News.Me vs. Flipboard, Zite, and RSS Readers: a Brief Review
After quite a buzz in the blogosphere, earlier this week (Thu, April 21) News.me app for iPad was released in the Apple iTunes store. The app has been developed with backing from and participation of...
View ArticleiPhone 4S: Siri Discoveries
Image of Siri interface from iPhone 4S By default, Siri [the voice assistant on iPhone 4S] uses Google for search; so, if you hold the home button, and say “Siri, search the web for ‘ostrich'” it will...
View ArticleiOS, vs. Android and Mango
Futuristic Microsoft video I like the fact that we have more than one strong operating system for smartphones. Among Apple iOS, Google Android (Gingerbread), and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, there is...
View ArticleFrom iPhone App, to Jamie Lidell… (via @TUAW)
This post should be called “when one thing leads to another, and another…”: originally, it was intended to be just a short comment about music software on the iPhone. As a complete music dilettante...
View ArticleTech & Healthcare: O’Reilly Interview
via BusinessWeek Here is an interesting interview with Tim O’Reilly about the technology advances in healthcare. Made me think of a few articles I read recently, and new healthcare devices: Portable...
View ArticleKibits.com – a promising app, uncomfortable ToS [updated: new good ToS!]
Kibits is an iOS app (and related online service at kibitz.com) that creates ad-hoc, social mini-networks, and enables sharing of a wide range of materials within these groups, including chat messages,...
View ArticleOprah’s Book Club 2.0 – An online experiment in social reading
NYTimes announced that Oprah is returning with a new, 21-century version of her book club (here is her intro video). The core of the undertaking are the customized, electronic editions of the club...
View ArticleComparing Private Social Networks (Kibits, Glassboard, Everyme)
Here is a short comparison of the three apps/platforms I originally posted on Quora: I have been looking at a few similar apps in order to choose one to use for a university course I’ll teach this fall...
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