The Best of Android: Final Challenge Winners Announced (17)
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Last May, Google announced the first set of winners in its two-part contest called Android Challenge. The challenge is meant to kick-start the creation of 3rd-party applications for its nascent mobile platform by enticing developers with a total of $10 million in awards. Today, Google is releasing the names of its second set of winners, 10 of which receive $275,000 and 10 of which receive $100,000. The full list of winners can be found here. ...
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Jesse said:
cab4me sounds pretty money: “cab4me enables you to easily call a cab to any location worldwide. You do not need to know the number of the local cab company. You do not need to enter or even know the address you want to be picked up at. You do not need to place a call. With cab4me you can order a cab to your current location with a single click.”
How to Rock Flickr Like a Champ (38)
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Yahoo's wildly popular photo sharing site Flickr is a lot of fun to use, but it really helps to take some time and learn how to use it well. We've recently engaged more seriously with Flickr and wanted to share some quick tips that we think will help you get more out of it, too. Some people want to know how to do marketing on Flickr or use Flickr in nonprofit organizations, but in this ...
The Last Guy gets found on PSN tomorrow (2)
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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Action The Last Guy, a mash-up of Google maps and "follow the leader" (or Snake, if we can talk super old-school), will be available tomorrow on PSN for $10, according to the PlayStation Blog. The 15 stages of zombie-dodging gameplay takes place in several cities across the globe, which use aerial photography as "levels" -- the demo, which takes place in Asakusa, Tokyo became available last week on PSN. Check ...
Ford reveals 2010 Mustang badge (4)
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Filed under: FordClick above for high-res gallery of 2010 Ford Mustang badge The countdown to the 2010 Ford Mustang debut has begun, and it looks like Ford can't wait to show us what the car looks like just as much as we can't wait to see it. Today it released an image of the new 2010 Mustang badge, hinting that its edgier design gives clues as to what the rest of the car will look ...
iPhone 3G Modded with Macro [Mods] (10)
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The iPhone 3G's camera works alright until you want to grab a shot of something within a foot or so (like a butterfly, or unpopped pimple). And to address this dilemma, one modder softened the glue holding in his iPhone's camera and rotated the lens to macrofy the fovus. He was able to take several shots within 5 inches, but the most impressive is this picture taken just .25 inches away from its subject. For ...
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Aaron said:
"And to address this dilemma, one modder softened the glue holding in his iPhone's camera and rotated the lens to macrofy the fovus." Gizmodo should review a spell checker and discover the wonderful world of grammar.
Facebook’s 100 Million Users: How Much are They Worth? (1)
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Remember when MySpace announced it had 100 million users, exactly two years ago? It was a big deal, but critics pointed out that many of those user accounts were inactive, and active users are what really counts. Facebook, on the other hand, has always claimed they don’t sugarcoat their user numbers; they only count active accounts. If you choose to believe them, then today’s unofficial announcement - taken from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook status update - ...
It’s Official: The G1 From T-Mobile is the First Android Phone (1)
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Images from around the web are showing the HTC Dream AKA the T-Mobile G1 in all its bendy, screen-sliding glory. This Sidekick-like phone has a pop up screen, full QWERTY keyboard, and none of the buckets of suck that characterize Windows Mobile phones. Android is still fairly nascent so I worry that the application environment
Animoto Emerges from Beta with 4M Videos (1)
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Animoto launched in beta last year as a way to create professional-looking videos based on a user’s set of uploaded images, as an alternative to other slide show creation sites or professional software packages used for editing purposes. A year later, Animoto is emerging from beta, with a reported 4 million unique videos having been produced on its platform. Along with the official public launch of Animoto, there are a handful of new features, including ...
Nvidia Pushes the 3-D Internet (1)
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Nvidia’s Nvision conference and celebration of all-things-graphics-processor starts today. As part of the brouhaha, the chipmaker is showcasing about 60 startups building businesses on the back of its GPU, and it’s interesting to see how many of these firms have nothing to do with gaming. As we’ve noted before, visual computing is becoming more important
Steve Jobs's Mercedes parked in a handicap spot [Nerdspotting] (5)
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Valleywag spies were busy last weekend. "I was at a party in Palo Alto on Saturday night two doors down from Steve Jobs's house, and in the morning i was coming out with my bike and walked right in front of him on the sidewalk," writes one. How'd he look? "Pretty thin. I thought his face looked healthy, but he was very thin." If Jobs's parking habits are any indication, though, perhaps the Apple CEO ...
Monitor your FriendFeed efficiently with Feedalizr (7)
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There are quite a few Adobe AIR applications on the Web right now that allow you to monitor your FriendFeed. The most commons ones that you may know about are Alert Thingy, Twhirl, Posty, and bTT by Sobees but now we have Feedalizr to add to the list. Among all of the FriendFeed applications I have tested out, Feedalizr is definitely one of the coolest and most unique. It allows you to post updates to ...
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source, But Bookmarking is Dying (26)
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There has been a lot of brouhaha over Ma.gnolia going open source and I’m not sure most of it is justified. There are certainly features that work to Ma.gnolia’s advantage, but even though embracing open source and data portability (among other features) improve the service, they are unlikely to make it competitive. Not only is Ma.gnolia minuscule compared to Yahoo’s Delicious (recently relaunched to version 2.0), but compared to Yahoo’s Buzz and Digg, even Delicious ...
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bhc3 said:
"As people move away from the rather passive activity of sharing bookmarks to actively participating in the submission, promotion, and propagation of news and networking on the basis of their interests, social news and networking sites are bound to replace bookmarking sites like Ma.gnolia and Delicious."
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Michael Molinar said:
Do you think social bookmarking like ma.gnolia and delicious are dying? I've been a big fan of Friendfeed recently, and I am dumping delicious because I just don't see the point in it.
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afroginthevalley said:
doing a meta on this one
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Toby said:
The writer of this article obviously doesn't understand the field. Does digg let me bookmark a site or tool I really like, tag it so I can find it again later, and share it with my friends without inviting the retarded opinion of a huge community of bandwagoneers?
Mixi Brings Sophisticated OpenID to Millions of Japanese Users (11)
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Mixi, the giant Japanese social network, announced last week that it is now acting as an OpenID authenticating party. The implementation is particularly sophisticated, SixApart's David Recordon says they are the first major provider to support the exchange of user profile data via OpenID. The service is also providing a mechanism for users of 3rd party sites to limit access to content elsewhere to visitors who are their friends on Mixi. All of it begs ...
Cloud Computing: A Catchphrase in Puberty (1)
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The crew at The Register share their feelings about cloud computing and how it came into existence (with a few profanities thrown in for good measure). The article has some very valid points and, regardless what your feeling are on the subject, you have to admit some of it is just downright funny. It's been called a lot of things: utility computing, grid computing, distributed computing, and now cloud computing. You can come up with ...
