No matter what your mother says, farts will forever be funny. And for Joel Comm, they may forever be profitable now that Apple decided his app wasn’t too crass for the iPhone public. iFart Mobile is currently the number one iPhone/iPod Touch application, pulling in a dollar a pop.
Education Through the Cloud with Google
Google Apps for Education has had a big year, further emphasizing Google’s push for cloud computing. A push that has included a recent guarantee of 99.9% uptime on certain Google Apps. Cloud computing with Google Apps has often been discussed in the business context, and it is clearly quite relevant to the education field as well.
Google Pushing Charity Through iGoogle Themes
Keeping within the Holiday spirit, Google is doing something a little more significant than helping track the path of Santa Claus. They’re offering a number of iGoogle themes for causes in an effort to spread awareness and raise donations. They’re clearly taking it seriously because there is a link to them right from the front page of the search engine, and usually there is not a whole lot of change going on there aside from the occasional doodle.
Watch the Election Unfold Through Google’s Elections Gallery
Google has been very involved with this election. They’ve released tools for voters to find out voting information. They’ve released a tool for volunteers to help recruit voters.
Discussing Issues On Poverty, Through Blogs
"Remember the poor, it costs nothing" — Josh Billings…
Watch Sports And Stocks Through OneSeason
If you enjoy investing in the stock market and are also a big sports buff then you might get a kick out of a new service by OneSeason which allows users to purchase shares in their favorite professional athletes and ma
Dell Sharing Press Conference Through Twitter
I really like seeing how organizations experiment with social media, especially those who keep on pushing those envelopes and invite us to get involved and see what happens during such experimentation. Like Dell.
Getty To Sell Stock Photography Through Flickr
Yahoo! Inc. – Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.
Commenting Through Disqus
If you aren’t a blogger you probably haven’t noticed this company named Disqus unless you really are paying attention when you leave a comment. But head over to Dave Winer’s blog, click on the comments, and if you leave a comment there, like I just did, you aren’t actually leaving it on Dave Winer’s blog. You’re using Disqus’s commenting service. “So what?” you’re probably asking. Well, there’s a few things that Disqus does.
SMX West – Online Reputation Management Through Search
I was interested to hear the presentations in the Reputation Monitoring & Management Through Search session at the SMX West Conference yesterday in Santa Clara, and the five presenters didn’t disappoint. (click to enlarge)