Top 20 Free Google Android Apps
Here's a list of the top 20 'free' Google Android apps by PCmag.com
Monday, December 14, 2009
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.
Saturday, December 12, 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.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
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.
Monday, December 07, 2009
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
Sunday, December 06, 2009
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.
Apple wants technology from struggling Lala
Apple acquired Lala on Friday, unlikely offering much for the streaming-music service. By Greg Sandoval
Friday, December 04, 2009
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
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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