Tech Week in Review 3-19-2010
by rahsheen
Google Nexus Coming To Sprint
A lot of people I know have Sprint, which boast the largest voice calling area in the US. This is twice the coverage of AT&T and 10x the coverage of T-Mobile. If you’ve been waiting in the wings, hoping that by some miracle Google would make it’s phone available in CDMA [...]
Tech Week in Review 3-12-2010
by rahsheen
Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere
FourWhere is a mashup of Foursquare and Google Maps that provides a visual representation of venues overlayed on a map. Clicking a venue shows you recent checkins and comments. The interface is a little weird, but you should be able to figure things out from the right-click menu. Created by [...]
Tech Week In Review 3-4-2010
by rahsheen
Facebook Patents News Feeds
The web as a whole is moving towards realtime and information streams or feeds. We see this on Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, and even the new Google Buzz. It’s hard to imagine a useful social media tool that doesn’t somehow incorporate a news feed layout to bring you information. This is why Facebook [...]
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Tech Week in Review 2-26-2010
by rahsheen
Twitter Helps Bring Free SMS to Haiti
Twitter has set up a deal with Digicel to provide users of that service with free SMS tweets. This will assist those in Haiti with communicating with the world because it gets rid of the per-message charges. To set up the service, all the users need to do is [...]
Tech Week in Review 2-19-2010
by rahsheen
Gaming Foursquare
I guess you can’t really game a game, can you? One man, armed with the Foursquare API and a little coding knowledge, aimed to show potential flaws in the Foursquare checkin system. He checked in at a bunch of locations repeatedly, taking over mayorships across the globe. He mostly targeted well-known landmarks. Being that [...]
