Top 20 Free Google Android Apps

Here's a list of the top 20 'free' Google Android apps by PCmag.com

Privacy fears over Google Googles

Privacy concerns have forced Google to delay an expansion of its Goggles service which would have enabled camera-phone users to identify strangers on the street.

Watch the vide about Google Goggles:

TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics


TwitVid, a free video host for Twitter, is launching two new, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. The other is an analytics engine that lets video owners know more about who is watching their uploaded clips, and where they're from. By Josh Lowensohn

Google phone looks supershop

A blog post from a Google executive on Saturday morning dropped hints that the company would release a Google Android phone of its own.

50 Best websites for 2009

Time magazine offers it's listing of the best websites for 2009.

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010

2009 will go down as the year in which the shroud of uncertainty was lifted off of social media and mainstream adoption began at the speed of light. By Ravit Lichtenberg

Discover the truth about a site's online traffic

You can find the traffic of a popular website (and compare it to another site) by entering the URL into compete.com. or quantcast. By Seth Godin's Blog

Cisco: ‘Why vlogging is better than blogging’

Cisco Sys­tems, the Sil­i­con Val­ley pow­er­house, has become the poster child for how to use video in the enter­prise. By JS Lasica

The Future of Social Media Marketing

Social media has transformed itself in the last 2 years from blogs and forums to Facebook and Twitter. By Social Media Optimization.

Kaddoz

Kaddoz is a local gift recommendation engine present on the web at www.kaddoz.com and on the iphone (kaddoz iphone app).Kaddoz allows you to quickly find quality gifts and walk to the store to purchase it.

Foodspotting

A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants, thanks to foodspotters who report sightings of foods they love.

See what's new in Chrome beta

Twistory

Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful.

The new AOL faces a tough fight


The former dial-up giant is being split off from Time Warner in its latest attempt at a comeback. This time, it may work. By David Goldman

Google Chrome for Mac: First Impressions

Google finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. By Ian Paul

Apple Tablet Due In March?

The device will be going into mass production in February 2010, and should be launched in March or April.

Court battle as Craigslist and eBay fight for control


Auction giant claims rival has secretly diluted shareholding. By Bobble Johnson

Hands On with Google's Public DNS

Here's some additional information regarding Google's public DNS by Michael Muchmore.

Beware Social Media Snake Oil

Hordes of marketing "experts" are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools. By Stephen Baker

Web Advertisers Push to Increase Awareness of Targeted Ads



The Federal Trade Commission has been gently pressuring the Internet advertising industry to reveal more information to consumers about how it collects data and targets ads. By Terrence O'Brien

Potholes And Repairs? Boston Has An App For That

A few weeks ago, 41-year-old Bostonian Heather Sears thought the coolest app on her iPhone was SitOrSquat — a listing of the city's cleanest, closest restrooms. By Tovia Smith

Google’s Checkbook Opens Up for Collaboration Start-Up AppJet

Google, which has bought five companies in five months, just made it an even half-dozen: The company has snapped up AppJet, an online collaboration start-up. By Peter Kafka

Twitter users share early adopters symptoms



Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch.

These words may be affecting your popularity

Text Mining techniques can be used to identify specific words that are correlated with Twitter accounts having high or low popularity. By Themos Kalafatis

Building Your Social Media Marketing Plan

It’s that time of year when companies start to look towards 2010 and marketing executives are busy developing marketing plans for the new year.

The Missing Sync for Android now available

Good article on Android and syncing by Greg Kumparak.

The Evolution of Storage

Here's a great graphic about the evolution of storage by Patrick James.

The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

View more presentations from Razorfish Marketing.

Apple wants technology from struggling Lala



Apple acquired Lala on Friday, unlikely offering much for the streaming-music service. By Greg Sandoval

Google Public DNS

When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS. By Google Blog

Ten Commandments of Social Media

There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the anonymity of the Internet. By Robb Clarke

The 50 best inventions of 2009

From a rocket of the future to a $10 million lightbulb, here are TIME's picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year

Google Chrome OS

Google Wave iPhone App Hits The App Store … Temporarily

Do a search for Google Wave on the App Store from your iPhone or desktop client, and you’ll see an application called just that pop up, ready to be installed as soon as you fork over $0.99. By Robin Wauters.

Salesforce Jumps Into Collaboration Software With Chatter

Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about borrowing a bit of other companies’ mojo. On Nov, 18, he introduced the software company’s latest product, a business collaboration tool that takes pages from the playbooks of Facebook and Twitter. By Aaron Ricadela

Google Testing a Permanent Search Sidebar

According to Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search product and user experience, Google is looking to streamline its search experience.

What's So Unbearable about Working at Google New York?



Despite its celebrity chefs and razor scooters, Google's New York office houses a surprisingly disgruntled workforce. By Ryan Tate

VideoLobby Wants To Help You Create Your Own Custom-Branded Live Webcasts



VideoLobby, a new service founded by Peter Urban that’s looking to make it easier to create professional-looking webcasts, complete with custom branding.

Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser



Qwisk, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser.

Augmented Reality Is Both a Fad and the Future -- Here's Why



Why layering data on top of smartphones and computer screens is both a fad and the future. By Farhad Manjoo

Microsoft Still Chasing the Competition With IE9

Serious work has begun on Internet Explorer 9, the next revision of Microsoft’s flagship web browser. By Scott Gilbertson

Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. By Dylan F. Tweney

Do You Poken?

The pokenverse is a free service to manage and engage with your contacts over time. it's simple, interactive, and it will revolutionize the way you socialize.

Turn your iPhone camera into a translator



PicTranslator is only $1.99 and includes translation from your choice of one of the 16 supported languages.

Track your tweets the way you want



Clockwork's Tweetwally is a Twitter power tool, a way to save and customize search results and present them in different formats—at a specific URL (your own, or at tweetwally.com), on a projector (at a conference, party or other gathering), or on an iPhone.

How to record your mobile, landline and internet telephone calls

Interviews are the cornerstone of a journalist's arsenal and with many more interviews happening over the phone, journalists need some way to record them. Whether its a landline, mobile phone, or internet telephone service, here are a few ways to record your phone calls. By 10,000 Words

Datamasher

The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues.

ThirdPresence

Publish your content on any mobile device with a web-based SaaS platform that enables you to distribute your media content to any multimedia-capable mobile phone.

Organize your flow of information



A real-time collaboration environment that helps teams organize the flow of information, talk things over and work together towards common goals seamlessly on the web.

Google Serves Up Free Wi-Fi at 47 Airports for the Holidays



Holiday season air travel just got a little less crappy—freebie access starts today, and runs through to January 15, 2010. By Danny Allen

How to Make Employees Social Media Ambassadors

As companies start to dip their toes into the social media waters, we have seen them implement a couple of different approaches. By SpankyGirl

Top 15 Brands Social Media Presence

The Top 15 Brands as decided by Interbrands. By Social Media Optimization

Three Tips For Social Media Management

How do you choose which social networks and channels to focus on? By Jason Falls

After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges

Five years ago, Mozilla made it clear that the browser wars weren't over after all. By Stephen Shankland

With AdMob, Google seeks mobile-ad advantage



When the long-expected development of smartphones and handheld devices into primary computers reaches maturity, Google wants to make sure it occupies just as strong a position on the small screen as it does on the big one. By Tom Krazit

Enabling the next level of innovation

Here’s a thought experiment: try to imagine what it would have been like to create Google before the era of the Internet and open standards. By Joi Ito

The 40th anniversary of the first internet connection

Forty years ago today, a team led by Leonard Kleinrock typed the “Lo” of “Login” into a Stanford computer, which promptly crashed before the command could be entered. But because Kleinrock’s team was sending this message from a UCLA machine, he had just taken part in one of the great milestones in communication history. By Michael Belfiore

Steve Jobs' Original Name for the iMac Was So Horrifying It Would Explode Your Ears




The iMac revived Apple after a decade of sickly malaise. The name is so obviously iconic. So it's shocking that Steve Jobs hated it and wanted to call it something so awful it would "curdle your blood." By Matt Buchanan

TED - Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future

Winking robot nav head knows where you're going




AIDA's expressive behaviors are designed to endear the device to you as it helps in your daily navigation. The robot learns your daily commute and which areas you frequent for which purposes.

Flickr betters its apps, developer showcase



It seems like everyone has an application directory these days, and now Flickr is no exception. By Josh Lowensohn

Twitter translates into Spanish



So how do you say "fail whale" en español? Twitter has launched a Spanish translation, according to a blog post Tuesday (in Spanish) by co-founder Biz Stone. By Caroline McCarthy

Win 7: Microsoft Gets It Right (Finally)



The operating system is fast and loaded with smart features—unlike the disastrous Vista. By Stephen H. Wildstrom

Amazon's new Kindle DX means business

The company's powerful new e-reader brings the paperless office a big step closer. By Stephen H. Wildstrom

How tech for the disabled is going mainstream

Designs conceived for the handicapped, such as voice commands for PCs, often lead to products for the masse. By Reena Jana

StatsMix

A analytic tool that displays an overview of all your web stats. From Google Analytics to Twitter to FeedBurner, monitor all your sites in a single view.

ShowtimeFu

Offers real-time movie showtime information by zip code. Results are interleaved by start time and include approximate end times as well. Filters by theater, movie, start and/or end time.

Springpad

Free online notebooks that help you manage your life. Use your springpad to keep track of notes, photos, maps, to-do's, contacts, appointments and more.

The Top 3 Brands by Social Media Presence: Google, Apple and Microsoft

Interbrand recently released its 2009 list of the best 100 global brands. Social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a closer look at this data. By Frederic Lardinois

A fan with no blades



After trying its hands in vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, Dyson has now come up with an innovative table fan called “Air Multiplier” that propels a cool breeze but without the use of blades. By Naresh Chauhan

BlackBerry Storm2 9550 (Verizon)



The BlackBerry Storm2 9550 finally delivers on the original Storm 9530's promise. It's a powerful device with an innovative click screen that really works—and it feels finished instead of like an engineering prototype. By Jamie Lendino

The Street awaits Apple's earnings

What's Wall Street expecting this quarter? The analysts we polled are all over the lot. By Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Twitter co-founder's 'Square' comes into focus

Well, we finally have a glimpse at "Square," the new mobile payments venture coming from Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey. As expected, it's a little hardware add-on that can turn an iPhone into a credit card reader. From Caroline McCarthy

Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City

Zensify

Zensify, the makers of the Zensify iPhone app, have a new iPhone app out called Zen News that helps users discover the latest headlines from a dozen news sources. These range from established media powerhouses like The New York Times, BBC News, and The Washington Post to TweetMeme and soon other online-only news sources.

Touchscreen PCs prompt interface innovations

Touchscreen displays are going to get a big boost from Windows 7’s built-in support for multitouch tech — but there’s a hitch: Flicking, scrolling and opening programs can be cumbersome when stubby fingers meet Windows’ tiny icons and menu items. By Priya Ganapati

6 of the best budget monitors for your Mac

Unless you only use an Apple notebook or iMac, you need a monitor to go with your Mac. Today's flat-panel models are light, slim and take up very little room on your desk. By Ian Osborne

Chrome Mac beta nearer; Win 7 features recede

Programmers have mostly overcome a crucial hurdle to releasing a beta version of Chrome for the Mac, printing support, but several Windows 7 features won't make the cut for the present 4.x version of Chrome.

Penzu

Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on a pad of paper.

Aardvark

Aardvark was founded in late 2007 by Max Ventilla, Damon Horowitz, Nathan Stoll, and Rob Spiro.

Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information.

10 tools for presenting with Twitter

Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience. Gradually tools are being developed to make it easier for you as the presenter to manage the backchannel. By Olivia Mitchell

6 Taiwanese Startups Demo Their Services



TechCrunch/CrunchGear Meetup Taipei. By Serkan Toto

Did You Know 4.0

tvChatter iPhone Application



tvChatter is an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that presents lively commentary about your favorite TV shows. The commentary comes from the Twittersphere but you do not need a Twitter account to see what people are saying. Watch your favorite show on your TV set or PC, launch the tvChatter app, choose the show from the social program guide, and watch the streaming commentary text. If you have a Twitter account, you can tweet, reply, re-tweet, or filter on your followers for a more intimate conversation.

Tim Brown urges designers to think big

The Apple Museum

The Apple Museum is dedicated to the history of Apple Computer, Inc. and with more than 350 Apple products listed, ...

Goby

Goby (GO-be) is a new search engine that's all about finding fun ways to spend your free time, from a weekend to a week off.

FastPencil

Unlike self-publishing approaches that focus only on printing, FastPencil is about helping you get your book written and published. Write and edit with powerful, free tools; have friends review your book; publish with a few clicks and order one or thousands; sell on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more.

Musefy

New social network for musicians.

MaYoMo

A new video-centric social news network for journalists and their readers, empowering a new era of Internet news creation and distribution. Attracts content from both young, aspiring journalists, as well as experienced independent journalists and bloggers.

Ruba

A travel guide and tour review site that helps travelers from around the world discover their next perfect trip.

The future of journalism

3 Multimedia journalists to watch. By 10,000 Words

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Apple first started advertising its products in the late 1970s. By Cameron Chapman

Google Releases Chrome Version 3

Just two weeks after Google Chrome’s birthday, the search engine giant has unleashed Google Chrome (Google Chrome) version 3.

Facebook reaches 300m users



Facebook has announced that it now has 300 million members worldwide and is making money.

Opera Mini 5 Released Now Supports Tabs and Bookmark Feature



The world's most popular mobile browser has been upgraded as Opera Mini 5 beta is now available to download.

Steve Wozniak: How I Invented the Personal Computer

The 10 Myths of Social Media

The emergence of social media as a crucial paradigm in virtually all sectors of the economy has led to countless assumptions and new ideas about consumer behavior and marketing activities.

Five Features We Want to See in iTunes

Several days ago Apple released iTunes 9, and while the update brings a few nice feature improvements here and there, the popular desktop music player still has a lot of room for improvement. Here are five things we're dying to see from iTunes.

Google brand value 'on the rise'

In these uncertain economic times, people want answers - one reason perhaps why Google's brand value is soaring and bank brands are plunging.

The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product

A video took the web by storm today entitled “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.” Basically, it boils down Apple’s latest event into a series of superlatives.

Touch-Screen Smackdown: iPod touch vs. Zune HD




Apple or Microsoft? The battle moves to your pocket with two new top-notch, touch-screen media players. Which one is right for you?

Google Aims to Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo

The company has built its fortune almost entirely on the back of small text ads, which appear alongside its search results and on sites across the Web. Now it is stepping up efforts to make inroads into graphical display ads, a business long dominated by Yahoo.

7 reasons why the Motorola Dext will save the brand

After what seems like aeons in the wilderness, Motorola is back with a new phone, the Dext.

5 Popular Facebook Scams (and How to Avoid Them)



Just as bearded hipsters migrate from bar to bar in pursuit of young ladies to ogle, so too have scammers and hackers followed their prey from MySpace to Facebook.

Can Amazon Be Wal-Mart of the Web?



Amazon is shaking up retailers, both big rivals and small independent stores, as it speeds its way beyond books toward its goal of becoming a Web-sized general store.

Web Trend Map

The Web Trend Map community curates meaningful link trends by choosing sources they trust.

10 Revealing Infographics about the Web



The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume and fascinating way.

Intel and Apple--future rivals?

As Intel readies its most potent chip yet for small devices, Apple may already be using competing technology.

Mobile Market Floods Africa

Thanks to an emerging class of social applications, farmers in Uganda have something in common with Madison Avenue advertisers: They both use their mobile phones to do business.

Humanoid Robot Plays Soccer



Created by Hajime Sakamoto, Hajime 33 is the latest addition to Sakamoto’s fleet of humanoid robots. Powered by batteries, the robot is controlled with a PS3 controller, and it can walk and kick a ball. Hajime 33 weighs in at just 44 pounds while overlooking his creator at more than 6 feet 5 inches tall.

New Asus Color E-Reader Folds Like a Book

Computer maker Asus, known for its line of Eee PC netbooks, is working on an e-book reader that will have two touchscreens and when laid open will resemble a hardcover book.

Zune HD review

So the time has come for the Engadget review. Does the Zune HD finally match up with Microsoft's ambition, and can it stand up to the heat and ubiquity of the competition? Read on for all the answers.

The Engadget Show- 001: Jon Rubinstein, Bit Shifter, iPod event, Moto CLIQ, N900

Your Google docs: Soon in search results?


Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be.

Twitter users get phone calls

Twitter users on Sept. 17th, will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.

Facebook, Twitter and Social Media Marketing

A significant number of brands have amped up their social media marketing, but it's not just all about tapping Facebook and Twitter, says a new study.

Skype Founders Sues eBay

Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have sued eBay, the company that acquired their Internet telephony startup and turned them into billionaires.

DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet

Originally it looked as if the much-rumored and highly anticipated Apple Tablet would make its debut this month.

Switch to Chrome

Why? Good old NES games.

Fwix lanuches API for real



Fwix, a startup that offers a stream of local news that’s updated in real-time, has somewhat belatedly announced a $2.75 million funding round it closed last year, led by BlueRun Ventures.

Oracle Revenues Down, But Earnings Up 8%

New software license revenues were down 17%, but software maintenance and product support revenues were up 6%.

User Experience Vision Videos

As powerful networked device capabilities continue to enter mainstream use, several technology companies have released "vision" videos portraying how capabilities like augmented reality, flexible OLED screens, and rich sensors can alter our lives in the future.

WolframAlpha Deal Means Bing Gets Its Geek On


Microsoft's Bing just keeps getting more interesting: The latest news is that Microsoft recently closed a deal with WolframAlpha's management to get some of Wolfram's impressive sciencey "fact calculation" goodness showing in Bing's results.

Interview with Yiying Lu, aka Fail Whale Creator

Interview with Yiying Lu, a bubbly Sydney based designer who is responsible for one of the most iconic images Fail Whale which appears on the micro-blogging/social network Twitter whenever their server slows down.

Can the Twitterati help sell your soda pop?

On a Monday night earlier this month, the projection screen hanging on the wall of a bowling alley in Brooklyn's bar-heavy Williamsburg neighborhood was displaying neither strikes nor scores, but columns of the Twitter client TweetDeck.

Strap-on mini helicopters the latest way to travel

Forget bungy jumping and black river rafting: New Zealand's tourists will soon be able to whiz around in a strap-on mini helicopter to get their thrills.

Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle

Watch out Amazon, Sony's got the Kindle in its sights.

Firefox 3.6 a1: new CSS features, faster JavaScript

Mozilla has released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6. Ars takes a look at the new features, such as CSS gradients.

Stimulus billions fund rural broadband Internet

For businesses in rural America, fast Internet connections remain a scarce luxury. A $7 billion stimulus program aims to narrow the digital gap.

War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

The ignorant masses milling around the iPod display at the local Wal-Mart last week had no idea that they were at Ground Zero of the next titanic battle in all of technologydom.

Mashups pit search engines against each other



Can't decide which search engine to use? Use several.

Facebook launching Twitter-like 'Lite site?



From what it looks like, Facebook Lite is a simpler version of the site and pares down profiles to basic information and a stream of status updates.

dotSub

dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download

Flickroom

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved.

Flavortunes

Create your own soundtrack for a party or event. Build a jukebox with your guests' song requests.

Qipit

Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs). Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish.

Globalization of Virtual Events

When looking at a virtual event platform to serve more than one country or culture’s needs what should one consider? Language, imagery, interaction, time zone, content, and more oh my!

Windows 7 jump lists come to Chrome

Google Chrome fans who live on the edge and use the developer's build now get access to one of the best features in Windows 7.

Facebook gets Twitter-like search

New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting Monday.

Facebook buys FriendFeed

The social-networking titan scoops up FriendFeed, a service that gathers people's scattered online activity. It's a deal focused on talent, not product.

GM says new Volt to get 230 mpg in city driving

General Motors Corp. said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, more than four times the mileage of the current champion, the Toyota Prius.

Thought of the day

Wear Fluid Interfaces

Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcases the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done.”

MIT Students: Wearable computer

100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration



Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you’ve been designing for years or only weeks. Here's a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print.

Build your industry voice with social media

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

Why Do You Tweet?

eMarketer reports that, according to the "Consumer Internet Barometer," the majority of Twitter users (42%) use the service to communicate with their friends.

DEQQ

DEQQ is an always-on messaging and media distribution service that provides artists and broadcasters with a brandable desktop application that can deliver music, video, and games directly to your followers.

AltUse

A green wiki-style site that encourages alternative uses for any product you already own. Post your own suggestions for alternate uses, and vote for favorites.

Tweetblocker

Tweetblocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers.

BlackBerry Curve 8520 Lightning Review

It's cheap, it's ball-less, it's the BlackBerry Curve 8520. Oh, and it's the first BlackBerry carrying the trackpad that's probably gonna wind up on every BlackBerry eventually.

Social Media is a Culture, Not Just a Strategy



We all know the basic buzz words of social media, “Twitter Marketing, Facebook Strategy, Community Building”. The problem with these terms are they allude to an idea that once you build a strategy for these platforms, you’ll be able to fully leverage social media.