Bokeh: The Personal Digital Diary App

A lot of apps, services, and sites make it easy for people to share their thoughts, experiences, and stories with their networks and with the world.

Realized something that changed your life for the better? Blog about it. Heard about a great deal at a local restaurant? Post an update on Facebook to let your friends know. Got the bag that you’ve wanted for the longest time? Post on Instagram and show the world your awesome stuff.

But if you want to keep track of your days and want to keep it a bit more private, then you can check out Bokeh. It’s a mobile blogging app that was created by Michael Zhang, who’s the founder of PetaPixel.

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Bokeh is different from typical blogging services because, as Zhang explains, it’s “designed to be more for remembering than broadcasting.” I suppose you can think of it as a digital diary of sorts.

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Users can choose to protect their blogs with a password or make them available to the world. It’s essentially targeted for on-the-go bloggers so you can post updates and record special events quickly and easily, and it features a clean and easy-to-use interface.

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Bokeh can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store for free. An Android version is also in the works.

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Tumblr Mobile Apps Will Now Display Ads

Tumblr Mobile Apps Will Now Display Ads

Tumblr, originally founded in 2007, has really cemented its place online over the past couple of years. Back in December last year Tumblr became one of the top search terms on Google surpassing the keyword “blog,” which has always been one of the highest ranking terms on this search engine. Earlier this year it announced some pretty amazing numbers, the service now hosts over 100 million blogs and more than 44.6 billion posts. It has rapidly grown, considering that back in April 2012 it only had 50 million blogs.

Today Tumblr announced that it is adding advertisements to its mobile apps. Their first sponsored post in Tumblr Radar appeared almost an year ago. Tumblr’s fashion, entertainment and brand partners have created some amazing blogs. Now the service will bring over these posts to their mobile apps, after being “constantly amazed” by how well their partners’ creations fit in their dashboards. The execution of these ads is very simple and doesn’t affect user experience in any substantial way. Every now and then the ads will show up in a user’s mobile dashboard as he or she scrolls through it.

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WordPress 2.3 for Android gains Holo interface and menu drawer

WordPress 23 for Android gains Holo interface and menu drawer

Bloggers have been getting plenty of love on Android as of late, and if WordPress happens to be your platform of choice, you’ll be glad to know that your time in the sun has arrived. Similar to Tumblr’s recent overhaul, WordPress was just updated with a new Holo interface, and it’s really quite the looker. First and foremost, you’ll notice that WordPress now looks like a proper Android app, complete with an action bar for tasks such as creating posts and sharing to other apps. With a flick of the thumb, you’ll also notice a menu drawer that’s accessible from the left-hand side, which replaces the old school dashboard interface that was found in previous versions of WordPress for Android. We can’t say the new features will help you overcome writer’s block, but at least you’ll have something pretty to look at while you ponder your next great post.

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Steven Sinofsky starts a product development blog, continues telling epic-length tales

Steven Sinofsky starts a blog about shipping, continues telling epiclength tales

Steven Sinofsky has built a reputation for exceptionally thorough posts on technology, and he’s not about to stop just because of small roadblocks like his departure from Microsoft. The former executive plans to complement an upcoming teaching stint at Harvard Business School by writing Learning by Shipping, a blog discussing the finer points of product development in the technology world. Despite what some would presume, the blog won’t lean heavily on retold experiences from the Microsoft days, Sinofsky says. Instead, it’s more likely to react to industry goings-on and (hopefully) foster conversation. We’re looking forward to the first full-fledged post, although we’d suggest brewing some coffee before tackling whatever comes next: when even the introduction is a substantial body of work, there’s bound to be a few hefty tomes of knowledge coming our way.

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Tumblr Is One Of Top Search Terms On Google

blog tumblr Tumblr Is One Of Top Search Terms On GoogleGiven a choice between the word “Tumblr” and “blog”, just which of the two would you think would have generated more search instances on Google? Perhaps blogs are in a decline, but we do know that there is still life in them yet, although you might be surprised to find out that “Tumblr” has surpassed “blog” as one of the most searched terms on Google for this year.

The first time this ever happened was in December last month, taking just 5 years since the microblog network kicked off in February 2007, according to Laura Olin, Outbound social media director. Google’s search stats pointed out that the word “blog” has been on a decline since May 2009, and that was roughly the time when Twitter ended up as the third highest ranked social network according to visits, and Tumblr was not even part of the top 25 list.

This could be due to the fact that time, being a precious commodity for everyone, would mean folks are more selective in their reading, and it also takes less time to put up a funny or interesting link on someone’s Facebook Wall, or to tweet about it. Instead of spending time reading 20 blogs, folks might just read 10 blogs that they really, really want to read these days. Do you think that the ultimate end of blogs would be to end up in a niche topic market like tech blogs or news blogs?

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Office Next blog is here to answer all your burning questions about the future of spreadsheets

Office Next blog is here to answer all your burning questions about the future of spreadsheets

Microsoft has this really great habit of publicly tracking the development of all its products. Windows 8 has been thoroughly documented over at the Building Windows 8 blog, and now Office will have its time to shine over at Office Next. The site will give the engineers and developers toiling away in Redmond an outlet to provide updates, discuss design decisions and offer peeks at the new features being baked in. It won’t be just a place full of bullet lists either, PJ Hough, the VP of program management for the Office Division, promised in his inaugural post that the data and feedback that informs their choices will also be shared — telling you not just what, but why. Is there anything new to share right now? Sadly no, but it probably won’t be long before the pages of Engadget are filled with the minutia of Office 15’s development.

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