Ever wanted to get the benefits of communal television viewing without having to actually spend time around other people? Well in that case, the iPhone and Android app “SocialGuide” is the app you’ve been dreaming of.
SocialGuide is based around what CEO Sean Casey calls the “two-screen experience”:
“More and more, TV watching is
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If it seems as if Twitter has a large application eco-system, that’s because… well, it does. So large, in fact, that the company has just announced its one millionth registered application.
According to Twitter, more than $500 million has been invested in Twitter apps since December 2010, with more than a billion dollars being paid …
Hear that jangling, flushing sound? That’s your bank account, linked to your Apple App Store wallet, draining incrementally faster—or at least the hypothetical sound it’ll make as those once-but-not-future 99-cent apps metamorphose into pricier versions on average.
That’s what Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster found, anyway, …
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My iPad is bursting at the seams with wonderful applications. If I had to pick just one of them as the romantic ideal of what a tablet app can and should be, it would be Flipboard.
This “social magazine”–which brings together stuff from Facebook, Twitter, and the entire Web into a wonderfully browsable package–simply …
If you’re a regular use of Facebook. you may have noticed the disappearance of a number of applications across the site in the last week or so—including Social Interview, Photo Effect and God Reads—and be wondering what’s going on. It’s been officially explained as part of a widespread operation responding to complaints of an …
Last night, Apple removed the controversial “The Third Intifada” app from its App Store, just one week after it first went online. The free app provided news about forthcoming Palestinian protests as well as pinpointing other anti-Israel articles and information on the web. Some of the activities it highlighted demanded violence …
It may not have seemed like a month that changed everything, but if speculation by Flurry Analytics proves to be correct, this month will be the first in history where Americans spent more time using mobile apps than the full-on internet via web browsers.
“Our analysis shows that, for the first time ever, daily time spent in mobile …
Of all of Apple’s failures, one of the tech company’s more disastrous was its move into social music sharing with Ping. Things got so bad that Lady Gaga, the social network’s face, publically called the results “underwhelming,” while Apple’s once-promising service didn’t even warrant a mention during WWDC earlier this …
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Question: I recently upgraded to an iPhone. My friends are always posting pictures of their food on Facebook and Instagram, but mine always come out crappy. How can I take better food photos?
Answer: Ah, you’re friends with …
Late last night news broke that Facebook was finally making its own iPad app. “An iPad app?” you say. “Haven’t iPads been around for, like, a year now?”
Yep. The iPad’s been without a native Facebook app since its launch in April 2010. But the New York Times is reporting that sources at Facebook will introduce their long-awaited iPad …
When I was prepping to take the GREs in 2009, I had to memorize a bunch of longwinded vocabulary words that I knew I’d never use: "sanguine," "enervate," and my personal favorite to mouth quietly, "magnanimous." (Fair warning: I wouldn’t be able to tell you what any of those mean without a right-click.)
To study, I made a batch of a
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Mac Rumors is reporting that Apple has quietly relaxed its controversial guidelines regarding in-app subscription pricing for developers, which most directly affects apps by magazine and newspaper publishers.
Apple’s policy had required in-app subscriptions to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” which …
