Delicious recently launched a mobile version of its website, due to growing usage of Internet from mobile devices. The popular web bookmarking service has introduced a Beta version for now which performs a few functions such as tagging, bookmarking and checking your system inbox. Site browsing is also one of the options.
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We have been covering quite a few apps coming on the iPhone lately, some of which included the vCard apps. Here’s another neat vCard app by the name of Sharecard. The clip above is a shot of how your vCard would look like, as one can see it has a nice user interface and is quite easy to accessible. The app is priced at $1.99 and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.
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Asia is seen as a big market for Mobile TV expansion, though it still isn’t making much money. The region is popular for further Mobile TV introduction but still financially stunted. Even the U.S. is not making much out of this sector, as most people prefer not to fall into subscriptions, rather there is a substantial decline in the last two years. This was picked up off a WSJ post:
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uClassify is a free Web service and API that allows you to create and train your own text classifiers. The Sweden-based startup shows how text classifiers can be used to create spam filters, categorize Web pages, detect languages, classify a batch of blog posts, etc.
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If you’re on the lookout to manage a group of your favorite Twitter users – Nerdz will get you just that. All you have to do is simply drop in the names of the people you’re looking to keep track of, and Nerdz pushes their tweets onto a gray background. As their tweets go older they start to fade away. The Twitter client Nerdz was created by Aaron Boodman, a developer at Google, who’s also co-created the Firefox add-on: Greasemonkey.
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A news today of a Twitter-user losing his account ownership through perhaps a trademark issue – reminds us again that these issues shall keep on coming. The account in question is VirginMedia, owned by Geoff, user Foomandoonian. About the incident Geoff states:
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Apple seems to be trying hard to spread its iPhone product throughout the world. Apple killed the GPS functionality of the iPhone to sell it in Egypt, due to the Egyptian government’s order. So now what will the company be looking to cut and compromise in its product when launching in China?
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Delicious a social bookmarking service recently added an audio player that plays your MP3 bookmarks inside the browser. This and other updates were rolled in by the service, as well as fixing a couple of bugs. The audio player works by popping up in a horizontal bar, consisting of back/forward navigational controls, and has integration with Yahoo! Search, among other simple features. The interface however resembles a lot like Yahoo! Mediaplayer.
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Two students from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands took down their Firefox plug-in which made it easy to browse products on Amazon, and to download the same products free through The Pirate Bay. This came after Amazon took legal steps and its lawyers served the students’ ISP with a take-down notice.
The plug-in was then taken down after just a week of its release, and found the students stating that their project was a parody and an experiment on interface design, information access and currently debated issues in media culture. John, a student from the project states:
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Apple’s has recorded sale of some 300 million iPhone Apps from its App Store for both iPhone and iPod Touch, since July. An estimate is that Apple has made $50 to $100 million in revenue in these sales. This was picked up from a blog post I happened to go through:
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