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Google TV is Coming and It Won’t Be Anything Like WebTV

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:02 +0000

According to a report in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Google is teaming up with Intel, Logitech and Sony to bring you a WebTV-like platform for Web viewing in your living room called Google TV. Everyone involved seems to have something in mind as to their own gains for doing this deal.

Funny, given their vision for this, none of them seem to have realized that the PlayStation and the XBox both already do everything that’s been said this new Google TV setup ...

It’s 5:29am PST.. You Have 1 Minute To Begin Pre-Order of Your iPad

Craig Agranoff — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:07 +0000

In exactly one minute, at 5:30am Pacific Standard Time, the Apple iPad will be available for pre-order on Apple.com. You still won’t see the unit until April 3rd, but you can pre-order today.

What, you’re still reading this? Click the Apple.com link already!

Alright. Are they gone? Good, that gets rid of the riff-raff and gadget freaks. I’m sure they’ll be back after Apple’s servers crash because millions like them ran to the store to refresh their screens endlessly until it finally popped up with an order ...

iPhone Will Get Mutitasking This Summer

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:48 +0000

Most iPhone users are aware that the gadget is due for a software upgrade soon and that it’s likely that Apple will release another OS for the phone sometime this year. Tradition says this happens in late March, though this one may be delayed. Apple Insider says that the upgrade will be OS 4.0 for “summer release” and it will include something that has long been a thorn in the side of the iPhone vs. Android debate.. multitasking.

Over at ReadWriteWeb, Mike Melanson mentions that jailbreaking has ...

iPad Pre-order and Release Dates Announced

Craig Agranoff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:21:41 +0000

Well, readers here should already know that we’ve heard enough about the iPad already, but Apple made another announcement today. The iPad will be available in the U.S. on April 3, in stores and online, and pre-orders can be made starting a week from today (Friday, March 12).

Two models will be available: the Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi 3G. Next Friday, they’ll both be in the Apple store at Apple.com. Store orders will ship to arrive on April 3 or you can pick up yours at ...

Nexus One Price Leaked, Google Phone Will Be T-Mobile, Jan. 5

Craig Agranoff — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:48:06 +0000

Google has said they’ll be rolling out their new Nexus One smart phone, the “iPhone Killer,” in January. A date and carrier have been established: January 5 and the carrier will be T-Mobile. Now, a leak shows the pending Google page for selling the phone and another leak of an internal memo at T-Mobile shows something else. Google will sell the phone, not T-Mobile.

That’s an interesting twist.

The Google leak is based on the graphic here, which is a screen capture first published by Gizmodo when an anonymous tipster sent ...

Usabilla – Create Test Sites for Design Testing

Craig Agranoff — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:53:12 +0000

Designing sites is not usually a simple task. The designer usually knows the general audience the site is geared towards, but often doesn’t get much feedback on the site’s appearance until a lot of work has already been put into the project. Sometimes, something obvious to a visitor won’t be to the designer.

Tools like Usabilla.com aren’t a new idea, but they are definitely evolving into something very useful for the design team. Where sites like IntuitionHQ are aimed towards client collaboration, Usabilla is aimed more towards surveying ...

GoodGuide – New iPhone App for Green Product Scanning

Craig Agranoff — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:47:44 +0000

If you’re eco-conscious and wondering how green those items at the store really are, well.. Now there’s an app for that.

GoodGuide, the product green rating site, has developed an iPhone app that uses your phone’s camera to scan the barcodes on items at the store and then retrieve their green creds for you. The information is based on company practices, the product’s production cycle, and other information.

The information is said to be independent, scientific, and based on health and wellness as well as environmental data. Products are ...

Twitter Feed – Publishing Your Blog to Twitter in Real Time

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:07:34 +0000

Twitterfeed.com is probably the most well-known and used feed apps for sending site information (mostly blogs) to Twitter. A lot of people use it, including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the White House, and myself. It’s considered the best tool for this job and it recently got even better.

At its most basic, you set up an account at Twitterfeed with your Twitter information, ad your RSS feed (or feeds), and the app will publish your feeds to Twitter automatically, as they’re received. That’s nice, but most blogging software like ...

CMP.ly – Shortening the FTC Rules the Easy Way

Craig Agranoff — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:01:41 +0000

If you have a blog or website where you publish product reviews, you’ll be interested in this. Here at Rev2, we obviously do reviews and so the new FTC rules will apply to us. Those rules, under the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, material connections to the products mentioned have to be disclosed. Here at Rev2, of course, we do not receive compensation for the apps and websites we review, but we’ll still be subject to the new FTC regs.

This new service, CMP.ly, hopes to help ...

Rrripple – Fun to Say Fun to Share

Craig Agranoff — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:53:17 +0000

This site is a comprehensive, centralized lifeflow platform, by their own description. I would say it’s a social media sharing platform, which is the same thing, but doesn’t sound so “Web 2.0 launchy-mission-statementy.” It’s based on a relatively old idea, but is much more all-inclusive and integrated than most apps of this nature.

Launching in September, Rrripple.com is in public beta. It’s been in development for two years, however, and the site definitely shows that.

The focus at Rrripple is on real-life social networks rather than the somewhat disjointed ones we ...