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- VLC for the iPad submitted to App Store, could ship next week
- New ARM Mobile Processor Will Hit Speeds Of 2.5GHz
- T-Mobile G2 Goes Official, Specs and Preorder Dates Confirmed
- Kobo Hits the Desktop With New App
- Google using Promoted Tweets to pitch Google Instant
- Over 2 Billion planes landed safely by Flight Control players
- Is there a larger meaning behind Gawker’s meteoric rise in web traffic?
- Video: Google’s Ben Gomes talks about Google Instant
- Google engineer on adding social to Google Instant: “Stay tuned.”
- The Average Twitter User Is How Old?
- Some Android users shocked to find out that porn sites infect their phones with malware.
- iOS 4.1 hands-on: Is HDR really that good?
- iMovie app update adds new features. One in particular will “touch” some of you.
- UberVU – Your Social Conversations Monitor
- iPhone 3GS Heading To T-Mobile This Year?
- 65% of us are online crime victims, but are we hypocrites?
- Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy.
- Has Facebook Places had a brief UK outing ahead of launch? Seems so.
- Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy.
- Google Instant Coming To Mobile This Fall
| VLC for the iPad submitted to App Store, could ship next week Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:51 AM PDT
That is, of course, if the app gains approval. The very nature of the app would surely be to replace the default media players on the device. VLC for iPad has undergone several months of porting, keeping the project completely open-source much like its desktop counterparts. App developers Applidium have posted to their blog that they will be releasing the application patches to the main VLC tree, releasing the code when (or if) the app hits the App Store. If Apple does approve VLC for the iPad, the app will be available next week. If you fancy getting your hands on the app a whole week early, Applidium have organised a game allowing users to win a copy. To enter, all you need to do is follow @applidium on Twitter, they will then randomly pick 5 people out of its followers on Sunday, sending them their own copy of VLC for the iPad shortly after. Original title and link for this post: VLC for the iPad submitted to App Store, could ship next week |
| New ARM Mobile Processor Will Hit Speeds Of 2.5GHz Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:51 AM PDT
ARM, the creators of most modern mobile processing architectures, have announced the launch of its new mobile processor, the Cortex-A15 MPCore CPU that can will feature speeds up to 2.5GHz, increasing performance beyond modern day chips by up to five times. The new processor will be highly scalable, energy efficient and cost effective, allowing companies to license the technology to manufacture 32nm and 28nm chips. Whilst smartphone manufacturers will undoubtedly look to incorporate this new technology into their handsets, the processor will also be perfect for use in tablets and in home entertainment devices. Can you imagine using a smartphone that can pack 2.5GHz? It’s the equivalent of two and a half Nexus One’s. I would like to see how battery life fared with one of these CPU’s powering a device though. More technical details can be found on ARM’s website, here. Original title and link for this post: New ARM Mobile Processor Will Hit Speeds Of 2.5GHz |
| T-Mobile G2 Goes Official, Specs and Preorder Dates Confirmed Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:01 AM PDT
As we already knew, the T-Mobile G2 will be the carrier’s flagship HSPA+ smartphone, offering 4G-like speeds and tight integration with Google services. Manufactured by HTC, the G2 will feature a 3.7-inch screen coupled with a hinge to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, a Snapdragon MSM7230 800 MHz CPU, Android 2.2 (Froyo), 5MP camera with LED Flash and Autofocus as well as 720p HD Video. The G2 will allow users to view Flash content, take advantage of Quick Keys to launch their favourite applications, multi-touch and also allow owners to save their content to the 4GB of internal storage or the pre-installed 8GB micro-SD card. The handset will be available for preorder later this month, with additional availability announced in the next couple of weeks. To register for updates, head over to http://g2.t-mobile.com. The full press release:
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| Kobo Hits the Desktop With New App Posted: 08 Sep 2010 05:29 PM PDT
Like all the other apps, you sign into Kobo on the desktop app and all your books in your account/library are downloaded and updated for you. You can see from the screenshots below that my iPad, iPhone, and desktop all have things in order:  Desktop  iPad  iPhone When Kobo launched their ereader, I think many dismissed them as a Kindle-also-ran, but with Kobo being included as the default ereader app on the upcoming Galaxy Tab, but I think Kobo is a strong contender in the ebooks market. Sure it has an uphill climb against market-leader Kindle, but I think (at least in Canada) they have a good chance of becoming popular. Now, would I read a book on my laptop? Yeah, not likely. It’s nice to have the option, but it’s not something I would do for pleasure. However, if you are reading a tech book, having the computer-based connection right there to help you…that could be a strong plus. For now I know that I start on Zero History on my iPad and just keep going wherever I am. Original title and link for this post: Kobo Hits the Desktop With New App |
| Google using Promoted Tweets to pitch Google Instant Posted: 08 Sep 2010 04:56 PM PDT
Google has run at least two Promoted Tweets today to, well, promote, Google Instant. The first one ran earlier in the day announcing the service and the second just became promoted in the last hour, with a link to the Bob Dylan video that Google used today during the unveiling to demo the speedy new interface. The first tweet had well over 100 retweets, and the second has 76 after one hour. It would certainly be interesting to know how much Google is paying Twitter for those retweets… Here’s the Dylan tweet and how it shows up when you hit the Promoted Tweet logo on Twitter.com:
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| Over 2 Billion planes landed safely by Flight Control players Posted: 08 Sep 2010 04:18 PM PDT
As of September 1,Flight Control players had landed 2,482,735,870 aircraft on the various Flight Control games and maps. Yep, you read right, that's almost 2.5 Billion planes finger dragged to safety! More impressive, however, is the fact that those numbers are only from games connected to FireMint's social gaming platform, Cloudcell – i.e. the actual number is probably significantly larger. This news is great for FireMint as Flight Control continues to defy the typical fast growth/fast decline lifecycle of most app store hits. What's more, the game is going to be available as a downloadable app on Sony's PSN from next week, so things don't look like they're going to be slowing down any time soon for the team. In addition to the above numbers, FireMint has also released graphs showing the distribution of top scores across the various maps in the game. Seems that, as we all probably already knew, Carrier is the hardest map in the game. Check it out:
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| Is there a larger meaning behind Gawker’s meteoric rise in web traffic? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:54 PM PDT
“The network as a whole drew 17.8m domestic visitors for the month,” Denton wrote. “Let’s put that in context. How do we stack up, against the established names in online news. Last time we measured ourselves against the traditional newspapers’ online operations, we were fourth. But we’ve overtaken both the Washington Post and USA Today, according to Comscore. And, in this category, we’re behind only the New York Times.” I wondered after reading this what metrics were being used. Was Comscore simply adding up the unique visitor counts of each individual Gawker Media domain and counting that as the total unique visitors? And if so, was it accounting for cross-pollinated traffic across the different sites under the network? For instance, this Jezebel post was linked to as a headline on Gawker today, so does this mean the unique visitors that followed that Gawker link were counted twice? I posed this question to Nick Denton via email and he had a characteristically short response: “All separate visitors. There is no double-counting.” I also wondered if this milestone is somewhat arbitrary. After all, it’s not as if an individual site within the Gawker Media empire had surpassed all these newspapers, but rather it’s the combined traffic of all Gawker sites together. Using these rules, then the Wall Street Journal should also be able to include traffic stats from the New York Post, FoxNews.com, and every other news site owned by News Corp. However, one could argue that each Gawker Media blog is focused on a specific niche that would be covered by a general news source like the New York Times (e.g., Gizmodo covers tech and the NY Times has its own tech section; Kotaku covers video games and the Times likely has its own video game reporter), so therefore it’s only in aggregate that it makes sense to compare Denton’s empire to a single newspaper. I asked a spokesman for Compete — which tracks web traffic for individual domains — to put these comparisons into a larger context. Was Denton comparing apples to oranges? After first noting the difference in techniques between Comscore and Compete, the spokesman said, “[A] pressing question that this article doesn’t seem to address is why they chose Unique Visitors rather than page views as their metric. For ad supported networks, pageviews are often more important than unique visitors, because it equates a better understanding of the number of eyeballs coming to the site in a given month.” The Compete spokesman also lent credibility to Denton’s statement that there was no “double counting” of unique visitors in the estimates, saying that Comscore has the ability to organize traffic by “property” rather than just by domains and subdomains. Of course Denton even acknowledges that within the larger context these site comparisons don’t mean much. “The newspapers are now the least of our competition,” he wrote in the memo. “The inflated expectations of investors and executives may one day explode the Huffington Post. And Yahoo and AOL are in long-term decline. But they are all increasingly in our business. And we have a long way to go before we can surpass them.” Given that these other media giants are fighting just as much for ad dollars than any other newspaper company, I’m fairly certain that the day Gawker Media gets more visits than AOL and Yahoo, we’ll all be impressed. Original title and link for this post: Is there a larger meaning behind Gawker’s meteoric rise in web traffic? |
| Video: Google’s Ben Gomes talks about Google Instant Posted: 08 Sep 2010 02:32 PM PDT
We had a chance to talk today at the Google Instant event with Google Distinguished Engineer Ben Gomes, the search giant’s “diplomat” of search according to Marissa Mayer, and one of the key people behind Google Instant.
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| Google engineer on adding social to Google Instant: “Stay tuned.” Posted: 08 Sep 2010 01:55 PM PDT
We also had a discussion with Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search, about how real-time results mesh with Google Instant. Basically we asked her how real-time results will play into the speed of Google Instant, where a user can quickly scan a number of topics, without even leaving the Google search page. She reiterated what Google had been saying throughout the day: search results are no different with Google Instant, they’re just served faster. However, we asked her if there would be a way in the future to browse Google Instant while at the same time viewing real-time results – say in a sidebar. She seemed intrigued and responded, “So you want a [search] companion?” and she agreed that new search behaviors may emerge around Google Instant and real-time activity. In response to a previous question from another reporter, Mayer had said that she, “spends a lot more time on search,” since she started using Google Instant (Google has been of course testing this internally for some time), and that Google Instant, “is like power steering” for search. Other Googlers that we spoke to also strongly hinted about more social features coming soon, although of course they were tight-lipped about any details. So what do we see happening with this? Well, take this example that we presented to a few Googlers today, including Hansson. You wake up Saturday morning and you don’t know what to do with your day. The first thing that you want to know is what the weather is like, so you type in “w” on Google Instant and it shows you the weather for your area. Ok, now what are people saying about the weather right now on Twitter, Facebook, etc? Let’s assume that they’re saying, “great day for the beach.” So now you want to know if there are any special events going on by the ocean. You then use Google Instant to search for “X city events this weekend” and it brings up a couple of events pages. At this point – you’re kind of at a dead end on Google Instant – you need to click to another webpage. However, if Google could make sure that we see the real-time social stream around what we’re looking for, it could keep us on the Google Instant (Google of course isn’t built this way – it’s built to get you OFF of the Google.com, but a social network doesn’t work that way). For example, if our “X city events this weekend” showed a Twitter message for a concert on a nearby beach, we could then use Google Instant to search for tickets, start times, directions – yes, endless possibilities. And we haven’t even started to analyze the mobile implications of this yet. Google wouldn’t just have to aggregate social media sites of course – that has always been step one in its plan to be more social. It was no accident that Marissa Mayer started the day off today saying that Google now has one billion people a week using Google (as in, one billion is twice as much as 500 million Mr. Zuckerberg). Google has a host of ways to integrate Gmail, Google Voice, Chat and a number of other services right into the search page. If Google Instant really does make everything so much faster and pushes us to search more as Mayer said, then we’re going to want ways to not only bring all of our research into one place, we’re also going to want to share that experience, and that, our friends, is what social is all about. Original title and link for this post: Google engineer on adding social to Google Instant: “Stay tuned.” |
| The Average Twitter User Is How Old? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 01:43 PM PDT
Take a look, some 47% of internet users aged 50-64 are users of social networks, maybe its time they were given more respect. Thanks to FlowTown for compiling this be sure and check out the high-resolution version.
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| Some Android users shocked to find out that porn sites infect their phones with malware. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:57 PM PDT
OK, enough snark. But honestly, this is approaching the point of ridiculous. Kaspersky researcher Denis Maslennikov is referenced, in a post today on Forbes, concerning Android users acquiring malware infections after searching for Russian pornography. Apparently some users are finding themselves unable to resist the allure of installing a 3rd-party application from a Russian porn website and are then stunned to find out that they’ve been bamboozled into sending high dollar text messages to premium rate telephone numbers. There are a couple of issues at hand here, and I think that there’s a 3rd issue that needs to actually be resolved first.
The basic fact here is that if you’re going to take risky action, there’s a chance that you’re going to get burned. You could have this same result by going to an untrusted site via your desktop Internet browser at home. The fact that it’s being targeted specifically to Android phones is merely a marker of an increasing market share. So let’s review: First – Don’t enable your phone to install applications from untrusted sources unless you’re really sure of what you’re doing. Second – Don’t install things that come from random porn sites. Third – If you choose to ignore the first two thoughts, then you probably should pick a phone that won’t allow you to install anything that doesn’t come from its own applications repository. Original title and link for this post: Some Android users shocked to find out that porn sites infect their phones with malware. |
| iOS 4.1 hands-on: Is HDR really that good? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:51 PM PDT
 iOS 4.1 Photos settings. First thing that you need to know is what exactly HDR is and what’s going on when the iPhone does its thing. HDR pictures are a combination of at least three shots (under exposed, over exposed, correctly exposed) that are supposed to give you a really distinctive look and cool results on your shots. Essentially, you get some amazing contrast and often can “fix” the blow out you can get when there is a lot of light coming in, but you are in a shady spot. The best example I can give is if you’re taking a picture of someone in the shade, but there is bright sun behind them. The background will be blow out without much detail and the subject might be more than a tad dark. When I’m using my DSLRs I shoot in RAW format so I can play with the image when I’m done, but sometimes there isn’t much you can do to fix the image…that is unless you have over and under exposed image that you can use to combine to make an HDR image (or you have special HDR filters in your software). What the iPhone does is to take the three shots at (almost) the same moment then combine them together to make the HDR picture. You can also, if you want, keep or discard the “original” non-HDR picture. The default is to keep the picture, but you can change this in the photo settings. So let’s get to the pictures. You can see all of the pictures and view a slide show of the on my Flickr set. First up is the non-HDR shot from my office:
Now the HDR version:
As you can see, the non-HDR is “better” in my office. That’s to be expected, so let’s go outside. First up, non-HDR, shooting up at the sky in front of my house (facing Southeast-ish):
You can see the blow out in the clouds (I did this on purpose) and darkness, now the HDR version of the same shot:
Wow, is right. The clouds look amazing and I’m getting some more detail from the houses. Now let’s compare with the point-n-shoot:
Pretty much like the non-HDR iPhone (the camera is a 10.2 MP btw). Now let’s look at a shot down the street, non-HDR, HDR, then point-n-shoot:
Pretty good results, I’d say. I think the point-n-shoot and HDR got the best detail. What about close-up shots? Here is a tree in my yard (same order as previous):
In this case I think the point-n-shoot did the better job. The HDR shot is way too bright, but non-HDR is pretty good. Now, I did absolutely no retouching or editing of these shots, so would a litte work in iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom (my fav for pro work) help? Probably. When should you use HDR? Well you can use it anytime you want, just leave Camera set to shoot HDR on all the time, but I think it’s the times when you have a lot of bright light behind your subject is when you’re going to get the best results. You should also know that it took about 7-10 seconds for the HDR image to be processed on my phone. So if you’re thinking of doing rapid-fire shots, don’t have HDR turned on. This has been my experience thus far, but I’d love to see some of your example shots…post them in the comments and let’s see what this new feature can (and can’t) do! Original title and link for this post: iOS 4.1 hands-on: Is HDR really that good? |
| iMovie app update adds new features. One in particular will “touch” some of you. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:37 PM PDT
Great news, iMovie has just been updated, and there’s a little gift for iPod touch (4th Generation) owners. Here’s what you get in version 1.1: • Compatible with iPod touch (4th generation). What do I like about the update? The ability to split video clips, preview clips in Video Browser, tips for users, and the inclusion of iPod touch owners, who now can use this app to edit their videos on the go. Get iMovie here, or, for those who have the app, update at your leisure. Are you an iMovie user? What feature(s) do you like and what would you still like to see added to the app? Original title and link for this post: iMovie app update adds new features. One in particular will “touch” some of you. |
| UberVU – Your Social Conversations Monitor Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:34 PM PDT
In my other life as the founder of a social media agency, it’s important to always be up to date on what people are saying on the Web regarding the brands we represent. I was introduced to UberVU at SeedCamp Paris last year, by its founder Vladimir Oane. UberVU collects all the conversations happening around your brand from blogging platforms, microblogging, social news sites, forums and social networks, and makes music by stringing it all together in a highly intuitive interface. Some of the sites that UberVU covers:
UberVU includes simple graphic indicators in their insights to give you an overall view of the kind of buzz or “the sentiment” your brand is generating in the social sphere. Basically you now have the tools to determine at a glance whether people love you; find you about as pleasant as a bad rash; or somewhere in-between. The question remains whether UberVU can pick up on the subtleties of syntax – meaning, do they understand sarcasm, metaphors, short hand and the like. Especially in the communist world of 140 characters for all twitterers regardless of class or station, the ability, or lack thereof, to pick up on such things can make a big difference in the size of the discrepancy between assumed public brand sentiment and reality. This is why UberVU wants to get smarter and is now asking users to help train its sentiment meter. If you ever find a mention in your stream which was incorrectly assessed by their sentiment measurement feature, you can now “teach” it otherwise.
UberVU’s services are divided into a few categories: Data Collection The way UberVU works is very easy. You just pick your search term and voila, you will receive all this information either by going to the site or signing up for email alerts. You can decide how often you’ll receive alerts regarding new mentions about your search term/s. And now look out James Bond, I believe we have ourselves a corporate espionage feature. UberVU allows you to keep track of the sentiment around your competitors and see exactly how it compares to your own; where are they stronger; where are their weak points – Perhaps the 3.0 version will feature an ejector seat where you can launch the competition out of their desk chair and into the roof of their startup garage, if you get the urge. Analytics You will receive all the reports and charts that you ever dreamed of. The uberVU charts are interactive – you can drill down to specific days or zoom out as much as you want. You can filter information by platform (i.e. twitter, Facebook), language, location and even sentiment. Interaction You can reply to people’s comments right from UberVU. UberVU also offers translations for mentions because not all mentions will be in your native language. All mentions can be translated into your language of choice, or even filtered to arrive directly in your own language, allowing you to respond to tweets, posts and comments immediately without having to cut and paste to a third party translator. The significance? You can now have conversations with foreigners. Not correspondence, conversations. Exporting Data UberVU also includes seamless report making features for charts, PDF's and the like. Reports like this can really come in handy when you want to show others in your company some of these beautiful analytics. UberVu recently unveiled three new features; Geolocation, Share Of Voice (SOV) and the Daily Sentiment Breakdown: Geolocation allows you to see exactly where in the world people are talking about your brand and provides you with a very cool visual heat map:
SOV shows you specifically on which platforms your brand is being talked about the most (i.e Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, etc). Daily Sentiment Breakdown is really an add-on of UberVU’s core sentiment feature, only now the results can be broken down across a 24 hour period. What this allows for is the tracking of specific daily initiatives so that users can make incremental adjustments to the tone and direction of campaign strategy – slowly turning that frown upside-down.
In a world that’s trying to assess social media’s ROI, there is no specific platform yet which provides a complete, comprehensive measurement tool. However, I have to say that UberVU is one of the best tools out there right now. For anyone managing a social media campaign, both third party and in-house, there are a couple of social media conversation monitoring services – the most expensive of them being Radian6 and the cheapest of them being Google Alerts, which is free. There’s also an Israeli solution called Tracx. However, for the relatively small price UberVU costs, it is able to provide as comprehensive and insightful a solution as you’ll find out there at the moment. Stay tuned for more cool features coming from them soon. Original title and link for this post: UberVU – Your Social Conversations Monitor |
| iPhone 3GS Heading To T-Mobile This Year? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:21 PM PDT
Note, we are obviously discussing the US T-Mobile, thanks! At this point I almost want T-Mobile to just get the iPhone so that the rumors can dry up and blow away. Last night Wired Editor Chris Anderson tweeted that “A T-Mobile manager casually mentioned to me that they’re going to get the iPhone 3GS (but not 4, oddly) later this year. Common knowledge?” This is sure to ignite another rumor flame war over just what is going to happen and when. We covered this rumor in July, quoting that there was an 80% chance of an iPhone heading to T-Mobile this year. Previously in June I expressed a skeptical attitude towards the T-Mo/Apple concept, it just didn’t jive with Apple’s relationship with AT&T and the Cupertino giant’s release cycles. Oddly, this latest rumor is the strangest. Only the iPhone 3GS is being mentioned, not the iPhone 4. This means that T-Mobile would be a full generation behind if indeed it did pick up the 3GS. Is this a clever ploy to ditch stock that Apple doesn’t want and can’t sell? Perhaps T-Mobile is working hard to support the iPhone, but has only manged to prepare for the 3GS? We don’t know, but don’t hold your breath. It might be that the “T-Mobile iPhone 2010″ stories will only stop when the year ends. Original title and link for this post: iPhone 3GS Heading To T-Mobile This Year? |
| 65% of us are online crime victims, but are we hypocrites? Posted: 08 Sep 2010 12:12 PM PDT
Norton’s Cybercrime Report classes online crime as covering a wide gamut of activity such as viruses, identity theft, online hacking, harassment, scams, phishing and sexual predation. Here are some of the key findings:
This is where it gets really interesting. Norton’s Marian Merritt argues that “While we're besieged by online cybercrime, we often engage in forms of online theft, misrepresentation, defacement and simple lying without recognizing our own hypocrisy.” Examples?
While the study has some interesting findings, its assertion that Internet users are hyprocites seems a little over the top. It seems to equate genuine crime with more general, and less harmful, dishonest behaviour. By Norton’s standards, someone who has been mugged in the street is a hypocrite for publishing a blog about the experience under a fake name. What this study shows is that the Internet is just as much a dog-eat-dog world as the offline world and that people are learning to adapt to it as time goes by. This is a process that includes learning the most honest, decent way of behaving with others while we’re online – does that really make us hyprocitical? Original title and link for this post: 65% of us are online crime victims, but are we hypocrites? |
| Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:56 AM PDT
Twitter just posted a confusing tweet (see below). When I first read it, and noticed it contained a link, my curiosity was peaked, so I clicked the link. What did I encounter upon doing so? A page designed for a new, grand, initiative from Twitter, "Literacy Day 2010." Literacy Day 2010, according to Twitter is: "Literacy has the power to lift families out of poverty in one generation and change the fate of entire communities, particularly in the developing world. Let’s make this International Literacy Day really mean something and help more people learn to read. Check out the information below on what else you can do to make a difference!" What can you do to participate in Literacy Day 2010? Two of the options presented by Twitter include:
You can also send out your own tweet to promote the day by visiting the Literacy Day 2010 site. How will you contribute to help end illiteracy? Original title and link for this post: Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy. |
| Has Facebook Places had a brief UK outing ahead of launch? Seems so. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:45 AM PDT
The service is only officially available in the USA right now. As TechCrunch Europe has reported, Facebook denies that any testing was taking place in the UK at the weekend. However, whether it was a secret test or a technical glitch that led to it, we’re pretty sure that people were checking in with Facebook Places in the UK last Saturday afternoon. The hub of the check in activity appears to have been an SEO conference in Leeds, where one attendee managed to grab this screenshot of a number of checkins during Saturday afternoon.
Facebook isn’t saying when Places will officially launch outside the USA. For now we’ll just have to play the waiting game and (if you’re really desperate) pray to catch a glitch/test like the one that seemed to happen on Saturday to give a brief go in the meantime. Original title and link for this post: Has Facebook Places had a brief UK outing ahead of launch? Seems so. |
| Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy. Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:45 AM PDT
Twitter just posted a confusing tweet (see below). When I first read it, and noticed it contained a link, my curiosity was peaked, so I clicked the link. What did I encounter upon doing so? A page designed for a new, grand, initiative from Twitter, "Literacy Day 2010." Literacy Day 2010, according to Twitter is: "Literacy has the power to lift families out of poverty in one generation and change the fate of entire communities, particularly in the developing world. Let’s make this International Literacy Day really mean something and help more people learn to read. Check out the information below on what else you can do to make a difference!" What can you do to participate in Literacy Day 2010? Two of the options presented by Twitter include:
You can also send out your own tweet to promote the day by visiting the Literacy Day 2010 site. How will you contribute to help end illiteracy? Original title and link for this post: Twitter launches Literacy Day 2010 to eradicate illiteracy. |
| Google Instant Coming To Mobile This Fall Posted: 08 Sep 2010 10:23 AM PDT
At the launch today of Google Instant, the developers said that Google will be launching Google Instant on mobile phones “this fall.” Google did not say whether Google Instant would come to all mobile browsers or not, and also did not mention Android at all, though it would be pretty clear that Google would want to add this to Android first to give it the platform an even greater edge. One thing that Google Instant requires is that the user be signed in so that would be even more of a reason to integrate it into Android first, as on Android you are basically always signed into your Google account. Google promised to offer demos of the mobile Google Instant after this morning’s main demonstration, so we’ll be sure to take some video of it when we demo it here at SFMOMA. Original title and link for this post: Google Instant Coming To Mobile This Fall |
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