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FunMail’s FunTweet Visualizes Twitter Streams With Pretty Pictures

We’ve written about FunMobility’s nifty picture messaging app for the iPhone and Android, called FunMail, that allows users to blasts their text into the application, which then breaks down whatever the user typed for context and places fun graphics with your original text. Now, FunMobility has caught the Twitter bug and is launching FunTweet, a [...]

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Sat, March 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Yahoo Contacts Gets Facebook Connect

Last December, Yahoo announced that it would be rolling out a deep integration of its products with Facebook Connect, essentially outsourcing all things social to the world’s most popular social network. Today marks one of the initial demonstrations of this partnership, with Yahoo Contacts now connected to Facebook.
Now Yahoo allows you to add your [...]

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Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Gmail Security Enhancements Expected Tuesday

Google will roll out a number of security enhancements to Gmail this week, and perhaps as early as Tuesday, says a source with knowledge of the new features. The changes are specifically designed to cut down on phishing and hacking attacks on Gmail accounts.
There are to specific changes that we’ve heard Google is implementing. The [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Flavors.me: A Dead Simple Way To Pull Your Online Presences Into One Place

If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem you may face is pulling all of this information together to build a single online identity — be it for personal use, or to create a professional online profile. [...]

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Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?

Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their home page, saying Facebook acquired “most of the company’s assets and to employ those assets in a different direction.”
Either way, it’s leaving some people scratching their [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Amazon Says No To Blippy

Blippy, the Twitter-like service that lets users publish the details of all their purchases, is just a couple of months old. But it already got Stephen Colbert’s attention (thumbs up). And now it has Amazon’s too (thumbs down).
Cofounder Philip Kaplan first mentioned that Amazon had turned off Blippy’s access to the service on an episode [...]

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Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments