Here is a short comparison of the three apps/platforms I originally posted on Quora: I have been looking at a few similar apps in order to choose one to use for a university course I’ll teach this fall (2012). I don’t want to use Facebook for obvious reasons (advertising, privacy issues, and potential mishaps with […]
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Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 – An online experiment in social reading
June 2, 2012 
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NYTimes announced that Oprah is returning with a new, 21-century version of her book club (here is her intro video). The core of the undertaking are the customized, electronic editions of the club selection, available as e-books on all popular reading platforms (Kindle, Nook, and iOS – iBooks for iPad and iPhone). This is going […]
Read moreKibits.com – a promising app, uncomfortable ToS [updated: new good ToS!]
March 30, 2012 2 Comments
Kibits is an iOS app (and related online service at kibitz.com) that creates ad-hoc, social mini-networks, and enables sharing of a wide range of materials within these groups, including chat messages, photos, videos, links, locations, notes, and even documents – the latter through direct iCloud and Dropbox integration (in this area, it clearly beats the […]
Read more From iPhone App, to Jamie Lidell… (via @TUAW)
November 6, 2011 Comments Off
This post should be called “when one thing leads to another, and another…”: originally, it was intended to be just a short comment about music software on the iPhone. As a complete music dilettante [can't read it; can't sound very articulate talking about it; can't play it - but like lots of it], I am easily impressed […]
Read more iOS, vs. Android and Mango
October 27, 2011 Comments Off
I like the fact that we have more than one strong operating system for smartphones. Among Apple iOS, Google Android (Gingerbread), and Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, there is enough variety to accommodate different preferences and tastes. I’m partial to iOS, and here are two articles that list two good reasons for that. One, from Wired’s […]
Read more iPhone 4S: Siri Discoveries
October 20, 2011 Comments Off
By default, Siri [the voice assistant on iPhone 4S] uses Google for search; so, if you hold the home button, and say “Siri, search the web for ‘ostrich’” it will find the results of Google search [Wikipedia as the top entry]; however, it turns out that you CAN use the other alternative search engines if […]
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Tech & Healthcare: O’Reilly Interview
Here is an interesting interview with Tim O’Reilly about the technology advances in healthcare. Made me think of a few articles I read recently, and new healthcare devices: Portable ultrasound devices that work with consumer electronics, such as an iPhone [via BusinessWeek]. Inexpensive wellness/fitness tracking gadgets, such as FitBit or JawBone Up.
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