Tech Week in Review 10-23-09
by rahsheen
No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr’s tagging features superior to Facebook’s is the controls offered to the user.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-4-09
by rahsheen
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 at a [...]
This Week in Review 8-21-09
by rahsheen
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.
Read MoreWordnik, The New Wikipedia?
by Jon Gos
How ironic that one of the first truly innovative search engines to come a long in the past 5 years started out as little more than the new millennium’s contemporary version of a dictionary. Wordnik, which launched as the brainchild of Erin McKean, provides contextual information about words and their definitions. The project states its mission as “discovering all the words and everything about them,” which it does by providing real-time search results from Twitter, the web, Flickr and it’s own database off definitions.
Read MoreFonera 2.0n: “TIVO for your Laptop”
by Sherri L. Smith
Let’s face it. When you think of sexy, exicting tech the wireless router rarely if ever makes the list. Even though it resides in many of our households, giving us access to a world of funny videos, breaking news, and social networking that we greedily consume, the router sits gathering dust — an unsung gadget [...]
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