Hot on the heels of the launch of their Dragon Dictation app (and a short-lived and mostly overblown privacy scandal), Nuance has just launched a second iPhone application: Dragon Search. Heralded by Nuance as the "fast, accurate, and smart way to search online content on your iPhone", Dragon Search allows iPhone users to search across Google, Yahoo!, Bing, iTunes, Twitter, Wiki, or YouTube simply by speaking their search terms. 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.