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 [...]
I’d usually avoid Techcrunch but this is a great piece from guest columnist Rocky Agrawal on what’s wrong with daily deal offers. One of the many excellent observations: Some of the advice is just awful. On Google Offers’ “Best Practices for the big day” page for businesses it says: No photos, please! Er — actually, [...]
In response to the Windows 8 video that came out today, John Gruber has a piece at Daring Fireball entitled Why Windows 8 is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad. Gruber praises Microsoft for displaying innovative new thinking when it comes to touch-based devices but is critical of the fact that the touch-based [...]
So Oliver Reichenstein wrote this article about a business class for news websites. And Fraser Speirs wrote an article about the cost of e-books. The timing is coincidental but one explains why the other won’t work. At least not at the moment. The cost that a news site would charge for a ‘premium’ version of [...]
If you wanted to distract yourself from Japan or Libya, Twitter has thankfully obliged. In today’s episode of Tweets of Our Lives, Evan Williams blogged about his thoughts on leaving Twitter. There’s something to be said for Williams’ talents as a programmer and, probably moreso, as a program manager. He’s helped found Blogger and Twitter. [...]
The following tweet flashed across my twitterstream yesterday: The HuffPost wants you to write for free. The NYTimes wants you to pay up to $455/year to read online news. There’s got to be a better way. I immediately tweeted back: The NYT wants you pay (between $195 and) $455 to read the NYT. You’re welcome [...]
I’ve always wanted to like RSS. I’ve gone from reading feeds in Thunderbird to Google Reader to even paying for a piece of software that would supposedly make RSS useful. All of it? Massive failure. The problem was that, when I was at my computer, feeds felt like a waste of time. Why not just [...]