I love Google+. I started using it this morning, and it is, for a lack of a better word, awesome. Though it takes many concepts from Facebook’s playbook, they’ve definitely solved one of the biggest issues of Facebook – friends lists and filtering. Google+ integrated a simple mechanism called Circles: each contact can be assigned to one [...]
Cover of Cry Baby (Director's Cut) Come on, this is perfectly ok: The technology was of interest to a number of acquirers, including Zappos.com which tried to buy it, and Kumar rounded up a group of angels for its first funding–a $500,000 angel round in August/September 2009. The only problem—another start-up, Like.com, was doing something [...]
I love Techdirt. Their cynical writing style is fun to read. Their in-depth knowledge is amazing. But they are missing the point in their post about entertainment industry: Gatekeepers don’t make much sense. Actually they do. In a world where media distribution was complex and expensive, gatekeepers enabled the whole industry to exist. But now, [...]
Image by osde8info via Flickr Google released their Android app inventor, an intuitive development tool for non developers, that enables anyone to develop and publish an android app. Open ecosystem followers rejoice! Well, sorry, but it seems that instead of improving Android’s ecosystem, this latest move will only harm it. You see, Android is becoming [...]
Image by . SantiMB . via Flickr Apple is continuously under fire for lack of openness. Once the industry’s underdog, as it’s market power grows, Apple slowly becoming the target of many attacks, the latest one from Tim O’Reilly. Interestingly enough, Apple never claimed to be open. Or nice. Apple claimed one thing only – [...]
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