Meet the Contestants: MTVs TJ Search
Last week, MTV announced that it was looking for its very first TJ or Twitter Jockey in the “Follow Me: The Search For The First MTV TJ” competition. The person chosen for the position will be tasked with being the network’s social media guru, tweeting, facebooking, and blogging all that’s cool in the MTV universe [...]
Read MoreFileblaze Gives You Control of Your Data in the Cloud
Fileblaze is a new service that lets you backup, preview, send, and receive unlimited files instantly and securely. The site is easy to use and they say they are the fastest on the web. Fileblaze has some unique features like multi-tasking and instant preview. It is built on a “sophisticated, scalable architecture” which should make [...]
Read MoreXbox Milks the Virtual Goods Cash Cow
When it comes to gaming and micro-transactions, thoughts usually turn to Zynga and it’s wildly popular and highly successful stable of social games including “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars.” Social gamers can spend hours online tending their fields, raising livestock, and most importantly, spending cold hard cash to do so. (In case you’re new to social [...]
Read MoreiOS4 is Here. You Still Need an iPhone 4 For Multitasking
Days before the release of the iPhone 4, iOS4 (iPhone OS 4 minus the “Phone”) launches today. There are many small updates and a few major feature additions. Most notably, multi-tasking is finally coming to the iPhone. Multitasking is not really multitasking as we know it on the desktop or other devices. Rather than opening [...]
Read MoreMobileMe May Make More Sense for Small Business
MobileMe is Apple’s solution for web-based productivity. For $99 a year, you get a calendar, email, online storage, and apps. Besides the fact that it’s offered by Apple, there has never really been a clear incentive for paying $99 a year for something you can get free elsewhere. The benefit, of course, is having a [...]
Read MoreChum.ly Makes Messaging Better
Chum.ly is a messaging platform based on Status.net and designed to do all the things that Twitter doesn’t. The Chum.ly team looked at how the Twitter ecosystem was developing. They saw an awesome messaging platform surrounded by third-party applications that served to enhance it. There are specialized applications for sharing photos, posting videos, sending long [...]
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