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Google releases news reading app Currents
LAST week, Google finally released for Android devices, iPad and iPhone its long-awaited mobile news reading application Google Currents. The application, however, is still only available for devices in the US. The decision to allow only US users to test the application has sparked criticisms in some website comments sections. While previous Google products came…
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Disintermediation
TO do well online, close your website department. The website department as we know it today is approaching obsolescence, even anachronism. It’s like a typists’ pool-—convenient but unessential, an extra layer of fat that is fatal in today’s time of lean startups and agile companies. Today, the Internet should be central to everything that you…
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Becoming a better blogger
(The following is a condensed version of my talk on how to improve your blogging skills during the Visayas Blogging Summit last Saturday. The summit was well-attended and had several corporate sponsors, an indication that blogging has indeed gone mainstream in Cebu) My presentation during the Visayas Blogging Summit on Prezi WHAT’s the goal of…
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Manage your projects, tasks with Asana
The company started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and programming genius Justin Rosenstein opened to the public last week its productivity product Asana, a web application that allows users to manage teams and projects. Moskovitz is listed by Forbes as the world’s youngest billionaire, being eight days younger than Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, owing to…
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Location, location, location
Beware of geeks bearing gifts. A man in New York City has reportedly caught his wife cheating using the Find My Friends app of the iPhone 4S he gave her. Find My Friends uses global positioning system (GPS) to let people share their locations with friends. The locations of people are indicated by a tooltip…