Update: As of today, February 24, 2010, I’m seeing an update in the App store that restores 3G functionality. This is about 2 weeks after Apple allowed Sling to include 3G functionality in the SlingPlayer app.
We’ve previously written about Apple’s capricious App Store review process, which has caused great frustration for users of Google Voice and other apps. Users of the OrbLive app for iPhone have recently felt Apple’s bite, in a manner that makes the Google Voice fiasco look trivial. OrbLive users recently found out that they didn’t get what they paid for – they had key functionality stripped out of their app in an update, after they’d purchased the app. To make matters worse, some users are complaining that the update notes didn’t advise them that this functionality was being removed. Read on for the full story, and then let us know if this makes you leery about getting an iPhone, or keeping your iPhone if you already have one.
Earlier this week, we covered a tool that helps you increase the followers of your blog. Now let’s look at it from another angle: What about increasing the followers of -you-? If you think about it, you are a probably member of a score or three social networks by now, many of which attract different follower types; so what about a tool that allows users to follow you on the social network of their choice — and all with just one easy button? Now wouldn’t -that- be swell? 
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Remember, back in the day, when email was one-dimensional? The good ol’ days when all you had to do was remember one contact list and deal with one inbox? Well, those days are long gone, buddy. Today, we are in a world of social media: connecting and sharing with the planet at large in as many ways and as quickly as possible. Workplaces everywhere are banning social media because people are addicted to it and they just ain’t gettin’ nuthin done. Nuthin’. Yep. We are also in a world of the high speed degradation of da englich langage, loosing it fastr den wat wuz expected — but that’s another post (ohh that pained me!).