by Techsplosive on July 20, 2009
The cellular phone is no more a fancy gizmo. The cell phone is not just an instrument that people use to talk, text, play games or listen to music and watch videos any longer. The cellular phone can be now used to make money!
This might come as a shocker to people who spend large amounts of money on paying their phone bills every month. But this is true, more and more people are realizing that their cellular device can actually be an asset than a liability in terms of expenses. People are now using their cell phone devices like Blackberries, Apple I-phones and other smart phones to do business and make money. For the stubborn laptop people who refuse to believe a cell phone can help them in their business, here are 10 pointers that may help change your opinion. [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on July 5, 2009
Free online classified ads have taken a bit of bad press from the press over the past year or two (or however long it has been since the newspapers realized that they were on the way out). Craigslist struck first and struck hard. Rather than paying to advertise in newspapers or even to sell on eBay, people could sell their unwanted and surplus items on craigslist to local buyers – at no cost to themselves. In an effort to keep everything in house, eBay released their own “tricked out” version in called Kijiji which has worked out to be mediocre at best. A few other hopeful competitors have tried to best the Craigslist beast, yet Craigslist still reigns supreme in the world of free online classified ads.
One of the most recent challengers to Craigslist is a still small classifieds community called [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on July 3, 2009
It was a busy week in cyberspace, and because I am just one person I cannot possibly talk about everything that happened on here. Luckily, the blog and news-o-sphere are filled with informative and opinionated people focused on imparting the news and their views onto you, the reader. In case you had your head in the sand or were too tangled in twitter and completely missed the boat on some technological commentary, I am here to get you all caught up. Check ‘em.
Microsoft Discovers, Belatedly, that Vomiting may Offend Customers. An excellent piece of commentary on the most recent commercials for the tech giant’s release of IE8. A fitting follow-up to their theory that the commercial may be one of he wors in tech history.
Bumper Stickers Recruit Twitter Followers in Traffic. Taking your twitter brand a bit further. Just drive kindly and safely.
10 Ways to Find Followers on Twitter. Another excellent bit from Mashable on growing your network.
FeedBurner Adds Customizable Subject Lines to Email Subscriptions. This one, from ProBlogger, is rather self explanitory.
CoolIris 1.11. I like to look at pictures sometimes. You do too. This, from GadgetMETER, is a review of the latest CoolIris offering.
Enjoy – and have a good holiday weekend.
by Techsplosive on July 2, 2009
For as long as “the news” has been around many have been claiming that it is too grim, dark, bad, and controversial. I contest that we pattern the news after what matters most to us and that which we are afraid of, but I digress. Occasionally a few bits of positive news will come from a seemingly bad event. Or something truly remarkable and inspiring may unfold at the most spontaneous of times. The iPhone’s latest “happy app”, SmileNews, is setting out to break through your dreary and negative news feeds and bringten your day with all the news that is good and great.
If you think that SmileNews is just another one of those “Hmm, I think I can make money with an iPhone app” applications, think again. The SmileNews app seems to have been designed from a more scientific and psychological perspective. SmileNews cites a University of Toronto study which claims that [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on July 1, 2009
Ask a question on twitter, and you may have a pretty good chance of getting an @reply from the friendly VybeTrybe account.
VybeTrybe describes itself as a place to ask questions and get answers from friends, experts, and people just like you. But wait, isn’t that what Yahoo!Answers, JustAnswer.com, and WikiAnswers.com do too? Yes, and no.
Traditional answer sites, like the ones already mentioned, are their own communities. The Yahoo! people shoot the breeze at Yahoo!, the experts at JustAnswer advise the novices at JustAnswer, and the WikiAnswers members chew the fat with WikiAnswers members. VybeTrybe appears to be looking to make a mashup of all of these communties – plus facebook.
Rather than going through the process of signing up for a VybeTrybe (VT) account, VT makes it signing in simple with facebook connect integration. It is nice to see that some startups, like VT, are realizing that facebook actually does have between 200M – 300M members that [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on June 30, 2009
Niche social network baron Matt Heaton (creator of ActiveRain) is back with a niche social network for amateur athletes and sports teams. Born from a Heaton’s own personal experience as an amateur athlete looking for more interaction with others, Timu.com seeks to solve the problems and inadequacies of the other larger social networks in relation to how they deal with amateur athletes and sports teams.
In Thier Own Words.
Timu is a social networking platform specifically built to solve the communications problems encountered by athletes, sports teams and their fans.
Timu seems to take the notion that simplicity is excellence. Thier social network offering is easily navigable and not in the least bit overwhelming to the newcomer. For the interested bystander, a public news stream is available broadcasting the latest [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on June 30, 2009
TechSplode Your Summer! is a series of posts about how to maximize your summer activities through the usage of technology.
Getting away from the daily grind is always a blast, but when the daily grind includes a healthy dose of twitter it maybe a bit easier said than done.
Pre-Tweet. If you would prefer to spend your vacation twitter-free, but still keep up appearances there to let your followers know that you haven’t dropped off of the face of the earth, then a couple of twitter apps named FutureTweets, TweetLater, and [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on June 29, 2009
TechSplode Your Summer! is a series of posts about how to maximize your summer activities through the usage of technology.
There are few things more refreshing than leaving the old day-jog and taking a much needed vacation. However, it seems that work always finds a way to invade vacation and really hinder
Google Voice. Google’s Grand Central program, now called Google Voice, provides an excellent way for telephone users to accomplish more by doing less. Google Voice provides all members with one telephone number. Calls can be forwarded to land lines or mobile phones based on your schedule or personal preferences. Beyond that Google Voice enables contains a voicemail feature which [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on June 28, 2009
…Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) that is. What were you expecting anyway?
Alice.com officially launched to the public in it’s beta stage earlier this week on June 22nd. Since then the CPG retailer has managed to grab the attention of KillerStartups and startup superblog TechCrunch. The main idea behind alice.com is to allow people to conveniently shop for their household goods (kitchen, bathroom, office, cleaning, hygiene, etc.) on the internet.
While alice.com is perhaps one of the most innovative and new concepts to grace the internet this year, it is perhaps also one of the riskiest. While most of the world shows no aversion to [click to continue...]
by Techsplosive on June 27, 2009
Aplia is an excellent online education platform developed by Stanford professor and economist Paul Romer. Professor Romer’s intentions were simple in the year 2000. He desired to build an educational technology company that would educate and engage college students at a deeper level. Aplia currently business courses which are used and accessed by over 950 institutions. If I were to take a guess, I would say that many professors turn to Aplia to host their online offering of the course rather than a classroom style course.
First the Good. Aplia does in fact increase engagement and education for the student who is driven by self-discipline and personal success. When a student buys their aplia course [click to continue...]
