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Circa iOS app delivers news collages

Circa isn't a solution in search of a problem. The startup began with a well-known problem -- consuming news on smartphones and within mobile or desktop apps can be frustrating. Your eyes and finger control can easily tire after reading several longer, and sometimes similar, news stories on a petite smartphone screen. Or, you may simply want a digested version of news stories that is easy to consume on mobile devices and that isn't Twitter, Flipboard or Breaking News.

Circa's solution to news-reading fatigue is to create a curated digest, a collage of news bits from … Read more

A look at AOL's new timeline creator, CircaVie

Office time-waster alert! AOL's AIM Network has launched an interesting new service, CircaVie, which allows you to create a timeline of just about anything--your kid's life, your job, your backpacking excursion in Southeast Asia, or the chronicle of last week's party's devolution into debauchery. You can then embed your timelines into your blog, share them with friends, I played around with it, and I like the concept (a lot), but this is the kind of service that's left me wishing there was more you could do with it.

It's clear that CircaVie is trying … Read more