Zite adds user profiles to their app—Everyone can have their own view of the news

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Zite for iPad—born in Vancouver through research at UBC and now owned by CNN—is one of those “best of breed” apps that makes keeping up with the news nearly painless. Except if you have lots of people using your iPad. So while you might be interested in all things Mac your spouse might what to [...]

iOS 5, iCloud, and Lion Updates Will Start Really Changing Things

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The griping about the iPhone 4S—which the more I think of it is a great update to the iPhone 4—has overshadowed the real stuff that is going to make us love our iOS devices more—iOS 5, iCloud, and the Lion updates to support them. By all accounts, iOS 5 fixes how freakin’ annoying notifications are [...]

Apple, Steve Jobs, and me

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I was sitting downtown using a spare desk in the Simply.ca business services office when I found out. I was working on my MacBook Pro, writing and working on a seminar for how to back up your Mac when the first tweet came through on HootSuite. Steve Jobs was dead. And it hit me hard. [...]

Google opens Plus to all, let’s you share your circles, followers skyrocket—Your move Twitter

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This week Google enabled Google+ users to start sharing their circles with other users. Many folks, like me, who were included in circles by folks like Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk, and Jason Calacanis saw their follower numbers jump. Hugely. Many users, like Fraser Smith found that their number of followers on Google+ eclipsed their number [...]

Kobo Pulse creates a book club from your Facebook friends

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I’m an unabashed fan of everything Kobo does. I’ve long held that Kobo gets ereading better than anyone else—even that other book seller based in Seattle—and their recent Kobo Pulse announcement shows that they are on the same, solid track as always. By connecting the Kobo app with Facebook and your Facebook friends, Kobo brings [...]

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