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AT&T’s New FamilyMap App: Track Your Family On The Go

Liz Christina says:

I can see this being great for parents with teenagers. however, they wouldn’t be able to tell their teens that this is enabled IMO because most teens are very tech saavy and would prob. figure out how to disable it.

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att_logo_feb09.jpgAT&T just launched FamilyMap, the company’s newest iPhone app, which allows you to track the location of your family members directly on your iPhone. The app (iTunes link) allows you to see the exact location of your cellphone toting family members. You can also set up recurring alerts, which allows you to check if your child arrived at school in the morning, for example. Given that this is an AT&T app, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the service is only available if you pay a monthly subscription fee. Tracking the location of two phones costs $9.99 per month. For $14.99 per month, you can track up to five phones.

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Posted by Liz Christina  3 days ago

Facebook to release fully featured webmail (full POP/IMAP support)

Liz Christina says:

hmm. i wonder if it really will be competition for gmail or not….

Amplify’d from www.techcrunch.com

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.

First, our understanding is that there will be full POP/IMAP support, meaning users can access the account other than through Facebook itself. Your email account name will be your vanity url – vanityurl@facebook.com.

Email is all about identity. And Facebook is ahead of everyone else in the identity game via Facebook Connect. Facebook says more than 60 million people log in to 80,000 third party websites each month via Facebook Connect.

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Posted by Liz Christina  3 days ago

FBI wants records of Web sites visited.

Liz Christina says:

I do see how this makes sense to catch child pornographers and the like.

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The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.

Recording what Web sites are visited, though, is likely to draw both practical and privacy objections.

If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant.

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Posted by Liz Christina  3 days ago

Google is Now selling Signature $300 Designer Scarves

Liz Christina says:

wow. um?? this is not worth $300… I graduated from FIT with a degree in Fashion design and i have to say that this scarf is just not aesthetically pleasing whatsoever. I can’t really see anyone who has good design taste buying this…unless just for the novelty of it all.

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Google is selling “Google-inspired” scarves and other clothing to the public that were designed by emerging designers. Last year, designers who participated in a Vogue and Council of Fashion Designer program were asked to create a one-of-a-kind item inspired by Google in some way that reflected Google’s aura. Google transformed the finalists creations into iGoogle Artists themes but selected three of the designers to produce and sell their Google-inspired couture.

Flora Gill designed an oversize, multi-yarn, intarsia hand-knit scarf incorporating silk bias trim with wool and nylon yarn. Inspired by Google’s multi-functionality and diversity, the scarf features Google’s signature colors and is designed to be worn in several ways.

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Posted by Liz Christina  3 days ago

A Personal Assistant on your iPhone

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A start-up called Siri, based in San Jose, Calif., hopes to do a slightly better job by bringing a virtual personal assistant to your pocket — more specifically, to your Apple iPhone.

But where Siri breaks away from the pack, says Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and chief executive of the company, is that it is “speech recognition with a brain.”

“This is the first version of a computer assistance that understands language, has the ability to delegate tasks and learn,” Mr. Kittlaus said.

First, users speak a command, like, “Find a table for two at 9 tonight,” “Get two tickets to ‘Crazy Heart’ at 8,” “Send a taxi to my house,” or even “What kid-friendly events are going on in New York this weekend?” Using G.P.S. and speech-recognition technology powered by Nuance, the application translates the spoken command and uses a set of algorithms to search for the answer.

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Posted by Liz Christina  3 days ago

Teens like Facebook over blogging and Twitter.

Liz Christina says:

This really isn’t a surprise to me.

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A new report paints a picture of how teens and young adults are using social media these days.

Teens are eating up Facebook but are not so keen on Twitter, and they are not blogging as much as they used to, according to the Pew Internet Project’s report.

“Out of all the data, we think in some ways it’s most surprising to see a decline in blogging,” says Pew researcher Amanda Lenhart, who co-wrote the report, “Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults.”

Lenhart says blogging among teens and young adults has plummeted to half what it was in 2006. In that year, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and adults ages 18-29 were bloggers. By the fall of 2009, the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults. During the same period, the percentage of online adults over 30 who were bloggers rose from 7% in 2006 to 11% in 2009.

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Posted by Liz Christina  4 days ago

Black Tonic: Cool New Remote Presentation Web App.

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Black Tonic is entirely web-based sans plug-in, and works across just about all browsers. People watching a presentation can even tune in via Safari on their iPhones.
Black Tonic is not a screen-sharing tool, so you don’t have to show your whole desktop
And Black Tonic is not a collaboration tool; all that happens is one person presents a deck of slides and the other watches.
The product also includes versioning support and live uploads on the fly

Black Tonic is available to the public as of today, starting with a 14-day free trial and after that $15 per month per user.

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Posted by Liz Christina  5 days ago

Signs that you are suffering from Founder-itis

Liz Christina says:

so true for startups! These were my favorites.

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  • You mistake insomnia for work ethic.
  • You are constantly looking to add hot new features to your products such as Tweet This & Facebook Connect.
  • You obsess over features/details over which you have no control.
  • You have the constant urge to do everything.
  • You have attention deficit disorder, in that you’re constantly checking Twitter/Facebook/Google Reader and have set up Google Alerts to monitor what people are saying about you and your company — when you should be actually working.
  • Your idea of dining out is picking up take-out food rather than having it delivered.
  • In moments of great weakness, you regret not just starting a virtual farm application and selling virtual goods via cell phones.
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    Posted by Liz Christina  5 days ago

    Is anyone attending the Mashable NextUp NYC The Future Journalist Tonight?

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    Study links excessive internet use to depression

    Liz Christina says:

    I would think, that they were previously depressed and therefore separated themselves socially and are instead drawn to the internet as a replacement for interaction.

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    People who spend a lot of time surfing the internet are more likely to show signs of depression, British scientists said on Wednesday.
    t is not clear whether the internet causes depression or whether depressed people are drawn to it.
    Psychologists from Leeds University found what they said was “striking” evidence that some avid net users develop compulsive internet habits in which they replace real-life social interaction with online chat rooms and social networking sites.Read more at www.reuters.com
     
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