One thing I like about the Facebook Timeline view (perhaps the only thing) is the ability to hop back in time to see what was going on in 2007. Now TimeHop will help you get a daily dose of short-term nostalgia. TimeHop sends a daily email of the user’s activity on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and [...]
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Video Chat Gaming via Facebook
Okay, so there’s Facebook, right? And there’s internet chat, and internet video chat, and web chat (and don’t get me started on ChatRoulette). And there’s games–computer games, and internet games, and interactive games, MMPORPGs, and I don’t know what all. All this different stuff. Well, Rounds for Facebook has kinda smooshed them all together and [...]
PSA: Watch What You Post On Facebook!
(image courtesy FailBook) It’s December. It’s time for snow, family, shopping…and of course, holiday parties and New Year’s celebrations. Plus, if you’re a senior in high school you probably sent off your college applications. Just remember…what goes on Facebook is never really private, so please, from your friends at Gear Diary, think before you post, [...]
A Reminder That Our Only Freedoms Are the Ones We Fight For
I doubt that anyone would seriously debate that we have lost significant freedoms in this country over the last decade, though it is generally presented with a caveat that what has changed was needed for enhanced security. Sometimes this is true, other times it is for the appearance of greater security, and other times it [...]
IM+ Now Supports Native BlackBerry Push Service
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of accounts in a lot of different places. Google; Yahoo; Facebook; Skype; I don’t know what-all, frankly. And many months ago I thought, “Yeesh; I sure would like it if all my IM accounts were in one place!” And then ShapeServices asked me to review [...]
New Bill Nye App Helps You Avoid Being Blinded . . . By SCIENCE
(Maybe Agatha could help? [Girl Genius by Phil Foglio, all rights reserved]) Looking for information on science? You have to be careful; there’s a lot of dangerous mis-information out there. You probably don’t want to listen to this guy, even if he does have a master’s degree (“IN SCIENCE!”): And I think it goes without [...]
Virtual Kid’s Stuff: Freaky Pets
Okay, I should have seen it coming when that Facebook guy had a movie made about him. But honestly, I pretty much ignore social media except with regard to using it to find old friends who have dropped out of touch. (Hi, Ed!) In the main, though, I’m a luddite in this area, and I [...]
EgoBook Now Offering New Hardcover Format
Last year, it was, we told you folks about EgoBook, a Facebook app that allows you to create books from your Facebook info (status updates, wall posts, and the like). I guess they’ve done okay, because now the EgoBook folks are offering a new format, in hardback: large format 8.25″ x 10.75″ (21cm x 27cm). [...]
Kobo Gets Deeper Facebook Integration
Kobo’s had an up and down year. They released their Kobo Touch reader to great acclaim, but lost a major partner when Borders collapsed. On the upside, they’ve chosen their social media dance partner better; Kobo and Facebook are working hard to bring Kobo’s “Reading Life” to the new Facebook news streams! Basically, this one-ups [...]
Faceglat: Sadly, It’s Not Something “The Onion” Invented
There are times when the virtual world seems very real. I know that I consider my fellow writers on Gear Diary my friends, even though all of us have not met in person. But there’s a difference between real and virtual friendships, and I recognize the difference. Apparently, for some very orthodox jews, there is [...]
Gear Games News: EA Launches ‘The Sims Social’ on Facebook!
Are you one of the millions of fans of The Sims franchise? Do you like Facebook games? If so … rejoice, because The Sims Social has arrived! The game will be immediately familiar to anyone who has ever played a Sims game: you set up your character, then start doing some basic tasks, and slowly [...]
IM+ Update on Blackberry
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 [...]
The Twitter-sphere: None of You Have Any Friends!
I use Twitter, but there are times when I have to wonder if (or why) anyone cares about my random musings and shared links. Of course, my rationale for using Twitter in the first place is that many of my friends are all over the country (if not the world), and this is a great [...]
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 [...]
Gear Games News: The Sims Coming to Facebook
The Sims – one of the biggest franchises in video game history – is coming to Facebook. Called ‘The Sims Social’, the Facebook game allows you to do many things you would traditionally be able to do only in the full game. Here is the basic info: The Sims Social brings the fun and creativity [...]
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