Ross LaRocco
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Google+ Hands-On: Your Pants Are Vulnerable.
Finally got my hands on Google+ yesterday. It’s the revolutionary new initiative by Google proclaiming they will crush Facebook to its toenails. It will redefine sharing from it’s roots by putting people into circles. Sort of like high school, but the worldwide web is an open book. Currently, Google+ has closed invitations. I wasn’t able to ...
MySpace SOLD to the Dungeon of Doom! Crack Those Ads.
The fate of MySpace has finally been uncovered. Recently, I mentioned how Facebook would have benefited by the founders crossing over to the light. It didn’t quite happen that way. The service was sold to an advertising network called Specific Media. The 35 million dollar Myspace deal gives the company access to data about Myspace ...
InstantBird: Feels Like Instant Messaging in Your Birthday Suit.
Today I stumbled on a cool instant messaging application for the Mac. IM’ing is nothing new, but the quest in finding the right application is still tough for some. Trillian, Adium, and Pidgin are three examples of go-to apps that connect to many different channels like AIM, MSN, and Google all at once. InstantBird takes ...
Chaotic Pigs Disrupt Workflow: WP7 Gets Angry Birds
WP7 phone application releases are stacking up by the day. Angry Birds is now available on the Microsoft platter, and these pigs are built from the ground up to annoy the living snot out of you. Good news from Microsoft, then, as Windows Phone 7 can finally be admitted at the grown-up table now that it ...
Kik Messenger Arrives to Windows Phone 7. Taking a Hatchet to GroupMe.
Windows Phone 7 is back in the hunt. As I mentioned previously, both Evernote and Foodspotting recently added new versions of their app for Microsoft’s mobile platform. Kik Messenger is the next in line to provide a real-time group messaging app to Windows Phone 7. Possibly the first Group Messenger to reach iPhone, Android, and ...
Paris Hilton Taps GroupMe for Private Affairs.
Paris Hilton strikes again, but in the mobile space instead. This could be an endeavor to start fresh and make people forget about her first paragraph in Wikipedia. GroupMe, a popular messaging platform for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, now has Paris Hilton as a spokesperson. The Oxygen Network’s new show “The World According to Paris” will soon start ...
Fring Beats Skype! World’s First Video Group Chat for iPad.
Group Chat is extremely popular on mobile devices to increase communication from within a group of people. Fring announced they have brought group video chat to their messaging application. Skype is defeated for the moment. fring is launching the world’s 1st Group Video chat App for the iPad 4 friends video chat at the same time. ...
TWO iPhones for September? Users Are Confused.
There’s a report of Apple releasing two different iPhones at their September event. This means what for iPhone 4 users? There’s a bigger chance for developers to wipe application support for the iPhone 4 if this report remains to be true. For much of the spring, the reporters who cover Apple (AAPL) have been arguing ...
The Crimson Mess of Data. Limited but Necessary.
How do we use data, and where to put it? Today is a mess in the direction of data. Internet connections are needed to access it, and storage devices are needed to keep it. Traffic signals turn to red and green because those avenues both have a capacity. Filling up an external storage device is ...
Foodspotting Now On WP 7, Kills iPhone and Android Versions.
Recently I mentioned how Windows Phone 7 trails behind iPhone and Android app development. Today, Foodspotting announced a version for Windows Phone 7. Completely shattering the eyes of iPhone and Android versions. So it claims. Foodspotting, the food photo sharing app that has built a community around the sharing of specific dishes, is launching on ...
