The cool Reddit is Fun Android app, which we covered 
recently, was banned from the Google Play store today due to a “violation of the sexual explicit material provision,” which obviously meant that somebody who tested Reddit is Fun was able to access sexual content using the application. The creator, Andrew Shu, was surprised by the situation and posted first on Reddit, and then over on Google+ to get more attention. A Google employee responded to him on Google+ to address his concerns.
Better late than never. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom announced at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX Sunday that an Android version of the photo-sharing app was coming soon.
Reddit is fun, one of the top unofficial Reddit browsing applications for Android, has released version 2 and it adds all kinds of cool features. Most notably the pro version is now optimized for tablets, but there are a bunch of bug fixes that make the app the easiest way to use Reddit on a mobile device. The app is available in the Google Market Play store.
I’ve been a big fan of cloud powered gaming services, such as OnLive, Gaikai and now GFace. That’s why it was surprising when I found out that OnLive was releasing a Windows 7 service. The service allows users of the iPad to essentially use Windows 7 over the cloud, and access everything that a normal Windows 7 installation does. OnLive has now taken it a step further and has launched the product for Android.
Nine months ago, PapayaMobile, the creators of “Papaya Farm” and “Papaya Fish,” stopped publishing their own games. Since then, the company says it has reached 50 million users and has just launched a new development tool called “Social Splash” that will make it easier to put games on the Android.
Today at the Inside Social Apps Conference 2012 in San Francisco, game developers discussed which platforms hold the most promise in 2012.
Vimeo launched their official iPhone app last year and, since the launch, Android users have been anxiously waiting in the sidelines for their chance to take Vimeo for a spin on their mobile devices. Well now the wait is finally over. Yesterday at CES Vimeo launched brand new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices.
If you were to ask me to list a few of the most influential sites on the web right now, there’s no doubt that Reddit would be in the top 5. While the sparse design of the site turns some away, the volume of traffic and quality posts as well as the smart comment sorting make it a hive of useful information and a source of endless humor. As some Redditors’ lovingly refer to the population of the site, the ‘hive mind’ is like an anonymous group of millions of people, expressing their thoughts together.
That said, I’m starting to see companies and brands try to take advantage of the intelligent community, and like they always do, some Facebook developers have jumped on board.
I’ve written about thousands of apps for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone here. If you ever wondered which of these third party apps (not part of the mobile platform) actually made their way to the start window for each of my devices, wonder no more. I usually leave the default apps in-position on their respective home pages “just because.” This list does not indicate how “important” an app is. It says more about how frequently they are accessed on a daily basis.
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I provided a tip here in August that drew a fair bit of attention and commentary. The tip provided a solution to a problem I had to solve myself: How do I share a slide presentation with an audience when a projector is not available? My solution was to upload the slides to SlideShare’s free web sharing service and use a Google QR code to let the audience quickly find and see the presentation. So, how did all this work out?
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