No matter how fast we learn to type, it’s never going to catch up to how fast we can speak. Luckily for us, technology might mean it doesn’t have to. Voice-to-text technology is entering more and more industries, and has …
All over the social Web these days, there’s a race to get as many friends, followers, readers, or subscribers as possible—most of them people you don’t know. As location-based social applications like Foursquare and Gowalla grow, they’re broadcasting your location …
We’ve got Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts, Delicious accounts, Flickr accounts and more, all vying for our constant attention and maintenance. All that means learning new systems for different applications with different purposes, remembering to use each service, and generally spending …
Although there’s raging debate over how to pull the publishing world into the digital age, there seems to be consensus that one important way to do so is via mobile applications. Today Random House announced its first initiative in that …
There’s been much secretiveness surrounding the new startup Rdio, who many expect to take a revolutionary tack in the online, subscription-based music world. Though the company’s still in private beta testing, and is short on providing details, the startup has …
There’s been no shortage of rumors, some more substantiated than others, that Google’s coming out with a new, game-changing phone, and everyone’s itching for a chance to weigh in.
A few things are certain now, thanks to Saturday’s post from …
The way Internet ads work right now is fairly basic: Publishers create pages with a certain word or phrase in it, and advertisers buy ads next to those particular keywords. If you search for “guitar,” or write a blog about …
Today, UK location-based networking company Rummble announced it’s launching a version of its real-time, personalized recommendations application for Windows Phone, in addition to Android and iPhone applications.
Rummble is now available on an enormous number of cell phones and can …
As an iPod Touch owner, my personal favorite pastime is the App Store. Finding new apps, debating which of the hundreds of alarm clocks is the best one, and fighting excitement when I get an update for one of my …
The Internet has broken longstanding barriers, allowing more and more people to produce content. But thanks to all those extra people becoming publishers, journalists, reporters and writers, there’s so much information out there that it’s hard to find what you’re …
For companies to stay relevant these days, and to actually matter in a digital age, they increasingly have to be involved on social networks—Twitter, Facebook, and the like. Everyone’s trying to connect with their customers, to be human, and to …
TVDeck, a new site that launched its public beta test yesterday, aims to help Internet users find some of the best and most interesting videos among the massive amounts posted on the web.
TVDeck does this by aggregating the feeds, …
With all the information available today, wading through everything to find out what you really need to know is hard. But there are also a few options for weeding out the noise in your information stream. Feedtrace is a new …
Kaltura, a popular open-source video solutions company, is announcing two new partnerships this week: one with LongTail Video to bring that company’s popular open-source video player JW Player to Kaltura, and one with Artivision, a company creating video monetization tools. …
