Increasing Your Quality of Life with Tech
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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I just recently (today) started using a service called Amplify that I learned about on Twitter. It’s supposed to let you easily share things across your social networks and provides a central place for discussion. I won’t get into too much detail about the specifics, but there is one major thing that instantly bothered me. Here is a screenshot of a post on my Ampblog regarding the RPM Challenge:
Looks good, right? The bookmarklet is excellent. Let’s you select regions of the page and intelligently pieces them together into a baby blog post. I was impressed, until I took a look at how Amplify posted to my other services.
Ok, fair enough. Twitter doesn’t do images and is limited to 140 characters. This is good. I believe the URL is only that long because I hadn’t connected Bit.ly yet.
Uh, what’s this? It looks just like the tweet. I’m quite sure Facebook is capable of handling images and including thumbnails of stuff when you share it, so why is this Facebook share so bland?
Here is the Amplify post on my Posterous blog. Again, no images. Why is the good stuff being stripped away?
As you all may know, I’m a Ping.fm-aholic. It’s my go-to service when I want to speak to everyone everywhere. My problem with Ping.fm has always been that it doesn’t really do video and images (well, it does photos to flickr). I can’t be mad at that because Ping.fm wasn’t created that way. It’s all about status updates.
The other tool I use a lot for posting one-to-many is Posterous itself. It actually does do a better job of carrying over video and photos, but it has the same problem that Amplify does when it comes to Facebook. No Media!
Well, sometimes photos show up, but videos don’t embed. Oh, I also have to run it through Feed-buster to get images in FriendFeed (yes, I still FriendFeed).
I am well aware that there are probably technological, underlying issues with getting media into Facebook and getting it to display nicely. I’m also aware that there may be issues with trying to get external images and video to show up on a 3rd party service. As a user, though, none of that matters. The point is still that I can’t share stuff the way I want. I have to settle for less…and that kinda sucks.
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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Russian ice-skating team Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took the ice in what appeared to be brown tights with white designs painted all over them. The costumes were also decorated with leaves around their wrists and knees, ropes around their waists, and red cloth. The routine and costumes were, according to them, was based on […]
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They went from an online video community to a Twitter client. Now, Seesmic has released Look, a Windows application that claims to immerse you in the real-time web. I’ve been playing with it for a day or so and I have to admit…I’m quite confused. Seesmic Look is supposed to be geared towards those people who […]
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Foursquare and Yelp Got Beef?
On the 15th, Yelp stepped into Foursquare’s arena, introducing a location check-in feature in it’s new iPhone app. Competition is usually a good thing though, pushes innovation. In this case, it looks like Yelp did a little more than provide some competition. In a post on his Tumblr blog, Foursquare co-founder […]
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