Go Daddy gave the employees in Iowa another awesome opportunity today. Go Daddy Girl and race car driver Danica Patrick stopped at the Go Daddy office in Iowa to have a Q&A and photo & autograph session with the employees. It’s always a pleasure to have out-of-town guests, especially those as well known and outspoken as Danica.
Just in-case you’re wondering, she was just as exciting with her Q&A as she is on the track. Enjoy the photo 
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Are you a Danica Patrick fan? Tell me why in the comments!
Well ladies and gentlemen, another failure from the troubled tech powerhouse Yahoo!. As long as Yahoo! keeps putting out new products, I will continue testing them… but I just haven’t seen anything super exciting come out of the once giant search company.
Today’s app review is an app suggestion engine from Yahoo!. I expected that a company with such large development resources would come up with a killer app that would replace apps like ‘AppBrain’ (a pretty good app engine). Turns out, their app is nothing more than a glorified random app picker. Here’s why…
My suggestions in the screenshot to the left are:
Saavn Music – Never seen it in any app store, and no interest in replacing bTunes, Google Music, or any of the other already great music apps out there.
Google Search – Really Yahoo?! This ‘app’ comes standard with all Android phones!
Gulfstream Jobs – Happily employed.
As I made my way through the rest of the recommendations, they were either apps I already had, just-published apps with no logo, or no-name apps with no description.
If you’re going to make an app suggestion engine, dig deep! Take into account my social networking profiles, age, interests, currently installed apps, usage patterns of those apps, and genres of apps I have installed.
Overall I’m sad that I’m disappointed. It seemed like a great play for Yahoo! to release this app. I thought it might help put them on the map in an ever increasingly competitive startup era of tech which is challenging old assumptions of big tech. I guess not. Maybe next time…
One of the advantages of being a super computer geek is that occasionally companies like Google reward me for my geekery. In most cases the reward comes in the form of invitations to try pre release or limited release software or web services. In other cases it comes in the form of hardware. Google music is the former.
Google Music aims to be the end-all for music portability. Ever have a dilemma as to what music to load on your phone (with limited storage space) to listen to on the go? Worry no more with this gem.
Since it’s still in beta (pre-release), I’ll touch on bugs briefly.
1) Limited options within the PC sync tool.
2) Not all albums show in app even though all songs do.
3) Takes a long time to upload a large library.
4) If you have Google Voice or a call recorder, those conversations will show up in your list of songs.
The service is perfect however for someone looking for ultimate music portability. Here are some reasons why:
1) You can play music on any PC that you’re logged into.
2) You can ‘sync’ your music with multiple devices.
3) While all music plays ‘in the cloud’, you can opt to download individual tracks or albums for offline listening.
4) The Android app is intuitive.
5) Album art syncs automatically.
6) Playlists automatically update and so do ‘likes’.
If you haven’t received an invite to the service, you’ll definitely get access through your Google account when the service is released to the public. One note though, if you have an iPhone, chances are, you won’t be able to use the service. Take that iPhone elitists… this is only for Android fans! No word on whether a Google Music app will be made for iOS, but I doubt it.
If you have a Google Music Beta account, what do you think of the service?
