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Twitter’s iPad App: All the Bells and Whistles

Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter accounts. Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere
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Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera?

The nerds over at Mobile Geek Inc did a nifty investigative piece revealing more details about Nokia's mid-level C6-01 candybar. After making an awkward early appearance on Nokia's Dutch online storefront, more pics along with the user agent profile have been located thus confirming its lack of QWERTY, 8 megapixel camera, and Symbian^3 OS. A nice alternative to the 5 megapixel C6-00 slider shackled to S60 5th. Look for the new C6 to get official with a very nice price either at, or around, Nokia World 2010 which kicks off September 14th in London
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Chatroulette is Back, But It Doesn’t Look Good

After being down for an entire week , popular random video chat service Chatroulette is back with a new version. The transition to version two wasn’t exactly graceful; Chatroulette was supposed to be down one day, but the extended downtime, during which the site was nothing more than a white page with a simple text message, saying the new version will launch “shortly,” was a sign that not everything had gone according to plan. So, what did the new (and, hopefully, improved) Chatroulette bring? Aside from being quite unstable yet, the site has a flexible but spartan interface which lets you drag and move the video chat windows around, as well as resize them (by dragging the upper right corner)
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7 Services That Will Suggest Things You Like

“Unlimited choice” can “produce genuine suffering,” argues Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. His research basically sums up what your mother has been telling you for years: You don’t even know what you want. Thankfully, the Internet does know what you want — or at least its algorithmic recommendation services are trying to figure it out. Pandora is great for music, but these seven sites will help narrow down that agonizingly long list of choices in a variety of areas using your own past preferences
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Survey Says Facebook Feeds Narcissism [STUDY]

In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook activity that was distinctly more self-promotional. These people had “About Me” sections that referred to their intelligence and photos that were more about displaying the user’s physical attractiveness than about capturing memories with friends. Narcissism is defined in this study as “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.” For the average narcissist, Facebook “offers a gateway for hundreds of shallow relationships and emotionally detached communication.” More importantly for this study, social networking in general allows the user a great deal of control over how he or she is presented to and perceived by peers and other users.
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How Non-Profits are Exploring Augmented Reality Tech

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. Now, even the newest for-profit applications can turn heads by utilizing this new advanced technology. The non-profit sector has started to experiment with augmented reality
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SCVNGR Brings Location Game to Facebook Places

Taking an if-you-can-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places’s read and write APIs. SCVNGR is just one of a handful of companies that has access to both APIs . The startup believes it is the first mobile game to integrate with Facebook Places. SCVNGR’s mobile game layer for the real world possesses checkin functionality akin to Facebook checkins, but the integration is designed to magnify what SCVNGR does best — “the cool things you can do beyond the checkin,” says CEO and Founder Seth Priebatsch. He’s not kidding
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Impressive Location Startup Hatches from Qualcomm Incubator

Today Qualcomm is formally announcing the launch of Qualcomm Services Labs (QSL), an incubation program that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm. QSL is meant to serve as a platform to fund, commercialize and launch innovative consumer-focused mobile services such as Neer, an application that cleverly interprets location-sharing for the more private types among us. Qilroy , Tapioca and Vive are three of the other mobile services and apps participating in the incubator program. Each has been selected for its potential to make an immediate impact on the market.
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Google Prepares for Chrome Web Store’s Launch with Developer Preview

Google’s attempt to create a marketplace for web apps, dubbed the Chrome Web Store , is one step closer to reality with the launch of the first developer preview. First revealed at Google’s I/O conference in May, the Chrome Web Store is designed to be a central location for buying and selling HTML5-based web apps. According to information that leaked yesterday , Google’s web-based marketplace will take a similar approach to Apple’s iPhone App Store, except that Google will only take a 5% processing fee from app transactions, rather than the 30% cut Apple demands for apps on iOS. While the Chrome Web Store won’t be released to the wider public until October, Google wants to make sure that its marketplace is filled with quality apps on launch day.
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10 Useful iPhone Keyboard Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks

Whether you’ve taken to the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard like a duck to water, or are more of a one-finger-at-a-time typist, there are plenty of shortcuts, tips and tricks that can improve your iTyping experience. Here, we’ve rounded up ten useful ways to be faster and more productive with your iPhone’s keyboard. We hope these tricks are handy for anyone new to the platform, or those who have not had the time to really experiment. Ranging from basic how-tos to more advanced trickery, have a read of our ten tips below, and do share any keyboard-, language- or other text entry-related hints you’ve discovered on your iDevice in the comments
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