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One of the bigger problem areas for Android users has always been the Android Market. As a matter of fact, Google didn't even provide a Web-based interface until just three months ago, meaning users could only browse apps directly from their phones.

While the website was certainly a welcome addition it still had plenty of room for improvement - especially in terms of app discovery - and this week Google launched a number of new features to help users find new apps.

Facebook and Internet security startup Web of Trust have announced a partnership today that will protect users from clicking potentially malicious links from the social media platform. Web of Trust (WOT) is a company that determines whether or not a webpage is trustworthy based on feedback from a community of users.

The partnership will boost Facebook's system, which already scanned links for spam or malware, by giving it access to WOT's database of websites that its 20 million users have flagged as harmful. If a user clicks on a link that is deemed untrustworthy a warning will pop up notifying the user to avoid the link, learn more about or continue to the page.

If this week's Where 2.0 conference is proof of anything, it's that developers are excited about creating location aware mobile apps. One of the biggest barriers to creating a place-aware app, however, is getting the ball rolling - you need place data.

Place and location, though hand-in-hand, are two different things and SimpleGeo, a geolocation data storage and platform service, announced this week that it has put data for more than 20 million places into the public domain to make it easier than ever for developers to create location-aware applications.

Are you one of those people that has spent the past decade walking through life looking for opportunities to squeeze yet another Big Lebowsky quote into a conversation? Or perhaps you feel that the best way to express your thoughts is not with your own words, but the properly woven poesy of Wordsworth?

If you're a quotation maven of the nth degree, then Quotebook could be your new favorite friend for the iPhone.

Last night, an app called Color hit the app stores for both iOS and Android. It made a big splash for a number of reasons, not the least of which being its $41 million prelaunch funding. It has all-star founders who have a impressive track records. It launched days after, instead of before, uber tech conference SXSW. Unfortunately for the company, the app can offer a terrible experience for first-time users and appear absolutely useless to those outside of a densely packed, techie mecca like San Francisco or New York.

Let's put all that aside for a moment, however, and look at how Color works, what it does, and why it could redefine mobile, location, and online social interaction. We took some time to talk with Color CEO Bill Nguyen this afternoon and asked him about the tech behind the most talked about app this side of SXSW and here's what he had to say.

Convore, the real-time, Web-based group message system, just went live in the iTunes App Store. Previously, Convore was available only as a Web-based messaging service and this was one of the things that set it apart - though perhaps not in a good way.

"Basically, it's a contemporary version of IRC," said co-founder Leah Culver, when last we looked at the service. Now, the service has hit iOS and taken this new form of IRC on the road. Will an app change anything? Or does this just mean that all of you Convore addicts (and it seems like there are quite a few already) can get your fix from wherever you are?

Evernote is releasing a completely redesigned app for iPhone and iPod Touch today (iTunes link). Noting that its iPhone app was first released the same day as Apple launched the iTunes App Store, Evernote says it's learned a lot about what it takes to make a great app. And equipped with two years worth of feedback, the notetaking and storage platform says it's gone "back to the drawing board and reconsidered every single aspect of Evernote for iPhone.

The changes are pretty impressive, and if you're reliant on Evernote for your mobile device you'll find the app faster and the interface more intuitive - all making the app a lot easier for not just note-taking but for note retrieval.

Have you ever tried asking a question on Facebook and wondered if anyone ever saw it? The problem with asking all of your friends on Facebook a question through a status update is that you never know who is going to see it. Between Facebook's algorithms, the mass of updates and the simple fact that not everyone lurks on Facebook 24 hours a day, you never know who your question will reach.

Enter Cloudy, an iPhone app that "lets you quickly and easily ask groups of friends for their opinions."

With last week's acquisition of techie-adopted Twitter client TweetDeck, UberMedia  stepped up as a force in the Twitter ecosystem. Combined with other recent acquisitions of Echofon, Twidroid and UberTwitter, the company now controls 20% of Tweets sent daily. This week, the company is releasing another client of its own - UberCurrent.

So why does one company need yet another Twitter app when it has four already? This one, unlike the others, intends to bring Twitter to everyone.

The self-destructing message, whether a piece of paper that mystically disintegrates at the appropriate moment or the microfiche that goes up in a poof of smoke, is a staple of any spy movie and a childhood wish of my own. TigerText, a private SMS app, has made my childhood dream a reality.

The company, which has had a free app available, has brought this spy-novel feature to the enterprise with this week's release of an enterprise app.