Buzz Opens the Firehose With New API Features
Just a few minutes ago, on his Buzz update stream, Google employee DeWitt Clinton announced that Google had opened up their real-time stream of information for Buzz. Now, any application can access, in real-time, all updates across the entire service as they come through. This incredible stream of information will serve useful to Data warehousing […]
Read more...To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required
Just the other day a kind Single mother was nice enough to share a story with me about how, as a newly Single mother, one of my books had helped her get off the ground and start her own business. It’s something I never thought of before, and I admit, I was very touched (and […]
Read more...Breaking Down the Signal – The Android, iOS, and WebOS Comparison
There’s no shortage of criticism, complaint, or praise of the various mobile operating systems. The iPhone, Android, the Pre, or even Blackberry and Windows Mobile – no matter which phone you review you’re bound to find someone who either absolutely loves the device they own or completely hates those that do. I tried to make […]
Read more...For the Dads
This is so my life right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog
Read more...LDS Church Launches New, "Social" Mormon.org for Learning About Mormons
Just last night, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched a newly redesigned Mormon.org to help those that are not members of the LDS Faith to know who their Mormon neighbors are. The site, which takes a more “Social” approach to learn about the Faith, attempts to show you who your Mormon friends […]
Read more...Name a Better Phone
Let’s put all partialities aside. Currently, I own an iPhone, an Evo (which I’m borrowing through work for testing), and a Pre (my work phone). I have been a Windows user most of my life, and spent 2 or 3 years with Linux on my desktop. In the PDA days I ran a Palm Pilot, […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Custom Publishers – Kills 15,000 of My Users Too
What’s a lot for one site may be miniscule for another. Recently, Facebook announced they were removing the ability for developers to write custom Publisher boxes “due to low usage” of the feature on the site. The feature, which enabled any application to customize the publishing experience for users, was a little-known, and little-advertised feature known […]
Read more...The Virtuous Cycle of Choice and Momentum
Here we go again. We’ve been here before. History always repeats itself. In the early days of the desktop computer, it was the Wild West. No computer was dominant because they all simply had not been around long enough. The movie, “The Pirates of Silicon Valley”, described this era well, and was a time of […]
Read more...Review: The MINI Microphone for the iPhone and Android
I’m a sucker for good sound. I actually have a pretty nice Microphone I use with my computer for production use in podcasts, or when I get interviewed, and I love to have a good sound to go with the things I create. That’s why when I saw Chris Pirillo promote the MINI Microphone for […]
Read more...LDS (Mormon) Church Facebook Page Surpasses 300,000 Likes on Facebook
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is no stranger to technology. With several of the web’s most traffic’d websites, a very popular Youtube Channel (MormonMessages), one of the top Facebook Pages, and a great host of mobile applications enabling members to read scriptures and listen to talks from leaders wherever they are, there’s […]
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