Only fitting I should find out about the word of the year being “app” from an app! That’s some recursive stuff, aint it? I caught the news this morning while playing my daily Qrank, apparently the word “app” beat out “nom” as the American Dialect Society’s 2010 word of the year. While “app” doesn’t necessarily apply to mobile in particular (and come on, you KNOW it really does), I think this speaks fathoms about the move to the mobile trend when we look at last year’s words: “google” and “tweet”

I noticed a row of 5 S’s accidentally formed on my screen one day and decided to see how many lettered apps I had. This scarcely scratches the surface. I’m in need of some more vowels though before I can start spelling anything.

Has anyone actually created a font for this, by the way?

I’ve just started using the app Daily Mugshot to document my daily face, for better or worse. This app makes what Noah K. did seem slightly less impressive, and the accompanying website makes management of your images almost too easy. I’m really amassing a large collection of apps that require a daily task of me and have not yet taken the time to quantify how long I’m investing in them all. I have a feeling I don’t want to know.

As though his cute kids, gorgeous wife, fluffy dog, hip musical tastes and tolerant policies weren’t enough to make me love him, Barack H. Obama lovingly signed an iPad for a fan, using the  (Adobe Ideas) app. I think this is almost a better endorsement than becoming one of Apple’s featured apps.

Now if only there was an app to get lazy 20-somethings asses to the polls.

I’m celebrating the arrival of my sexy new Junko Mizuno iPhone 4 skin from Infectious designs by making up a little stop motion animation with my Junko Pure Trance vinyl toys using one of my new favorite apps,  (StopMotion Recorder). I had to stop for a bit and decide how appropriate it was to walk around day to day with a phone skin featuring exposed breasts, but decided that in a world where phone balls exist, my phone’s bared boobies were just a drop in the bucket.

As for the app, I’ve always wanted to do stop motion and never really been able to pull together the equipment or technique to do so. This app however actually brings you an incredible suite for making animations which includes ghosted images to see how far you’ve moved, the ability to delete and replace frames and multiple export options including Youtube, Quicktime and yFrog. Plus it’s really good for making pens dance around your desk when you’re bored at the office.

BATHH time song

Lady AppApp may never acquire the singing chops of Lady GaGa but I’m pretty sure I could aim a little lower and be the next Ke$ha. I already love whiskey, I’m no stranger to waking up in weird places with smeared makeup, and I can’t sing to save my life. But thankfully Ke$ha and I are both blessed to live in a world that has auto tune, and with the app (LaDiDa) I can pretty much pop off a hit summer single that’s at least as good at Tik Tok.

Ever since I downloaded LaDiDa I pretty much make about 25 songs a day about everything from washing my hair to petting my cats. I made this one for Austin’s Big Ass Twitter Happy Hour and name dropped my tweeps. If you pay attention to what’s happening on the interwebs you may have caught wind of LaDiDa a while back when they auto tuned wolves and the internet basically declared it the only incident ever where auto tune actually made something sound better. This app makes quickly creating and sharing songs dangerously easy..I may cut an album by the end of the week. Maybe even the day.

The (Double Rainbow Everywhere) app IS double rainbow. And my cat is also double rainbow.

Every other social network nowadays is offering badges. I can literally earn badges for everything from eating food to getting daily chores done. I suppose that’s why (Get Glue) tried to break from the pack and reward users with stickers. Because little round stickers are NOTHING like little round badges. But while Foursquare has only just given us the opportunity to start wearing our badges in the real world, Get Glue has apparently made it into one of their early marketing strategies. After putting a request on their site a few weeks ago, I just got this in the mail, I nice fat pack of all the stickers I’ve earned through the site. I’m considering sticking a few on each copy of my resume, you know, to really let them see some of my achievements.

The sticker thing is cool, but didn’t really get me too terribly juiced until I caught wind of these exclusive True Blood stickers. I’d stake a vamp or bang a fang to earn even a digital version of these.

I have to say, when it’s all laid out on a clock face in (Diacarta), Austin Fashion Week looks even more awesome. Let me help translate what some of these icons mean for you:

Party with a 8 to 1 ratio of photographers to attendees. Every person with a Flip thinks they’re media.

Party with nice bottles of wine secretly being filled with box wine once the guests are too drunk to notice.

Fashion show with more than 70% entirely off the rack “original looks.” Generally Austinites don’t really know better.