Placecast Brings Location-Based Advertising to Eventful (3)
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Location-based advertising? You’ve seen that, right? Practically every other ad you see on the net is tied to your general location, which is derived from your IP address. Eventful, however, is a local events site, which means that the ads on it - now delivered by Placecast, described as “the world’s largest place-based interactive media company” - will truly be local, pinpointing your exact position. Here’s the example provided by Eventful: “A user checking Eventful’s ...
Kyte Takes Advantage of Celeb Partners, Rolls Out New Ad Program (2)
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Kyte’s particular brand of marketing has been to partner with celebrities and other influencers for using its self-publishing platform as a way to better connect with fans and viewers through live and scheduled programing. This process as a whole has been made easier with popular Nokia n95 cell phones and similar mobile devices that enable live video streaming to the Web. Kyte has been making some changes to better reflect the type of service it’s ...
Microsoft Tells Apple and Google to Wait Up; Hints at Skymarket (9)
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So Microsoft saw Apple and the iPhone 3G and adjoining App Store pass its stoop slapping fives with its oh-so-cool friends, and executives in the Windows Mobile division perhaps thought it best to come up something with their own. Then, just last week, Google unveiled plans to introduce something called Android Market to complement its mobile software platform when it arrives sometime in the next few months. Now Microsoft is letting slip its own message ...
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Nate said:
Microsoft deserves a little credit here for executing on the mobile platform thing before Apple or Google. Too bad they rather fell apart executing on it.
New Facebook for iPhone Teaser Shows Why Touchscreens Kick Butt (26)
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As an iPhone owner, this pleases me. But more basically, as a owner of a touchscreen-enhanced device, this pleases me especially so. Truly custom tagging of photos, just as one would through an typical Web browser, is yet one more of those small, relatively insignificant options that prove just how useful something of the iPhone’s design can be. There’s really no question that the iPhone is the software benchmark in the mobile market. The platform ...
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a touchscreen is very much the necessary means to achieve all possible ends
Android Challenge Pt. I: Balancing the Expected with the Experimental (12)
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This week the first round of the Android Challenge drew to a close. And if it hasn’t already done so, Google will be distributing over half of the $10 million cash prize pool promised among Challenge I and Challenge II finalists/winners. Judges of Challenge I settled on 50 finalists, all of whom were granted $50,000 applications. Additionally, 10 were given $100,000 awards each, while another 10 received $275,000 each. Challenge II takes place subsequent the ...
Email Photos to All of Your Social Networks with Pikchur (10)
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From the team behind DealQUE, we have a new service called Pikchur, a startup that posts your photos to a myriad of social media sites where you have residing accounts. What you can do is upload an image directly through Pikchur or send one to your assigned Pikchur email address via MMS or email from your phone or computer. In concept, Pikchur is similar to TwitPic in that you can upload a photo and it ...
Email Photos to All of Your Social Networks with Pikchur (22)
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Normally, your search efforts involve one engine or another. You go to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search for the general Web, and perhaps photos, etc. You visit Digg, Reddit, or Yahoo Buzz for cool links. YouTube, DailyMotion and others for videos.
Google Clues Developers in on Android Market (5)
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Android Mobile Platform team member Eric Chu wants you to know that its content distribution system - an Apple App Store think-a-like by the name of Android Market - is going to be user-driven. All thanks to “Google’s expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers.” As one might expect for a developer-targeted message, this notice, plus screen grabs, is perhaps similar to the ones Apple delivers to its ...
Google Clues Developers in on Android Market (11)
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Android Mobile Platform team member Eric Chu wants you to know that its content distribution system - an Apple App Store think-a-like by the name of Android Market - is going to be user-driven. All thanks to “Google’s expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers.” As one might expect for a developer-targeted message, this notice, plus screen grabs, is perhaps similar to the ones Apple delivers to its ...
http://arabcrunch.com/2008/08/tweetsms-launched-today-enabling-twitter-sms-in-190-countries-including-many-arab-states.html (2)
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TweetSMS has been launched today after around a week of internal testing, the launch was scheduled yesterday, but apparently they had some hiccups which lead to delaying the launch to today. As reported by ArabCrunch last week, TweetSMS enables Twitter’s users who no longer can get SMS notifications from Twitter in countries outside USA, Canada, and India. TweetSMS messages are paid for by credits. 1 Credit = 1p (1 pence in Great British Pounds), which ...
12 Great Free Games for the iPhone and iPod Touch (16)
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Why should you put a dent in your wallet when there are so many great free applications out there for the iPhone and iPod Touch? There are tons of games for the devices, but the vast majority of them cost money, so we’ve sorted through and located 12 totally free ones for you to throw on your gadgets and entertain yourself throughout the day. Unlike with Firefox or WordPress addons, where we always tell you ...
12 Great Free Games for the iPhone and iPod Touch (23)
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Why should you put a dent in your wallet when there are so many great free applications out there for the iPhone and iPod Touch? There are tons of games for the devices, but the vast majority of them cost money, so we’ve sorted through and located 12 totally free ones for you to throw on your gadgets and entertain yourself throughout the day. Unlike with Firefox or WordPress addons, where we always tell you ...
Zeep Mobile API Gives Site Owners Free SMS… With a Hitch (3)
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So you run a website and really like the social software that enables your visitors to interact with things you produce. But you want to take that connection with the crowd to a more mobile position. Perhaps you’d like some sort of arrangement which allows interested parties to send and receive messages to and from your domain, and preferably something that costs you no financial investment to establish. Enter, Zeep Mobile. What Zeep provides, in ...
Zeep Mobile API Gives Site Owners Free SMS… With a Hitch (3)
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So you run a website and really like the social software that enables your visitors to interact with things you produce. But you want to take that connection with the crowd to a more mobile position. Perhaps you’d like some sort of arrangement which allows interested parties to send and receive messages to and from your domain, and preferably something that costs you no financial investment to establish. Enter, Zeep Mobile. What Zeep provides, in ...
More App Store bullying as Tetris removed >> Mashable (6)
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Apple is at it again. According to reports, the company has pulled a free Tetris app from its App Store, called Tris after Apple contacted the developer, Noah Witherspoon, on behalf of The Tetris Company. Apple said that The Tetris Company considered Tris in violation of trademark and copyright laws and that he would be forced to remove it from the App store. For his part, Witherspoon said that he might be able to win ...
Tetris Game to Be Removed. When Will App Store Bullying End? (6)
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Apple is at it again. According to reports, the company has pulled a free Tetris app from its App Store, called Tris after Apple contacted the developer, Noah Witherspoon, on behalf of The Tetris Company. Apple said that The Tetris Company considered Tris in violation of trademark and copyright laws and that he would be forced to remove it from the App store. For his part, Witherspoon said that he might be able to win ...
hi5 Mobile Launches Internationally with 26 Languages (5)
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hi5 mobile has arrived. For all of those that have been waiting patiently for this social network to have a dedicated and optimized version of its service on your mobile device, here it is. And for a bit of boasting on hi5’s end, the social network’s mobile presence spans 26 different languages upon launch, setting out to create a new precedent for a global reach on the mobile front. This makes a great deal of ...
hi5 Mobile Launches Internationally with 26 Languages (3)
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hi5 mobile has arrived. For all of those that have been waiting patiently for this social network to have a dedicated and optimized version of its service on your mobile device, here it is. And for a bit of boasting on hi5’s end, the social network’s mobile presence spans 26 different languages upon launch, setting out to create a new precedent for a global reach on the mobile front. This makes a great deal of ...
Trulia Upgrades Make Real Estate Personal with News Feed Features (5)
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While Trulia began as an online resource for home buyers and others interested in the ever-changing real estate market, its recent developments have started to drill down heavily into personalization capabilities. The latest features continue Trulia’s effort to offer services for the buyers and the professionals in the real estate market, and extend its platform tools in order to provide more value for these two ends of the space. There are three main aspects of ...
