Orgoo – Google Gears Powered MySpace – Google Speeds Up Mobile Search – TuneWiki Impromptu Concerts – QuillPill is Twitter for Novelists – Free Line Report for 6.18.08
QuillPill. It’s in beta right now, but any would be J.K. Rowlings should take note and get ready to write their next masterpiece on their iPhones.
TuneWiki is a hot application for iPhone fans who like to sing along to their favorite songs. It displays the lyrics across the front of your iPhone as it plays, letting you croon along like the next American Idol star that you know that you are. If you want an audience while you do it, the new version of TuneWiki now takes advantage of iPhone’s GPS system, telling you when other TuneWiki users are close by and ready for an impromptu concert.
And if you’ve got an iPhone, you’ll love our next news announcement. Looks like Google is working hard on speeding up their mobile search. They plan on using some caching technology to get this done, boosting speeds on almost every single mobile web browser available. Looks like Google is set to conquer the mobile search market too.
Next up is a Google Gears Powered MySpace Messaging engine that is super fast, and allows you to do many thing you can’t do with MySpace in your web browser. Until now, you couldn’t easily search or sort through your messages, making it hard to go back to old messages from a lost friend. But with the Gears Powered MySpace Messaging, you can now bring up messages by date and identity. And if you have a large friends list like me, you will notice a huge speed increase.
And if you’re a fan of MySpace, or any other social network for that matter, you might want to keep all of your messages in one spot, including your email. Well, you have your chance with Orgoo. You can combine your gmail, livemail or hotmail account with just about any social network, giving you one online identity.












Brad, excellent podcast and blog. I saw your reference to Japanese cell phone novels on your podcast through youtube.
For a fairly comprehensive review of the Japanese cell phone phenomenon, check out http://www.textnovelblog.com.
Also, I wanted to mention the website I created called http://www.textnovel.com, which I believe is still the only U.S. site that lets you create, share and read novels online and with your cellphone. Authors can text or email in additions to their stories, and readers can receive updates by email or text. The site is still in beta and we are doing some enhancements so things should only get better!
Thanks again for your great coverage.
Stan
Founder
Textnovel