Nrme’s Location-Based iPhone App Goes Live. But Will Anyone Use It? Jason Kincaid Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:35:57 -0000
Last June we got a sneak peek at nrme, a location-based message service for the iPhone. The service behaves like a regional Twitter, but is geared towards sharing information rather than chatting - it’s sort of like a neighborhood bulletin board in the cloud. Instead of using a follow system, nrme makes all [...] Songsterr: A Flash Guitar Tab Player That Might Rock, Someday Jason Kincaid Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:52:27 -0000
One of the reasons why the guitar has become a staple in pop culture is its immediate accessibility. In lieu of standard notation, guitar players have developed tablature - a more intuitive representation of a song that uses numbers to indicate which fret on a guitar each note is played. Even the most [...] WSJ Creates BlackBerry App, Opens Some Previously Paid Content John Biggs Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:28:19 -0000
For those of you who read WSJ for the articles, the new BlackBerry-compatible WSJ.com Mobile Reader will open up the nasty walled garden that is WSJ.com. The application will be free and most of the content will be open, although there are plans to lock it down in the near future. The application will draw [...] Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow). Erick Schonfeld Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:59:57 -0000
The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in [...] CrunchGear Featured Review: Meastro Dobel Diamond Tequila John Biggs Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:34:02 -0000
We’re a gadget blog, true, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a mean drink on when we’re cornered. Luckily, Maestro Dobel was nice enough to send us a bottle of their $74.99 Diamond Tequila, offering us entree into a world that was once reserved for Jay Z and mortgage brokers between 2002 and 2007.
Read [...] Microspaces: Playing With Nested GUIs Erick Schonfeld Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:12:29 -0000
We’re seeing a lot of desktop metaphors moving to Web interfaces in the browser. The latest example to cross our inbox is Microspaces, a service in private beta that lets you organize Web pages in folder-like Microspaces. But unlike desktop folders, the contents are made up of Web pages, so they [...]
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