Google Plus Ate My Blog, Find Me There…
I will no longer post to this blog and you can find me on Google Plus instead. I won’t write a long goodbye because this isn’t really a goodbye. Google Plus is a better platform for disseminating ideas and discussing items of interest. As of today, I’m up to an impressive 7,200+ followers on Google Plus [Read More...]
Google wants to kill your amateur blog… but that’s OK.
I believe Google wants to kill off as many hosted blogs as possible. Why? To make more money but that’s OK with me. I know that sounds strange coming from a blogger on hosted site but allow me to explain. Hosted blogs are typically funded through advertising, often Google Adsense advertising. When a blog visitor [Read More...]
Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+?
What do I think of Google+? Listen to my thoughts. Sorry about the extremely low volume. Thaddeus Preston – Proto Podcast Mini: What do I think of Google+? on Flipzu
Google Plus: Stealth Mode to Instant Competitor?
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
![HTC Thunderbolt, Verizon's first 4G LTE Android Phone (a/k/a "My next phone!") arrives March 17th [Confirmed]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/htc_thunderbolt-e60da8065786d9bba4d864ef654e9788-80x66-75-nocrop.jpg)
ThunderBolt™ by HTC Available Beginning March 17 BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Wireless and HTC today announced that the ThunderBolt™ by HTC, exclusively from Verizon Wireless, is available on March 17 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $249.99 with a new two-year customer agreement. Powered by Android™ 2.2, the ThunderBolt by HTC [Read More...]
Originally posted on Blogs@RelativeProgress on March 12, 2011 We need to start thinking about the web as an interwoven fabric of three conceptual layers. First, the conventional web, or as I define it the ‘compute web’, what we define today as Web 2.0, constitutes the cloud computing paradigm allowing execution of instructions across distributed network [Read More...]
Xoom, Verizon and Motorola’s Honeycomb Tablet
I was able to kick the tires on the Xoom this past week. I found it to be a very good tablet and Android 3.0 Honeycomb is clearly a step in the right direction for Android. This product almost deserves two full separate reviews of the hardware and software but I’ll keep the review concise. [Read More...]
Google’s super secret social networking endeavor, Google Plus, was released this week as a “Field Test.” Many from the Google Buzz crowd and FOGs (Friends of Google) were invited along and within 48 hours it opened up to a much wider group. It is estimated (albeit unscientifically) that several thousand people now have access. I’d [Read More...]
Originally posted on Blogs@RelativeProgress on March 12, 2011 We need to start thinking about the web as an interwoven fabric of three conceptual layers. First, the conventional web, or as I define it the ‘compute web’, what we define today as Web 2.0, constitutes the cloud computing paradigm allowing execution of instructions across distributed network [Read More...]
There 220 million Internet users in the US so in my opinion, except for the old school types and outliers, its safe to say that exponential Internet growth in America is over. We now have to start to think globally about the next 2 Billion plus people coming online in the next decade. Here are [Read More...]
Admittedly, it’s been a long, long time since I last updated the Tech Bottle blog. It’s not that I’ve fallen months behind on technology. I have been reading and interacting with tech enthusiasts but I haven’t been posting here. A New Years resolution is to keep the blog updated on at least a semi-regular basis. [Read More...]
![Ya I Upload [Startup]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/yaiupload-2c15cf113705abf234be35e6f5192601-200x118-75-nocrop.jpg)
I like to write about startups. Among others, I’ve written about Miio.com and Leftos.com. Well, one of the Leftos guys just started YaIupload.com as a side project. It’s a little bit like FailBlog and peopleofwalmart had a child. YaIUpload hosts photos that users snap of funny stuff. After the photo gets uploaded (hence, the name), [Read More...]
No, I haven’t given up blogging. The odd thing is that I’ve written very little this past month and blog visitors has steadily increased, driven primarily by my review of the Droid X. Here’s what is going on in my tech world. 1. I rooted my HTC Incredible before the OTA upgrade with Unrevoked3 and [Read More...]
Miio is a mixture of every hot property on the web right now. It is a little like Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and FriendFeed. In other words, it is a social networking site. Do we really need another? The answer appears to be a resounding YES. Miio brings in the best of each of the hot [Read More...]
So, I was planning on writing a post about a service called “Readness.” I read about it on TheNextWeb (“Readness: A Last.fm for News. Now why hasn’t this been done before?“). Readness is a browser extension that pays attention to what you read online and then recommends further reading. As TheNextWeb post points out, it’s [Read More...]
![Microsoft Office Online... Now Live [Free]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/office-7758ebf09984db13f8500c9367bf0ce7-200x63-75-nocrop.jpg)
Microsoft’s Office Live is now up and running for everyone to poke around. Here’s my take on it: it looks promising if you can tolerate the Office 2007 ribbons. If you can’t tolerate the ribbons, stick with Google Docs for cloud word processing. Try it out: http://office.live.com/?docsf=1&wa=wsignin1.0 Discuss it on Buzz: http://www.google.com/buzz/jonathan.mallin/bnN3Rwnjnn1/Anyone-with-opinions-on-the-new-Office-online
Do you like personalized radio players? Check out Last.fm. You’ll be glad you did. Like Pandora and Slacker, Last.fm builds personalized radio stations. Last.fm, which is entirely free in the U.S. and many other countries, offers the following advantages over the competitors: The Android Last.fm player will also play your own mp3s. Last.fm uses “Scrobbling” [Read More...]
You might be thinking, “what the hell is this about?” Well, the Salmon Protocol is a solution to a problem. The problem is we have fragmented conversations across the web on multiple platforms. I blast out TechBottle on Twitter, Facebook and Buzz. I have personal accounts on all three too and sometimes cross-post to my [Read More...]
![Unbelievable 3D Google Earth with Street Views [VIDEO]](http://tbottle.com/tb/wp-content/uploads/thumb-cache/youtube-ps3-47e405415b88917f1d17be4439e61b1e-200x200-75-crop.jpg)
This is just plainly ridiculously amazing. Wicked; Bad/Good, depending on your vernacular; Sweet; Awesome. Pick your favorite superlative. You get the point. Watch the video and do it in full screen mode. Crank it up to HD resolution if your bandwidth and monitor can support it. Told ya so. [via MobileWack]
Last year, Detroit hosted two successful tech conferences, TechNow and Module Midwest Digital Conference. This year they have combined forces to form the region’s largest technology conference, FutureMidwest 2010. The conference takes place April 16-17 at the Royal Oak Music Theatre. What’s FutureMidwest about? It’s an event much like the popular SXSW that takes place in [Read More...]
I started Tech Bottle six months ago and I find myself now blogging about blogging. I did a quick Google search for reasons to write a blog and it returned 44.2 million hits. I’ve opted to write about my own experience and not parrot back what others have suggested. Blogging was once seen as a [Read More...]
