Google put an easter egg in the menu of their iPhone application, but they hid it so well that no one stumbled upon it, so they simply decided to blog about it to reveal the gem. Venturebeat was first to report and has more screenshots. If you have the Google Mobile App installed on your iPhone, go to the Settings tab, scroll to the bottom and keep swiping upwards until a secret option dubbed 'Bells and Whistles' appears (this also works the foreign language versions of the app, and it will stay there once you've found it). Full story...
There are good things about conferences and there are bad things about conferences. One of the bad things is how little the audience gets to participate directly in the content being created.
I'm hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed, in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience is because it can be hard to manage them all.
Plastic Jungle, a marketplace for gift cards, has secured $7.4 million in Series B funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with Shasta Ventures Bay Partners, First Round Capital and other investors participating.
I'm at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it.
earns their own Credibility Rating which determines the types of tasks they are offered. Workers are able to see how much each separate task pays, and earnings are distributed through PayPal.
Some people don't like the idea of Google having any data about them. Unfortunately, if you visit a site tracked by Google Analytics (and chances are you hit several each day), you have no choice.
So in 2008, a company called Integra Communications filed for a "Nexus" trademark having something to do with voice and data telecommunications.
We're still poring over the hundreds of pages of documents that were just released in the YouTube/Viacom litigation.
Blippy is always fun to write about because so many people are enraged by its very existence. But all that rage apparently hasn't stopped the company from getting lots of investor attention.
Despite criticism, and an overall frustrating experience, Google is definitely not ready to give up on Buzz.