Archive for year: 2010

The Tech World, like a majority of Americans, went for Obama hook, line, and sinker in ’08. How does the tech industry view him now? Pretty much like the majority of Americans do: harmful to business

Executives say they’ve gotten little but lip service from the White House on a number of issues. | AP Photo Close

By KIM HART | 10/19/10 4:34 AM EDT Updated: 10/19/10 9:07 AM EDT

They called him the first “tech president.”

But two years after they rallied behind his campaign and helped put him in the White House, technology industry executives give President Barack Obama mediocre reviews.

I’ve been evaluating these “mobile app builders” and will add this to my list of companies to try out. So far I’ve had mixed results. The services that seem to provide rich apps cost a lot and the ones that are cheap have crappy apps. You get what you pay for. However the fact is that this niche is booming and will continue to do so. Just like the early days of the Web required deep techies to build a rudimentary web site, today’s mobile apps are expensive and complicated. But this will go away very soon as the mobile market continues to explode and the demand for mobile apps skyrockets

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Forget Android, iOS and the rest of the mobile operating systems.

Sometimes you don’t need to spend weeks building the sleekest mobile apps for native environments. And depending on your business, something a little bit more quick and simple can do the job just fine. That’s the theory behind Widgetbox Mobile, a new offering from the team behind ClickTurn ads, which aims to help businesses build mobile web apps in minutes.

I’m always warning folks about Facebook and privacy. Monday’s WSJ article confirms that Facebook’s sharing of the “User ID” allows other firms to tie a lot of data to your persona. My immediate advice is that you should check your Facebook privacy settings immediately and make sure you’re only sharing that you want everyone to know

By EMILY STEEL And GEOFFREY A. FOWLER

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring.

Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

I’m trying out something new which are quick video tips. Let me know what you think!