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Astdroid is funded!

It’s been a crazy couple days. Long and exciting story made short, Astdroid, my Kickstarter project, reached its funding goal.

To keep up with the project head over to astdroid.com.

2010
07/15
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Thoughts on Google TV Announcement

Surprise, surprise, Google wants to get into yet another chunk of your daily existence, your television.  (Not that I mind)

Today at Google I/O, Google announced Google TV.  It does lots of cool stuff, particularly if you’ve got an Android device and there’s no shortage of places you can read about its cool features.

I’ve been using an HTPC with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center for about a year now.  I love it.  Not enough on the DVR?  Switch to Hulu.  Got a documentary you wanna throw on in the background?  Netflix Instant Watch.  Reminded of a HI-LAR-IOUS YouTube where an anchor makes some incredibly uncomfortable sexual innuendo while watching the local news?  YouTube.   Alot of the flexibility that Google TV is promising I already enjoy, but I’m still excited about it.

We’re not yet quite sure of what Google TV will allow developers to do, but here’s a couple scenarios that only make sense:

  • IMDB sidebar during movies.  Face/voice recognition?  Even better.  ”What the hell do I recognize that guy from?” is no longer an issue.
  • What’s that song in the new iPad commercial?  Auto-Shazam provides an iTunes (more likely Amazon MP3) link. Download.  Booyah.
  • Rockies playing the Cardinals?  Hmmm… wonder what the stats of their last game was.  BAM!  No need to wait for an announcer.

Google TV has tremendous potential… but then again, so did Google Wave.

2010
05/20
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Foursquare Anywhere

Today the announcement was made that foursquare will begin supporting checkins from any geographic location.  I happen to think that this is a big deal.

2009 saw a big increase in location based services and applications.  As GPS becomes nearly synonymous with mobile device, there’s no reason to believe this trend won’t continue.  2010 promises to be a big year for location based services that are still in their infancy today… and I’m not the only one who thinks so.

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Foursquare is one of the companies leading the charge.  Built behind the premise of being a social videogame, it encourages users to go out and explore… or even go on a bender.  However, before today, foursquare was only available in select cities.

In opening up to any location foursquare has tremendously grown it’s potential audience worldwide.  It also ups the ante on it’s current leading competitor Gowalla who has boasted anywhere checkins for sometime now, but hasn’t been able to capture the same audience as foursqaure has.

Coupled with the opening of their API (you can see my forray into this realm at my prototype of www.checkoutcheckins.com and a friend’s at www.wheredoyougo.net) foursquare have poised themselves to have a very, very good year.

2010
01/05
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