Daily Dispatch: Google Hotpot offers local, social recommendations; iLIVEx app provides Flash solution for iPad

In today's Digital Dispatch:

Introducing Boutiques: a new way to shop for fashion online (Official Google Blog)

...It's called Boutiques.com: a personalized shopping experience that lets you find and discover fashion goods, by creating your own curated boutique or through a collection of boutiques curated by taste-makers—celebrities, stylists, designers and fashion bloggers. Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like.

iLIVEx emulator brings Firefox, Flash to iPad (ThinQ.co.uk)

...Firefox is installed on StarNet's iLIVEx application server where iLIVEx users have a free account that is included with the purchase of the app. Users can simply connect to the iLIVEx host and select the Firefox option.

Discover Yours: Local recommendations powered by you and your friends (Google Lat Long Blog)

...an early release of Hotpot - a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends. With Hotpot, we're making local search results for places on Google more personal, relevant and trustworthy.

Yahoo Launches 'Yahoo Clues' Search Trends Site (PC Magazine)

..."With Yahoo Clues, you can discover and compare trending information for search terms of interest to you, or explore popular trending search terms on Yahoo," the company said in a blog post.

Offline, meet online: a marketing experiment with Google Goggles (Official Google Blog)

...Today, we're announcing a Google Goggles marketing experiment. We're working with five brands—Buick, Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile and Delta Airlines—to extend some of their offline marketing to the mobile web. They have "Goggles-enabled" some of their print ads, movie posters and other media. When users take pictures of these with Google Goggles, they will be recognized by the app, and users will have the option of clicking-through directly to a mobile destination from the brand.

Kinect for Xbox 360 Hits Million Mark in Just 10 Days (Microsoft News Center)

Microsoft Corp. today announced it has sold 1 million Kinect for Xbox 360 units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit 5 million by the end of the year.

Comcast Xfinity remote for iPad does streaming video, we record some for you (engadget)

If you've got Comcast service and an iOS device, there's no reason you can't download the brand spanking new Xfinity TV DVR remote app right now, but it won't have the software's spiffiest feature -- direct-to-device streaming video.

Bit.ly 'Bundles' Enables Multiple Link Sharing Bit.ly 'Bundles' Enables Multiple Link Sharing (Information Week)

Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly on Monday unveiled a bundling service that allows users to collect together several links and publish them as one abbreviated URL that leads to a landing page containing all the links.

Google Voice gets going on iPhone (The Register)

Google Voice has finally become available for the iPhone after 18 months of bickering and an FCC investigation. It's also offering free calls within America and discounted calls elsewhere.

Lighter side: Public Radio Rap Video Shouts Out NPR (urlesque)

Throw your NPR totes in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care, because a public radio rap is currently one of the hottest things on YouTube.

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