Increasing Your Quality of Life with Tech
Chatroulette is a service that takes video chat to a whole new level. Not really a level above what you might expect these days on the net, but definitely a different level than what you might be used to. It allows you to video and text chat one-on-one with a random stranger. If you guys […]
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One thing I always find common among people who use a browser all day is the shear amount of tab hoarding they do. I find this totally insane for a number of reasons. The first being that it’s completely counter-productive. You may not realize it, but each tab you open becomes a weight on your […]
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Google Buzz pretty much came out of nowhere and nobody has stopped talking about it since. Even people that have nothing to do with the tech world noticed that new link in their Gmail sidebar. Whether you’re already using Buzz or you’re not sure what to do with it, here are a few tips to make your experience a little better:
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Google Buzz
First, they released stuff like FriendConnect and started messing around with the Social Graph and Google Profiles. Next, they dropped Google Wave. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think Wave was Google’s big jump into social networking. Finally, taking a hint from Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed, Google creates Google Buzz. It lives in your […]
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Earlier today, we posted about Qhub, a service that lets you create your very own Questions and Answers website. You could use it to get much needed feedback from your community and keep your ear to the streets. Qhub is in private beta, but has been generous enough to give us some invites.
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Qhub is a new service offering a simple method for creating a Questions and Answers website. If you ever dreamed of running your very own Yahoo Answers, your prayers have been answered in Qhub. Unlike more general solutions, Qhub is aims to be a more targeted community. Each one can be focused on a specific […]
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Flavors.me is a simple and elegant solution that helps you create an automatic lifestream of all your online content. It connects with your various social media accounts, pulls in your content from them, and displays it in a flexible and customizable interface. It was created by the team at Hiidef Inc., “a web product incubator […]
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MyBlackJourney.com is a microsite set up by Amtrak as part of their Black History Month celebration. As you can tell from the name, the focus is on African-American passengers. The site has a wealth of information regarding popular “African-American cultural destinations” that happen to be served by Amtrak. They also have information and travel advice […]
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Appcelerator Titanium is an API that empowers web developers to create native applications for multiple platforms. A large percentage of developers are web developers, strong in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. If these developers are looking to develop native applications, they would have a pretty steep learning curve ahead. With Appcelerator, you can take your basic […]
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Twitter.com Gets Hovercards (finally)
Twitter seems to be getting serious about making the Twitter.com interface more useful to users. Following the complete redesign they did a while back, addition of lists, and new retweet feature, they have now added Hovercards. If you’ve used FriendFeed, Seesmic desktop, Hootsuite, and just about any Twitter client or social media […]
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Drummer @questlove of The Roots, NBCU employee, brought this to our attention today via Twitter. His commentary on it inside:
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HipChat is a chat service aimed at small business communications. It’s similar to Yammer or Campfire, providing a method for instant messaging others within your company. It works via an Adobe AIR client, which means they’ve got most platforms covered.
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Amplify is a social networking site that makes it simple to discover new content, broadcast things you find to your social networks, and discuss these items with like-minded individuals. It’s like Ping.fm, but with a social network built in.
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The iPad Becomes Reality
It’s not the iSlate or the iTablet, it’s the iPad and it’s actually a real and tangible device. I’m so glad it was finally released as we can now enter a downward spiral of incessant “news” about an actual piece of technology instead of the escalating barrage of posts filled with rumor […]
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Google has made a few updates to Google Docs recently that could have a major effect on how you use it. A couple were just added today: Thumbnail view has been added to the Document list and spelling correction was added to the search feature.
Thumbnails View and Search Spell-check
The thumbnails view will help in quickly […]
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