Sometimes, I wonder why I stick with Apple. And at this precise moment, I remember: wholesome goodness.
I particularly like these kind of applications since they optimize your time. Plus, this one is quite well designer, so it’s a win-win.
Dear Microsoft,
You failed to buy Yahoo! but you got to rise up and fight. Two things could be happening: all this money Google used to buy other companies, you use it on R&D? Do you? If not, you must know that if you fail to renew, you will fail. Heavily.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this is catastrophic—yet.
The news just broke, I do not have much details yet.
The video is above, the official press release is here and a little photo to make you smile is here. People, I love Apple, but please, do not say they copied the design. First they haven’t and second, the form factor limits design possibilities.
Specs seem quite solid, 1 Ghz processor, 1 GB RAM dual cameras and check the press release for more information.
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Well, since they’re stigmatizing every single smartphone user, showing you that if you use Windows Phone 7, you’ll be different, effective and still using a smartphone. Quite mad, Bob.
It seems that when it comes to monetization, everybody forgot how Google did it. They own the web search market and propose various solutions such as AdWords or AdSense. And every single robot or human being uses Google.
What are promoted tweets?
Who clicks on promoted tweets? Nobody. Because when it comes to search for something you want to buy, you go on Google. That is because you trust Google and not Twitter, yet. (Also because there are not as many people on Twitter as you think.)
Now, continuing with promoted tweets is not a good idea. Because what they need is many users clicking on the ads, and nobody will, since nobody likes to click on ads. And if you are a greedy geek, you know you do not like the feeling of giving money to someone, just by clicking on a link—in your inner self, of course, otherwise, you are filled with joy and happiness.
This might seem like a rant, it is not.
Read about the projects, see who won more than the others.
Nowadays, saying that location is the new social networks darling is similar to saying that Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter ever or than, in summertime, people are happy.
Though Foursquare is rapidly gaining users, I never understood its long-time use nor its day-to-day use. How will is stay alive, why do people use it? They say businesses are beginning to exploit Foursquare’s capabilities—if you check-in several times, you’ll get a discount.
Will this service be perennial? I don’t know, I don’t expected it to until I read that Foursquare is building a recommendation engine. Which of course, you’ll tell me, is the next appropriated and logical step.
If, finally, they arrive to build a decent recommendation engine, users will see a solid interest in using Foursquare actively. It won’t be about odd discounts, mayorships or useless virtual prizes anymore, it will be real. That is why I think that their recommendation engine will be their cash-cow, it they use effectively.
Yesterday marked the day when Facebook was down for a few hours—more like one hundred years.
And people, sometimes are funny. GigaOM offered this friday morning a collection of crispy tweets, aiming to explain why is Facebook down or what would the consequences of this downtime be.
My favorite?
BREAKING NEWS: Facebook is down. Worker productivity rises. U.S. climbs out of recession
Usually, I don’t like to talk about technology security, mainly because I don’t understand much. But, one more time, I stumbled upon a fascinating piece by the Economist technology blog; Babbage.
It is all about this new worm that attacks industrial-control systems, nuclear reactors, Iran, Siemens and security.
An interesting read to salute the week-end’s beginning. Hat tip to kottke.
The Shazam algorithm fingerprints a song by generating this 3d graph, and identifying frequencies of “peak intensity.” For each of these peak points it keeps track of the frequency and the amount of time from the beginning of the track. Shazam builds their fingerprint catalog out as a hash table, where the key is the frequency. When Shazam receives a fingerprint like the one above, it uses the first key (in this case 823.44), and it searches for all matching songs.
Apart from the hardware which of course cannot be really different, it does seem like Samsung enjoyed iOS’ iPad UI.
A lot since this is one of the biggest rip-off I’ve ever witnessed. Plus, they say it’s going to cost a little bit less than a thousand dollars. Yet, it would be grand if Samsung, when they’ll announce officially the price, make an Apple-like move, declaring it would cost a lot less. Though I do not expect this to happen.
I’m done people, I don’t want to hear about iPad rumors anymore. And since they’re a piece of Apple-related news, iPad rumors pollutes my feeds. We don’t need these rumors for a bunch of simple reasons.
First, Apple is evidently building a FaceTime iPad. This just makes sense. And if they don’t, well, they would contradict their own product expansion policy. This is too irrational, even for Steve.
Second, it would be illogical for Apple to build a 7-inch iPad. Though it may be possible. I’m not helping, right? Actually, we can’t know for sure. Steve Jobs was very clear when he announced the iPad, last January: it fits into a new family of devices. It is not a phone and it is not a computer (nor a netbook, to be precise).
People should have known there won’t be an iPhone nano when the iPhone 3G was released. Then, we knew the iPhone would evolve year after year, generation after generation as a unique device in Apple’s phones family.
Concerning the iPad, we will know if they will build a 7-inch iPad as soon as the second generation is announced. And there’s more: we will know more clearly what is their policy about the iPad family.
When people will start to think about the rumors instead of spreading them like peanut butter, I will feel better.
Moving story about a man who bought an iPhone and could feel colors and shapes again. This is what a cynical guy would call excellent PR for Apple.
