I’m starting a buzz campaign to bring Music Mondays from Twitter to Google Buzz. For those who unfamiliar with Music Mondays, people simply tweet the music they’ve been listening to lately to generate some Twitter activity and to help spread the news about good recording artists. Music Mondays make more sense on Buzz than Twitter [Read More...]
![Glide Cloud Free OS 4.0 [Mini-Review]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/glide_logo.png){kind=logo}
Transmedia Corporation’s “Glide OS 4.0″ is an advertising-free, cloud-based operating system. You can access it through any web browser (including mobile browsers) and through a proprietary desktop app (Windows/Linux and OS X flavors). It has all the bells and whistles of Google’s free cloud services (calendar, email, documents, spreadsheets, etc.) and some other services not [Read More...]
![iPhone vs. Android [User Metrics]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/motorola-droid-vs-iphone-3gs-c842cd6264d9371c7e8cb32995a88e11-200x200-6-crop.png)
AdMob just released a report that analyzes various metrics to compare users of the following devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Palm’s WebOS (notably missing–RIM). The metrics are age, gender, app downloads, app purchases, and likelihood of recommending the device to a friend or colleague. CNN has a pretty good take on the report, along [Read More...]
Milestone announcement… I’ve officially deleted 500 spam comments from Tech Bottle. So you’ll know what you missed… cheap auto insurance, viagra, cheap health insurance, cialis, free vacations and a bunch of stuff in other languages. I’m thinking of disabling the comment system on Tech Bottle because almost all of the legitimate comments I have received [Read More...]
Reuters recently ran an article about Microsoft shopping around for a mobile device manufacturer. Named as specific potential targets are RIM and Nokia. Apparently, Microsoft believes that the Apple model of vertically integrating handheld hardware and software would work well for Windows Mobile 7 Series, the operating system it recently unveiled at the Mobile World [Read More...]
![If you have a website or blog, Get Clicky [Plug]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/clicky.png)
I want to briefly plug Clicky web analytics. I haven’t received any compensation or free services for the plug. I was a Google Analytics fan until I was introduced to Clicky. I use the free version on this blog and my professional blog and I’ve found it to be valuable in analyzing web traffic. The setup [Read More...]
![What Google could do to whip iTunes [Wired.com article]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/google.png)
Last night Wired.Com posted up a good article that lays out a strategy Google could follow to dethrone iTunes as the leader in music distribution. Many of the suggestions involve leveraging the cloud and allowing users to stream their music purchases to their devices.
What new website has over 500,000 unique visitors a day and anywhere from 20,000 to 150,000 concurrent users? Hint: It’s certainly not this blog. It’s the interwebs latest rage, ChatRoulette.com, an overnight sensation created by a 17 year old Russian computer hobbyist. Chat Roulette has been featured in the New York Times, Mashable and Tech [Read More...]
I’m blogging from within Google Chrome OS Flow by Hexxeh. As you may know from my previous posts (e.g., this one), Chrome OS is simply a bootup and login to the Google Chrome browser. The simplicity of the Chrome OS offers performance advantages on netbooks. I’m evaluating the very popular and recently released Flow build [Read More...]
The whole point of this blog is to post things that I find interesting that you also might find interesting. This video is very interesting. It’s not often that I tune in for a 27 minute video on the internet but this was better than some Hollywood movies. The video is silent so you can [Read More...]
Pictured right is a Google Nexus One phone running HTC’s popular, proprietary user interface, Sense. In a nutshell, the ROM from the HTC Desire is being ported to the Nexus One.
![Blackberry and Google Buzz Notifications & Gmail Dupe Emails [Workarounds]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/precision_background_with_blackberry_symbol-wallpaper.jpg)
I was encountering two significant problems after consolidating my email on the computer into Gmail (I have the enhanced Gmail plugin installed on my ‘berry) and after I started using Google Buzz:
Everyone is buzzing about how to use Google Buzz and whether it will succeed. Some are still tweeting about privacy concerns. Everyone wants to know whether Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz can coexist. In this post, I take a different approach. I begin with the assumption that Google Buzz will succeed and consider what effects [Read More...]
I don’t think I’ve ever had a post dedicated entirely to a Microsoft product but this is awesome. Below is a video from the TED conference which shows off the augmented reality features in Bing Maps. The video is long, around 8 minutes, but it gets better and better as it progresses.
It’s been a long while since I last blogged about a phone but this one is worth a post on every tech blog. Samsung might hit it out of the ballpark with the Halo i8520. Here are the specs…
