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Check out this blog post over on GIGAOM (here). The topic, Nick D'Aloisio, has created Summly, an iPhone app, which does this; "Summari[z]es content into a digestible format that can be easily consumed to allow for a relevant and productive web browsing experience." Unlike Google Currents (post here), which re-formats news feeds and sites into better organized and easily readable content, Summly uses "ontological detection and machine learning … [Read more...]
Just because social media such as Facebook and Twitter are known to sap productivity at the workplace doesn't mean that they aren't efficient. Quite the contrary- social media's allure comes from its amazing effectiveness for connecting people, forming virtual communities, compiling, developing, and delivering relevant information and, most recently, perfecting and distributing apps. Realizing that the power of social media could be used to save rather … [Read more...]
Dear Readers, With this post I would like to alert you to a new resource that we hope will become part of your self training and education activities, a YouTube Channel for CTOlabs.com. Our channel is a place where we can pull together videos we upload or videos we have found uploaded from others that we either add to collections or "favorite" to bring to your attention. You can view these videos like any other YouTube content, and can also make … [Read more...]
One of the great resources for Android users is AppBrain.com, which provides an online application marketplace with features far more user-friendly than most other online application repositories. If you have an Android based phone please consider loading AppBrain's client on your phone and use their website to manage your applications. One of the features is an ability to build lists of your favorite applications for sharing with others, either … [Read more...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab looked like it could be a really great foil to the tablet of the year, the Apple iPad. Especially considering the success of the Samsung Galaxy line of phones (powerful Android 2.2 devices for every major carrier). However, it is my belief that the Galaxy Tab will both fail to compete with the iPad and may even dissuade others from following in their footsteps. Samsung has learned a few lessons from Apple's iPad, especially … [Read more...]
Randi Levin, CTO of the City of Los Angeles, John Zeberlein of CSC, and Deborah Hafford of Google Enterprise offered a wide open Q&A session into one of the nation's first cloud computing service deployments for a local government, Los Angeles. With roughly 30,000 email users moving from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps, this migration is not a simple process. Ms Levin's situation was such that the City of LA was in a total budget crisis. They … [Read more...]
Bob and I are very interested in Smartphone app development, specifically Android development. Apps are being used across the world to enable work, play, and collaboration. App development and sales is a huge economical force. Governments are starting to use apps to make work easier - there are even military apps for the iPhone. Basically what I am saying is if you don't have an App, you are way behind. Since I am one of those without my own … [Read more...]