Guest post by Jim Alden @TechFrog Everything is about compromise right? There is no perfect situation in any aspect of life. Want an iPhone and the plethora of apps it offers?  You must put a ring on the finger of AT&T. Want to be on another network? Fine, but you’ll have no access to that huge cookie jar of applications. Although Android phones are not that new, multiple networks here in the US are adding them to their lineup. Motorola, HTC, Samsung are all manufacturing Android phones. O…

By now all the super Black Friday shoppers are just finishing up and now beginning to go into an unboxing rage.  Why let this great experience go to waste and have no one rise their fist in anger because you were the guy who got the last $300 HDTV.  Let yourself be known and show what you just bought through JustBought.it. Using Twitter, Facebook, photos, and Google Maps, the site encourages people to tweet out whatever they "#JustBought" with the picture of the product and the location where y…

In the last week, Seesmic released three new apps to much Internet fanfare: a native app for Windows (Seesmic for Windows), an app for Blackberry (Seesmic for Blackberry), and Seesmic for Android (guess the OS). As a self-proclaimed evangelist for the company’s software, I leaped at the opportunity to use the new Twitter tools. Unfortunately, we don’t have an Android phone handy but we did put the other two through the gauntlet. First up, Seesmic for Windows. This app is slick and easy …

The video game industry and the film industry have always had some sort of relationship with each other.  Big blockbuster films ended up becoming video games but it did not usually become big blockbuster games.  What is beginning to happen is studios are hiring people like Chris Hewish, Head of Global Interactive for DreamsWorks Animation, to be the go between for the studio and the gaming companies.  Helping directors understand what it takes to build a game and not have them coming in and 6 mo…

The Microsoft PDC 2009 event had some huge announcements and not only concerning Microsoft products.  For those of you that may not know what the Microsoft PDC conference is all about, it is a developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform.  Literally people from all over the world come to attend this huge developer event and hear the latest on the Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, Windows 7 the list goes on.  This could be considered the Mecca of sorts fo…

During LA Tech Week we caught up with Kellee Santiago Co-Founder of thatgamecompany creators of Flower, FlOw, and now Cloud.  Flower and FlOw have both been top selling games on the Playstation Network thanks to the explosion of downloadable content within the video game industry. Kellee gives us an inside view of her company and how it came to be along with the trends and shifts that the industry has been going through over these past few years.  Checkout our interview below with Kellee Santiag…

Image by Getty Images via Daylife From PDC ’09 to Xbox Live, Microsoft sure has busy this week, and it’s only Wednesday! Last week, some of the Zune team invited us to their pad to check out the long-awaited social features Microsoft was releasing for Xbox Live. Yesterday, the event, a casual private party at Zune LA, gave us some hands-on time with those social features: integration with Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm, as well as the release of Zune-branded entertainment available on Xbox L…

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming (click here to view live stream) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network.  The group has expanded beyond Action Sports to include brands from Consumer Electronics, Music & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Automotive & Motorsports, as well as our growing college student consumer community. What should you do? 1. If you're coming LIVE in person, you might want to prepare a fe…

UPDATE: We are all out of codes. Thanks to all who participated :) Alright, there has been tons of buzz around the Underground PDC event happening this coming Wednesday, November 18th.  Our buddy and fellow TZ contributor Jacob Nahin has about 20 odd invites that he just can't wait to give away!  We were part of the PDC event last year and are one of the supporting sponsors this year. Let me tell you, when Microsoft throws a party, they THROW A PARTY! We are making it super simple. No games, p…