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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

More Google Voice

Gina “Lifehacker” Trapani wrote a post about Google Voice on SmarterWare in which she says: Now that Google Voice supports SMS, you can send and receive text messages from your GV number as well, which is the last piece I needed to finally tell all my friends and family, “Here’s my new phone number.” She’s [...]

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The Hulu Takeover

According to TechCrunch, Hulu gained 10 million viewers in Feburary, which is an impressive number, but if you look at their chart, what I think is more impressive is the 64.5 minutes per viewer which is second in the top 10 behind only Google Sites (aka YouTube) which had 134 minutes, and 3.6 times more [...]

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One Inbox To Rule Them All

or: All Your Inbox Are Belong To Us So, there’s a thing called Google Voice (via TechCrunch). And to quote TechCrunch: Google also says that full integration with Gmail is coming, but won’t say when. Personally, having all my email, SMS and transcribed voicemails in a single inbox could be life-changing. Yes indeed. Of course, [...]

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How Long Before Disqus adds Google FriendConnect Login?

Since Google’s FriendConnect now has public APIs and Joost de Valk (is that his real name?) already has a WordPress plugin, it seems like only a matter of minutes days until Disqus will add the ability to login through Google to their plugin. (Would it help if I said Please?)

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Save Time – Then Waste It

This time-saving tip to set your email signature to say it was sent from your mobile device is one of the best things I’ve heard in a while. The way you save time with that is to just write short responses to emails, and since it’s “sent” from your iPhone or Blackberry or whatever, it’s [...]

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Aardvark is Social Q&A

Of course, Read/WriteWeb compares it to Twitter rather than, say, Yahoo Answers (which is the first product that I would think to compare it to). Whatever comparison you make, though, Aardvark sounds pretty cool. (Too bad the URL www.aardvark.com was already taken, leaving them with the awkward vark.com) Basically, what Aardvark does (or will do, [...]