Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Eleven months ago, I wrote about twelve things that were wrong with the iPhone in OS version 1.1.3. Now that OS 2.2 is here, I figure it is time to revisit my list.What Was Fixed Since 1.1.3Apple have made a lot of progress in the year and a half that the iPhone has been in existence. And the fact that they’ve rolled out ju (Read More)
: Fair comments. I think the major one is push alerts to the phone, and I would add the option to have your location pushed to an Apple Service (on a set frequency - 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour ) from which you could allow other iphone applications could then query. This would ensure that the GPS is available for other applications, but is not being activated by multiple applications - thus slowing down the device and draining the battery.... Maybe in Steve's keynote. This would give the iphone the same functionality as Android but preserve the battery and ensure smooth running apps and no task manager...
: I really don't like the touchscreen keyboard. It makes for clumsy, slow texting. I've always been VERY happy with a physical qwerty keypad, like some other smartphones, most notibly, Blackberry.
One of the onlt things that really appeal me abot the iPhone is the apps, but BB has some pretty cool ones too, not as many, but still a lot.
Delicious/fidler12
You’ve got a chance right now. While everyone else has their eyes on celebrating the holidays and doing all their year end rituals, you can make a commitment. You can make your New Year’s resolution almost a full month early. Here’s what you can commit to for 2009: you’re going to have a killer blog. You’re going to write (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Earlier this week, the open-source music player built on Mozilla technology, Songbird, finally made its 1.0 release. After being in development for two years, this version feels like the kind of solid media player we've been expecting and hoping for all along. Although nothing is entirely bug-free, this release worked smoot (Read More)
: "What Songbird delivers is something Apple can't: a more open version of iTunes that runs on PC, Mac, and Linux machines. Apple's locked-down and closed iTunes player lets Songbird comfortably find its niche as the open, alternative music player, much as Firefox became the alternative web browser. "
: Not tried songbird as yet. Does it fulfill all the same features as iTunes? I listen to podcast whilst driving and download the odd film here and there.
: No, like Firefox and Flock and all the other Mozilla software, it's a RAM hog on my Mac and eventually becomes sluggish and need to be quit and restarted. Great ideas, well implemented but iTunes runs all day without causing me problems.
Sporli's shared items in Google Reader
I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer. (Read More)
TechCrunch
I’m willing to stand up and say it. C-SPAN, which is dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, is the one channel that we all skip past as fast as possible on those rare occasions that we actually flip the channels on un-Tivo’d television. If not for The Onio (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Last month we announced the launch of 12seconds.tv. 12seconds.tv is being described as the Twitter of videoblogging, where users can create a short video clip of anything for up to 12 seconds. We even challenged our readers and received some hilarious responses. The service is taking off nicely and has recently implemented (Read More)
Submitted by Onlinetreason:
Do you need blog help? You’re not alone. Now that your blog is built and you are posting regularly, you need help with publicizing your blog. Getting your blog noticed on the Internet is not an easy task. It takes work, and knowing a few tricks is also helpful. Here are 7 blog help tips that are well known to work for drivi (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
We're currently working on enabling socialmedian users to easily and automatically add your own content to socialmedian. The first sites we will be working on are: (1) connect your blog feed to socialmedian, (2) Google Reader shared items, (3) Digg submissions and Digg's, (4) Tweets, (5) Delicious. For each of these, we (Read More)
: On connecting twitter, our idea is to enable users to either (a) have all of their tweets shared with their socialmedian page, (b) have only tweets that match certain keywords (e.g. I could say only tweets that contain the word "news"), or (c) any tweet to #socialmedian. What think you?
: @tabrez I also really like the idea of our finding a way to make our bug tracking system public. Prob makes most sense to do that when we make API available.
heavyBlog
As many already know, Scrabulous, the wildly popular Facebook game based on Scrabble, developed by bothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla of Calcutta, India were sent a cease and desist letter back in January from the lawyers of rights holders to the Scrabble’s concept and brand; Hasbro (US and Canada) and Mattel (international (Read More)
Submitted by Daniel J Pritchett:
I don’t think the CEO is going to search to see if there is value out there, I think it’s up to you to make yourself known and be seen.I agree that a CoP does not require any technology, it can be a few people who have f2f meetings and that’s it, as long as it works for them. Communities are not about technology, they are a (Read More)
Submitted by Netzoo:
Louis Gray writes: "Despite only being available in beta for less than a week, Social Median has been shoehorned into my online news consumption activity, lopped on to my staples of Google Reader and FriendFeed - and each site performs a different critical function."... (Read More)
: That is actually my favorite quote from the article. That, and: "Blogging 2.0 is about participating everywhere, and understanding that the comments can't be controlled just on your blog. They're moving to micro-communities where people are comfortable discussing your content with peers."
I'm not happy with the term Blogging 2.0, but it gets the point across.
Silicon Alley Insider
Is Friendster a cautionary tale? Or a company making the most of its second chance? IDG Ventures, which is investing $20 million into the original social network, thinks the latter. So does Google vet Richard Kimber, who is joining as CEO.The Friendster story is ancient history by the ADD standards of the Web 2.0 world, but (Read More)