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saturation of apps with people getting degrees in developing them? 

Glasses-free 3D, pretty cool. The demo video actually lets you experience it.

Gilt boasts 1.3 million downloads of its app for iPad, iPhone and Android. Our iPad app actually gets longer time per visit than our Web site does! We are also seeing that more that 15 percent of our total revenue coming from mobile devices and we continue to drive third screen exposure for the brands we sell on Gilt.

as connection-mapping tools become more sophisticated, there's a need for new ways of interacting with those maps, going beyond description to exploration. A new iPhone app called * Movies Mobile, developed by the New England Complex Systems Institute, is a preview of such tools. A front end for a network map of IMDB's top 500 movies, it allows people to explore connections among films as researchers might examine pathways of genes or proteins.

More group video chat ishhhhh.

Indeed, Facebook has been improving anti-spam efforts -- just recently adding several new reporting and filtering features -- but the world's biggest social network does not give brands any special kind of spam protection. And while Facebook announced that spam decreased on the network by 95% in 2010, a quick check of some brand pages exhibits some ripe examples. Dr Pepper's page, with more than 8.5 million fans, displayed seven "add me" sexy-girl photos in a row, a free iPhone offer and a chain letter threatening years of bad luck.

HTC Thunderbolt outsold Verizon's iPhone 4 during first two weeks in market

Great example of the use of a QR code in combination with a print ad.  Reporters Without Borders published four different print ads. People where ask to scan the QR code at the bottom of the ad and place their iPhone on the mouth of the person. Is isn't the mouth of the person on the photo who speak but a journalist speaking about what is happening in Libya, Iran or Russia.

An app for creating photo/video/audio stories on the mobile phone.

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push notifications for all the facebook friends you check off in the app

spotify is launching free syncing of music to ipod, iphone and android and launching new music store

Expect to see more of these with this kind of thing and Google+

Interesting, hack-y approach to Social TV recommendations

Ok, so if you were never actually ever able to shake Polaroid pictures and now apps require you to shake photos to simulate the experience of taking a Polaroid picture: WHAT IS TRUTH?

an iphone app that allows kids to be a backseat driver. 

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Another cool app from the HackLolla project - this one scans your iPhone library for fav artists and then recommends which artists to see at lollapalooza