Location Trapster's Background Location Speed Trap What better timing than a cross-country road-trip, and the beginning of my effort to become a fully-mobile blogger, for Trapster, the iPhone app that keeps track of road hazards, speed traps and even roadkill, to update with background location for iOS 4? The update means that, as me and my traveling partner-in-crime make our way across the length… Mike Melanson View comments
SemTech 2010 Google's Semantic Web Push: Rich Snippets Usage Growing At the Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco today, Google gave an update of its rich snippets initiative - which adds extra information to Google search results. For example, showing restaurant review ratings. It's an experimental Semantic Web feature, but today's update shows that usage is increasing and Google wants to ramp it up… Richard MacManus View comments
mobile Smashing the Passive TV: New Check-in Apps Make Entertainment Social Again Do you want to chat with friends who are watching the same TV shows you are or reading the same books? Do you want to check in to record and share a history of your offline entertainment activities? Many startups think you will and the number of apps for that is growing fast. The latest entry into the field is from GetGlue, a startup that offers… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
How-To Hiring a Programmer for Your Startup Any hiring decisions you make at the early stages of a business are important, but finding the right people with the right technical skills is particularly crucial. To that end, serial entrepreneur and CD Baby founder Derek Sivers recently wrote a guide - "How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen" - on his blog. Audrey Watters View comments
News YouTube Streamed Record Number of Videos in May - Facebook Enters Top 10 May 2010 was a great month for YouTube. Not only did users of Google's online video service stream more videos per month in the U.S. than ever before (14.6 billion), but according to online analytics firm comScore, every single YouTube user now watches more than 100 videos per month. In total, Google's video properties now command slightly more… Frederic Lardinois View comments