Monthly Archive for August, 2009

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What will be the next Twitter?

Ulysse Sabbag | August 11, 2009

I just read a remarkable article on Latitude’s blog (no affiliations with Google’s product). The question—of this article—what is the next Twitter? First, I noticed that Simon Whittick asked the question in the present tense. This means that for him, the next Twitter already exists. And I think he’s quite right.

The 3 candidates are: Qik, Google Latitude and Twitter, itself.

It’s all about real-time, he explains:

CANDIDATE 1, QIK – REAL-TIME IS THE FUTURE
Qik is to YouTube what Twitter was to Facebook. It streams live video in real-time, like Twitter streamed real-time conversations. Twitter taught us that in our consumer world which demands immediacy of information real-time is the future. If you look at how media has historically developed text comes first (newspapers), then audio (the wireless or radio), and finally motion picture (television) and Qik is the real-time motion picture

Yet he says he calms down a little bit by saying that iPhone couldn’t record video, in the first place, and I think that this slowed Qik expansion. Now, the iPhone can, and Qik is adapting to the 3GS—right now. And Qik will be the next Twitter. It’s going to be awesome.

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AppStore approval process explained

Ulysse Sabbag | August 11, 2009

flipCoin()
if (heads)
approve app
else
reject app
wait 1 week
if (pressCoverage >= lotsOf)
rejectMoreApps
else if (pressCoverage >= tooMuch)
fireBoardMember
else
rejectAppAnyway

[Source]

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Games on Demand: Xbox 360

Ulysse Sabbag | August 5, 2009

Engadget reports:

Next Tuesday (that’s August 11th), a dream we have long held near our hearts will be fulfilled — Xbox 360 will add the first twenty-one titles to its Games on Demand service. Now, we don’t have any details about pricing for these yet, but Microsoft has said that the games, which include such august titles as Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, and Tomb Raider: Legend, will be priced similarly to the physical games. We could whine about that all day, but we’re going to hold off until we see actual pricing details, and move on to dreaming of a trackpad that doesn’t become unresponsive when we spill orange juice on it.

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Why gdgt is the web idea of the year

Ulysse Sabbag | August 4, 2009

There are several reasons, but I’m going to talk about the “reviews” reason.

Since many days, I’m wondering if I’m going to ditch my iPhone for a Hero. I’ve got an iPhone for almost two years and since the beginning of July, I’m torned apart. No, really. I really want to be faithful to Apple, but, you know, Apple is—kinda—disgusting me right now. With their unstoppable AppStore censorship. These kind of things—censorship—reminds you of all the other problems the iPhone has. It’s not free, it’s shut-in, confined. Android is one of the principal factor that makes you feel, if you’ve got an iPhone, that you’re not free. And I’m beginning to change.

Anyway. This isn’t really what I’ll be talking about, but it does matter.

I spent my available web time to search for reviews, thoughts about the Hero, then I realised that gdgt existed. I was waiting for gdgt to launch since a long, long time. And then I realized how useful it is.

The reviews are really personal, more accurate and there are a lot of ‘em. And that’s simply awesome. Awesome^100. Googol awesome. You’ll find, at gdgt, everything you need to know about a gadget and that’s it. And you’ll find out you don’t need more information.

[gdgt.com]

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