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SnApp Judgments: Star Chart

Star Chart

Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Star Chart by Escapist Games Limited which usually runs […]

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Roger McNamee Says Social Is Over, Unfriends Microsoft While He’s At It

In case I'm being too subtle.

Oh, Roger McNamee. If you’re a follower of the travails of the company-formerly-known-as-Palm, then you know him as the face of Elevation Partners and the fellow who thought we’d all be using Pres by now (especially the ladies, because it had a mirror). McNamee is a big name in finance and a big investor in […]

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Google May Not Have the Hang Of That Whole “Don’t Be Evil” Thing Just Yet

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Google loves their algorithms, and as some of us read last week, likes using automated solutions as much as possible. For those that haven’t read Douglas Edwards’s new book  I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, the author recounts having to convince Google’s founders that yes, they should indeed have someone tasked […]

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SnApp Judgments: Folder Organizer

Folder Organizer

Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is FolderOrganizer by Fabio Collini, which ordinarily runs $1.49. […]

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Facebook Unfriends Google+ Ad, Blocks User’s Other Ads

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While this shouldn’t really come as any kind of surprise, Facebook doesn’t like Google+ treading on their turf. Michael Lee Johnson, a self-proclaimed “Internet Geek, App Developer, Technological Virtuoso”, came up with a rather bold way to get more friends on Google’s social network- by creating an ad on Facebook. The ad (shown on right), […]

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Rolling On The iRiver

Rolling On The iRiver

Guest article by Joan Weiner For fans of Google’s ebook site (are there any of you out there?), Google announced yesterday their release of an ebook reader device designed specifically to link to the Google eBookstore. Similar to the way Kindle owners have to buy books from Amazon, owners of the iRiver Story HD will […]

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