Businessweek has a story in its latest issue about Sony. It was on the front page of Daring Fireball and linked to a couple of times in my Twitterstream. As a long time Sony fan, I was interested to see what it said. The article is terrible and I have no idea why anyone has [...]
I am not a smart phone analyst. I am not a technology analyst. I am a lawyer that likes technology. Jim Dalrymple is also not a smart phone analyst. He is also not a technology analyst. He is a professional blogger, focusing on Apple. I think he does a good job when he writes about [...]
Good web software has a lot of upsides: speed, compatibility, network awareness and seemless updates. Those seemless updates have a downside, though. I use Google Maps three or four times a week. I also live in Japan. Until Saturday, when viewing Google Maps in English, the application displayed placed names in both kanji and romaji. [...]
People that run these create a startup in 48 hours things? They’re snake oil salesmen, pure and simple. They’re selling to software developers a get rich quick scheme in slightly more respectable clothing. There is no substitute for hard work and no short cuts to success. You want to build a business? Great. Be prepared [...]
Remember how curation became the ‘in’ thing to do in 2010? It’s like we finally found a reason to justify posting links to our blogs: we were ‘curating’. Well, the other day I signed up to, and was invited into, Stellar. Stellar is kind of like an automated curation service. It can automate your own [...]
Not the most important part of the article (but my favourite part nonetheless): You’d think it’d be fun, wouldn’t you? Writing about “The Simpsons” and such for money. It’s every slacker’s dream job. And I was making $35,000! I remember that I crossed a certain threshold, soon after I got my new job: I stopped [...]
I use Google services every day. Most of them lack any sort of paid option, so I cannot say I am a loyal customer but I am a loyal information-giver-so-Google-can-better-target-ads-at-me…er. I even click on those ads! And I don’t complain! (I have no in-principle problem with a service being subsidised with advertising.) But today I’m [...]
This is what Google + feels like, a competitor to social networks of last year, not now. I like Brooks but it’s because I like him that I feel a need to call him out (see all my posts referencing Gruber). Brooks says he’s not using Google+ at the top of the piece and then [...]
Is there a tablet market or an iPad market? Will the iPad be the iPod or the iPhone of the tablet world? These are the questions that keep tech pundits up at night (or at least me, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I can’t sleep). In order to answer these questions it seems to [...]
I bought a Samsung Omnia 7. I generally like Samsung. To me, Samsung feels like Sony felt in the 80s: they make solid, generally well-designed products at acceptable prices. The Omnia 7 is probably not one of these. This quote really isn’t representative of Lukas Mathis’ excellent review of Windows Phone 7. I have truly [...]