Posts Tagged ‘applications’

HOW TO: Make a Google Buzz Desktop App

Whether you’re using it on your phone or your desktop, Google Buzz is quickly becoming an interesting and popular way to share content with your Gmail friends.


Official Apple iPad Demo [VIDEO]

Even though the Apple iPad won’t be available for another 60 or 90 days (depending on the model), Apple already has its official iPad website up and running. In addition to showing off some of the applications, features and design and technical specifications, the website also features an eight-minute video with Apple ’s design and development team discussing the device and showing it off. If you love Johnny Ive and well-produced promo videos, you’ll want to check it out! You can watch the video over at Apple.com here , but we’ve also gone ahead and embedded it below: What do you think of the iPad


Yelp Takes Up to $100 Million in New Funding

Local reviews powerhouse Yelp has announced that it’s taking a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, who will also “seek to increase its total investment in Yelp to $100 million through a planned purchase of shares from vested employees and other eligible shareholders,” according to a statement from the company.


Google Chrome Passes Safari to Nab Third in Browser Race

Just last week, Google finally released official betas for its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux. That release had a nice effect on market share for the browser, propelling it past Apple’s Safari and into third place . Of course, third place — according to Net Applications — means 4.4 percent market share (Safari’s market share is 4.37 percent), but that’s still 0.4 percentage points higher than Chrome’s stats for November


Facebook Now Consumes 5 Percent of Our Collective Internet Time

Facebook ’s already the Internet’s ultimate time waster , with users spending more time on it than any other website including Google , YouTube and Yahoo. But here’s another remarkable way to look at it: According to comScore , 5.5 percent of all time spent online in the U.S. during the month of November was spent on the social networking site


Apple Rejected Your App? There’s a Site For That

We’ve written on numerous occasions about Apple’s app approval policy, which has so far been inconsistent , often unfair and sometimes just plain strange . If you need more proof that many developers are unhappy with the way Apple is treating them, check out a new site called Apple Rejected Me , where everyone can come and vent about their (unjustly) rejected iPhone app. Of course, the entries on the site being anonymous doesn’t exactly make it a good source of reliable information; furthermore, most of the entries are jokes.


Now You Can Tell Twitter Where You Are

Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August , and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September . The geolocation functionality is now complete , and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into their applications should begin rolling out the new features soon. As we reported earlier , all of the location information is completely opt-in.


YouTube and Kodak Help Moms Get Killer Butts

Just a few days ago we covered the Target and YouTube partnership around Holiday Solutions, a holiday-themed channel with brand sponsored content.


Google Reveals Details of Chrome OS [Pictures and Video]

Back in July, Google made a move that long seemed inevitable when they announced the impending launch of their own operating system: Chrome OS . Since then, details on the project have remained sparse, other than that it would be lightweight (like the Chrome web browser), open source, and initially focused on the emerging netbook market. Today, we’re learning a bit more about Chrome OS, as Google is providing an update on the product and announced the open sourcing of the code, meaning developers will be able to keep up with developments and start contributing to it.