Pulse + Posterous = The iPad's Newest News Aggregator Team
You're probably familiar with Pulse, one of the many beautiful ways to enjoy RSS feeds on your iPad. You're also probably familiar with Flipboard, a new app that adds social functions to feed reading....
View ArticleZuckerberg: Apple Needs To "Get On The Bus" For Social
(Image courtesy of Gawker)One of the rumors that had been bandied about before the Beatles announcement this morning for iTunes, was whether or not Apple and Facebook had perhaps struck a deal in...
View ArticleHow To Get Social with Flipboard for iPad
Despite some interesting first impressions from publishers, Flipboard has proven itself as a very cool way to browse news and social networks on the iPad. The reader app lets you subscribe to various...
View ArticleSoundCloud Audio Sharing App for Mac Review
Social networking for your earsImagine a mashup of podcasting, Twitter, and YouTube for audio files, and you’ll have an idea of what SoundCloud is all about. It’s a social media service that lets you...
View ArticleApp Showdown: Mobile Deals
There's a reason Google made a multibillion dollar pitch for Groupon. There's gold in them thar deals, and ever hungry for another advertising/data collating moneymaker, the gang out at Mountain View...
View ArticleHow To Use Tor to Access Blocked Sites at Work and School
The web was built to be open, with people freely sharing and accessing information. However, many employers and schools block access to certain websites to preserve the productivity of their employees...
View ArticleTwitter Reportedly Scoops Up TweetDeck
If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out! According to sources close to the deal, Twitter has reportedly acquired TweetDeck, which for those unfamiliar, is an app for organizing the display of tweets, for...
View ArticleFlipboard Reaches Huge Numbers for Downloads and Monthly Flips
In an interview with TechCrunch, CEO Mike McCue announced that the Flipboard app achieved 3.5 million downloads in only 14 months and has exploded from 250 million flips per month to 550 million flips...
View ArticleTwitter #Music Review
Twitter has long been a way for musicians to connect with their fans, but the standalone Twitter #Music app is something different: It's an opportunity for the social networking company to leverage its...
View ArticleInstagram Short Videos vs. Vine: We Uncover the Major Differences
The rumors of its appearance have been circulating for a while, but today bite-sized video content finally made its way to Facebook's Instagram. Much like Twitter's rival Vine, it thrives on short...
View ArticleBug Exposes Contact Information of 6 Million Facebook Users
It's bad enough when Facebook's official policies cause concerns about privacy; it's worse when undiscovered bugs in the gigantic social network start revealing your data to other users. And that's...
View ArticleAds Coming to Instagram, Zuckerberg Says; No Timeline Given
Today during Facebook's earnings call (via The Wall Street Journal), Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the fears expressed by many users when the social-networking behemoth acquired Instagram--ads will...
View ArticleRockmelt Acquired by Yahoo!, Service to End August 31
Rockmelt, the hybrid web browser and social sharing service, has been acquired by Yahoo! after more than four years of existence. Both the iOS app and web service will shut down as of August 31, 2013,...
View ArticleUpcoming Instagram Update to Bring Video Importing, Auto Straightening
Instagram just keeps getting better under Facebook's direction. Not long after its purchase of the popular social photography app, it announced that it was bringing 15-second videos to compete with...
View ArticleLatest Facebook Update Brings Restaurant Reservations, TV Showtimes
Facebook just received a huge boost to its general usefulness in the form of the ability to place reservations at restaurants across the United States through its mobile app, thanks to a collaborative...
View ArticleWith Latest Update, Yelp Finally Lets You Write Full Reviews From Your iPhone
Yelp is occasionally a godsend when you're on the road and you're looking for neighborhood eats, but until now its iOS incarnation has been severely hampered by an inability to write full reviews...
View ArticleNARR8 Review
In theory, an app-based social media platform for creating shareable stories — by stringing words, animated images, and audio together — sounds pretty cool. NARR8 aims to do all of this and more, but...
View ArticleWSJ: Ads Coming to Instagram Sometime Next Year
Considering that Facebook spent a cool billion dollars on Instagram when it acquired it early last year, it only makes sense that it would want to get some of that money back. As a consequence, the...
View ArticleAutoplaying Videos (and Ads) May Come to Facebook Soon
Ever since Facebook started monetizing itself through ads, many of us have seen them creep in between the posts from our families and friends with something approaching begrudging acceptance. But now,...
View ArticleiOS 7 Lockscreen Bug Lets Intruders Access Photos, E-mail, and Twitter
On the heels of iOS 7's launch, a particularly nasty vulnerability issue has been discovered by user Jose Rodriguez of Spain, who sent a video detailing the problem to Forbes. By exploiting the design...
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