Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.
Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web (Scobleizer)...No, the real secret sauce and huge impact on the future of the web is in the back end of this thing. A few months back the engineers at Siri gave me a secret look at how they stitch the APIs into the system. They’ve built a GUI that helps them hook up the APIs from, say, a new source like Foursquare, into the language recognition engine.
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited (Cnet)
The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
Foursquare Passes 1 Million Check-Ins A Week. Rate Doubled In The Past Month. (TechCrunch)
...Today, the company has some new big news to share via a tweet: they’re now doing over a million check-ins a week.
AT&T FamilyMap App Launches on App Store (AT&T)
...The AT&T FamilyMap app brings a streamlined approach to helping families stay up to speed on each other’s whereabouts by locating wireless devices within a shared family account. The app provides iPhone users with access to FamilyMap’s popular features, which until now, were only accessible through a computer.
Nearby places you might like... (Google Lat Long Blog)
...Now on Google Maps, you can get these types of suggestions automatically. Just look up a place that you know or love, and we'll provide a set of "Nearby places you might like.
Winter Olympics to demo lighting controlled by thoughts (CNN)
...A Canadian company has created what it calls the "largest thought-controlled computing installation." It's an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.
Lighter Side: Ashton Kutcher Pays Homage To Twitter With Tooter (TechCrunch)
...It’s up to you to decide how funny the sketch is, but it’s certainly an entertaining poke at the celeb’s love for the microblogging network and social media.
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