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Gowalla releases official Android app for #SXSW smackdown with Foursquare

Gowalla Android users can rejoice in the fact that Gowalla 1.0 is now available in the Android Market. Though a beta .apk has been circulating over the past few weeks, Gowalla released the official Android app for their check-in service just in time to duke it out with Foursquare at South by Southwest. Both Gowalla and [...]

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HootSuite releases Android Twitter app because “Robots Need Love, Too”

Desktop Twitter client HootSuite has made the jump to mobile with a new app for Android. It seems Android Twitter apps are born faster than the average American birth rate, but HootSuite has the brand recognition to carve its own lane as “the professional Twitter client” geared towards people who need analytics and other business-centered [...]

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Recognizr matches faces to database and shows social networking links

Place your phone’s camera over someone’s face and it brings up links to their social network profiles? Yes, it’s possible in TAT’s Recognizr prototype. When a user focuses their device’s camera on someone who has been entered into the app before, a series of user-defined icons will hover over a live image, providing quick links [...]

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Touiteur will eventually be the Best Android Twitter App (Exclusive video preview)

Touiteur will eventually be the best android Twitter app. Its early to heap such praise on a brand new app, but every bit of it is warranted. Touiteur is better looking than Seesmic, has multiple accounts like Tweetcaster, and packs enough features to be the best app to rival Twidroid. Many Twitter Android apps have [...]

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MySpace and MapQuest update mobile websites for Android

MySpace and MapQuest today separately announced that they have updated their mobile websites in order to look and perform better on Android (This is not a collaboration, I just listed both websites because there was no need to create two separate posts for what’s essentially the same thing: updates on mobile sites rarely talked about [...]

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Review: A World of Photo (ADC2 “Entertainment” Co-winner)

In case you didn’t know, A World of Photo recently won one of the top prizes in the ADC2 “Entertainment” category. The concept is simple: You see a big map of the world, you spin your phone, a random user is picked in the direction your phone is pointing, and that user has to send [...]

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MySpace – The Forgotten Social Network

Is MySpace on its way to becoming the forgotten social network, specifically when it comes to the mobile experience? The former social networking king has dropped features from its website in an effort to re-focus on music, and the CEO has even said “Facebook is not our competition. We’re very focused on a different space.” Is [...]

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Facebook launches touch-friendly website for smartphones

Facebook has launched a new mobile website to improve appearance and navigation for touchscreen devices, including Android. If you’re someone displeased by the old m.facebook.com website and still not a fan of Facebook apps – official or otherwise – you may want to check out this new touch-friendly version. In fact, my G1 automatically redirects [...]

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UPDATED: Official Facebook Android app now in Android Market

UPDATE: Yesterday, there were some questions about about whether this was the real Facebook app. Despite the Gmail address associated with the app and the Facebook app page saying that this was not created by Facebook, I believe this is the official app. The official developer listed in the Android Market is “Facebook,” a registered [...]

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Twidroid updates Android app and launches Pro edition

Media-savvy professionals often joke that if you want to bury a story, announce it on a Friday afternoon when people are too concerned with the weekend to care about the news. Twidroid broke that rule yesterday and still managed to get Android users paying attention to the revamped Twidroid app and the introduction of Twidroid [...]

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