Five Reasons I Won’t Be Using Ping
Jared Newman, PC World Despite all the hardware Apple introduced at its press event Wednesday, the most radical news was Ping, a social network for music that’s launching as a feature of iTunes 10. I’ve taken a brief test drive of Ping to see what it’s about, but even before updating iTunes, I knew Apple’s [...]
After Herald tip, MBTA turns to social media to help fight crime on trains
By Richard Weir, Boston Herald and Herald Media Inspired by the Herald’s front-page story of a tweeting T rider who posted a real-time photo on Twitter of a man allegedly exposing himself aboard a crowded Red Line train – a picture that led to the suspect’s arrest Friday night – the MBTA said yesterday it [...]
The Songwriter Online
The Songwriter Online was started to provide useful information to aspiring and working songwriters regarding technologies, websites, tools, and strategies for organizing your business, working with your team, online promotion, website optimization, and social media. It was started by Matthew Moran.
E-Books Fly Beyond Mere Text
By: Julie Bosman, The New York Times – E-books of the latest generation are so brand new that publishers can’t agree on what to call them. In the spring Hachette Book Group called its version, by David Baldacci, an “enriched” book. Penguin Group released an “amplified” version of a novel by Ken Follett last week. [...]
‘Check-in’ craze moves beyond location
by Caroline McCarthy Despite the press, geolocation service Foursquare is still pretty small. But it’s proven influential in another way: the phenomenon of “checking in” has spread beyond telling people where you are, and a handful of services now focus on letting you “check in” to what you’re doing–whether it’s attending a concert or reading [...]
Open Text Adds Comprehensive Social Media Capabilities to the Open Text ECM Suite, Delivers on Enterprise 2.0
New Open Text Social Media Software Enables Enterprises to Connect People, Process and Content over Web, Mobile Devices Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Boston, Mass. – 2009-06-23 – Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced another major part of its Enterprise 2.0 strategy with a new software offering, [...]
MyTown Update Available; Product Check-in Unveiled!
Get it while it’s hot! The latest release of MyTown is available for download, exclusively from the Apple App Store. The update showcases our newest feature: Product Check-ins! In addition Product Check-ins, we’ve included ten brand new levels, two new building upgrades, and new items to create! Our team also spent a lot of time [...]
Introducing ScribeFire Next
by Christopher Finke The last few months have seen great strides in ScribeFire for Chrome and ScribeFire for Safari, both of which are based upon a single codebase that came from rewriting the main portion of ScribeFire for Firefox. However, ScribeFire for Firefox (a.k.a. ScribeFire Classic®) is still using the old code, making it difficult [...]
Apps for WordPress.com
Blogging at WordPress.com is great, and these applications make it even better by giving you more ways to post. Whether you’re blogging from your desktop, browser or on the go, make sure to check out these other ways to post to your WordPress.com blog. WordPress for iPhone OS It’s the only app that lets you [...]
Google vs. Foursquare: Geolocation Battle Heats Up
Brennon Slattery, PC World Apparently informing your friends that you’re eating a turkey sandwich at the deli down the street is the most “interesting” fad of the moment, and Google wants the biggest slice of cake. At the Web 2.0 Expo, Google indicated it would be enhancing its Latitude service to give other location-based time-wasters [...]