Android Social Media

With so many services online to shorten your URLs many people are wondering how they should move forward. Short URLs are a huge convenience when working in limited space such as in twitter where you are limited to 140 characters or less. In addition to shortening your URLs there are a few services that will also track your URL syndication by letting you know how many clicks you receive.

There have been a rash of announcements from carriers in the U.S. about launching new Smart Phones utilizing the Android OS (Operating System) from various manufacturers including venerable Motorola. With Motorola jumping into the Android pool head first with their launch of the ‘Cliq’ on November 19th on T-Mobile, and a second Android Smart Phone before year-end, is Android getting the traction it needs to challenge the two 800-pound Gorillas in RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s proprietary iPhone in the Mobile U.S. OS world?

Verizon is preparing to launch their first Android device and as part of the launch they are announcing a new website called Droid Does. The whole idea seems to focus on all the things that Android does that the iPhone doesn’t and of course you could fill an entire website with that kind of content. Here is a teaser video:

MyMarket is awesome. In short it allows you to scan through the market for great apps without having to see the same junk all of the time. Filter out developers completely or certain types of apps by key words such as theme, calculator, etc. You can also recommend and bookmark apps to other users of [...]

Brandon & I have been looking at the latest in Custom Roms since JF is no longer working. In the last week we have both updated to the most recent stable version of Cyanogen’s Build and we have partitioned our SD Cards to increase memory space and speed up the phone. So far so good. We are going to work on a new set of instructions to root your phone and a new set of instructions to update to Cyanogen if you

The journey for me, continues with the Pandora internet radio application for android. Currently the Pandora app occupies the 8th most popular download in the Android market just behind Google maps and Facebook.

This is the screen where i keep the apps I use most that are not necessarily related to the apps on the other screens… The widget has a couple of features that make me feel warm and fuzzy… This is what it looks like when your signed out of the app. Attractive, clean, accessible. I have it set right