Ushahidi (from the Swahili word meaning testimony) is an open source platform designed to help with disaster relief by allowing site owners to be a hub for information for their community with this free software. It’s being worked on by folks from a variety of countries, including Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Malawi, the Netherlands and the United States. It was used effectively in...
Once again Google has shown that the Android ecosystem is just not ready for prime time yet. At what point is the company going to grow up and admit that this whole thing is just not working the way it’s supposed to? Google announced the other day that the Gmail app in Android will no longer be tied to releases of the operating system itself, and a new version of the app could be...
In a post about backing up Google Calendar and Google data, I promised you a follow up list of tools to back up your social presences. This is what I use to back up everything for @leslie, Uptown Uncorked, Film POP! and all of my other social accounts. I hope you find it helpful! Backupify I use Backupify to backup my social presences. It currently backs up: Twitter, Flickr, Delicious...
Is this you? Do you, like me, have an Android phone and use Gmail for all your email, Google Calendar for all of your events and tasks, all because it offers such easy synching and a nice online access point you can take anywhere? You are not alone. More importantly, you are not immune to the occasional Google snafu that might lock you out of your mail or lock down your calendar once in...
I think we have reached a point where we can safely say that no one has any clue how successful the Android OS from Google really is. Last week we told you how AndroiLib was claiming the Android Market would surpass 100,000 apps this month. They even produced a pretty graph and everything. Now Google has come out and said the number currently sits at 70,000 apps in the Android Market...
Sometimes a new Web service or mobile app gets announced that you can tell a person or company has the best of intentions with it, but you can also pretty much tell instantly that it will never work as well as they intend it to. Say hello to Open Spot for Android phones. We’ve all been in that situation where it feels like you drive around for an hour looking for a parking spot,...
Does anyone actually read the ToS (Terms of Service) that we have to agree to to do just about anything on any gadget, device or the Internet? Don’t even try to front, you know you don’t. Well, in the case of the Google Android Marketplace, apparently all Android users have given Google permission to remotely wipe apps when they deem it necessary. Before anyone gets all worked up, it...
After what seems like an eternity, Google has opened up its Google Voice product to everyone (in the United States at least), but was it really worth the wait? Google Voice began life as a startup named GrandCentral. Launched in 2005, the service was a way to unify all of your telephone communications, and caught the attention of the omnipresent Google. The search giant came along...
If you’re a developer who loves to play around with Twitter’s API (Application Programming Interface), or you have been trying to make a serious business out of it, you probably got a very sobering wake up call on Friday, April 10th. The first rumblings happened on April 7th, when Fred Wilson, a Twitter board member and key investor, wrote a post on his blog entitled The Twitter...
While the iPhone app scene seems to get all of the attention and love, there is no mistaking that the Google Android Market is coming up strong and fast. The only problem is that while the number of apps is certainly growing faster and faster each month, it is becoming more and more like that old question of, “which matters more, quantity or quality?” There is no denying that there...