When those Apple advertisements tout “there’s an app for just about anything,” they aren’t kidding. The latest example? A new iPhone application which just debuted in Japan’s App Store transforms the handheld into a full-blown web server.
Would you trust a Web site created by anonymous individuals to give you better advice on stocks than professional advisers? Wikinvest hopes so.
stoolpigeon writes “I vividly remember the first time I was able to dial up a bbs with my Commodore Vic-20. It was Star Trek themed and I was excited to see that the Sysop was online. We typed a few lines of text back and forth while I hollered to everyone in the house that I was talking to someone through the computer. Things have come a long way since then and I’ve put in quite a few hours experiencing one of the more exciting sides of the internet, participating in community. Of course it hasn’t all been great. Communities on-line are just like any other in that there are differences of opinion and issues that arise. Some are handled well, some are not. Social interaction can be very complicated and learning how to manage a social site can be a process that involves a lot of painful lessons. Fortunately not all of our learning has to come through direct experience. Sometimes we have the opportunity to learn from the experience of others. Patrick O’Keefes book Managing Online Forums is that guide to the budding leader of the webs next great community. Keep reading for the rest of JR’s review.
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Microsoft to launch cell phone software store: paper
Reuters – NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is planning to offer new programs and services for mobile phones, including an "online bazaar" for software, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Microsoft to unveil online app store Microsoft's Cloud-Based Skybox Gets Early Showing, New Name |
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With people on the go, Google's ad strategy goes mobile
USA Today – By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY What's Google's long-term mobile ad strategy? Publicly, the Web giant has said little about that, but last spring, at a briefing with advertisers, it offered some insight. Google's Android & iPhone eBooks Counter Kindle 2 Google ploughs a rocky road |
Do you want to engage your users and create a community around your website? In the next few weeks Triggit will be launching Twitter Forums on the SiteBar and we are looking for Alpha Testers!
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The Perils Of Facebook
Calgary Herald – 4 hours ago Within the last few weeks, a Calgary employee in the oilfield service industry made a decision to call in sick. Instead, he went out, joining friends who shot photos of him and uploaded them to Facebook, a social networking website. Don't worry, kids, Stanford will teach Mom, Dad about Facebook San Jose Mercury News How to Facebook Safely So You Won’t Lose Face Jakarta Globe Mansfield News Journal – Napa Valley Register – St George & Sutherland Shire Leader all 12 news articles |
A handy guide to hacking android for multitouch web browsing on the T-Mobile G1
Set to start in just a few days time, the trial of The Pirate Bay will be one of the most important cases the file-sharing community has ever witnessed. However, due to restrictions, the number of people viewing it first hand could be very limited indeed. “Time to make demands,” says Peter Sunde.
Succeeding in this new world of social everything, information overload and media saturation requires the ability to focus on specific tasks long enough to achieve something. Recently I’ve been using one free Web service and one free application that have made it far easier for me to “get things done,” and also to write: NowDoThis and q10.
