Derive (iPhone, Android) : A travel-inspired, tech-driven scavenger hunt, this global web-based mobile app instructs tourists to head out in a general direction, then uses a set of cryptic hints to prompt them to discover hidden gems.

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The idea is like having X-Ray vision--or a Web browser implanted in your head.

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The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.

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"I love these guys, " says one client, Mark Corrales, head of operations at Fort Point Partners, a Web-site builder in the Sutter Street building.

FORBES: Land Grab

Wright finally settled on 40-year-old Dan Stone , former head of a division at Scient that built Web businesses for media and entertainment companies.

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She stumbled upon the Web site of the Hilton Head Health Institute, a self-billed "weight loss spa retreat center" in South Carolina, and signed up.

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