Bop.fm aggregates music for easy sharing

New free music service Bop.fm helps make music sharing and listening and easier experience. The music aggregator pulls songs from YouTube, Soundcloud, Spotify, and Rdio to give you access to songs no matter where you are from the world. It takes away the pesky “this is not available in your location” notice for those living outside of the US and lets you embed or link to tracks directly onto your website. 

Game of Thrones video game series to come out in 2014

It's TRUE! We're working with @HBO to create an all-new episodic game series based on GAME OF THRONES in 2014! #VGX pic.twitter.com/d5GkhS2MOw

— Telltale Games (@telltalegames) December 8, 2013

The creator of The Walking Dead video games, Telltale Games, has announced that the studio will produce a Game of Thrones game series. The studio said the game will be similar to the TV show than the George R. R. Martin books.

Google, NatGeo partner to offer 500 historic map online

Google and National Geographic have partnered to put over 500 of its signature fold-out historic paper maps onto the Google Maps Engine platform. Frank Biasi, digital development director at National Geographic, said high resolution maps will also be for sale or be available for licensing deals.

Source: The Verge

Exley touts a new way to crowd source news on iOS

Exley is an iPhone and iPad app that changes the way that people get thei news coming from a completely crowd-based format. The Exley app pulls information that matters to the user and pushes aside the rest. EXLEY delivers up-to-the-second news, entertainment, and information for wherever you work and play. Better yet, EXLEY sorts the facts from the fluff, breaking down the articles and sending you the most significant facts, statistics, quotes, and multimedia.

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