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Monday
Sep192011

New Google+ App: Stream+ Categorizes Your Posts by Topic

Stream+, one of the first Google+ apps built using the Google+ API that launched last week [ see our story here ], pulls your Google+ posts and categorizes them by topic.

After categorizing your posts, Stream+ organizes them on the left-hand side of the page and displays the related posts in the main navigation [ see above ].

Mohamed Mansour, the Canada-based developer of Stream+ and a Google Qualified Developer for Chrome...

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Monday
Sep192011

The iPad Has Changed Everyone, Let's Talk About It


[ Photo courtesy of Juhalhalainen via creative commons license. ]

The iPad has changed my life radically over the past 17 months, and I’m so enamored with it that I’m going to host a one-day event on October 21 in Mountain View dedicated to tablet revolution. 

What’s Changed in My Life? 

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1. Over 50% of content I consume is now on my iPad.
2. I watch an equal amount of video on my iPad as I do on my television set.
3.  On business trips I use the iPad as often as I use my laptop.
4. My 20-month old daughter and I use my old iPad one to read interactive books together, to learn her A-B-Cs and 1-2-3s -- literally!
5. When away from my desktop, I use my iPad to read email more often than I use my Blackberry.
6. I download five to 10 apps a month -- most of which are paid (in other words, I spend $25 a month on apps, or $300 a year).
7. My father has never used a computer before, but he now uses an iPad.
8. While on vacation in Paris and Venice this year, my wife and I used the stunning Zagat iPad app to quickly find two of the best meals of our lives.

In my opinion, tablet computing will be a greater revolution than the smart phone or laptop were.

If you have an iPad, you are nodding your head right now.

If you don’t own an iPad right now you’re saying “Yeah, whatever, Jason’s just an apex geek.” You couldn’t be more wrong if...

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Monday
Sep192011

Reed Hastings: 'I Messed Up, I Owe You An Explanation'

By now most people have heard that Netflix will be seperating its dvd and streaming services into two seperate companies with the rebranding of the DVD service as Qwikster, but have you seen Reed Hastings' email? 

Here is the content of the email. 

"I messed up. I owe you an explanation.

It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming and the price changes. That was certainly not our intent, and I offer my sincere apology. Let me explain what we are doing.

For the past five years, my greatest fear at Netflix has been that we wouldn't make the leap from success in DVDs to success in streaming. Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores – do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us). So we moved quickly into streaming, but I should have...

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Monday
Sep192011

Adby.Me Puts Advertising in the Hands of Social Media Users

WHAT: Social network advertising platform that pays users to write and display ads on their social accounts. Instead of relying on a celebrity to endorse a product, users are the voice of wisdom for their online communities. Advertisers have final say in approval of content.  

LAUNCHERS: Josh Kim, CEO.  

WHY: People hate online advertising. Since advertisements are unavoidable, why not crowdsource your content writing and ad publishing to social network users. People will be less reluctant to click an ad on their friend's page if...

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Sunday
Sep182011

Emmy Awards Get Interactive with iPhone App

The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards show broadcasts on FOX live tonight 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, but iPhone and iPad owners can supplement their Emmy experience with the free Emmy app from Truelogic.

The Emmy app provides real-time updates of all category winners and features bios for the nominees so you can decide for yourself...

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