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New PasteFire: launch iPhone Google map from your computer

Sometimes, you just want to send an adress to your iPhone Google map 

This is the simplest way to do it in 1 click. Write "map: address". Press Send. Open PasteFire (or the push notification). That's all

ps: works also fine with any Google map links. Just copy it with PasteFire
ps2: we insist, no jailbreak is necessary (since we got the question)

Coming soon to PasteFire: new notifications for Pictures

Cool?

A minor update to pastefire was approved yesterday, but a 1.2 version is coming soon with this feature above

NexusOne: already sold on eBay more expensive than on Google.com

Hype or sign of upcoming success? The day Nexus One, the closest there is to an iPhone challenger,  is announced, you can already find hundreds of Phones on eBay sold roughly $100+ more expensive than what Google does (referring to unlocked, carrier-less option). The same happened with the iPhone on launch, but because it was not possible to buy it without a carrier contract.

So, Who is going to buy it there? Really??? Note that out of US, UK and Singapore 3G is not working. 

ps: since you asked, the Nexus One looks very much like an iPhone with a Google logo on it (ok it has background mode for apps....) - no multitouch, 4G memory..

Consolidation in the iPhone Analytics space. More to come soon. Here is a little overview

As you may have noticed, behind the scenes we observe very closely and very carefully the iPhone space. Because we believe something big is happening and that we want to understand better that space, we created a map of the key players in the iPhone industry.

Today we are releasing a snapshot (above) of the key players of the analytics space. Although this is not our first activity, we do have a presence there with our getap.ps link shortener giving in depth understanding of developers' conversion ratio in the App Store (and a lot more soon)

Today this map becomes even more interesting because 2 key players Flurry and Pinch media are merging into one company. We believe more consolidation will happen in that space in the next 12 months. You have 3 key areas in app analytics: 
  • Analytics around sales and performance, 
  • those around rankings and charts, 
  • and usage and behavior analytics. Flurry and Pinch operate in the last one

But this is not the only one that matters. Eventually developers need a holistic approach to data and app analytics.

We believe the main reason that drove this merger is the recent announcement of Google to offer something competitive. We believe their offer will get richer and that eventually more players will find themselves alone.

Let's observe that carefully

Google suggest "iPhone apps are not working"

Other suggestions are not so good either btw. For android apps obviously this is another story :)

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Google Wave iPhone App : looks better than wave on computer!

via youtube.com

Nice job by Dotan from MockApp for the virtual demo. Will it become real? Better than via Safari in any case 

The power of a free (unlaunched) app: Google GPS for Android causes TomTom and Garmin stock to crash

This is what happens when someone comes with a new product for free in a (unfairly) big multi billion dollar industry


To be completely fair Garmin and TomTom results were not so good either this quarter

Now, the beauty of this: Google GPS is not even launched! and it's only Android.

Questions

1. Will they port it to the iPhone?
2. Can safari be a trojan for Google navigation?
3. How will that impact the App Store sales of Tom Tom and others who are quite expensive, but still popular in rankings?
4. Will Google navigation work offline - will i be able to use it abroad without having a heart attack on my phone bill? (meaning downloading data locally)
5. in less than 24h TomTom and Garmin will have to react. What will the reaction be?

I think any iPhone owner who will see this app will want it right away. No?

At last! An app for working and editing google spreadsheet
via bytesquared.com

Google spreadsheet can be accessed via Safari on your iPhone but can't be edited.

The app Sheet2 allows syncing and editing (including offline access) of your google spreadsheet. A bit expensive but the only worthy option

Download it here http://getAp.ps/eX (why didn't they put a download link on their site??)

Waveboard: an iPhone app for Google Wave, coming soon (via @orli )

via blog.go2web20.net

There was already the safari based version, soon the desktop version which i guess will be better from a user experience point of view (made in germany according to the accent)

In the meantime there is a mac client to download here [tested it, nothing really different from the browser experience, which you could get by adding a fluid browser to your menu bar, but worth for the growl notification system]