Tech Week In Review 10-2-09

Well, a lot of people got invites, but I wasn't one of them. According to many who actually did get invites, Wave is not all it's cracked up to be. Sure, it's an awesome service for collaboration, but it's not something that's going to replace Twitter, FriendFeed, or Facebook. Seems like it's just a little too realtime and comes up a little short in providing the user with tools to manage it effectively. Some think Wave is overhyped while others are begging for invites like the crackhead in Menace to Society. Check out Wayne's Wave screencast . (Wave details)

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Threadsy Helps You Pull Yourself Together

Threadsy is a service that allows you to access your Facebook, Twitter, and email all from one slick interface. It's quite similar to FriendBinder with a few major differences. The design is simple: on one side, you have all your inboxes from the services you've plugged in, including your email, Facebook messages, Twitter DM's, and Mentions. On the other you see your Twitter feed and Facebook notifications.

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Tech 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 at a [...]

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This 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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Tech Week In Review: Mentions, Search, Chat, Social Media Comments

Twitter Mentions Twitter has finally fixed their replies feature. Up until now, you could only receive a reply from someone if they started off their tweet with your name. I would get “@rahsheen you so totally rock!”, but if someone said “@abenton @markusrobinson Blackweb 2.0 is awesome, especially @rahsheen” I would never know. Now, Twitter Mentions [...]

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Tech Week in Review: iPhone 3.0, BackType Connect, Entrecard, and Gmail Previews

Backtype Connect Backtype Connect is a new feature from Backtype that allows you to see the conversations developing around a particular page, regardless of where those conversations are taking place. There is even a bookmarklet that gives you one-click access to what people are saying about whatever you’re looking at. (previous Backtype coverage) It also integrates their [...]

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Gmail Adds Tasks: Now You Have No Excuse

Gmail is the place where a lot of us get things done. We’ve actually talking about this before. It’s usually where many of us start our day. The most important tasks and information that you need to take care of starts in your inbox. That being the case, Gmail finally added a task list. It [...]

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Google Gets Pimped and Why You Should Care

Google has been at it again. Dropping new features left and right. We recently talked about the Gmail Labs feature and how you could use it to get stuff done. Now, we’ll walk through a few additional features and see how they can be useful. Gmail Themes This has been one of the most exciting features recently [...]

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Getting Things Done with Gmail Labs

In case you missed it, Google has added quite a few items to the list of nifty things you can do with Gmail since the introduction of Gmail Labs. Some of these features are pretty cool: mouse gestures, canned responses, and even the old snakey game. A few of these features, when combined, give you [...]

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