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Mick Liubinskas on technology, community and business models.

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Entries Tagged as 'Reviews'

App Review: Social Median

April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Saw an invite for Social Median on Read/Write Web and thought I’d try it over morning coffee.
It’s basically a more social version of Digg combined to be a news reader. But it doesn’t build on my feeds, or didn’t seem to, and didn’t give me a hell of a lot more than other aggregators. [...]

Popularity: 33% [?]

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Tags: Apps · Reviews · Startups · social

AppRev3: Quamut

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Barnes and Noble have launched a “how-to” application called Quamut.
(Video review has been removed until I can find a better screencast app…)
First thing to note is that I’m not sure how to pronounce the name. Not a great start. Then they have a clever but equally mystifying tag line (which appears to be trademarked) - [...]

Popularity: 29% [?]

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Tags: Apps · BigCo · Reviews

AppRev2: Restyleme

March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Quick review of Hot or Not extension Restyleme (via Killerstartups).
Basically you upload a picture and people give you the thumbs up or thumbs down across a range of categories like hair, accessories and smile. So it’s not saving the planet, but it is a little bit of fun and you might get some honest advice [...]

Popularity: 30% [?]

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Tags: Apps · Reviews · Startups

AppRev1: Digital Footprint Calculator

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m going to start trying to do an application review each day. I found a cool way I can use Skitch and Jing to put myself in the video and still make it a quick screencast.
Here is my first one;
EMC Digital Footprint Calculator Screencast  - (warning, old screencasts app used, so it’s a bit ugly…)
EMC [...]

Popularity: 28% [?]

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Tags: Apps · Desktop · Reviews