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This is a guest post by Eric Schwartzman, a social media training expert. In just a few weeks, Google Reader goes down for the count. Before you migrate your feeds, let’s look at how Feedly and Netvibes — my favorite Google reader alternatives — match up. They’re not the only options. There are many others. But only two fit in this prize ring, so let’s get ready to rumble! Let’s start with where Netvibes excels. They have widget and reader style views. They make it really easy … [Read more...]
In the near future, the only difference between a smartphone, tablet, and a laptop will be the size of the screen. Hardcore gamers could play 3D intensive games in a smartphone, and Michael Bay could render “Transformers 4″ from his iPad. Otoy, an LA-based software company, has discovered a way to stream any application to any device, completely through a web browser. It’s difficult to overestimate the potential disruptiveness of Otoy, as a breakthrough streaming service could, in the near … [Read more...]
A decade after the launch of iTunes, Apple is still the king of digital music. But as attitudes about music ownership continue to shift, the software’s next 10 years will likely be more challenging than its last. One of the first stories I wrote for my college journalism class involved me interviewing people on campus about whether they’d ever even possibly consider paying for music with this — at the time — brand new iTunes service. The story isn’t online, but I recall that … [Read more...]
Less than one week after Twitter Music’s launch, Kevin Thau, the man responsible for the standalone app, is leaving the company to become COO of Jelly, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s mysterious, mobile-focused startup, according to AllThingsD. Thau will be the second high profile Twitter employee to join Jelly: a couple days ago, Stone introduced former Twitter engineering manager Ben Finkel as his co-founder. In addition, Twitter’s first designer Vítor Lourenço, who left the … [Read more...]
On Thursday, Facebook announced that it is evolving its mobile platform in order to help make it easier for developers to create better social applications. The company shared that it was releasing three products for the mobile environment, including a new Facebook SDK for iOS, the addition of Open Graph, and an improved Login feature. Not only that, but Facebook also created a new partner program. Shared at its Mobile Developer Conference, Facebook has a reason to invest more in the … [Read more...]
There are millions of developers around the world who are going through a transition phase right now who are looking at mobile and trying to grasp what it means to them. The company recognizes the gap between transitioning developers and wants to bridge it by introducing new tools and features that make it easier for developers to integrate their apps into the Facebook Platform for Mobile. Facebook already has an enormous reach on mobile. In fact, the company says that more than 70% of … [Read more...]
(Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp introduced revamped mobile apps on Wednesday that give greater prominence to the stream of information shared by members of the professional social network and will for the first time allow the company to show ads to smartphone users. LinkedIn will begin showing advertisements within the mobile app's news stream as part of a "small test," said LinkedIn spokeswoman Julie Inouye. The new app, available for both the Apple Inc iPhone and for Android smartphones, … [Read more...]
With the relative decline of Plancast and Upcoming, the Lanyrd startup has solidly stepped in to the breach, aggregating content around speakers, attendees, venues, books, video and anything to do with conferences. It’s also benefitted from the shutdown of the LinkedIn Events application. Now all it has to do is work out a business model. Well, today it does the big reveal on that, announcing the launch of Lanyrd Pro, a new paid-for premium product that lets companies track all their staff … [Read more...]
HopStop, the location services app that helps you navigate the wacky world of public transportation, has today unveiled its biggest product launch ever, with the release of HopStop Live! The service is integrated with HopStop’s default iPhone app, as well as having its own standalone app called “Live!” The apps let users crowd-source information in real-time about delays to subways or trains, giving even more clarity to the morning commute. HopStop already accounts for delays that … [Read more...]
If you’re a developer building web or mobile apps that use Google Drive for storing information, you’ve probably found that users really can’t be trusted not to delete or move that data. Once the user does that, the app experience won’t be so great and the data that the app needs to run isn’t there to use. Today, Google has introduced “app data folders” which are protected and can’t be seen by users within their Drive account. Other apps can’t see the files either, so there … [Read more...]
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