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 [...]
So in the past two or three weeks I’ve had about two or three discussions with people regarding Apple’s upcoming iPad. Usually the discussions go like this: Me: I want an iPad. Them: Are you insane? Me: No, I’m serious. I keep thinking of situations in which I’d love to use something like that. Them: [...]
So John Gruber named Henry Blodget his Jackass of the Week because of a piece Blodget wrote at Silicon Alley Insider suggesting that Google will do to Apple in the ’10s what Microsoft did to Apple in the ’80s. That is, completely marginalise the company and develop and control the de facto operating system. Gruber’s [...]
Work recently provided me with a Blackberry Bold, and while some things about it are really cool, some things remind you how shitty phones are. People complain about the fascist-like App Store Apple runs for the iPhone but sometimes the level of frustration you experience with other phones makes you beg to be put into [...]
In response to the snarky line I had regarding Windows Vista in my post yesterday, Andrew made the point that Apple can afford to sell their new operating system at such a low price because they’re a hardware company and selling software cheaply encourages hardware adoption. (The implication being that Microsoft is a software company [...]