Tag Archives: Facebook

What’s The Point of Location Based Social Networks?

Wednesday, October 17 9:48 am

I love technology. I never understood 5-8 years ago when people were resisting adopting things. I had a smartphone before the iPhone was out. I didn’t think it made sense to have a land line seven years ago. I think … Continue reading →

Facebook iOS App Still Stinks

Wednesday, September 19 10:54 am

Back in August Facebook updated it’s iOS app. They finally wrote a native app and abandoned what was previously just an HTML5 wrapper. It was incredibly slow, and that was most user’s chief complaint. While that complaint was completely valid, … Continue reading →

App.net Probably Won’t Succeed

Thursday, September 13 11:21 am

Marco Arment on app.net: First, $50 per year is far too much, even for people who pay for things. Twitter probably couldn’t sell a lot of paid subscriptions at that rate. But the bigger problem is that I just don’t … Continue reading →

Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com♣
Tuesday, June 26 9:22 am - lifehacker.com

Whitson Gordon: Facebook just removed everyone’s email address from their profile and replaced it with an @facebook.com email address without asking you. […] Facebook launched its own email service back in 2010, which was promptly forgotten by everyone. This morning, … Continue reading →

Pygmy Reviews #15: iOS Apps

Thursday, June 7 8:11 am

Minimalist Timer (Free) One Line Description: Very simple timer app with a big touch target. There are no shortage of timer applications in the iOS App Store, so picking one from the lot is a challenge. Minimalist Timer has it’s … Continue reading →

Ban.jo Consolidates Location-Based Apps on iOS♣
Friday, April 20 10:07 am - macworld.com

Joel Mathis on Ban.jo: The app lets you plug into five different social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, or Google+. If one of your friends on those networks checks in or updates a geotagged status, Ban.jo alerts you if that … Continue reading →

Pygmy Reviews #8: iPhone Apps

Tuesday, December 20 8:59 am

If you are new to Pygmy Reviews, they are short quick reviews of several things of the same type. The name comes from the pygmy hippopotamus Discovr Apps ($2.99) One Line Description: A failed attempt to help users find iOS … Continue reading →

Gowalla Is Reborn♣
Friday, September 16 9:48 am - techcrunch.com

MG Siegler of TechCrunch on Gowalla’s new strategy: Technically version 4.0, the new version bears little resemblance to the previous versions of the app. Gowalla is no longer predominantly a check-in service. That’s still one aspect of it, but the … Continue reading →

Twitter Does Not Replace RSS For Me♣
Friday, September 9 11:43 am - marco.org

Marco Arment on how to use RSS: If you like those sites, either browse them “manually” without RSS whenever you feel like it, or just wait for people to link to it from Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, or Google’s social network … Continue reading →

Are We Approaching the End of the Daily Deals Era?♣
Tuesday, September 6 3:18 pm - mashable.com

The always excellent Ben Parr of Mashable on the recent struggles of daily deal sites: That’s not to say daily deals won’t be sticking around for a long time — clearly there is a business in it — but when … Continue reading →