Tech Week in Review 1-6-2012
Techmeme’s Biggest Stories of 2011 Rather than focusing on some technical specifications or using some fancy algorithm to figure out the biggest stories from the past year, Techmeme decided to keep it real. They’ve compiled a list of the biggest stories, literally, as measured by height. I thought that was pretty clever, but even more [...]
Read MoreThe Musicians Guide to Google+
A few months ago, Google introduced their own social networking platform with the intention of entering the ring to contend for the social media crown against the likes of Facebook and Twitter. This platform, simply dubbed Google + (pronounced Google Plus), showcases quite a few similar features as its leading competition. So as a musician, [...]
Read MoreGoogle Launches Political Hub for 2012 Elections
Google has launched a hub for keeping track of the (increasingly digital) U.S. elections. As the country prepares for a hot presidential race later this fall, the web is flooded with news, videos and events related to our collective political goings-on.Google.com/Elections organizes information for voters, politicians and journalists all in one centralized dashboard. “There’s no question [...]
Read MoreTop 10 iOS and Android Apps of 2011
As 2011 comes to an end both Apple’s App Store and Google Android market place saw a huge growth due to the continue rise of smartphone sales. In 2011 Apple’s app store passed 500,000 apps with over 200 million iOS users downloaded 15 billion apps and Google Market place reached 380,297 apps with over 10 [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 12-29-2011
Apps Year in Review GigaOM lays out what has happen so far this year in the world of mobile apps and predicts what we will see in 2012. We started using apps more than web browsers, iOS still the hot spot for devs who want to get paid (even though Android continues to dominate in [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Unveils New Social Network So.cl
Microsoft is joining the increasingly crowded social media market, recently going public with So.cl. Not to worry — this is not Microsoft’s attempt to take on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. So what exactly is So.cl, pronounced social? In short, it’s a social network geared at helping students interested in social media. Microsoft describes it as “a research experiment [...]
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