Increasing Your Quality of Life with Tech
Today, during a keynote speech at SXSW, Twitter founder Evan Williams talked about what’s going on with the popular micro-blogging platform. Among other things, Ev mentioned a new set of web frameworks, known as @anywhere, that will allow website owners and brands to better integrate with Twitter via it’s rich API. While there are already […]
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LoKast is an iPhone app by NearVerse exploring a new dimension in location-based technology. There is an ever-growing number of new and already existing applications looking to jump on the location sharing band-wagon. Most are the same concept: simply a way to broadcast your location to your social networks. LoKast takes a different approach, creating […]
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WeWorked is a simple web application to help you manage your companies time and resources. Your staff can submit their time worked via the web for your approval. Leave is automatically accrued according to your specifications and staff has easy access to the information. Timesheets are generated automatically and can be viewed or printed.
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Apple’s iPad has been available for pre-order since 8:30am Friday morning. They took down their site temporarily in order to update and prepare. Not sure why a company like Apple can’t just update the site without taking the whole thing down. I assume it’s some type of marketing tactic as they do this all the […]
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The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals again upheld a jury’s verdict saying that Microsoft “willfully infringed on a patent awarded to i4i.” The verdict was originally affirmed in December and Microsoft was to pay about $240 million in damages. They were also supposed to remove a specific feature of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January. […]
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Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere
FourWhere is a mashup of Foursquare and Google Maps that provides a visual representation of venues overlayed on a map. Clicking a venue shows you recent checkins and comments. The interface is a little weird, but you should be able to figure things out from the right-click menu. Created by […]
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Playstation’s new motion controller has been officially named the Playstation Move. Given the devices appearance, I’m sure any one of us could have come up with something a little more spicy. This controller lets you interact with certain games on the Playstation through the motion of your arms. If you’ve ever played a Wii or […]
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One of the biggest criticisms of Apple’s iPhone is it’s lack of multitasking support. The basic ability to run more than one application at a time. Pretty surprising given that a large part of their business involves people buying apps from their store. According to inside sources, it looks like Apple may be adding this […]
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Opera software has launched Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android today. This is the newest beta of the world’s most popular mobile phone browser, according to them. Any handset running Android can now get a fast and cost-efficient browser in Opera Mini, which already has 50 million users worldwide on Blackberry and Windows mobile devices.
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Twitter Helps Bring Free SMS to Haiti
Twitter has set up a deal with Digicel to provide users of that service with free SMS tweets. This will assist those in Haiti with communicating with the world because it gets rid of the per-message charges. To set up the service, all the users need to do is […]
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The latest updates for the popular Seesmic Web Twitter client are very interesting and add some much needed functionality. Updates include viewing threads and retweets, geolocation, drag-n-drop list management, tweetmeme integration, and an enhanced contact manager.
Retweets and Threads
Being able to keep up with a conversation on Twitter is always difficult. If it draws multiple participants…
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Indaba Music is a site that aims to help us ride the current waves of change in the music industry. Their focus is on making it simple for artists to collaborate to create new music and on allowing fans to connect directly with artists and become involved in the creative process. This is actually something […]
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Google Buzz has had the Internet buzzing since it’s launch. Despite alleged privacy issues, feature omissions, and even a lawsuit, Buzz is still gaining popularity. One major thing missing is an actual developer API. Twitter’s API is what allows 3rd party apps like Tweetdeck and Hootsuite to interface with Twitter and most other web applications […]
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Gaming Foursquare
I guess you can’t really game a game, can you? One man, armed with the Foursquare API and a little coding knowledge, aimed to show potential flaws in the Foursquare checkin system. He checked in at a bunch of locations repeatedly, taking over mayorships across the globe. He mostly targeted well-known landmarks. Being that […]
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High-quality video site Vimeo has made a few upgrades that show they’re keeping an eye on changes in the web. They’ve added support for mobile phones and also optional support for 1080p. More interesting is their beta support for HTML5, which could result in us no longer needing Flash to view streaming video.
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