Google Mobile Adds Local Search to iPhone 3.0 [Local Search]
iPhone/iPod touch: Mobile Safari joins Android and BlackBerry browsers in getting location awareness with Google, using GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation to figure out what food, stores, or other goodies are nearby when you search. As with its counterparts, the location setting sticks with the browser until you hit update, or it happens to notice you’ve [...]
Speeding Up RSS
I’m sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news [...]
Y Combinator Endorses Bump Technologies In The Quest To Destroy The Business Card
Last summer, I wrote a lengthy rant against business cards, calling them “virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally”. Ten months later, I couldn’t agree with myself more. Just like the handshake, the business card is an annoying relic of the past. Each card I [...]
