Location Sharing is a hot topic amongst mobile enthusiasts and social networking fiends. With new and improving services like FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and Latitude, there are a lot of options.
Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses from the Checkin-centric services like FourSquare and Gowalla, to the real-time location based services like Latitude, and [...]
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Location Sharing and the Missing Feature
iPhone OS vs. Android, Part I
These are my first impressions of the iPhone OS 3.0 versus Android 1.5.
I've been using Android for 3 months now and Android 1.5 for about 3 weeks.
I've only had 1 day with iPhone OS 3.0.
I'm running Android on a T-Mobile G1. I'm running iPhone OS on an iPod Touch 2G 8GB.
In comparison to iPhone hardware, [...]
TTOW: TokBox, video chatting for the masses
TokBox is a website that provides video chat services, also known as webcam services. Yes, it's true, just about every instant messaging platform already does this: Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger – even Google Talk does video chat now. On top of that, there are already so many sites providing video calling and conferencing like [...]
Nokia E71 Review
A few months ago, the fine people at WOMWorld lent me a Nokia E71 for review. I've been putting off publishing any sort of remarks because my mom always said "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." But, lately, they've been insistent. So, here we go.
First the good.
The phone is beautiful. [...]
TTOW: Intense Debate
In this Tech Tip of the Week (TTOW, get it, almost seems like a feature, doesn't it?), I will present, once again, Intense Debate, a centralized commenting system that has benefits for content authors and readers alike.
Earlier this year I looked at both Disqus and Intense Debate. I weighed each of their merits and drawbacks. [...]
Tumblr
In short, I have a new site you can read: http://revjim.tumblr.com/
There are hundreds of sites begging people to put their cool links into them (delicious.com and the like). But none of them really let you customize the site and make it your own. On top of that, almost every piece of social networking software has [...]
Gentle News Live is back?!
It's been nearly two years since Gentle News Live was rockin' the interwebs. So that means we've got that much in store for the comeback episode.
Tune your web browsers in this Monday at 8:31pm Central Time for hot, live, Gentle News action. This time around, not only will we be broadcasting LIVE!, but we'll be [...]
