21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns – the guy that created the first ever iPhone worm, ikee – revealed via Twitter that he got a job at mogeneration, a company that develops iPhone apps, mostly for other clients such as TrueLocal, FoodWatch and Xumii.
It’s only logical. After all, an iPhone worm is still an application of some sort, right? However, senior security consultant at Sophos Graham Cluley is disappointed that Towns is “rewarded” for writing an iPhone worm. From the Sophos’ blog:
“Don’t get me wrong – I don’t think virus writers shouldn’t be allowed to rehabilitate and do something worthwhile with their lives. Full story...
So far, Google has failed to launch a successful social web product to U.S. Internet users. Orkut has taken off in including Brazil and India, but not in North America.
Bummed because you don’t have the time to salivate in front of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Ustream? Well, now you can get plenty of SI content sent directly to your cell: All you need is a physical issue of the mag and a camera phone.
Earlier this afternoon, Google announced Google Buzz, a semantic approach to social status updates that live inside Gmail.
It’s no shocker that the web is buzzing about Google Buzz (terrible pun intended), Google’s most aggressive push into social media yet.
Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying.
Google has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz.
It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray.
Facebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app, blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night.
Don’t know what Lexicon was? That’s OK, a lot of people didn’t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool.
Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm.
In an effort to remind you that WordPress can be just as flexible and e-mail-friendly as Posterous, the company has released a Posterous importer for users who want to “graduate” from the mini-blogging site to “a full blog with the features, flexibility and reliability of WordPress.