Lately I’ve been addicted to a pretty neat application called Waze. It brands itself as a social navigation app and has apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian. I actually played with both the iPhone and Windows Mobile app and both work pretty decently. The app is pretty addictive. You essentially get...
Read more »
Tags: android, iphone, social, waze
Posted in Gizmodoodats, Social-Experiment | View Comments
I can’t believe it’s Friday already and it’s time to crank out another Follow Friday post. It’s been a surprisingly busy week and I’ve not had much chance to blog or tweet of late. I’m hoping that Follow Fridays aren’t the only posts I do in May =D. So my theme for this weeks...
Read more »
Tags: followfriday, social, twitter
Posted in Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle | View Comments
I was really curious about seeing this clip because I work with Saul and he's a really amazing person (more about that on Friday). The clip caught me by surprise as Bill came across very negatively and extremely ignorant. The reality is that social media is here to stay and will be a tool...
Read more »
Tags: cnbc, microblogging, social, twitter
Posted in Social-Experiment, This-and-That | View Comments
It's been an up-and-down tech week for me. If you've followed me on Twitter, you'd have seen my frustrations with my phone since my Colorado trip. I had decided to try the Energy ROM which is very fast and very pretty but I ran into a tonne of problems with stability. After trying out...
Read more »
Tags: flexilis, microplaza, peoplebrowsr, social
Posted in TechnoFrazzle, This-and-That | View Comments
I love Twitter for it’s simplicity and versatility; everyone seems to use it a little differently so the interactions that you observe on Twitter can be overwhelming at a glance. Enter Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is an Adobe AIR application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s not an information consolidator but an information organizer....
Read more »
Tags: integration, social, tweetdeck, twitter
Posted in Gizmodoodats, Social-Experiment | View Comments
The challenge of news aggregation has been quite an interesting one for a while. The overall business problem I've been trying to address for a while now is to find a system that will aggregate my news information, read the information and allow me to share interesting articles with others through email or RSS...
Read more »
Tags: google, newsgator, prssreader, social
Posted in Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle | View Comments
The wonderful thing about the internet is that there is such an abundant of good information out there. There isn't a day where I don't come across an entry from another blog that I find interesting and end up following. The unfortunate outcome is that I end up having a huge amount of blogs...
Read more »
Tags: aggregation, news, social
Posted in Gizmodoodats, Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle | View Comments
Google has the right idea; there's no doubt about it. Even though Google is most famous for it's search, it actually provides a killer service platform for someone like me. When I look at all the web tools that I use today, Google provides a reasonable use of it. It is definitely more useful...
Read more »
Tags: google, platform, social
Posted in Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle | View Comments
I decided to write a very quick blog about how I use twitter because I've had quite a few people asking why I think Twitter is an interesting tool. So why not? I'm in need of material to write about anyway. Lately we've been experimenting with Twitter a lot more at work. If I...
Read more »
Tags: social, twitter
Posted in Social-Experiment, TechnoFrazzle | View Comments
Most of my friends have always been puzzled by my fascination with Twitter. The question most frequently asked is what can I do with Twitter. I think there are very many practical uses with it. Two of the more famous stories are that the news of the earthquake in china and the Mumbai attacks...
Read more »
Tags: social, twitter, zoocasa
Posted in Social-Experiment, This-and-That | View Comments