On June 26th I reported that Google Me, a new social network from Google was in the works. During that announcement I quoted Digg founder Kevin Rose who leaked the announcement, today we have further confirmation of the Google Me program.
The full-fledged competitor has been outed further by former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo who said during [...]
See that phone on the adjacent right? It’s Samsung XCover – yet another Samsung ruggedized phone that’s destined to live to an adventurer’s necessities on a traditional weekend expedition or a hiking trip to the north. If you have loved the Samsung Marine, Samsung B2100, Samsung B2700, the Casio Exilim C721, the Seal Cell and [...]
Have you always wanted to swim underwater without any effort, in your swimming pool? I believe at least the tyros at the sport have. Well, then here is one of the best swimming gadgets for you - a Pool Jet. Apparently, the device gets its name from its form factor, which is built to look [...]
The moment I heard about the Glass on the iPhone 4, I knew it wasn’t a bad idea right of the back! Sure it looks shiny and awesome but who’d put glass on both sides without any protective casing around it? Anyway I am cribbing about it because I dropped and broke the glass on [...]
Whether you love them or hate them, it looks as if Posterous has angered yet another company, albeit for the right reasons this time.
In their attempt to liberate the twitterverse from having their images permanently hosted upon TwitPic which they announced earlier today.
A picture is worth 1,000 words. Or 3 tweets, 2 blog posts and [...]New softwares that have been released to Jailbreak iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch 2G won’t work if you are running on the new bootrom. One of the most common questions we’ve received in the last couple of days is “How can I find out my phone’s bootrom version?” and the next common question is [...]
Folks, if you are wondering whether this is a season of leaks and Android phones, we wouldn’t say you are the only one opining that. Your inquisitions are right, perhaps ‘cause after the now-official Samsung Galaxy S Pro and the Nokia N9 leaked, it’s time for some Motorola handset to oblige the trend – and [...]
Oh, it’s just about a month ago when we reported that the Kindle App for Android was officially announced. And now Amazon has made it available for download for free. Yes, the world’s favorite ebook reading app is now official and just a download away from adorning your Android smartphone. After the wildfire success of [...]
Well people, the folks at NegriElectronics have once again managed to get their hands on the mysterious and unannounced Nokia N9 that we’ve reported earlier. This time, they’ve savored our interests with a video walkthrough of the device that somehow gets labeled as Nokia C0-00 otherwise. From the video walkthrough, we could gather that the [...]
When China said they would stop citizen’s from using Google’s uncensored search results the search giant began operating their servers out of Hong Kong, an area of China that doesn’t have the same censorship laws as the rest of the country, now Google is taking a whole new approach to provide Chinese citizens with uncensored [...]
This is a guest entry by Jean-Baptiste Jung from Cats Who Blog.
Feedburner, the popular RSS tool, is used by many bloggers to serve feeds to their readers, but also in order to know how many people are currently subscribing to their blog using RSS. Despite the fact it can be easily hijacked, RSS subscriber count [...]
…..and an epic is born. Hail the all-new Samsung Epic 4G Android phone. With all due honor and glory, Samsung Epic 4G is now officially a member of the family of sprint Android phones. Yes, the Samsung Epic is an Android smartphone with Samsung’s best-in-class technology blended with a flavor of Google Android. The Samsung [...]
Sprint and HTC have announced the availability of the first ever maintenance upgrade of the HTC Evo 4G – America’s first 4G phone. Ever since the handset was first released on June 4, the HTC Evo 4G has been an eye candy for all Android lovers. Though the HTC Evo 4G is praised for all [...]
Tumblr has just rolled out a new feature that should make the Tumblr brigade (aka probloggers on Tumblr) rejoice!
It looks like users will now be able to add as well as edit tags upon numerous posts, as well as remove posts en masse without having to open up each one separately.
Still very beta, Tumblr’s new [...]
With Microsoft launching Windows 7 Mobile to the masses in October, one has to wonder whether the world’s largest blog platform (after Blogger) is secretly creating a WordPress blogging app for Microsoft.
Although WordPress has yet to create an official app for webOS (which powers the Palm Pre), they will probably skip over HP’s mobile OS [...]
Lately there has been a lot of talk about Facebook competition, basically how there is none. Sure Diasphora is attempting to build a Facebook rival, but let’s be honest, without a few hundred million dollars it’s going to be an uphill battle…Enter Google.
According to TechTree, Google is planning to make a major push in the [...]
If Europeans have all rights to mock Americans for their soccer skills and history, the World Cup has brought at least one thing to the USA but a gold plated trophy is not that thing. Nor are Vuvuzelas.
So what’s it?
Twitter launched promoted tweets just before the start of the USA- Ghana knock out game today. For [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review June 25, 2010 How to optimize your news website for better Google AdSense revenue By Robert Niles 2 comments Archive Link A hot topic of discussion during last month's KDMC News Entrepreneur Boot Camp was online advertising networks , specifically Google's AdSense program for publishers . More than one speaker cautioned the participants to not expect much from AdSense . At the camp and at other industry gatherings , I've heard many folks dismiss AdSense revenues as delivering CPMs in the pennies
Guest Post by Shankar Ganesh. Classrooms, places where the future of kids is shaped, are ironically un-futuristic. Papers are passe. They’re limiting and aren’t fun. It’s time we pave the way for paperless classrooms – tech and education together can only lead to a better world. Evernote Evernote has become the de facto application for [...]
Guest post by Ven. Keeping your visitors to stay longer and increase time on your blog is an Art. It is one of the toughest part of blogging too. Your blog may get huge number of visitors but its the time to ask a question, How long the visitors are staying in your blog? Visitors are [...]
Guest Post by Basant N. Singh. How I got my Google Adsense hold removed? Last month I had shared my own experience with Google AdSense here at QOT. The post received many comments and new publishers were anxious to know more about the issue. I am back again but this time with a good news. [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review June 23, 2010 Get ready for the Battle over Bandwidth By Robert Niles 1 comment Archive Link The next great battle in the journalism industry will be the Battle of . Bandwidth AT s announcement this month that it will end unlimited data plans for its smartphone and iPad subscribers is expected to lead to similar announcements from other wireless providers . And Comcast's continuing efforts to throttle certain traffic from its home Internet customers shows that bandwidth battles are not limited
Early last year, Friend of the ‘Lab Clayton Donley (@cdonley) introduced the Oracle People iPhone app. That app has been wildly popular. I routinely get a couple requests a week for the download information here, by email and in various other forums. Today, Clayton dropped People2, a new version of the app that supports iOS4 [...]
Guest post by Jonathan Beebe. Unless you’re famous or have a lot of influential friends, gone are the days where you can simply write a post and expect it to pull it’s weight in terms of attracting visitors TO your website. Are You Relying on Luck? Sure, you might get lucky every now and then [...]
An email today triggered a thought I’ve had before, but never bothered to put into writing. Once you learn to use a piece of software, are you tied to it forever, for better or for worse? This is an multi-faceted problem, so I’m not even going to pretend like I have an answer. However, it’s [...]
Sorry for the lame title. This is just a quick note about Swype, the much hyped slide-your-finger-to-type keyboard that got a lot of buzz in 2008 at the TC50. Since I saw the demo a few years ago, I’ve always been intrigued by how awesome it would be to be able to type fast on [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review June 11, 2010 Student journalist entrepreneurs offer tips to improve newspapers' WAP functionality By Dominique Fong 1 comment Archive Link Editor's : note In the Annenberg-Marshall-Viterbi News Entrepreneur Fellowship Program students from three USC colleges collaborated to invent the future of news . Last month , three teams each including students from USC Annenberg School of Journalism , USC Marshall School of Business , and USC Viterbi School of Engineering devised and pitched economicallyAbout Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review June 2, 2010 What to cut when ad revenue doesn't cover your expenses By Robert Niles 1 comment Archive Link The toughest question facing news editors today is : What will you cut when your advertising revenue or other income isn't providing enough money to cover your newsroom's expenses Obviously , we're all looking for new sources of revenue so that we don't have to make a brutal decision like this . But in a competitive publishing market , many legacy news organizations simply are too big for
…I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I [...]