Are you good at Gmail? I’m certainly not. I gave up maintaining a trim inbox after years of pitches from public relations people finally broke my will to delete.
But that doesn’t have to happen to you. Google has released …
Apps & Web
Play Diablo III Today: Blizzard Launches ‘Open Beta Weekend’
Do you have a valid Battle.net account and a decent Windows- or Mac-based rig? You can play Diablo III this weekend, no special beta or V.I.P. access necessary. In fact Blizzard says the Diablo III client is available for …
Apple’s Phil Schiller: Instagram Snob
When Instagram arrived on Android a couple weeks ago, we all laughed at iPhone users who were disgusted with the Android riff-raff in their exclusive photo-sharing club. Turns out one of those snobbish iPhone users was Phil …
Augmented Reality Toys for iPhone and iPad: A Work in Progress
Can traditional toy makers capitalize on the rise of smartphones and tablets? Wowwee Toys thinks it can. Next week, the company behind Paper Jamz and Lite Sprites is releasing its first toys in the AppGear line, which combine …
Foursquare Sees Stars, Signs with Hollywood Talent Agency
In a rare move for a social media site, Foursquare has partnered with United Talent Agency to promote its presence in Hollywood.
The details of the arrangement are vague, but Variety notes that the move is probably geared …
Coming Soon to Tumblr: Ads
Tumblr, the five-year-old blogging platform with 52,352,325 blogs and counting, has finally decided that making a little money might be nice. Speaking at Ad Age’s Digital Conference yesterday, Tumblr’s founder and CEO David Karp …
Draw Something Now Lets You Save, Share and Comment On Drawings
When I tried Draw Something for the first time, my thoughts were, “Cool! Can I save this picture that I spent 20 minutes drawing?”
Sadly, the answer was no. Today, nearly a month after its $200 million acquisition by Zynga, it …
“Until I took an arrow in the knee.”
Wonderopolis Gets Smartphone Apps
Last year, we named a site called Wonderopolis to our list of the year’s fifty best sites. Created by the National Center for Family Literacy, it publishes a wonder each day for parents and kids to share — answers to burning …
Another Way to Save Best Buy: Make It More like Costco
Just about everybody, it seems, is full of helpful advice for Best Buy on how it can fix its business. I provided my suggestions back in March. (That was before the company’s CEO, Brian Dunn, resigned under mysterious …
NBC to Stream Entire 2012 Summer Olympics Live
NBC will stop being stingy and embrace live streaming for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
All 32 Olympic sports will be streamed live at nbcolympics.com, the New York Times reports. NBC’s advertising website indicated last …
Twitter’s Promise: Unexpected Sanity in the Patent Mess
Adam Messinger, Twitter’s top engineer, has blogged about a new concept that the company plans to implement and advocate for. It calls it the Innovator’s Patent Agreement:
The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps
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