Image courtesy of PocketBerry I’m always happy to get a news item about a product with which I’m familiar, like the iFrogz cases, or the Mophie Juice Packs, or ScotteVest gear. It’s so easy to say, “Hey, check this stuff out!” when you’re personally familiar with it, you know? In that category is IM+, a [...]
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New Story/Study: iPhone Owning Parents & Social Media
I’m not one of those parents who is totally panicked by the idea of all the kinds of scary things that are made available by new tech like cell phones, social media, and the like. Yes, there are a lot of scary things kids can access or be sucked into via new technology. But as [...]
Random Creepy Stuff: ‘Cloud Girlfriend’ Provides a Virtual Girlfriend for Social Networks
Oh the shame – you have to set your relationship status on Facebook to ‘Single’. What will your friends think? How can you possibly cope?!? Fear no more – a new company called Cloud Girlfriend promises to help you out with a simple four-step process: Step 1: Define your perfect girlfriend. Step 2: We bring [...]
Agile Messenger HD for iPad
One of my favorite iPad apps is IM+ Pro, an integrated mobile IMing tool that allows you to pull your various messaging accounts together in one place, as well as giving you access to a bunch of other stuff (that I rarely use, as I use the iPad Twitter app for a lot of those). [...]
Build Books on Facebook with EgoBook
So, we all know that last year was the year of Facebook because Time magazine told us so, right? Well, right? Okay, maybe not. But Facebook is still a huge–well, it’s not an application, so I don’t know what you’d call it; phenomenon? Web utility? Anyway, it’s big. But it still has a few components [...]
Random Cool Stuff: Honda’s App Tells If You Were Naughty Or Nice on FaceBook This Year … But Beware!
Since the advent of the web there have been sites like ‘Santa Trackers’ and ‘Naughty or Nice’ tests that would tell you about your behavior based on answering some questions. And since these were aimed at kids they would never ask anything that would allow a truly evil path. But what would happen if someone [...]
Is Slamming Your Boss On Facebook A “Protected Activity”?
If you work for a major company, there’s a good shot somewhere in your employee handbook is a prohibition against blogging, facebooking or twittering about your employer. Most companies take a dim view of employees taking their internal grievances to the masses, no doubt distrusting how quickly viral news spreads around the web. Of course, [...]
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Score ‘The Social Network’; You Get a Five Song Sampler for Free
Here’s a heads-up that you can download a FREE five-track sampler of music from the upcoming movie The Social Network, scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, by clicking this link. You can also pre-order the full 19 song soundtrack as a CD ($8.00), in HD Blu-ray Audio ($20.00), or on vinyl ($25.00). The Social Network soundtrack [...]
Extreme Desktop Makeover Contest – Cirago Hosting Facebook Giveaway
How’s your workspace look? If you’re anything like me, it’s a disaster area–cords, adapters, power strips, one-to-many USB jacks, cables (and in my case, glasses, pain meds, swiss army knife, arm braces, Tums . . .), you name it. You’d think it was never going to get better. Well, maybe it is! And even better, [...]
New iPad App Helps You Manage Both Twitter and Facebook
If you’re a big social media maven, always checking your Twitter and Facebook accounts, chances are you’ve thought to yourself, “MAN, can’t someone consolidate some of this stuff? I’m going nuts trying to keep up!” Well, sobees is here to offer some relief. Their just-released iPad app Social Media allows you to aggregate both your [...]
iPhone Game Rocketbird Moves to Facebook
Now, I’ve seen plenty of games go from other platforms to the iPhone, but that doesn’t mean it can’t go the other way. And that’s the case with RocketBird, a 3D game that has moved from the iPhone to Facebook. Fly like a bird through a 3D environment–well, a bird with a rocket strapped to [...]
Facebook, Places and Privacy… a Few Thoughts
(via posterart.com) Facebook has entered into the next phase of its social network evolution with the addition of Facebook Places, a location-based social sharing feature. Facebook Places allows users to share with friends their current location, tag important places (“where I made my first text message”), and perhaps meet others who are near by. This [...]
Love & Breakups in the Facebook Age
I love social media. I tweet. I run a website. I have a Facebook page. Gear Diary has two Facebook pages. But sometimes … sometimes it just goes too far. Sometimes people lose site of the public nature of these things … or maybe it is just that they don’t use good judgment. Regardless of the reasons, [...]
TP Your Friends House . . . Virtually
Look; I know High School has changed some since my day. My daughter’s has sushi in the cafeteria, for example. There aren’t any lockers. They have an exploding scoreboard above the football field. (We didn’t even have a home football field–it was right after Prop 13 passed.) Etc. But some things, one would think, are [...]
Apigee Launches Facebook API Console, Bringing Fast and Easy Power to Developers
Our friends at Apigee let us have a sneak peak at their the latest creation — a Facebook API Console. You may remember the Apigee name from some of our previous posts. Apigee has made great use out of application programming interfaces (API’s) for Twitter, Flickr and Google (as well as some pretty interesting methods [...]
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