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Tiger Text: Sometimes the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.

Trying to hide shenanigans? There's an app for that.

For those of us prone to fits of word vomit, a new application eliminates the possibility of your text messages coming back to haunt you later. (After all, not all of us have the ability to organize a television mea culpa.)

For a fee,...

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Ning Selects The Bivings Group as a Certified Partner

Over the last few years we’ve built some pretty cool social networks on the Ning platform for clients such as the Pickens Plan and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.  Indeed, the Pickens Plan’s 200,000 strong social network, Push, has won a variety of awards and is recognized as one of the best examples of the use of social networking for issues advocacy. ...

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King of the Location Based Mountain- Foursquare vs. Gowalla, Loopt, Yelp, RallyUp, Plyce…

Since their 2009 launches at the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), two unique startups-Foursquare, and Gowalla have become the biggest players in the still emerging niche of location based services.  While it remains to be seen whether or not the market will support more than one location based service, judging by the number and growth of users,...

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Social TV Draws Developers’ Attention

Many attempts have been made to blend the electronic “hearth” of most living rooms – the television – with the computer, and Saturday’s release of the iPad may have brought us one step closer to a child-hybrid of these two lifestye home-bases.

With the massive iPad release, developers at every level of the iPhone app hierarchy are vying for ways to capitalize on the new gadget and its market share,...

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Is the iPad a Game Changer?

I like Apple, but I am not a fan boy that immediately buys everything they put out.  I waited a year before switching to the iPhone, and have only recently started using a Mac as my primary personal computer.  As someone who is relatively cautious in my purchases of new gadgets,...

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