Blippy Users Sharing More Than $500K In Purchases Per Day

Users on Blippy, the controversial service which lets you share purchases and purchase prices with your friends, are sharing $500,000 in purchases per day, according a Tweet posted by co-founder Philip Kaplan.

Report: Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate

What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email?

How Windows 7 Phones Use Apple and RIM's Powers Against Them

At a launch event today, Microsoft showed how it's using two secret weapons to challenge Apple and RIM's smartphone dominance--ideas it co-opted from them. Business app integration inspired by the BlackBerry, and AT&T's U-Verse to take on Apple TV.

Windows Phone 7: Solid Platform, Sorry Future

Oh Microsoft. I feel for you. Windows Phone 7 might have been a huge hit. It might have been the true iPhone killer. It might have even become the dominant mobile platform. But it won’t. It’s an iOS, Android and BlackBerry world now and there isn’t room for anyone else.

How to Write Great Content for the Web?

How to write for the web? Whether you’re a web designer tasked with creating a website, a business owner trying to flesh out what content to put on your site, a blogger writing for your many followers, or a geek with something important to share, there’s something important you should know – the average person’s retention level on the internet is much lower than when reading something printed.

HipLogic Launches *Spark, A Social Home Screen For Smartphones

Mobile application platform HipLogic is launching a new platform today at DEMO, called Spark. While many of HipLogic’s applications are designed to jazz up non-smartphone devices, *Spark aims to give smartphones the ultimate home screen experience. The free app is launching to Android and Nokia phones today.

25 Basic Styles of Blogging: When To Use Each One?

There are a more than a million blogs one can visit today and find relevant interesting articles to read almost every minute. But there aren't enough minutes in a day to spend search the most relevant articles to suit your reading tastes.

Similarly, its extremely difficult for the bloggers to find their niche and understand their readers' expectations at first and then build a relationship that could last for a long time.

How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today?

Remember three years ago, when Microsoft paid a quarter-billion dollars for 1.6% of Facebook and the exclusive right to run banner ads across Facebook.com? Tell the truth, how many of you thought that was a killer business decision? I can’t say I did at the time. But as that deal is about to expire in 2011, Facebook’s status as a revenue juggernaut is rarely questioned any more.

Assessing the PlayBook's threat to the iPad

The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet ostensibly has one sizable advantage over the iPad. That is, of course, if RIM delivers and Apple doesn't respond.

25 Cool Windows 7 Keyboard Tricks That Will Impress Your Friends

Anyone working professionally with a computer has their hands on the keyboard most of the time. Reaching for the mouse can be an annoying disturbance and personally I often turn over my mouse in such situations. An easy solution is to simply keep the hands on the keyboard and complete as many tasks as possible with keyboard shortcuts only.

Top 6 Google Search Secrets

If you’re a typical Internet user, you access Google several times a week, if not several times a day. As a typical user, you also don’t use a tenth of Google’s search power—which means you’re not searching as effectively or as efficiently as you could.

100 Best Photoshop Tutorials of All Time that Yield Professional Results

Photoshop tutorials are one of the most popular subjects on the web, as the digital art community continues to grow and new designers bring their unique skills. However, quality Photoshop tutorials that teach you a useful effect, have a quality finished result and are well explained are harder to find, and with the large number of tutorial sites available, it can be hard to sort the quality from the mundane.

Top 10 iOS Jailbreak Hacks

If you've purchased an iOS device, you've also signed up for its many limitations. Jailbreaking can put you back in control. Here are ten great jailbreak hacks to help you customize and better utilize your iOS device.

Social Shopping Heats Up On Facebook

For a while now, social shopping has been heating up as the Next Big Thing on Facebook. I’ve written recently about Amazon’s implementation of Facebook Connect, the launch of two new products from FatWallet, and even the fact that social shopping apps both won and placed in the recent Facebook Hackathon in Palo Alto.