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On specs alone, HTC HD2 looks to be the best mobile 6.5 device ever created for Windows. It contains a 4.3 inch screen with 800 x 480 resolution. It also includes a speedy 1-GHZ process by Snapdragon. After the recent launch for the HD2, it was easy to get my hands on this device to see if it could live up to its own hype.

It quickly became obvious that this was indeed likely the best 6.5 device around. The touch screen is increasingly fun to play with, it also does a great job of putting the iPhone screen to shame, however, it is comparable to the Droid or Nexus One quality of touch screen and resolution.

The interface seems highly responsive, assuming due to the Snapdragon processor. Apps seem to open without the smallest delay.

Web Browsing

Browsing the web with the HD2 is also rather enjoyable. HD2 uses Opera Mobile so that on most pages you should see most, and commonly most often, all of the page itself. The web speed is also impressive on its 3G network.

However, there are some bug issues with the HD2 and web browsing. so in this aspect, the iPhone’s smooth Safari can blow the HD2’s web browser hitches out of the water. There seems to be a rather large bug that is involved with zooming in on a page. Many users have in fact reported the same exact issue, so this is obviously a manufacturing bug early on. Sure to be a quick fix around the corner.

This nifty device comes bundled with exclusive apps from places like Barnes & Noble as well as Blockbuster and MobiTv. Users can rent or buy movies from Blockbuster via the app available. The Barnes & Noble app gives users a world of literature at the tip of their fingers.

All in all, with a few flaws and a few shining perks, this mobile device is certain to be a hit, at least, that is, until the next one trumps it.

While Google now allows twitter results into the first page search results other search engines like Sency.com use twitter as their primary source for search results.

The benefits to real time content is that it provides the opportunity to find the most up to date information about what is happening on the web. Twitter updates give individuals the opportunity to live in real time information, taking the web to a live broadcast of now.

This open source of information means anyone may see you tweet, so be ready! With Twitter offering its API of Tweets for free to small web publishers and entrepreneurs – we can expect to continue to see Twitter results syndicated across the web.

Google Does Not Plan to Be Left Behind – Buzz

Although they have had no choice lately, Google has announced its plans to take ‘what it does best’, which is organizing web content by relevancy, and apply this same method to social media formats. Social media is notoriously perhaps one of the most disorganized aspects of the internet.

They plan to begin tying the Gmail Web Interface in with social media status updates and other forms of sharing technology. This may just be one more attempt at Google’s ever present need to convince any internet users that for any aspect of the net available, Google has one better, but only time will tell.

According to Google engineers, someone at least has to try. Considering that a lot of the world’s vital internet information is shared among Google’s top players alone, it may be more than a bit behind the times to begin delving into the social media world that even they could have been taking advantage of for this long.

Google has now integrated Google mail, known as Gmail, with Buzz which allows users to share their links on Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader and more. This allows you to see business and personal activity of those who are active in your Gmail buzz list.

Developers at Google believe that they can build their own advantage in social medias by continuing to focus and concentrate on relevant and high ranking material, even within social networks. Not only can you see the activities of those on your follow list, but you can also see the activities of those on their lists if they like or share information.

Google Buzz users will also be able to begin to train their own algorithms by selecting if something is recommendable, or whether you just are ‘not interested’ in the information presented.  This may provide a new aspect for social media lovers in the fact that they can eliminate posts such as those about someone’s private life or dinner recipes and only follow the information in a certain niche that will only get more perfected with more use.

One month after users went ballistic over the Facebook privacy update changes may have been a bit too early for Zuckerberg to declare that if given the chance to start over, he would have made these recent decisions right from the start. Claiming that it is the social norm, he shares that the new changes are still optional, but urges users to take advantage of the suggested options Facebook now provides.

Most users enjoy sharing their Facebook pages, status updates and personal information with those they dub important friends, acquaintances and even co-workers. And there are yet others who prefer to share their information with as many people as they can add to their follower list, without a care for who may be able to access their personal information such as location, age and cell phone numbers.

There are of course supporters who remind everyone that no one is forced to enter this information, and doing so may in fact be a risk even if your only followers are close friends and family.

Most will agree though that it should remain the users choice as to whom and what areas they are willing to share their private information with. While it seems that Facebook has decided that they will begin to make some decisions of various sorts on behalf of their billions of users.

FaceBook is Trapped

In essence, Facebook is actually trapped by its own conventions as well. Since it is a social networking tool, just like any other goldmine of private information, it is begging to be utilized to shove user specific information in front of those specific users. They want country music concert tickets advertisements to show up for those Facebook fans who regularly favorite, like or otherwise promote country music.

Although it is a bit of privacy invasion, just as with the private personal information you enter into Facebook’s profile system, no one says you have to buy the tickets either, as appealing as they may be to you specifically.

It looks like the new propeller chip will be an incredible addition to our current application technology. This chip contains eight processors or cogs, that can operate simultaneously, cooperatively, or even independently. This allows them to share common resources from a central hub.

This new chip allows developers to retain full control over when and how each seperte cog is utilized. Its shared system timer keeps each cog on the same time reference which ultimately allows for true deterministic synchronization. It will also come with two different programming languages. Propeller Assembly, and Spin. Propeller Assembly can execute up to 160 MIPs per cog.

Who Will Use Propeller?

Propeller is a highly diverse chip that will be used by many different industries such as process control engineering and even robotics manufacturers. Due to its on-board video capability as well as easy connectivity to common PC peripherals, it is fair to say that many industries from the largest to the home based creators will take advantage of Propeller.

Many other areas where Propeller will be of benefit can include:

• Art
• Hobbies
• Home Applications
• Medical
• Science
• Industrial

What Do You Need to Get Started?

You will of course need the Propeller Chip as well as a USB Serial connection to the chip. Some boards and modules may actually require a prop plug for integration while others have the capability built-in. For hobbyist or students, it is recommended to try out the Propeller Starter Kit or the Propstick USB version.

Propeller will also come with a few very handy development tools enabling users from beginners to power-users to take advantage of the possibilities this chip will provide. You do not have to know programming language to use Propeller.

Many companies are already on-board with Propeller and utilizing it daily in their own industrial, creative and even medical settings.

It appears that Propeller, has finally gone the way of the dinosaur. This aspect of Social Media bookmarking, although an older model, was likely still a contributing factor in where social media has gone in the bit of time it has been around. Some would even call it a pioneer in its niche.

So maybe at this point a more appropriate question would be, what was Propeller?

Back in the early days there was a web browser called Netscape. Netscape was the browser until Gates pinned his eye on the internet. Well, Netscape had long ago set up a social bookmarking site that rivaled Reddit and Digg. Although it did begin to grow and start to look like a remote contender, it quickly lost any momentum it had begun to build.

As Netscape continued to dwindle, they sold their social bookmarking site to AOL. AOL immediately took action and began creating new branding for the site under the name Propeller. That was back in 2007 and it seems that every since then, Propeller has slowly been dwindling away. In the end it was rare for them to require more than one or two votes to bring a post to the front page.

Although there are bigger social media formats already available, it is certainly up in the air about where all of the old Propellerheads went and what their sites of choice were once Propeller was brought down.

Reddit still seems to be shiny fairly brightly and Digg looks to have a stable future ahead as we seem to become more and more dependent on our social medias and social bookmarking sites. As there is no doubt that social bookmarking will continue to be important to those who want to market and advertise their brand, products or services on worldwide social media sites.

Considered an internet news blog, Mashable was launched from Pete Cashmore’s very own home in Aberdeen Scotland in 2005. Its primary purpose is to cover the latest news in social media, but it also covers any new news and developments in entertainment, online video, web development, technology, mobile and other gadget reviews and information.

The site has reported as many as 30 million viewers and users in one month and has a vast following on a variety of different social networking sites. With over a million Twitter followers and a great Alexa ranking it seems to be continually improving and proving itself in the eyes of the search engines.

Mashable’s provide straight to the source information, reviews, blogs and other sources of great informative content that keeps users coming to check it out, and previous users returning when they need to get to the root of just about any problem Mashable addresses. Mashable is also gaining a huge following through sources like Facebook and Twitter users, which is continuing to be an influential demographic.

Awards and Recognitions

Mashable began at the end of 2007 to host an International Open Web Award contest that would give recognition to the best online services and other communities. Voting was conducted online and not only by Mashable but also by its twenty four blog partnerships. In January of 2008 Mashable’s announced their Open Web Awards winners that included Facebook, YouTube. ESPN, Pandora, Google, Twitter and Digg.

Mashable acquired Blippr, a micro review service website, in March of 2009 and has only continued to rise in popularity among those who rely on blogs, news sites and reviews of technology to do their own related jobs. This process helps to keep a continual flow of updated materials that Mashable users know they will find when they head to their site for answers.