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TechCrunch Last month, Apple rejected the Someecards iPhone app because it contained satirical comedy about public figures. After attempting to make their case and getting stonewalled, Someecards eventually gave into Apple and removed the offending cards which made fun of Hitler and Roman Polanski, among others. Apple swiftly approved (Read More)

9 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: So I mainly use google talk as my primary IM client on my computer and my Palm Pre but I have some friends who also use Yahoo for their IM’ing needs (including Allison) so I have been interested in getting that ability on my Pre. Well today I discovered a messaging plugin that allows you to [...]. (Read More)

10 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: Now if this is not one of the koolest pillows EVAR!! You can purchase it here for your geekdom. (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

gHacks technology news Chance is you have a Facebook account. Hundreds of millions of users have one and at least some of them are looking for ways to change the standard appearance and functionality of the social networking website. One unobtrusive way of doing that is to use so called userscripts which can be loaded into web browsers like Firef (Read More)

14 hours ago

Submitted by Robdiana from Google Reader: A while back I was surfing the Twitter developers wiki and noticed 2 interesting images uploaded by Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s Platform Project Manager.  One of the images looks like a very rough status message entry screen, with a toggle button for Twitter’s new geolocation feature.  This same feature just launched in read-onl (Read More)

22 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: Shared Brizzly is the Next Twitter Client to Support Lists. Shared Twitter needs a command-line. Shared Fever Pitch: It’s Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment.. Shared Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation. [...]. (Read More)

22 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: So I didn’t get to go to the monthly SMCKC breakfast due to a work conflict which actually was the first time I had not been to one of the breakfasts since the very first one at Homer’s where we had like 7 people there (things have come along way). This breakfast the committee gave a [...]. (Read More)

1 day ago

ReadWriteWeb Finding specific online videos from TV networks and independent producers can often be a daunting challenge. Some TV shows are on Hulu, some can only be found as paid downloads on iTunes or Amazon and some are only available for streaming on the network's and producer's own sites. Clicker wants to change this by making it e (Read More)

1 day ago

ReadWriteWeb Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic's best efforts, Brizzly managed to become the first company to release web client with support for lists earlier tod (Read More)

1 day ago

TwitLinks Imagine a terminal program that accepted commands like:twitter> follow davewinertwitter> follow evtwitter> unfollow sexygirl209twitter> addtolist scoble halfmoonbay -uThe first few commands are obvious, the last would add scoble to a list called halfmoonbay and unfollow him. I stumbled across this as I was thinking about ho (Read More)

1 day ago

Mashable! Seesmic Desktop has the distinction of being the first third-party Twitter client to support the new Lists feature, and now web-based social reader Brizzly claims the second slot.Currently in closed beta, Brizzly is a Twitter and Facebook client built by many of the same folks who built Google Reader. Its maker, Thing Labs, (Read More)

1 day ago

TechCrunch If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those expectations are rarely satisfied once you have the special little device in hand, it’s a moment to savor. In the hours before you own it, that device is perfect in every way. It will make y (Read More)

2 days ago

mashable Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”).According to Twitter, the rollout is occurring in phases, much like the Twitter Lists rollout. We wil (Read More)

2 days ago

Mashable! While Twitter’s Trending Topics have been an amazing tool for tracking what’s happening not only on Twitter, but in the world in general, they’ve been plagued by spam. The result has been the deterioration of Twitter trends to a point where viewing tweets within trends has simply become a mess.Twitter knows this is a probl (Read More)

2 days ago

PreCentral.net Out at the Open Mobile Summit, Palm SVP Michael Abbot demoed a new development tool Palm is working on, dubbed Ares.  The platform is apparently a visual studio for webOS, utilizing a drag-n-drop interface. It will be entirely web-based and include debugging tools and a "mechanism for developers to share libraries and APIs. (Read More)

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