Google Currents for those outside of US
Google Currents is a new news reader for your Android phone. This is for now available for people in the US, but there is a way to get it installed on rooted phones outside of the US.
Go to this link and download the APK file, copy the file to your phone and install it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1382728
If you use Google Reader today you can easily add your Google Reader subscriptions to Google Currents! Pretty sweet!
Read more about Google Currents on the official website: http://www.google.com/producer/currents
Google Wallet finally LIVE, or almost…
I signed up for Google Wallet a few months ago and was reminded that this service was NOT available in Norway. I then thought to myself that this would take time to implement here in Norway because of different rules regarding payment than in the USA. Today I got an email from Google telling me that I now could start using Google Wallet for online payment.
Google Checkout is now automatically converted to Google Wallet. This means that my payment method on Android Market is now used by Google Wallet. So when I logged onto wallet.google.com with my Google Account I could see all my payments made on Android Market, pretty nice!
Nothing much to do with Google Wallet here in Norway than using it as payment on Android Market, but I am looking forward to having Google Wallet integrated to all my payments. I guess converting from paying with a VISA card and using my phone with Google Wallet is something that is NOT coming to Norway for a long time, but who knows.
I have been using PayPal alot for payments online and looking forward to more and more webshops starting to use Google Wallet insted of PayPal. In some wierd way I trust Google more than independent PayPal!
Here is a screenshot I took of my frst time logged info Google Wallet:
Want the best hotel room? Room77.com gives you the ability to choose, just like booking a seat at a flight
A lot of people like to book their seats when they are taking flights. Someone that's tall for example, like to get the seat near the exit's, because there is usually better space there for your legs. What about the ability to choose the best hotel room? Wouldn't it be nice to get to choose a room with sea view, far from the elevator, free wifi or other stuff that you would appreciate of a hotel room? Now you can, with Room77.com
I came over this service when I watched Techcrunch Disrupt for about a year ago. Now Robert Scoble has made a new interview with General Manager and VP of Product Kevin Fliess at Room77.com
When I watched this interview I remembered how awesome this service is. Now they have upgraded their website and it really looks awesome.
Watch this interview and visit their website afterwords:
A new kind of cloud-based backup for your hard drives: Bitcasa
I really like the thoughts behind this new cloud-based backup! Thanx to Robert Scoble for making this great interview!