July 2011
60 posts
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AT&T to Start Data Throttling, How Will It Affect... →
… AT&T has announced that starting on Oct. 1 it will throttle the data speeds of users with unlimited data plans who exceed bandwidth thresholds on its 3G network.
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Foursquare rolls out Groupon Now deals →
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Google TV price slashed to $99 →
Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And... →
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Twitter starts injecting paid tweets into the... →
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Twitter to Add Parental Controls to Tweet Links →
… Twitter has added a way to flag links within tweets as “possibly sensitive.”
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“… Facebook now lets you create test users from their dev console. No more...”
– http://twitter.com/pamelafox/statuses/96612963405934592
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35 Facebook Fan Page Custom Designs →
Hipmunk Flight Search App Shows Which Flights Have... →
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Amazon Inks Deal With NBCUniversal to Stream 1,000... →
On Safety: A Word From Airbnb →
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Design Contest - Greplin Wants You To Redesign... →
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Kobo creating HTML5 Web app to buffer Apple →
… The way browser-based HTML5 apps work is you simply go to a specific Web address on your iPad or iPhone (in the case of the Financial Times it’s app.ft.com) and follow the directions to add the app to your home screen.
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Anonymity and Pseudonyms in Social Software →
To my mind there are three categories of Pseudonymous behavior, and they should be treated differently …
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Amazon caves to Apple, drops Kindle's in-app... →
… iPhone and iPad users who update their Amazon Kindle apps to today’s version 2.8 can still purchase books from their devices, but must open Safari and manually steer to Amazon.com to do so.
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Making local online advertising easy with Google... →
… Today, we’re officially introducing AdWords Express, a faster and simpler way to start advertising online in under five minutes.
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Announcing Git Support for Google Code Project... →
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Web Applications Attacked Every 2 Minutes →
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“… Screenfly allows you to view your website on a variety of device screens...”
– Screenfly by QuirkTools — Test Your Website at Different Screen Resolutions
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Facebook Glitch Revealed Thumbnails & Descriptions... →
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How to configure Google searching your site's URLs... →
Rdio Hits 10 Million Songs, Music Subscription... →
Etsy Shakeup: CTO Chad Dickerson Takes Over CEO... →
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Jack Dorsey Cleaning House At Twitter: 4 Key... →
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WePay.com →
… Start collecting money online in under a minute … No merchant account, website, or programming required … Great customer service provided by real people No set up fees, contracts, or monthly fees
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Google Plus for iPhone Falls Short of Expectations... →
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First Look: Rdio’s iPad App Now Awaiting Apple’s... →
Really liking my subscription to Rdio … Will download this as soon as it hits the store.
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Google+ iphone app released ... and a same day... →
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Firefox world loses Web dev guru to Chrome →
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Patents in Apple-HTC case filed in 1994 and 1996,... →
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App developers withdraw from US as patent fears... →
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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.4, Patches Up The PDF... →
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“Slicehost—a scrappy web company bootstrapped with $20,000—cashed out for big...”
– The Slicehost Story
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Can Rdio Withstand The Spotify Assault? A... →
… Rdio is an amazing tool to discover new music and Spotify is the media player from the future. There’s more than enough space in this huge market for several major players.
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Zuckerberg and Google elite hit Google privacy... →
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“… Foursquare will begin rolling out daily deals from five partners —...”
– Foursquare’s Explore Tab Now Packed With Targeted Deal Offers
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“… Facebook is embracing the reality that not everyone is on a smartphone.”
– Facebook launches app for ‘Every Phone’ | The Digital Home - CNET News
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PayPal Adds NFC Support to Android →
… Today’s demo involved Samsung’s Nexus S, but other NFC phones are on their way, including the upcoming BlackBerry Bold (9900/9930) devices, Nokia’s Astound, variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II and others.
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Netflix Introduces New Plans and Announces Price... →
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Google Quietly Rolls Out WDYL.com: A Range Of... →
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Dancing To The Drumbeat Of HTML5, New Pandora Is... →
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Google+ technical lead answers your questions on... →
Really good questions & answers … Discusses the design processes and software release cycle.
Color, Now Down Two of Three Leaders, Looks Like A... →
… Perhaps best articulated by consultant and author Eric Ries, the Lean Startup philosophy says the last thing you want to do is raise a whole lot of money, build a product in secret, then spring it on a world that may not want what you’ve built at all.
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Who OWNS Facebook? The Definitive Who's Who Guide... →
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Google eBooks and Iriver launch Story HD e-reader →
This can only be good for the industry … I think E-readers will cross the economic digital divide and tip normal reading behaviors to these types of devices.
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Face.com Brings Mood Detection to its 20,656... →
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MusixMatch Lyrics API Brings Order to Chaotic... →
… Doing lyric search well has value, which is why MusiXMatch has a great write-up in Forbes. MusixMatch aims to be the premiere source of authorized, organized, and verified lyric information.
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“… Yes, laugh all you want, but even a service run by search engine giant...”
– Technolog from msnbc.com - Why did Google users get hit by a spam attack?
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Some thoughts on Google+ →
… here are some thoughts, in no particularly organized order, based on my initial experience. Google vs. Twitter