Online local community site, Smalltown, is starting to think bigger picture. Today, the service launches a new site, Webcards.com, to simplify advertising campaigns over multiple platforms. The idea is still to focus on small local business, but to help these companies easily expand to the Internet at large.
Webcards (the product) have actually been a part [...]
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Two things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like [...]
To say that Apple’s iPhone is rapidly spreading around the world is now an understatement. Today comes word that Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and mobile partners are the latest to strike a deal with Apple to sell the device, according to Reuters. This will put the device in four new countries: Singapore, India, Australia and the [...]
Tonight, a lot of us who are regular users of the micro-messaging service Twitter witnessed something pretty amazing. A 7.8 magnitude struck China and the news unfolded before our eyes on Twitter. Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the United States Geological Survey (which handles earthquake data) had the [...]
The hype and speculation around the 3G iPhone are mounting quickly. Yesterday, it was uncovered that an “Enable 3G” button was part of the latest beta firmware update for the device. While Apple has yet to officially comment on the rumored-to-be-impending release, this is certainly one of the clearest signs that it is definitely [...]
It has been known for a while that Microsoft’s Zune is the number two or number three digital music player (depending on the market) in the United States. However, just how far behind the number one device, Apple iPod, has not always clear since Microsoft has been slow to release its sales numbers. Now we [...]
Remember the game Risk? You know, the one with the world map where you battle other players to gain the most terrain and literally take over the world? Yeah, fun game. Apple may think so too, and thanks to a new graphic (below) made by a commenter in The Mac Observer Forums (and found by [...]
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We’re at the point that when either of the two social networking giants, MySpace and Facebook, does something, the other has to respond. Yesterday, MySpace unveiled its “Data Availability” initiative, allowing other sites around the Internet to utilize its users’ data to update profiles, photos, videos and other attributes. Today, according to a TechCrunch scoop, [...]
When the mobile web browsing company Mowser shut down in April, a lot of people were surprised by co-founder Russell Beattie’s comments suggesting the mobile web simply wasn’t worth the effort. A debate took off in the blogosphere as to whether or not the mobile web was dying. Today, however, comes Mowser’s resurrection thanks to [...]
On June 9 (or June 15 — or sometime before July 12), a lot of first generation iPhones may magically turn into plain old iPods. I say this because while the majority of people I have talked to who don’t own an iPhone plan to buy the second iteration of the device, every single person [...]
Microsoft is apparently serious about this whole “not buying Yahoo” thing. Today the software giant’s law firm sent out letters to each of the proxy board members it had lined up, releasing them from their obligation, according to The Wall Street Journal. The proxy board is the group of executives and industry leaders that Microsoft [...]
When Apple announced deals with all the major movie studios to bring rentals to its Apple TV device, it turned the device from a dud into a potential player in the living room. “Potential” is the keyword there. It’s a nice device, but it still lacks that certain something that could put it over the [...]
Google Earth is quite simply one of my favorite products of the past several years. It allows you to explore our world even if you don’t have the time or the means of doing so. That said, it still is a stand-alone app. Frequent readers may know I prefer the browser-based variety. While Google Earth [...]
FriendFeed has garnered a lot of popularity within the tech community for its ability to aggregate information across a wide range of social networks, and layer a new conversation on top of that. Minggl is a new service attempting to do something similar, only via the browser rather than a web page.
I sat down with [...]
We talk about Twitter here a lot, but don’t often talk about one of its micro-messaging rivals, Pownce. That is quite simply because Pownce is not as popular as Twitter. Tonight however the service has rolled out two significant updates that may not close the popularity gap, but will make Pownce more useful: public file [...]
In confirming earlier reports of Microsoft approaching Facebook about a potential sale following the Yahoo fall out, The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting tidbit: Google is now divided over whether or not to go forward with the search advertising deal it is trying out with Yahoo. Ouch, that knife in Yahoo’s back must [...]
Having just moved into a new place, I have no television yet. Normally I’d turn to iTunes to catch my favorites, but the problem is that many of those shows are on NBC — the same NBC that famously cut ties with iTunes six months ago. Instead, I visit the NBC and Fox’s free video [...]
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If Apple intends to sell 10 million iPhones before the end of the year, it is certainly going about it the right way. First, it is releasing a newer, sexier version that will run on the faster 3G network (I have yet to talk to someone who says that they aren’t getting one, especially if [...]
With Yahoo in Microsoft’s rearview (for at least a couple months until it doubles back), the acquisition gaze shifts forward. We laid out a few names over the weekend. One of them: Facebook. Now word is already coming in that the social networking site may be bubbling to the top of Microsoft’s list, according to [...]
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