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Late last year we broke the news about the upcoming Facebook Phone project, which sparked a media frenzy as the social network claimed this to be wrong, only to later admit that it did exist (the explanation being that there was no ‘Facebook Phone’, but that there are many Facebook Phones). Last week we got a video demo of one of these devices: the Android-based, INQ Cloud Touch. And today HTC announced its own Facebook-branded phones. But this is only the beginning.
Today Facebook announced on its blog that we’ll be seeing many similar integrations over the coming months:
In addition to these new phones from INQ and HTC, you’ll also be seeing similar deep Facebook integration on dozens of other devices over the course of this year. Some manufacturers will be highlighting Facebook as a part of their phones’ on-screen interfaces, and others will use our brand as an element of the device hardware itself.
The Facebook functionality on the INQ devices include single sign-on (you won’t have to keep reentering credentials for various applications, because it will use your Facebook account) and links to popular features like Chat and Places. The HTC devices actually have a Facebook hardware button.
However, while these devices will all feature prominent Facebook integration, we’re also hearing that Facebook continues to work on a different and more exciting project: a ‘social’ version of Android that includes much deeper Facebook integration throughout the OS, stripping out Google’s apps in favor of its own. In other words, Facebook could have its own mobile operating system in the not-so-distant future.
In the same space as Buzzillions and Viewpoints, a new consumer review aggregator SearchReviews unveils itself today, allowing users to tailor searches to its over 40 million consumer reviews for over 4 million products from 1,011 retailers like ebay, Sephora, Walmart, Amazon and Zappos. User reviews are increasingly becoming akin to a form of UGC advertising and SearchReviews is attempting to take advantage of this by launching what is by far the largest searchable review hub available to consumers.
SearchReviews is also available on iPhone and Android, allowing customers to access information about products in store with the scan of a barcode in addition to manual search. Curious in-store searchers can scan a code and/or look for the name of a product or service like a Canon Printer and drill down even further into specific attributes like star rating, source, location and specific key words with a tag cloud. You might find yourself confused without these further refinements as the quantity of reviews greatly outweighs the quality.
Says founder Ankesh Kumar on the ambitious goal of being a one-stop shop for reviews, “A little prepurchase research goes a long way as it brings all available reviews together in one place, so consumers don’t have to wander from site to site or sort through a jumble of irrelevant information.”
Sometimes SearchReviews can seem like a jumble itself: The app is missing some crucial elements including geolocation and the ability to search by date and specific store. Also reviews like the following for the iPhone weren’t particularly useful on the web version. I’m hoping that these kinks can be worked out in subsequent updates as the ultimate utility of being able to pull up customer reviews is huge .
SearchReviews is aiming adding 2 million reviews each week and hopes to hit 100 million reviews in 2011. The company is bootstrapped with $350K in funding from Kumar who demonstrates how it works below.
I want to Spider a URL, to learn how a site is built. This is for educational purposes, and I would like to know how I can use the method myself, on a similar URL
We have a legitimate Truffle Tree project in Spain and we are leasing trees to clients for 15 years. We have had some success but now we need to activate our Affiliate programme and get more people promoting the lease-a-tree plan.
In addition to word of mouth we need someone to go into forums, post newsletters to groups esp people who wish to make additional income from ethical products, as the trees help reduce C02.
We already have trees planted in Spain and we fundamentally want Affiliates in Europe, esp Spain, France and the UK but we could go wider than this.
We have proper Affiliate software that will calculate commissions – also we want to get to Gift companies etc (who in themselves could become Affiliates).
We have 15,000 trees to plant so its a big project!
Truffles are more valuable than gold, so it is a very attractive proposition for everyone.
We can create the press releases etc.
All ideas welcomed
I am using Flajector to wrap an swf into an projector executable. Flajector allows the use of winapi calls written into the swf actionscript. I am looking for someone experienced in using flajector winapi routines.
I need a button coded in Actionscript 2, to take a screen-capture of the currently selected window (which will be the projector window) mimicking alt+Prt Sc.
The output is to be auto-saved in a folder called ‘snaps’ next to the projector executable and auto-named after the projectors file name, appended with the current frame number.
IE: if the projector is called ‘testFile.exe’ the auto saved image will be named ‘testFile – fr.1.jpg’
I need a quote from you please for you to DESIGN (GRAPHICS) & DEVELOP the following as a main site
THEN QUOTE ON THIS:
1) create graphics for page based on what you have just seen at box.net for content
2) index enter/leave page to agree you are 18 page
3) main website tour which we will be duplicating for all our different sites
4) individual site tour page (which will be linked back from the main tour pages)
5) models page (here is an example of main models page / catalog / plus each model has her own page with images, video & text –
http://www.kink.com/k/models.jsp?query=&adv=false&lastSeen=anytime&allSitesSelected=true&gender=FEMALE – provide the same functionality)
6) megapass (after visitor pays, this main gateway page allows access all sites – the access/gateway is handled by an EX plugin), which would link back to each individual website
7) forum (EX enables setting up of a simple forum for each site)
8) 2257 legal compliance page
9) FAQ
10) webmasters page
11) CCBill & Verotel payment processing integration (there is an EX plugin for this)
Remember, the client will add all info via EX CMS.
1. Setup an “Administrator” area for the admin functions
– Move the charts, users, and groups tabs to this area
– place no. 2, 3, & 4 in this area as well.
2. Setup an input or variable for the site name – currently “Pulse”
3. Setup an input or variable for the copyright / footer line.
4. User Login
– setup a variable / input page to change the domain that is used and the AuthO key from Google
– be able to designate the password for the user so I can select to use the Google Apps login for some users and set the password myself for other users. Store the passwords in a hash in the db.
5. I need to make the charts smaller so I can put more on the page and have them go two, three, or four across depending on the user’s screen resolution. Is there a way I could “zoom” in on one chart to make just that one chart big?
I need someone who is familiar with setting up Adempiere to set ours up.
Please only apply if you have experience. Also let me know what experience you have.
Initially I need to import data from Quickbooks, as well as our vTiger CRM into Adempiere.
EDI X12 will also need to be setup. Please tell me your experience with setting up EDI in your bid.
In the future, we will need to integrate Adempiere with our website shops.
Please provide pricing for the initial setup with import of Quickbooks, CRM data, and setting up EDI. The rest we can price out in the future. Also give me some type of timeline.
Looking to replace a Flash banner with javascript so it can be viewed on mobile devices (Apple doesn’t support Flash from what I understand).
I have attached the Flash file that needs to be replaced. May have to de-compile to grab images? Open to ideas, but I need it to function somewhat the same as the swf file.
Looking for programmer who will work with me via SKYPE to create screen scrape prograrm using AutoIT. This is the site: http://www2.guidestar.org/ Will need data for each city in each state. Source code must be supplied… (Budget: $30-$250 USD, Jobs: Web Scraping)
Hello, I need someone in the US to receive a parcel (an uncut skateboard deck) and send it on to me in the UK as the distributor won’t ship direct to the UK. Very simple job, just requires a bit of your time to take it to the post office… (Budget: £30-£250 GBP, Jobs: Logistics & Shipping, Product Sourcing)
Since AOL’s acquisition of the Huffington Post, we know many of you have been looking for signs that TechCrunch has adopted our new editorial overlady’s approach to SEO. This seems like as good a time as any to assure loyal Why Is This News? viewers that we will never – ever – stoop to such cheap linkbaiting tricks, no matter what financial incentives we’re offered to do so.
