… Things organized neatly. I enjoy discovering new blogs and I especially appreciate this one.
Monthly Archive for August, 2010
A very interesting piece from RWW about the rise of anti-Facebook networks. Do not understand “against” in “anti-”.
A pretty neat new feature was announced by the Gmail team at Google.
Priority Inbox sorts your mail in a smarter way: it puts the important mail first, then your starred mail and then everything else.
Marco Arment wrote a thoughtful piece on his blog. Go read it.
It explains the evolution of the smartphone: how it looked like before the iPhone and how it looks like now. And creates a parallel with netbooks and the iPad.
I guess after this, it’s going to be about real laptops and desktop computers.
Mr. Ma said that the iPad is a great device, but he doesn’t do much work on it. “Our tablet will be better than the iPad.”
Yeah dude.
Chang Ma is vice president of marketing.
150 000 units sold.
Well, it’s way below iPhone 4 1.7 million, but as Gizmodo recalls, it’s quite a lot for non-iPhone handsets. The problem about this was RIM’s expectation.
I can’t understand why people don’t see this kind of things coming. Were they really expecting it to be the phone ?
With such a crappy display ?
With a social direction. Like before, they’d like to revolutionize the way people help others.
Google’s CEO Mr. Schmidt said some quite interesting stuff over the past week at the Techonomy conference in the United States. Selection.
“If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence,” Schmidt said, “we can predict where you are going to go.”
“The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.”
On an un-tech related note, Jason Kottke’s substitute, Aaron Cohen, for the holidays linked to a cool article that helps you create your own sodas.
This morning I read a pretty interesting piece over there at the Economist’s technology blog: Babbage.
It explained how Koreans were, since their childhood, used to buy Samsung products and not products from non-Korean companies.
On July 17th Apple decided to leave South Korea out of the iPhone 4’s second release, explaining that it had faced a delay in receiving government approval. And so the new iPhone, a “next-month phone”, became a “next-next-month phone” (KR). South Koreans are rational consumers. They don’t deny the quality of the Galaxy S, and are well aware of iPhone 4’s reception problems; they are just not thrilled at being pushed into buying Samsung. Patriotic guilt is more likely to drive them to the imperfect iPhone 4 like a teenager with daddy issues; after the next-next-month release, it won’t take long for young South Koreans to leave Samsung at the altar.
Interesting read indeed.
Checking-in on Foursquare can sometimes be… redundant.
Well, a clever developer took advantage of this check-in fatigue by developing an iPhone app that detects your favorite spots thanks to a “Favorite” menu within the app and checks you in while you’re near this place. Automatically.
