Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Category Archives: Facebook
Link: Jacqui Cheng on Google+ →
While this post does point out some good features of the service (circles, privacy), it doesn’t explain why I should begin using it regularly. The advantage of posting more than 140 more characters is also the service’s main problem — … Continue reading
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Link: Automated Tagging via Physical Features →
The use of face detection software isn’t new, but the idea of using social media as a way to datamine these features seems scary: The software, called “suggested automatic tagging,” lets Facebook users assign digital name tags to people in … Continue reading
Weekly Download #7: Facebook and Design, Robots, Technology and Intelligence, Bing, Zune, Apple TV
This week’s show is a day early because of a certain concert that a certain co-host is attending. We talk Facebook and their recent efforts to beef up their design team; robots taking over the world; technology and its correlation … Continue reading
Link: Facebook buys E-Book Company →
You have to wonder what Facebook might be up to with their latest move. On August 2nd, the company announced it was purchasing Push Pop Press. The e-book company specializes in books for iOS. It said that Facebook does not … Continue reading
Link: How to Keep People Engaged with Google+ →
Google+ is surging with users, but the service is lacking some key features to keep users engaged. Tarun talks about three main features that Google could implement to make the new social network “sticky”. Continue reading
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Link: Politics and Social Media →
The power of social media is literally in every segment of our lives now. Politics is no exception to this. Campaigns all across the country are trying to figure out how to effectively use social media. More than seven in … Continue reading
Link: Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. →
Paul Adams: Google values technology, not social science. (Thanks, Leo!)
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Link: The VideoChatting Madness →
With all of the recent talk about video chatting I felt it was important to give the readers close comparison between all of the services that are currently out there. We have talked about many of these services in the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iOS, Social Networking
Tagged facebook, facetime, Google Hangout, skype, social networking, video, video chatting, videochat, youtube
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Link: Like It Or Not →
Here’s a better take on what Google+ is trying to do in relation to Facebook, from Dhanji Prasanna: It might surprise you to learn that I don’t find Google+ all that innovative. It hits all the notes that a Facebook … Continue reading
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Link: Facebook debuts Skype-powered Video Calling →
Hands-on review from Engadget. The service seems very intuitive, with a little video icon at the corner of every Facebook profile to denote an option to initiate a new video call. Skype has also beefed up their own software to … Continue reading
Link: What MySpace’s Tom Anderson Thinks of Google+ →
Tom Anderson: My original vision for MS was that everything got better when it was social–so I tried to build all the super popular things used on the web (blogs, music, classifieds, events, photos) on top of MySpace’s social layer. … Continue reading
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Link: MySpace Sold for 6% of its Purchase Price →
In just six years, MySpace seems to have dwindled down a substantial amount. When News Corp bought the company in 2005 they paid $580 million for the social networking site. It was just announce that Specific Media is buying MySpace … Continue reading
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The Answer to Facebook
“When one stands on the tallest mountain, all of the others seem small.” How can Facebook’s monumental incumbency be overthrown, and what does it take to create a successor to the social network? Continue reading