Social Networking

LinkedIn announced a 3.0 update for its business card processing app for the iPhone. The app’s main function is to take a photo of business card and then convert the information on the card into contacts.

The color ebook reader tablet market is getting very crowded this fall. Amazon’s Kindle Fire looks like the ebook reader tablet to beat at $199 and launched today. There’s also Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet at a slightly pricer $249 (it has more hardware resources). And then, there’s the Kobo Vox eReader that has its [...]

Myxer Social Radio is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that lets you listen to music with your friends over the network. You can create music listening rooms to share with friends or join a friend’s listening room. Simultaneous music listening and chat is available. However, you can listen to the streaming music [...]

Quora is a popular community-organized Q&A website. But, did you know there Quora also has an iPhone app with an interesting feature tweak? The free Quora iPhone app lets you ask questions, contribute answers and browse topics as you can on Quora’s desktop website. And, the tweak? Quora for iPhone has a Nearby icon that, [...]

I took a look at the free Spreaker Radio for iPhone app just a few weeks ago and came away reasonably impressed by its podcast recording service, features, ease of use and easy of sharing. A new 2.1 version update was just released and addresses one of the missing features I noted in my original [...]

If you really need a good reason to make yet another trip to Starbucks, here’s one to consider. On November 15, apps for Android and iPhone will be released that uses Augmented Reality (AR) to bring characters encoded on the Starbucks red cups to life.

It may seem like the web has coughed up more than enough social networks by now but, if the internet has taught me anything over the years it’s that no digital niche will ever go unfilled. Meet Agent155, the recently announced site that plans to launch a network aimed at the entertainment industry.

My main source of information about science fiction and fantasy related TV shows and movie’s is Syfy’s (formerly the SciFi Channel) Blastr app for the iPhone and iPad. I check it every weekday. Reading entertainment news using Blastr in the iPad is, in my opinion, faster and easier than doing so in a desktop browser. [...]

Nokia City Scene is a prototype app from Nokia Beta Labs that combines street maps, 3D panoramic views with gesture navigation and social network integration to provide what appears to be a powerful map discovery tool.

Spotify, the subscription social music service, released an app for Windows Phone this week. The Windows Phone version has a few features surrounding playlists that Microsoft says sets it apart from Spotify for other mobile platforms. Spotify for Windows Phone can create playlists on the phone itself, play friends’ playlists and share playlists via Facebook, [...]