook application that gives you an overview of how you friends are using Facebook Places

Can Chatroulette Get It Up Again?

You probably haven’t noticed (unless you’ve been reading TechCrunch ), but Chatroulette is down. A message on the live, random video chat site says that “experiment #1 is over now” and that a completely new version of the site will launch later today

Do You Play With Your Food?

This is a neat idea to make kids meal times a bit more fun, the Chew-Chew Train . The Urban Trend Chew-Chew Train© is a great way to make sure your kids eat their entire meal. This Chew-Chew Train© transforms from a train into a functional dinner set

Orkut About To Fall To Facebook In India

For all the grief Google gets for not understanding social networks, people often forget that it owns a pretty big one, Orkut . While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and India. But that soon may change.

Chatroulette Quadruples To 4 Million Visitors In February

Whether it is all the media attention or there are just a lot of lonely people out there with a deep need to talk to strangers, Chatroulette is on a roll. In February, 2010, the young site attracted 3.9 million visitors worldwide, up from 944,000 in January, 2010, according to the latest data from comScore (see chart above). Google Trends for Websites shows a similar growth curve , with about 500,000 unique daily visitors The quadrupling of visitors measured by comScore coincided with the relatively new site being discovered by news sites and blogs.

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