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Apr 10
I wish i said i am using my new macbook air, but i am not. I am enjoying my new sony vaio y series, the closest thing to a macbook. I really wanted to get one, i love the design, the simplicity, the features, but i couldn’t. The OS is too limited for my taste. So i looked for the closest thing to it. Vaio is it. Sure, it’s thicker, has some dumb lines and corners, but beats the others by a mile. I am gonna miss that backlit keyboard and that slick unibody.
In other news, this is a nice article to read. The guy is right. Software builders are not making things easier. Windows still has major flows. Chrome is fast, but has no features. I miss a calendar app that i can sync with gcal. And i do wish all my software to move faster. Much faster.
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Apr 10
Have you seen mashable’s traffic lately? OMG! They’ve gone way way up. They still have that reputation of being n#2, behind techcrunch, but still…
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Apr 10
Let’s perform a thought experiment. By the end of 2010, there will be more than 100 million iPhone OS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad). You’re the webmeister at an important content site. The boss comes in and asks you why you’re not supporting the iPhone OS devices. ‘Our stuff is all Flash-based, chief, those guys don’t run Flash’. You’re about to become the ex-webmeister. The boss, a really patient sort, asks you to “think different” about all these “non-compliant” customers, each of whom has an iTunes account backed by a credit card, and has developed the habit (encouraged by Apple) of paying for content. So, one more time, with feeling: What’s your answer?
from mondaynote. I don’t use Apple products, but i start to understand the mentality. And maybe Microsoft should start a partnership with Intel and a few more and start delivering hardware and software products in the same case. You know, those kind of products that are design for the hardware they run on and are working so good the Blue Screen of Death will be a distant memory.
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Apr 10
TechCrunch noticed the other day that Google Buzz is kind of dead. Google botched this in a big way. Why and how?
First of all, shoving it on our throats. Big mistake. People were searching like crazy for ways of removing this bitch from their mail account. What happened to the invite? It worked on gmail and it worked on wave. Google wanted to crush twitter in a second. Didn’t quite work, did it?
Second, sharing a lot of stuff right off the bat. Like Facebook does. People are not ok with that. Nobody likes to have their data shared with everyone without their consent. That is why privacy exists.
I don’t know anybody that uses Google Buzz. Do you?
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Apr 10
I’ve read two articles in the last weeks asking the question if blogs are on their way out. They are not. But it’s getting harder for the new blog reader to find good blogs to read. The blogosphere got crowded in the last two years with a lot of so-called experts, people with unclear expertise and nothing to show for, but giving advice as if the they know what they are talking about. In most cases they don’t and their advice is just something they read on other blogs or in books.
The easiest example: bloggers giving advice as probloggers. Here, you need to do that, you need to use these plugins, you need to submit your article on twitter and facebook. That is nice. How much traffic have you gathered? Only 300 per day? Hmmm. How many times have other blogs quoted you? Just your friends, huh? How many times have you been featured in the newspapers? Never? Well, sit down and stop it.
This is the beauty of the web. Anybody can be an expert. Even if you are a beat-down programmer working for a Temeşvar company, on the web you can be a famed entrepreneur, giving advice to others on how to make just as much money as you do (even if you don’t make more than 1.000€ a month). Nobody will know.
Yes, people get tired of these kind of blogs.
