Life360 is often described as an "OnStar for life," providing its users with tools to track and protect people and things through a variety of interfaces.
The company offers IRL services such as child identification paraphernalia, medical IDs, and credit and identity protection; but they also have a cool suite of features that revolve around Internet and mobile tracking of people, objects, and even pets. Their Android application for tracking and securely messaging people even netted them a s... Read Full Story
Google Wave debuted in a whirlwind of buzz and expectation, and yet few of us have managed to make it part of our workflow. What is Google Wave good for anyway? Those use cases are still emerging, it seems.
Here’s an interesting one: Charlie Osmond at the FreshWorks blog points out that Twitter hashtags – adding the conference name as a hashtag on a tweet – aren’t an ideal solution to tracking a conference. In fact, Google Wave can do a better job, as proven by the ... Read Full Story
We recently told you about the Flickr App garden and gave a list of five interesting apps we found using this new section of the site.
One app we didn't find - and one that brilliantly appropriates the Flickr API in a delightful, infectious user experience - is Noticings. Part game, part geotagging app, part photoblog, Noticings asks users to upload geotagged photos of interesting artifacts to Flickr. Users tag the photos "noticings;" those photos are then imported, analyzed, and scored, with... Read Full Story
There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark.
Splurb tallies the number of votes from the various sites and number of sources that list links. The more sources that cite a link, the larger the story appears on splurb. To... Read Full Story
If the iPhone is indeed coming to Verizon in 2010, as rumors suggest, is it odd that the network’s latest attack ads on AT&T put the iPhone front and center?
The new holiday ads from the company tackle AT&T’s (lack of) 3G coverage yet again, in a theme similar to the “there’s a map for that” campaign. It’s possible, however, that Verizon is attacking AT&T rather than the phone itself, essentially saying: nice phone, shame about the coverage.... Read Full Story
Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple of missteps since then, and Facebook responded by taking Zynga’s newest game, FishVille, offline.
Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincus has announced that the company will remove all offer advertising from their games.
This isn’t a meaningless action. Offers account for 1/3 or so of ZyngaR... Read Full Story
Here are some stories from this week on CrunchGear:
Japanese company announces Dragon Ball headphones
Toyjector: Cute mini projector to be released in Japan
Choken Bako: Cute Japanese piggy bank
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If you’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, listen up: a worm is reported to have broken out in Australia that targets owners who have not changed the default password after installing SSH.
The worm’s behavior is somewhat amusing: it changes your background to a photo of Rick Astley, then looks for other phones on the network to infect. That said, the exploit could easily be used by hackers with malicious intent for more nefarious purposes.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone and you’... Read Full Story
Those of us who manage online communities have learned to crowdsource a big chunk of our work: identifying user contributions that deserve a higher profile - and those that deserve to be dropped in a deep, dark hole.
But there has to be something more nuanced than just thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. And so...
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