Tech Week in Review 9-25-09
SocialToo: Your Vaccine For The Social Web
SocialToo is well know as a service to help you manage your Twitter following. They started out offering an auto-dm service, but later reversed their stance and became a service to help you block all auto-dm’s. In response to the frequent Twitter attacks we’ve seen recently, Jesse Stay decided to do something about it.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-18-09
Make Phone Calls Via Twitter Twitter has come a long way towards becoming a serious communications platform and now, thanks to Jajah, you’ll be able to make VOIP calls directly from Twitter. The Jajah service will be integrated into Twitter as a beta test starting today (9-18-09). All you have to do is sign up [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-11-09
Call 911 in An Emergency? Nah, Just Update Your Facebook Status
Two young girls, lost in a drain, chose to update their Facebook status rather than call for help.
The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-4-09
Bill Collectors Can Now Catch You On Facebook According to this WSJ article, It looks like State revenue agents are using social media to hunt you down and make you pay what you owe. Meanwhile, agents in Nebraska collected $2,000 from a deejay after he advertised on his MySpace page that he would be working [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-28-09
Looks like Microsoft made a major error in judgement when they removed the head of a black man on a Polish marketing site and replaced it with a white guy’s. Not only that, but they didn’t even bother to Photoshop the hands to match. At first, I thought this was really racist of them, but it looks like there really aren’t that many black people in that region and they were just trying to match the marketing with the local demographic. Still, how sloppy and lazy of them to simply Photoshop the image. Now, TechCrunch has an excuse to kick off a meme.
Read MoreThis Week in Review 8-21-09
A new 99-cent application from Tiverias Apps called GPush (iTunes link) aims to change that. Calling GPush simple would be an understatement – this app literally has a one-track mind. The only thing it does is provide push notifications for new emails in Gmail. It doesn’t open emails, or send emails, it just lets you know when new ones arrive, as soon as they arrive, and no matter what you’re doing.
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