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      Amazon looks to hook college students

      July 13, 2010 /

      Amazon box.A couple years back I took the free trial of Amazon Prime and good god did I abuse it. Of course, that’s what Amazon hopes for. You get free two-day shipping and you buy all kinds of shit you don’t need just so it can arrive quickly. It is a cathartic experience.

      Amazon is hoping to lure college students with the same deal. To take advantage of the deal, all you need is a .edu email address and have yourself enrolled in at least one college course. My girlfriend actually discovered this the other day by accident and got way too excited about it. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing an inordinate number of packages arriving over the next few days.

      So, college students, consider yourselves warned. Yeah, you save $79 on the service, but you’ll blow past that number in about a week of unnecessary purchases.

      News, Websites

      App Inventor gives non-programmers a toolkit for making Android apps

      July 12, 2010 /

      Google unveiled a new Android product today that is bound to make all of the wannabe app developers in the world happy (that’s not meant to be disparaging – I’m a wannabe myself). It’s called App Inventor, and it’s basically a GUI for designing Android applications.

      For the best idea of what this thing is, check out the video below. While “hellopurr” may not be the most creative use, I’m sure the creatives of the world can come up with some pretty cool stuff. This thing alone makes me wish I had an Android phone. I love the iPhone, and the iPhone 4 has been really good to me unlike many others, but the way this opens up the Android platform is really cool. Sure, a lot of the applications that get made will be really, really crappy. But there will be good ones, and who’s to say the good ones can’t get picked up by more prominent developers and given full support?

      On the whole, I think this is a great play by Google and will certainly give them even more cred with the nerd world. Nicely done.

      Apps, google, Mobile, News

      Lots of reviews coming this week

      July 12, 2010 /

      konnet_icradoThings have been a little slow over here as I’ve been working on a few other projects and dealing with some big announcement over on Fearless Gamer, our gaming blog. This week we’ll be back in full swing though, and I’m adding a bunch of reviews to the site.

      Later in the week you’ll start to see some of the new iPhone 4 accessories. Over the rest of the summer I’ll be getting a few more, but for now I’ve got at least a dock to show off. I’ll also be covering the Booq line of laptop bags (more specifically the Boa S Nerve) and Warpia’s wireless PC-to-TV broadcast system.

      I’ve also been starting to dig around Aperture. I had played with the software a bit when it first launched, but without any high quality images, it wasn’t a piece of software I cared to invest in. Now that I have my shiny new camera, I think it’s time I take a more serious look. I’ll be posting my impressions throughout the week as I get to know the ins and outs of photo management (from what I hear, Aperture is the way it should be done).

      accessories, Cameras, Digital Media

      Google drops $100 million in Zynga

      July 11, 2010 /

      Zynga.Everyone knows Farmville as a Facebook phenomenon, but the people at Zynga are getting to know it as a cash cow. The Facebook game has gotten so much attention that Google has decided to invest more than $100 million in Zynga, supposedly in preparation for the launch of Google Games.

      Can Zynga really stand as the cornerstone for Google’s Games operation? Absolutely. The company is projected at $350 million in revenue for the first half of 2010, half of which is actual operating profit. Total profit for 2011 is expected to be over a billion dollars. A billion, people. With a “b.”

      Here’s TechCrunch on why Zynga is so important for Google:

      Zynga continues to work on high level strategic business development deals. The reason these deals are so attractive to companies like Yahoo and now Google is this – Zynga allows them to rebuild the massive social graph, currently controlled by Facebook. For whatever reason people love to play these games and get passionately addicted to them, coming back day after day. That’s helped Facebook become what it is today. Google, Yahoo and others want some of that magic to rub off on them, too.

      Who knew a silly social game could make such a huge impact.

      Gaming, google, News, Websites

      Avatar returns to IMAX 3D in August

      July 10, 2010 /

      Avatar eye.

      If you missed Avatar on the first go round (James Cameron’s version, not M. Night’s), you’re in luck. Cameron’s record-setting blockbuster is returning to the IMAX 3D screen starting August 27th and will play for two weeks.

      This version of the film will include an additional eight minutes of footage to entice the folks who have already seen the movie into a second viewing. Personally I’d see it again either way. While the story wasn’t great, watching that movie was a little window into a fascinating future. If only the second round of Star Wars movies did that.

      News

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