Jun 22
In case you’ve missed the coverage surrounding the present crisis in Iran surrounding their national elections, click here for a brief run-down from The New York Times. A lot has been said recently about the role of social media in these recent protests in Iran. An explosion of insider Twitter updates, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, …
Jun 08
A new web application called Livekick uses some cool software and API’s to keep you informed of all concert information in your area. What sets Livekick apart is the fact that it knows what kind of music you like and tailors your results accordingly. When you first log in to Livekick, you can import your …
Jun 05
A recent blog post on the Harvard Business page contains some interesting insight into the true nature of Twitter and its users. Its authors, Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski, studied gender differences and overall usage patterns on Twitter. What they found is rather revealing, but not entirely surprising. The main statistic I found interesting is …
Jun 03
Adobe just launched a new hosted online tool for web developers called Adobe BrowserLab. This free service (for now) lets you test your web pages in seven of the most popular browser configurations without having to install different browsers on your local machine. This is a huge time saver when testing new websites or recent …
May 21
This week the 5th annual O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference is taking place in San Jose, California. This gathering brings together some of the newest technologies that utilize location aware software and hardware. Web applications, mobile devices, and laptops are increasingly integrating location information to customize user experiences, and the Where 2.0 conference gives us a …
May 11
I just came across a relatively new social networking site called Wakoopa that is specifically designed to track your software usage and help you discover the cool new software that everyone is using. Once you sign up, Wakoopa tracks your software usage so you can see how you manage your time both across the web …
Apr 21
Adam Wilson and Justin Williams of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed technology that allows them to post Twitter updates just by thinking about what they want to say. You heard that right. Twitter has gone cerebral. The two biomedical engineering students have designed software that detects electrical signals from the brain to allow users …
Apr 14
Follow every update and blog post from Software News Daily on our Twitter page! Yes, that’s right. SoftwareMedia is now on Twitter along with the rest of the techno-savvy world. Check out some of our Followings for up-to-the-second industry news and updates from company employees. If you follow us, we’ll follow you…wait, that sounds pretty …
Mar 13
Twitter, for those of you that aren’t into the new era of social networking, is a micro-blogging system that asks its users, “What are you doing?” Twitter users constantly post updates of their daily lives in the form of Tweets, which are text updates shorter than 140 characters. You can subscribe to twitter feeds from …
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