An official Mozy app has made its way to the Apple App Store and you might be surprised with what you can do with it. The Mozy team has decided to keep the features to a minimum in the beginning, relying on user feedback and an aggressive update cycle to get things up to speed. [...]
Archive for March, 2011
This post started off as an email to a few family and friends, but I figured I might as well share with the world. I’ll start with a clarification: If your only goal in using social media is money, you will probably fail miserably. A passion for writing and engaging with others is a requirement [ Read More ]
Google has officially launched their own light-weight social interaction/recommendation feature: the +1 button. They describe the +1 button as shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” The goal at this point is to enhance your search experience with recommendations from friends and to share those recommendations with the world. Of [...]
Yesterday, we caught an interesting tweet from Quincy Jones III (@QD3), British-born son of American music producer Quincy Jones. so @2Pac joined twitter today, please follow him and lets get him to 1mil asap =) @2Pac, EVERYBODY please retweet! Salute Tupac I know what you’re thinking, but this isn’t someone just pretending to be Tupac [...]
The 106 & Park App from BET lets you become a part of “the livest audience on TV” without ever leaving your couch. The app includes many of the basics you would expect, but also ties into location and social network to create a more interactive experience. It adds another layer to the show that [...]
A big hit at SXSW, GroupMe is definitely one of the front-runners in the crowded world of group messaging. Now, they’ve begun to show what they’re really made of with Featured Groups. The feature launched yesterday and will give brands an opportunity to easily engage with the focused community. The obvious tendency for any group [...]
Web Suite Pro is a complete suite of software tools for managing a small to medium business. From billing and invoicing to integrated email and project management, Web Suite Pro does it all. The cloud-based solution lets you run your business and access critical information on-the-go via the web or from your iPhone, Blackberry, Android, [...]
WSJ reports that Google may be teaming up with MasterCard and Citigroup to set up a payment system based on Near-Field Communications. This would allow Android users with NFC-capable devices to make payments with a simply wave of their mobile device. According to “those familiar with the matter,” Google wants to make mobile payments easier [...]
Snoop Dogg has released his latest album, Doggumentary, on MySpace two days before it’s official release. Everything from Gang Bang Rookie feat. Pilot and Platinume feat. R. Kelly to Wet and My F**n House feat. Young Jezzy and E-40. While you can listen to all 21 tracks, only four are actually available for purchase/download: Gang [...]
MySpace Failing Faster It used to be the blinged out king of the Internet. Now, MySpace is failing faster and faster. According to Comscore, MySpace dropped by 14.4% from 73 million visitors to 63 million visitors between January and February of 2011. Parent company News Corp. is in the middle of a sale process and [...]
As part of a unique relationship between Nintendo and the National Art Education Association (NAEA), art teachers in elementary, middle and high school classrooms have been provided with hand-held Nintendo DSi XL™ systems and copies of Art Academy™, a software title that offers interactive art tutorials for budding artists of any background or skill level. [...]
AisleFinder started simply enough. A young techie, Curtiss Pope, working at a local grocery store found that people were always asking where stuff was. He wondered why the stores didn’t just give customers an aisle-by-aisle snapshot of the store layout and location of all items they wanted. Years later, this same young techie finds himself [...]
A new iPhone app from XXL does much more than bring the magazine to your iPhone. For hip-hop heads out there, the free app is a must for keeping up with news, music, information. This app takes it to the next level, though. Instead of just bringing you the news, a feature called Ready or [...]
In less than 24 hours, Black Founders officially launches, starting with a cocktail mixer in San Francisco from 6-10 pm on 3/24. If you recall, Black Founders will serve to mentor, unite, and promote black entrepreneurs and startups. The launch party in SF will be followed by events in Oakland, and Palo Alto. Black Founders [...]
It was only a few days ago that Microsoft boasted about IE9 being downloaded 2.35 million times in the first 24hrs it became available. Definitely a number to be proud of, especially given the love-hate relationship many have with Internet Explorer. The new release brought many updates that put it on par with Chrome and [...]
