http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/144/a-is-for-app.html When the Singer sisters were just 6 months old, they already preferred cell phones to almost any other toy, recalls their mom, Fiona Aboud Singer: "They loved to push the buttons and see it light up." The girls knew most of the alphabet by 18 months and are now starting to read, partly thanks to an iPhone app called First Words, which lets them move tiles along the screen to spell c-o-w and d-o-g. They sing along with the Old MacDonald app too, where they can move a bug-eyed cartoon sheep or rooster inside a corral, and they borrow Mom's tablet computer and photo-editing software for a 21st-century version of finger painting. "They just don't have that barrier that technology is hard or that they can't figure it out," Singer says.

http://nyti.ms/d7Aics Interesting that David Pogue runs this story about poor reception indoors and how Line 2 gets around that problem. IPhone App to Sidestep AT&T By DAVID POGUE For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T’s signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod Touch into a full-blown cellphone.

Geez, here we go, the Goog conspiracy. Maybe you want Bing to be doing this. Seems to me that 95% of computers on the net using goog to search are Windows based. You're not worried about that? How soon we forget.

Yeah, right, and I've got some igloos for sale.

WTF Facebook definitely is irritatingly trying to monetize networking. Someone will come along that isn't the least bit interested in monetizing and attracting eyeshare. It won't be Goog either. Goog and Facebook should just get out of the way instead of sticking their face where they shouldn't. Like watching a DVD and someone sticks their butt on the side of the TV to get a few strokes. Look, I get more strokes so I win and can charge for it. Spare us.

What's needed is an open source facebook. Farcebook was an innocent way to keep in touch with friends, but now that venture capital has gotten wind of 400 million facebookers, its falling all over itself to gorge on naive facebookers lax privacy settings and getting naive facebookers to invite new friends.. Watch the bald faced Facebook attempts to get you to attract more friends to Facebook, I can't just get to my list of existing friends until you see the invite friend page first. Then Facebook re-sorts your news feed so that you see news feeds from days ago, instead of the newest feeds.

What, you're saying no ads in Facebook? They keep tweaking facebookers home page, wonder why? I see ads to the right of my facebook page. How do you think Facebook will monetize or increase the value of their brand. Duhh, maybe ads? Only site that hasn't gone down the slippery slope re: ads. Craigslist.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon etc. Whats with the hollow rhetoric? Doesn't matter who is top dog they will use whatever info they have of your search, email, buying habits or friend habits. Its all about making money, do you think that any of these companies are benevolent enough to put you before profit. Take your blinders off.