When it comes to RSS readers, there’s no question that my preference is to use Reeder . Whether on iPhone , iPad , or the Mac , their apps brings a usability and elegance to an otherwise ugly medium

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the folks over at SkyFire. They launched their Flash Video-friendly browser for the iPhone back in early November , only to pull it down almost immediately to ease the onslaught of users hammering their video transcoding server. Even with that temporary App Store absence, however, SkyFire for iPhone managed to pull in just shy of a million bucks in its first weekend alone.

Over the last couple years, there’s been a rise in hosted application platforms that let developers take their mind off of server administration and instead focus entirely on writing and deploying code. The best known of these is probably Heroku, a platform for Rails applications that was just acquired by Salesforce for $212 million

Twitter is down . Skype is down .  Tumblr is down. Facebook is down

A couple weeks ago, SimpleGeo launched a couple of their APIs,  Context and Places , into public beta and they were told that was probably a good cut off point for new products before the holidays. But they didn’t listen.

Know about Uber yet? It’s one of those startups that I’ve been fascinated with since I first heard about it last summer

Facebook is rolling out an update to the native data visualizations of its Page analytics tool Insights. The accuracy of counts for Page tab views and external referrers has been improved. Admins may now select a specific date range of which to view performance metrics in the native data visualization.

The Sony Bloggie camera is for taking pictures and videos with. It is my understanding that some people would be particularly interested in this hardware and so we are pleased to offer two of these items to two of our readers.

Parker for iPhone, a new app by Streeline Inc. developed in partnership with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) and Alan Cooper Design, gives drivers real-time data about available parking spaces in L.A. Streetline’s goal is to help communities cut traffic congestion, wasted energy, drive time, and noise and air pollution from cars.

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