Posterous Implements Facebook Likes
Choosing to waste no time, simple blogging-by-email platform Posterous has implemented Facebook Likes on all blogs via the new Open Graph API. You don’t have to actually do anything to benefit. The like button appears after each post (depending on your theme) and, when clicked, will share a link back to your [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center seem to be creating the ultimate Twitter client. Not because of the number of columns you can have, the types of URL shorteners it supports, or any of the other features that users and developers normally worry about, though. It’s because this particular client aims to make sense [...]
Lala is shutting down as of May 31st. Very disappointing news for many users of the service who actually preferred it over iTunes. The service is now closed to new users. Apple acquired Lala back in December of 2009 when it seemed that the cloud-based service was in financial trouble. This is after Lala seemed [...]
It seems that Facebook’s new Community Pages (how-to here) are part of a grander scheme to get Facebook users to connect with stuff. Remember all those random keywords you used to fill out your profile? Stuff like your favorite movies and books? Well, Facebook has basically turned them all into actual Community Pages. Instead of [...]
Google Follow Finder
Follow Finder is a nifty little app that will help you find people to follow. You plugin your Twitter username and it will scan your public social graph to show you people you might want to follow. It’s hosted on App Engine and makes extensive use of Twitter’s new @anywhere platform. Tweeps you might [...]
Xobni (that’s Inbox backwards) is the plugin for Outlook that provides super search abilities and social networking integration. Outlook 2010 is still in beta and it’s weeks before it will actually be ready for prime time, but Xobni has already released a version for you to play with. You can download Xobni 1.9.2, which is [...]
Image via Wikipedia Now is the time to take advantage of the government’s housing stimulus package. Time is running out and you could be leaving money on the table during a time when many people could use the help. For those of us having a hard time, this could be the solution to help dig yourself [ Read More ]
MySpace has recently made an update to their events system that may have musicians scrambling to update their profiles. The new events page is a complete overhaul of the simple and pretty much useless events system of old. It also adds a bunch of features which make it much more useful to artists, profitable for [...]
With Earth Day approaching, going green is at the forefront for many businesses and individuals. Some people don’t know where to start. It seems as if you may need to completely change the way you do business to even make a significant change. This is not the case, though. Every little change that you can [...]
Bing has started rolling out a new feature called Social Search. This allows you to see real-time results from Twitter right alongside your Bing search results. If that sounds familiar, it should. Google has been doing it for a little while now. This feature has been rolled out to a subset of Bing users, so [...]
MeeGo is a Linux-based operating system for portable devices. It’s the product of a partnership between Nokia and Intel which brings together Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin environment. This operating system could power your smart phone and your netbook as well as other devices you might not consider like a vehicle or an embedded system.
Since it [...]
MyLikes, founded by two ex-Googlers—former Google Apps product lead Bindu Reddy and former AdSesne tech lead Arvind Sundararajan—took money totaling about $630k from 11 other ex-Googlers to fund the company. Those are the only people they took money from. People who also used to work for Google.
If you recall, MyLikes is a service that helps [...]
As of today, Opera Mini has been approved for distribution through Apple’s App store. This browser is already in use by over 50 million users worldwide, providing lightning fast mobile browsing by compressing data by about 90 percent before it ever sends the content to your device. This means you waste less bandwidth and your [...]
With all the Buzz surrounding Buzz, many of us have forgot about all the other services out there vying for the privilege of serving as our lifestream or aggregator. You have the old stand-by, FriendFeed which is still alive and kicking despite being purchased by Facebook. Cliqset is improving all the time. There are still [...]
Google is announcing some pretty major updates to it’s Google Docs service. They have done some under-the-hood updates to improve the overall speed of the document editor and spreadsheet editor. In addition, Docs is starting to look more like Wave as far as collaborative editing and discussion around documents. These updates come as a result [...]
