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| Text2Store Local Deals Widget Launches |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 7:02 pm |
| Tags: Business, Businesspov, Cellular, Chicago, Local, Mobile, Mobile Wireless, Shopping, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Text2store, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Widgets, E Commerce, Coupons, Sms, Text Mess |
| Text2Store, a Chicago-based startup, leverages text messaging to send deals and coupons directly to your cellphone. Text2Store recently launched a local deals widget that shares the revenue of each click-through. Similar to other advertising and affiliate programs, anytime you help someone save money with a coupon text message accessed from your |
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| Teenager unlocks iPhone's secret |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 3:21 pm |
| Tags: Apple Consumer Mobile Wireless |
| the unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile's network, the only major US carrier apart from AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone. While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for US consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers. "That's the |
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| Google Phone Details, Dapper Facebook App Maker, Clown Co. Named Hulu, Personalized & Social Search and The Sexual Relationship Database |
| Published: September 2, 2007, 10:20 pm |
| Tags: Advertising, Business, Dapper, Eric Olson, Facebook, Google, How To, Hulu, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Maya S Mom, Media 2 0, Mobile Wireless, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Search, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technolog |
| Photo of the Week: I found this unique view of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC this weekend. Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 09.02.2007Sexual Relationship DatabaseA project of World Health Organization Management (W.H.O.M) offers information regarding the sexual histories of individuals, across the world and throughout time. W.H.O.M. |
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| Use twitterfeed.com To Aggregate Your Facebook Status Updates On Twitter |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 8:06 pm |
| Tags: Aggregator, Blogging Tip, Community, Eric Olson, Feeds, How To, Live Web, Mashup, Media 2 0, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, People Search, Personalized, Rss, Resource, Sms, Social Media, Social Networking, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank |
| platform which included mobile and web status updates I stopped updating my twitter page as frequently. I just couldn't keep up with updating two places with my status updates. When you also factor in Flickr photo uploads, myAOL 'Mix & Share' Favorites and regular blog posts (on Somewhat Frank, TECH cocktail and myAOL Blog) I had to |
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| Geezeo: Social Personal Finance Startup |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 12:35 am |
| Tags: Aggregator, Beta, Business, Cellular, Community, Finance, Geezeo, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, Money, Money 2 0, Personalized, Resource, Ruby On Rails, Sms, Small Business, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Co |
| balances online or with your mobile phone. Co-founded by Peter Glyman and Shawn Ward, Geezeo leverages Ruby on Rails to offer a clean and easy to use interface for managing your personal finance accounts. Geezeo currently handles bank accounts and credit card accounts, personal mortgages and auto loans - student loans and brokerage accounts |
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| Reactee T-Shirts That Text Message |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 12:05 am |
| Tags: Cellular, Design, Fun, Innovation, Media 2 0, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, Personalization, Personalized, Reactee, Sms, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech |
| Looking for a reaction from a tee shirt? Reactee offers the ability to create customized tee shirts that might just get the reaction you are looking for via SMS text message. Reactee, a project of TextMarks, allows a user to setup a keyword to text to 41411. By simply sending a specified keyword to 41411 you will receive a response text message |
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| Typepad On The iPhone: Video Demo |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 2:38 pm |
| Tags: Blogging, Blogging Tip, Frank Gruber, Gadgets, Mobile, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Wireless, Six Apart, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Typepad, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone, Ipod |
| Typepad, the popular hosted blog platform by Six Apart, has announced a new iPhone optimized interface. Typepad users can now visit http://i.typepad.com on an iPhone or the new iPod Touch in their Safari Web browser use an optimized version of Typepad. I tested it out with a brief video demo.With the new touch interface blogging, editing comments |
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| TechCrunch40 Is Here, Follow It Online |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 9:46 am |
| Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Conferences, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Wireless, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Techcrunch, Techcrunch40, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Techcrunch20, Techcrunch |
| TechCrunch40, the 2007 TechCrunch launching pad conference, is upon us and you can keep up with the event just updated its website at techcrunch40.com. The site offers fully-featured hub for TechCrunch40, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening. It will offer details about the 40 presenting companies (as they launch), the |
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| TechCrunch40 Is Here, Follow It Online |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 9:41 am |
| Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Conferences, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Wireless, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Techcrunch, Techcrunch40, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Techcrunch20, Techcrunch |
| TechCrunch40, the 2007 TechCrunch launching pad conference, is upon us and you can keep up with the event just updated its website at techcrunch40.com. The site offers fully-featured hub for TechCrunch40, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening. It will offer details about the 40 presenting companies (as they launch), the |
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| Typepad On The iPhone: Video Demo |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 2:38 pm |
| Tags: Blogging, Blogging Tip, Frank Gruber, Gadgets, Mobile, Mobile Blogging, Mobile Wireless, Six Apart, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Typepad, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone, Ipod |
| Typepad, the popular hosted blog platform by Six Apart, has announced a new iPhone optimized interface. Typepad users can now visit http://i.typepad.com on an iPhone or the new iPod Touch in their Safari Web browser use an optimized version of Typepad. I tested it out with a brief video demo.With the new touch interface blogging, editing comments |
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| Reactee T-Shirts That Text Message |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 12:05 am |
| Tags: Cellular, Design, Fun, Innovation, Media 2 0, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Mobile Wireless, Personalization, Personalized, Reactee, Sms, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech |
| Looking for a reaction from a tee shirt? Reactee offers the ability to create customized tee shirts that might just get the reaction you are looking for via SMS text message. Reactee, a project of TextMarks, allows a user to setup a keyword to text to 41411. By simply sending a specified keyword to 41411 you will receive a response text message |
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| Mobile Entrepreneurs: Social Networking Good, Carriers Bad |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 12:03 am |
| Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Mobile, Wireless, Social Networking, Orange |
| wireless, Social Networking, orange Wade Roush wrote:On Monday night Orange Labs Boston (which is actually in Cambridge) hosted the fall’s first Mobile Monday Boston event, the Beantown version of a tradition that began in Helsinki, Finland, in 2000 and has now spread to 50 cities around the world. A panel on social networking |
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| Lypp: Helps Avoid Long Distance Charges |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 12:57 pm |
| Tags: Beta, Blackberry, Business, Canada, Cellular, Hack, Instant Messenger, Lypp, Mobile, Mobile Wireless, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Vancouver, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Wireless, Blackberry, Calls, Phone |
| Lypp, a Vancouver-based mobile startup, launched recently to offer Blackberry users (and soon other devices) a way to bypass long distance charges in Canada and the US. With Lypp calls are initiated using Instant Messaging but work with your existing phone number. BlackBerry users can simply register with Lypp online. You will need an Instant |
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| Widget Summit Day One: Product Launches |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 9:03 pm |
| Tags: Event, Mobile Wireless, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startpage, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Development, Web Tech, Widget Summit, Widgets, Gydget, Launch Pad, Netvibes, Webwag |
| - offers a synced Web and mobile personalized homepage platform. The mobile version of the WebWag appears to offer a very rich user interface which is optimized for a mobile screen resolution. WebWeb also offers an interesting clipping service that enables users to outline an area on a website and then clip the area and add the contents |
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| Widget Summit Day One: Product Launches |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 9:00 pm |
| Tags: Event, Mobile Wireless, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startpage, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Development, Web Tech, Widget Summit, Widgets, Gydget, Launch Pad, Netvibes, Webwag |
| - offers a synced Web and mobile personalized homepage platform. The mobile version of the WebWag appears to offer a very rich user interface which is optimized for a mobile screen resolution. WebWeb also offers an interesting clipping service that enables users to outline an area on a website and then clip the area and add the contents |
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