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Ning has just added apps so social network creators can make their social networks function better.  Here are some examples of the new Ning apps: the Sellit app allows a site creator to build in a store, a Wordpress app that shows Wordpress.com blog posts, and Ustream.tv and Qik for… Continue Reading »

The New York Times offers up the interesting tale of Evernote, the company that offers users an electronic shoebox of sorts to store data in.  The story looks into the company and how its “freemium” concept is about to turn the corner. Evernote offers users, for free, a way to… Continue Reading »

This morning, I surfed over to Walmart.com on my iPhone looking for a dinghy anchor, of all things and was met with the new iPhone Beta version of their site.  “Wow, this is great” I thought as I looked through everything including a shopping list that was just like a… Continue Reading »

If you haven’t realized yet: it is on.  The “it” being the battle between Google and Microsoft for control of, well, control of everything.  Today, we’ve got the billboard war. Where does tech bleed out of blogs and in front of the common man?  Billboards.  If you happen to be… Continue Reading »

Your cheap little Linux netbook just got a boost in credibility, or will get a boost when Microsoft drops the web app version of Office 2010 next year.  To date, Linux netbooks or anything else running the OS had to rely on non-Microsoft programs to read, edit and save in… Continue Reading »

Did you think Microsoft forgot all that stuff they said about clouds and their products?  Nope.  After the flurry of activity surrounding Office 2010 this morning, here comes the web part.  Microsoft will begin limited testing of the web apps today by invitation.  When the apps are available online, all… Continue Reading »

More and more often lately, it seems we are referring to the “cloud,” however that usually refers to cloud based storage or cloud based apps.  But this latest mention of the cloud is a complete operating system, which is appropriately named iCloud. To begin with, I would not expect a… Continue Reading »

Google has some good news for all the road warriors and smartphone junkies out there; at least for mobile workers who are fans of the spreadsheet function of Google Docs.  Google has officially added edit and filter functionality to their mobile spreadsheet application. It was over a year ago that… Continue Reading »

At last, a browser toolbar that’s unobtrusive and useful!  Trustpilot has introduced a new toolbar that warns users if an E-tailer is reliable or not.  Search results are given a check mark in green, orange, or red.  Green means the site has a high rating and many positive reviews, orange… Continue Reading »

If Apple, Microsoft, or Linux aren’t already shaking in their boots, somebody needs to tell them that they should. For don’t they know that a once fledgling little startup is slowly taking over the online world, one computer after another. And no, I’m not talking about another fast-spreading and destructive… Continue Reading »