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People Can’t Stop Talking About Google Babble

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:20:10 +0000

Considering that Google has revamped the way people connect with the creation of both Gmail and Google Voice, there’s one major area where the company has had a failure to communicate. Google has tried standalone messaging clients with Google Talk and Google Messenger. Then there are the chat add-ons to other services, like Hangout and […]

Facebook Android App Update Offers New Toys, Fails At Basics

Matt Algren — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:04 +0000

Facebook updated their Android App to version 1.9 last Friday, offering two new icons, a slightly refreshed interface, and some performance improvements. As always, Facebook wants to make it easier to stay immersed in their social network, and the two new icons do just that. With Facebook’s billion dollar purchase of Instagram less than two […]

Seriously, Just Look Where You’re Going: Bear In The Driveway Edition

Matt Algren — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:08:11 +0000

We told you last week to be careful texting while walking down the street. We said we weren’t going to lecture, and we stand by that. But as this La Crescenta, California man found out this morning, texting might keep you from noticing the bear walking straight toward you on your own driveway. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h2dsRUZly8′] […]

Seriously, Just Look Where You’re Going

Daniela Weiss-Bronstein — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:25:02 +0000

Here’s a reminder: life on your screen will only continue if life outside of your screen does so as well. I’m not going to lecture. I don’t think it works or else no one would drive drunk anymore. People aren’t moved by the statistics of fatalities caused both by drivers’ and pedestrians’ inattentiveness. It seems […]

Facebook Mobile Messaging Is Here! Convoluted And Buggy, But Here!

Yoni Gross — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:00:23 +0000

I’ve been petty rough on Facebook’s Android messaging in the past, but it looks like things may be about to change. Courtesy of the developers from group messaging app Beluga, which Facebook acquired in March, Facebook has released a new dedicated messaging app for Android and iOS today. The app has more in common with […]

Apple’s iMessage: A Solution in Search of a Problem?

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:22:58 +0000

Apple recently announced iMessage: a messaging app/protocol that communicated between iDevices — and that’s it. If this sounds familiar, think RIM’s Blackberry Messenger. I confess to not “getting” BBM . The idea of a closed portal for communicating on a device that can text, e-mail, and instant message already just seems redundant. And yet, what […]