Daily Archives: August 5, 2010

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Google Announces Multiple Account Sign-in

Google has announced a multiple account sign-in feature that makes it easier for users with more than one Google account to manage their online identities. Google allows using three Google accounts at one time with the multiple sign-in feature at present

At the moment, you can only use multiple Google account sign-in to use App Engine, Google Code, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Reader, Sites and Voice. Multiple account sign-in for Google Docs is not ready yet, but will be coming soon.

More info: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181602

Vonage Announces Free Facebook Phone App

Vonage, a pioneer of home phone service over the Internet, has a new application for the iPhone and Android phones

Vonage Mobile for Facebook is available as a free download for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android phone users. They sign in with their Facebook username and see a list of Facebook friends who also have the app. Tapping a name places a call to the friend, whose phone rings. The app doesn’t need to be running on the friend’s phone for the call to go through.

“Essentially, we’ve given Facebook a voice,” said Marc Lefar, the CEO of Vonage Holdings Corp., which is based in Holmdel, N.J.

The calling works over cellular broadband, so-called 3G, and over Wi-Fi. It doesn’t use calling minutes, but will use up data, which could be a concern for subscribers to AT&T’s new limited data plans for smart phones.

Google Drops Wave

Google has announced it is ending development on Wave, it’s cross-platform communication tool, little more than a year after being launched at Googles I/O developer conference in May 2009.

Google said on their blog “Google said in a post last night that “Wave has not seen the adoption we would have liked” and that elements of Wave’s technology, including drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are now as open source so users can “liberate their content from Wave”.”

At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference last month in Portland, Oregon, Google Wave developer Dan Peterson admitted, in a Wave tutorial, that early versions of the service were slow and tended to crash.

More: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html

New Social Networking Website GetNosy.com

A new website called GetNosy.com hopes to change the world by forcing good behavior from people and businesses through free flow of information, shaming for bad behavior, and celebration of good behavior. The site concept is simple and easily understandable.

Good people know what good behavior is. Some people either do not know or just don’t care. Bad people are everywhere. This is getting old. They lie, cheat, and mislead. They are rude, selfish, inconsiderate, etc. GetNosy.com supports a novel concept, which is that all people should be good!

What about stupid people? You encounter them everyday. Are they really that dumb or do they just not care? Who knows, but there is one thing we can count on, and that is that bad and stupid people will most likely continue to do bad and stupid things until the facts of their actions are brought to light. Even then this type of person is likely to deny wrong doing at first, but once they see enough GetNosy.com users submitting reports, they will eventually be forced to take responsibility for their actions and hopefully then change for the better.

The simple solution that GetNosy.com provides for our world is a central clearinghouse where users submit detailed reports about a person, company, or other entity with which they have experiences and/or opinions. In the report users identify a person like in a police or credit report, so that other users can be sure who the person is, and users then describe events and opinions that motivated them to submit the report.

Other users can immediately search for reports, review them, and communicate with the report author via GetNosy.com’s Anonymous Email System if they want to ask questions about the report and find out more about the report author’s experiences and opinions regarding the report subject.

Uses for the website are wide-ranging, from reporting a corrupt politician, someone that owes you money, a person that beats their wife, to someone that is wearing a bad tie. The beauty is that users remain anonymous and can communicate anonymously via the website about the report subject to share additional information.

Users who have encountered someone in the past that they would like to warn others about should take a few minutes to submit a detailed report. If users know someone who is great, they should submit a report about them too.

GetNosy.com offers free registration which only requires an email address and password. Registered users can submit unlimited reports, which become instantly viewable by other users worldwide. Free users also receive limited access to the site’s Daily Searching System, which performs user-defined searches on a daily basis and emails the results, so that users can quickly become aware of new reports that are posted. Searching for and reviewing reports does not require registration, but use of the site’s Anonymous Email System and Daily Searching System requires a paid membership.

GetNosy.com has begun marketing efforts worldwide. Although only necessarily 100% legal in The United States, the pages are translated via Google Translation so that non-English speaking Internet users can avail themselves of the website. The website has both free and pay-for-use components, similar to a dating site, and aims to be like police reports and credit reports, but to be for use by regular people.

GetNosy.com plans to connect with social networks and includes viral marketing components that it hopes will assist in spreading the word so that bad behavior can be eradicated once and for all.

The website includes detailed FAQ, Legal, Rules, Uses, and How-To sections.