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It’s that special time again that comes along every four years, the largest sporting event in the world is upon as. As we come to the close of the group stage of the tournament, there’s no better time to track your team’s progress. Here are some great resources that will help you stay on top of what’s happening in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
The popularity of location based applications is on the rise with the global introduction to the likes of Foursquare and Yelp!. Though it seems many have forgotten Twitter has been location aware for some time now.
Twitter gives you the option of enabling Geotagging in your account settings (see image below). Once enabled, third party applications will add a link to your location along with your tweets. (Note that these will only be visible on third party applications and not on the Twitter website).
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LinkedIn has recently opened it’s platform for compatibility with third party applications as well as launching Twitter integration. Is all this turning a professional network into a social one?
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The long awaited preview launch of Google Wave has come and gone. You can sign up to receive an invite here (don’t hold your breath) if you haven’t received one already.
It has launched with mixed reviews, most of which can be attributed to all the hype surrounding Wave and the fact that it’s still in alpha release. The potential is there, which is something not many will deny, unfortunately it hasn’t reached a level of usability as of yet that will engage most users.
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The release of iTunes 9 has included some social media additions, an iTunes store revamp, Genius features and some great extras for the iPhone. However, some rumored additions were left out, such as Last.fm integration and blu-ray playback.
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After releasing the long awaited and much improved iPhone application, Facebook have launched a few other neat features over the last week including @mentions, notifications for Mac and Facebook Lite. News about the ‘Facebook Movie’ also emerged.
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25th June 2009 (26th in Australia), a day that won’t soon be forgotten. The death of Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, sent hundreds of thousands of people around the world to the internet to try and find out the truth… was the superstar really dead.
I was on my way to work when I read the news on my iPhone that he had been rushed to hospital after suffering cardiac arrest. As usual my first move was to post the news on Twitter and see what others were saying. People were claiming Michael Jackson had died, but I tried not to believe it until I had seen it confirmed on one of the major news outlets. It wasn’t long before confirmation was made and I had friends and family calling to share the news and their empathy. I had purchased tickets to see Michael Jackson’s concert in London.
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iPhone 3.0 Firmware
The new 3.0 firmware is released this week (17th June most likely 18th June in Australia), so get ready for an improvement user experience and functionality including MMS, copy and paste and landscape keyboard. Not to mention the new apps that will now follow, including TomTom GPS for the iPhone.
> iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update
> TomTom for iPhone
> Top 6 iPhone 3.0 Apps to Watch
