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Sticker Mule is launching their redesign soon, and wants to kick off by giving 2 lucky readers $100 in free custom stickers. If you haven’t heard of Sticker Mule yet, it’s a good time to check them out. They make ordering custom stickers as simple as possible. They’ll make your artwork print ready for free, and provide a free online proof with every order. Check out some of their handy work:
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from Android Phone Fans by Quentyn Kennemer
Google has tried time and time again to deny this rumor, but it won’t die. Google Circles was rumored to be Google’s Facebook competitor after Google Buzz failed to do any damage. Google confirmed that they were working on code for something like a Facebook-centric social network, but it was said to only be a labs project (possibly a 20% project from a Googler). Tim O’Reilly, who tweeted that he “saw Google Circles, and it looks awesome”, later deleted that tweet and worked awfully hard to clarify what he meant.
So we know Google is working on something – they haven’t flat-out denied it. But it could be bigger than they’re letting on. New source code with the word “circles” mentioned in the context of social networking has been uncovered by one Florian Rohrweck. He said he found the code hiding in plain site inside the javascript elements on Google Profiles, a site Google says will help users get their name and whatever information they want shown in search results when people like human resource agents search for them.
Google Profiles is laid out almost exactly like a Facebook page, save for the absence of any social networking functionality. If Google Circles was just a “research-y” project, why is code related to it embedded in Google Profiles? It would make no sense to test this code on a public site without any intention of merging the two projects.
Even if the code is useless to end-users right now, they have been doing more than just research. Google makes it clear that they’d like to get into social networking every time the question is posed and it seems Google Circles could end up being their way into the fold. [The Next Web]
Everyone’s eyes are on the iPhone 5’s release. We won’t know for sure, but there are plenty of rumors out there. Here are some: iPhone release to be on September:
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Technology Live from USA TODAY tells us that Apple will reveal the iPhone 5 in September. Along with that, the iPhone 5 will have A5 processor and 8 megapixel camera. Apple to introduce teardrop design?:
This is my next tells us that Apple will incorporate teardrop design—the design used on MacBook Air. You can see the mockup pictures by Thisismynext here. They suggest that the device would feature a different design, making it closer to iPod Touch. Also, the teardrop design in which the device gets progressively thinner towards the bottom. This would be a complete new approach for Apple in a mobile device. With that design change, the rumor suggests few more design changes. The screen will be wider, leaving less margin on sides. The resolution will stay the same. The home button will be wider, possibly used for gestures supported in iOS 5. Now all these are rumors, but it seems like we can look forward to the release.
Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/gadgets/article/iphone-5-rumors-dates-and-design/#ixzz1Q767HfKy
By Om Malik Jun. 19, 2011, 11:00pm PT
For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook’s musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications. The company is currently working on lining up more partners for the 2011 edition of f8, its annual developer conference, which is most likely to be held in August 2011.
It seems that Facebook, after consolidating its position in three major Internet sectors – retailing, news and games – is now getting serious about music and media. At The Cable Show held recently in Chicago, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts extolled the values of cloud-based services and explained why cloud-based guides and interfaces are going to be key to television’s future. He showed off a deep integration with Facebook that can make television more social with recommendations from your social graph.
Just like Comcast, Spotify already allows you to share the information about the song that you are listening to on Spotify with your Facebook friends, but the next level of integration is going to be much deeper. And it won’t be just Spotify – my sources tell me that Facebook has been reaching out to other online music services and much of the attention at f8 should be focused on music. Facebook Connect and Facebook Likes are key components of this effort.
