February 2012
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Twitter Moves To Monetize Mobile →
parislemon:
Promoted Tweets — read: ads — are coming to the Twitter mobile client streams. I suspect the initial reaction will be: “Great! Another reason to use TweetBot!”
But I actually don’t view this as a negative thing. Twitter is a service that many of us use and love for hours on end every single day. It’s a great service. But like any great service, if it’s to stick around, it needs to...
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Windows Phone cannot maintain a Skype call in... →
I downloaded Skype for Windows Phone as soon as I found out about the app. Although I don’t use Skype that much, it’s one of those apps that you just have to have on your phone. Funny that somehow Skype is beginning to be forgotten in this part of the world thanks to mobile text messaging apps like BlackBerry Messenger and WhatsApp. Skype is much more flexible and has a desktop...
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Samsung lied in its latest Galaxy Note video →
Samsung Mobile USA put up a video this week showing several tasks that supposedly the iPhone can’t do but can be easily done on a big ass 5-inch Galaxy note with a stylus. A STYLUS! How 1994.
Of course, when Tap Magazine found out about it, they went to work on rebutting every point in the video by doing everything it said the iPhone can’t do, on an iPhone. Including shooting and...
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"Maybe you should get your mind out of your niche" →
Just Dilbert.
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US Air Force Special Ops canceled iPad purchase... →
The purchase of nearly 3000 iPads as flight bags by the US Air Force Special Operations Command was canceled because it specified the use of Good Reader, a popular document management app which happened to be developed in Russia. Naturally, security concerns were raised after this fact was discovered. After all, the military wouldn’t want to be associated with potential risks originating...
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Jakarta is Doomed says Andre Vltchek
Andre Vltchek wrote quite a thorough and scathing review of Jakarta’s public transport system and compared it to cities in Africa, Japan, and China. Jakarta is the only city in the world with population of more than 10 million without a mass rapid transit system.
The existing public transport modes are practically unmaintained, unmanageable, not integrated, and clearly unplanned. Rarely...
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Microsoft Unveils New Windows Logo →
Speaking of change, Microsoft changed its Windows logo again. This time from the now familiar flag to an actual window which harks back to the logo of Windows 1 but adopting the new Metro look introduced in the company’s Windows Phone 7 operating system for mobile.
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Mountain Lion Marks a Change at Apple
On Thursday night Apple pulled Mountain Lion out of a hat. A select number of journalists and bloggers had been given early access to a developer’s preview version for about a week and kept them quiet. These lucky ones got to see Apple’s next major operating system for the Mac and all of them published their reviews almost at the same time, giving Apple maximum coverage on the web...
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It's Like Tap Tap Tap Buying TUAW*
So this happened.
There was this post the other day by M.G. Siegler citing an example of Disney owning both ESPN and Anaheim Mighty Ducks at the same time for a period and that Boston Red Sox is owned by The New York Times Company. This particular situation however, is not exactly comparable. Like the title said, it’s like Tap Tap Tap buying TUAW. Or the Red Sox buying the NYTimes.
I see...
Between writing more and writing longer →
Felix Salmon:
If you want to get to half a million pageviews, you’re always much more likely to get there with a thousand blog posts than you are with a single swing for the fences.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Spoke at Length About The...
While DailySocial isn’t about gadgets, there’s always a discussion about our favorite fruit company, especially now that Apple is arguably the largest mobile devices company in the world with the most prominent developer and application ecosystem. With Tim Cook now at the helm, the company has taken an unusual step to stream his talk at the recent Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet...
Speaking of US blogs talking about Asian assets of... →
What I said yesterday still holds true (yeah right, like I’m gonna change how US blogs see things overnight) . As @joonian pointed out, East Asia perhaps is where the real money is being made. It certainly is where most of the focus is on as far as US companies are concerned. After all, it remains technically correct, so for the journalists and bloggers, it’s a lot easier to just say...
"If you want to get to half a million pageviews,... →
shortformblog:
Reuters’ Felix Salmon discusses the changing nature of Web journalism, where the SEO-friendly days of yore are starting to get a bit more social, which is good for high-quality but much-more-expensive reporting. Salmon’s point? The commodity approach, which has the side effect of diluting quality brands, is still easier, though it’s far more me-too in nature. (ht Matt)
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Asia to US Tech Media Usually Means East Asia
Whenever I read US publications referring to Asia, it becomes obvious pretty quickly that they forget about countries other than China and Japan. Sometimes they include South Korea but often they leave out Southeast Asia where more than 600 million people live, or South Asia in which India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and their neighboring countries are home to more than one and a half billion people.
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20 common grammar mistakes →
Linguistic intricacies have always been a pet subject of mine since high school and perhaps formed the foundation of what I now do for a living, and that is being a writer and editor. Reading an article like this one helps people (including myself) discover the proper ways to use particular words and identify context more correctly.
My favorite among the 20:
Impactful
It isn’t a word....
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60% of Indonesia's Consumption is Domestic →
From the BBC:
However, analysts said that Indonesia has benefited from the fact that a huge part of its growth is driven by domestic consumption.
“Indonesia is one of the least exposed economies in the region, with a vast domestic market and a relatively small share of exports to gross domestic product, so it is insulated from volatility in the global economy,” said George...
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Monetizing Mobile is Facebook's Greatest Challenge →
Jenna Wortham for the New York Times:
Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.
“We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue...
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The Linley Group offers a possible reason why... →
To reduce system cost and eliminate the extra package required for the Audience chip, Apple cut a deal to integrate the noise-reduction technology directly into its A5 processor, which appears in the iPhone 4S. This technology is critical for the new phone because not only does it improve call quality, it blocks out background noise when users provide voice commands to Siri, the intelligent...
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Avid Studio goes to the iPad →
AllThingsD:
“We’ve seen a shift in how creation is happening, and it’s really happening on almost any device,” said Tanguy Leborgne, vice president of consumer and mobile technology strategy at Avid. “We think the tablet is more than just a consumer device; more and more people are creating on it.”
The app will be iPad only for now and costs $4.99 for the first 30 days after which it...
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Thinking about ebooks the way we think about...
Maybe I haven’t thought this through but amidst all this kerfuffle about proprietary eBook formats, has anyone thought about ebook platforms? Apple has its own format for iBooks, Amazon’s Kindle reads its own format as well, so does Kobo, etc. Yes, there’s the standard ePub format that everyone is supposed to agree on but we know that it may not necessarily serve the commercial...
January 2012
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Foxconn's workers in context →
The working conditions at Foxconn has been the subject of much discussion and outrage over the last few days following the New York Times exposé. Apple has since bore the majority, if not the full, brunt of the criticisms for allowing what looks to be a sweatshop full of suicides with workers earning very little while making iProducts despite other consumer electronics companies also employing...
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The four types of BlackBerry users →
I’m just gonna let you see the infographic yourself.