Crowdsourcing Waze Adds iOS4, Juices Up Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare Crowdsourced GPS app Waze has announced a further integration of its service with microblogging and location apps, as well as support for the iPhone's new iOS4. The iPhone version was approved by Apple this afternoon, according to Waze community cartographer Di-Ann Eisnor. "This updated version is fully optimized for the iPhone's new iOS 4… Curt Hopkins View comments
Analysis Making the Move to a "Premium" Service After many months of rumor and speculation, Hulu announced yesterday that it will be launching a subscription service. Hulu Plus will give users access to more content on more platforms for a monthly fee of $9.99. And while it's surely not the most reliable metric, early reviews from the App Store indicate that some folks aren't too pleased with… Audrey Watters View comments
Google New Google News is More Personal and Spontaneous Google News today announced it is rolling out a new layout with new features designed to bring readers a more personalized, local and social news experience. While still highlighting top stories and adding a list of trending topics similar to Twitter's, Google is now giving the reader additional customization options and adding a section for local… Klint Finley View comments
Microcontent Paper.li Gets Investment for Its "Twitter Newspapers" Opportunities to visualize data can turn the theoretical into the actual. Even so, many tools and services that do so are useful mostly to professionals - academics, economists, business people. Paper.li, a young Swiss company that turns a user's Twitter links into a newspaper-like Web page has been spectacularly successful at doing so for the… Curt Hopkins View comments
YouTube BP Exec to Brave YouTube Questions Live Tomorrow Ever since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent and ongoing spilling of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the public has been asking many questions. Who is to blame? How long will it take to stop the leak? How much irrevocable damage has been done? Thankfully, YouTube may be the best platform to get answers to these… Chris Cameron View comments