Live from Google I/O: Waving Thursday’s Keynote
Yesterday's live wave coverage of the Google I/O keynote was so much fun we're doing it again today. The Day 2 keynote starts at 8:30am (in less than 20 minutes), and Adam Pash, Kevin Marks and I will...
View ArticleGoogle Gives HTC EVO Phones to Google I/O Attendees
Not only did Google pre-mail Droid handsets to I/O attendees, today they gave the Sprint HTC EVO 4G out to conference attendees at the Moscone Center, with a 2GB Micro SD card filled with music....
View ArticleBetter Gmail 2 and Better Flickr Updated
Released a few fix-it updates to the Better Gmail 2 and Better Flickr Firefox extensions this week, which you can get by pressing the "Find Updates" button in your extensions dialog box. Better Gmail...
View ArticleAndroid 2.2 Screenshots: My Favorite Features in Froyo
Android 2.2 (code-named "Froyo," the next alphabetical installment of dessert-named releases after Cupcake, Donut, and Eclair) is now rolling out to Nexus One handsets . If you're tired of tapping and...
View ArticleHilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script
Just stumbled upon a YouTube clip of one of the best Ignite presentations I've seen, by Hilary Mason , a computer scientist at Bit.ly. Mason wrote a series of scripts that auto-respond to email with...
View ArticleThis Week in Google Episode 45
In this week's episode of TWiG, Leo, Jeff, and I talked about Google's "ban" of Windows PCs for employees, Android tablets, the Sprint EVO (which I love), blogger journalism, and some of Steve Jobs'...
View ArticleLessons from Apple on Advertising and Aesthetics
Steve Jobs announced the iPhone 4 yesterday in his WWDC keynote, and it's a gorgeous device with software upgrades that include multitasking, a video chat app called FaceTime, and more. I'm still a...
View ArticleiPhone 4 versus HTC EVO
Nicole Lee does the hard work so I don't have to: feature by feature comparison of the iPhone 4 and the 4G HTC EVO. As far as I'm concerned, the EVO's the better deal: bigger screen, more customizable...
View ArticleThis Week in Google, Episode 46
This week's episode of TWiG featured Jeff Jarvis Skyping over 3G from a moving car on a NJ highway, Brad Stone from the NY Times who was a total trooper during our criticism of the Times' takedown of...
View ArticleEarthquakes and Android Development
While last night's southern California earthquake shook up the Padres game , I was standing in a doorway downloading an Android app. Twitter was down, the news didn't have anything yet, but I...
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