Those sporting an Android smartphone and using Blogger may want to check this out as Google has released an official Blogger app for Android. The app is available in the Android Market and similar to using Blogger, it is available for free. Nothing overly surprising here as the app does what you would expect — more »

If you are not as familiar with Posterous (or not carrying an iPhone) this may not be as exciting of news for you, however the simple to setup and simple to use blogging site Posterous has released an iOS app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sadly though, it was not a universal app with more »

Google News, Google’s aggregation of all of the top news stories of the day, has had an update pushed live in the past day. The most notable features include keyboard shortcuts, a little redesigning, and more interestingly, personalization. Watch the video for more information: Of course the most important of the updates is the new more »

A while ago, Google introduced a way to search blogs. The search excludes lots of other sites so you can easily find information published on blogs (whether they are on Google’s Blogger or not). The Goolge Blog Search just got a couple of new features to make it more useful. Now you can have an more »

A lot of us use Twitter. But when you want to post images, videos, and audio, you might want to move to something like Tumblr. It’s an extremely easy blogging solution. But, who’s behind Tumblr? Get to know Marco Arment in this edition of “5 Questions.” He put together much of Tumblr. Would a Tumblr guy use Facebook? His answer may surprise you.

#googlefail. If you’re on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with this tag. In a nutshell, it describes what is possibly Google’s worst week. Read on to find out what happened to one of the web’s most popular service providers. Hint: there was a lot of chaos.

There are plenty of options when it comes to video sharing sites. YouTube has been the big player, but has been very slow rolling out features. Viddler’s big distinguishing feature is allowing comments to be placed at certain points during the video.

Now Viddler has come out with “Vidgets” (widgets, get it?) that allow you to share playlists a lot easier. If you’ve got a bunch of videos, you can easily just embed a list in several different ways. Each widget is pretty customizable and a preview shows you what to expect. Also, it looks like an easy way of embedding code once and updating via adding to the list.

They have been telling us to watch for it, and today it finally launches. Well, for some users anyway. Facebook rolled out their new homepage today for some (it should be there for everyone soon), and the features may look rather familiar to you if you use Twitter.

Rather Twitter-esque…the big change in the Facebook homepage is their real-time updates and their new way of doing newsfeeds. The thing is, the real-time update doesn’t so far seem to be operating in exact real time. It takes some refreshing. The stream of updates obviously only displays for a short period of time as well, so they put a new “Highlights” sidebar on your page, where you can see some of the older stuff it deems interesting to you.

Journalism isn’t like it was in the good ‘ole days where the reporter woke up, moseyed on down to the office for a cup of coffee and typed out his story on an old black Corona typewriter. No, now instead of a Corona, we’ve got Tweets.

While reporters have been able to use online streaming in a courtroom before, it’s been rare, especially in federal cases. But the latest feather in journalistic caps is one that was won by Ron Sylvester, a reporter for the Wichita Eagle. Sylvester was allowed to use Twitter to give constant, live updates on a big racketeering gang trial he is covering. (You can check out Sylvester’s tweets here).

Sylvester isn’t new to using Twitter in court, but this is his first time using it in federal court. Several lawyers raised some objections to using this type of media coverage, but U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten says that since jurors are instructed to avoid the newspaper as well as broadcast and online reports, he was allowed. As the Judge said, “You either trust your jurors to live with the admonishment, or you don’t.”

The messages sent on Twitter (known as “tweets”), are fairly short, being that they are limited to 140 characters. Because of this, the updates sent out via mobile phone or computer may not be especially long or detailed, but they do keep the public up to date in real time. Sylvester, as well as others in support of Twitter being used in all courtrooms maintain that “It does improve public access to the courts.”

Tired of being a consumer of content? Maybe this year you want to produce content. How do you want to get your voice heard? This could be your time to start blogging. There are lots of options out there, so here’s an overview of some of the easiest ways to start.