The Web Services Report

Best Buy accidentally sends Premier Black e-mails to all Reward Zone members

Harrison Hoffman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:10:00 GMT

Electronics retail giant Best Buy on Wednesday inadvertently sent acceptance e-mails for an exclusive program to all its rewards club members.

The e-mail describes the new Premier Black program as its "most elite membership level." Premier Black, with a name obviously borrowed from American Express' Black Card, has benefits beyond ...

Chrome tops IE, Firefox in Acid3 test

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:47:00 GMT

Google's Chrome gets a 78 out of 100 on the Acid3 test

Google's Chrome browser is outperforming the latest "stable" builds of both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 in the popular Acid3 test. The Acid test, for those who do not know, tests how well a ...

Facebook's Live Feed challenges FriendFeed, Twitter

Harrison Hoffman — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:19:00 GMT

Facebook has recently launched a new feature that takes aim at life-streaming sites FriendFeed and Twitter. Facebook's Live Feed is an evolved version of its hugely popular News Feed feature.

Facebook's new Live Feed allows you to view all of your friends' updates in real-time.

Found via a ...

Little known fact: Sarah Palin invented the Internet

Harrison Hoffman — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:39:00 GMT

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A new Internet meme, in the same vein as the wildly popular Chuck Norris Facts, has been spreading for the past couple of days. The subject this time around is John McCain's recently announced running mate, Sarah Palin. The "little known facts" about Palin have ...

Accounting on the go: Quickbooks for iPhone and Blackberry

Harrison Hoffman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:32:00 GMT

Quickbooks, one of the leading accounting packages for small businesses, has just released web interfaces for Blackberry and iPhone. The iPhone version, seen to the left, sports a very slick UI and allows easy, at-a-glance access to all of your financial information, entered into Quickbooks Online.

At first glance, the ...

YouTube wants you to link your Google account

Harrison Hoffman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:58:00 GMT

Users visiting YouTube's homepage today will likely see a message asking them to link their YouTube account with their Google account. Automatically detecting that you have a Google account, YouTube says, "It looks like you have a Google account. Would you like to link your YouTube and Google accounts?" ...

First Look: Stitcher's iPhone app beta

Harrison Hoffman — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:50:00 GMT

Utilizing Apple's ad hoc distribution program, Stitcher let a beta version of their iPhone app loose on 100 testers today. While the app suffers from some stability issues, due to its unfinished nature, Stitcher provides a slick solution to those looking for customized audio programming.

Stitcher is trying to ...

Easy as ABC: Web apps for students

Harrison Hoffman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Summer is, unfortunately, almost over and that means that students are starting to head back to school in the coming weeks. There are so many online tools that can help students today to stay more organized and productive that I thought I would outline a few here and hopefully ease ...

ScoreMobile's iPhone app is a sports fan's savior

Harrison Hoffman — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:26:00 GMT

Even after trading for Ken Griffey Jr., my White Sox are struggling against the Royals.

Have you ever been forced away from watching your favorite sports team because of some prior obligation, only to find yourself sneaking away to the nearest TV to check on the score? Well, then ScoreMobile's new iPhone app ...

NetShare briefly offers iPhone tether at App Store

Harrison Hoffman — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:28:00 GMT

(Credit: Mac-Addict)

One of the most requested features for the iPhone is the ability to tether the phone to feed 3G or EDGE network data to your computer. That feature was briefly a reality Thursday, thanks to Nullriver's NetShare application. MacRumors reports that, priced at $9.99, the application ...