Features
- The Mountain Lion Experience by Chris
- WWDC 2012: The Train Keeps on Rollin' by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 3 (The Verdict) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 2 (The Experience) by Tarun
- From iOS to Windows Phone: Act 1 (The Motive) by Tarun
- A Month With Metro for Xbox 360 by Chris
- 2012 by Tarun
- Redefining Reading and Sharing: Flipboard for iPhone by Tarun
- Dropping Their Guard by Tarun
- Design Unification with Google Apps by Tarun
Podcasts
- Weekly Download #38: Google I/O, Podcasts.app, Mansfield
- Weekly Download #37: WWDC, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone 8
- Weekly Download #36: Nokia's Abysmal Quarter, More on Instagram, Sony, Nest, Apple & Gaming, Patents
- Weekly Download #35: RIM, IE, iPad, Lumia and Windows Phone 7.5
- Weekly Download #34: Windows Phone, Google, RIM
- Weekly Download #33: the New iPad, Apple TV, Draw Something, Mike Daisey
- Weekly Download #32: Apple "New iPad" Press Conference Event
- Weekly Download #31: iPad 3, Google Goggles, T-Mobile, Facebook, iFactory, Chomp, Microsoft, Nokia, Siri
- Weekly Download #30: Mountain Lion, iPads, Browser Cookies, Nook, Playbooks, Blackberry
- Weekly Download #29: iPad 3, Apple TV, Patent Uselessness, Facebook, Bing & Social, Google's Living Room
Category Archives: Google
Link: How to Keep People Engaged with Google+ →
Google+ is surging with users, but the service is lacking some key features to keep users engaged. Tarun talks about three main features that Google could implement to make the new social network “sticky”. Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Features, Google, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged googleplus, mgsiegler, socialnetworking
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Link: Reflections on Privacy →
Jaimie Murdock: My ideal publishing model wouldn’t be about circles of people, but streams of tagged content. If there existed a service where you could follow a person, but mute certain content streams (such as local events, politics, etc.), we’d … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Social Networking
Tagged googleplus, privacy, socialmedia
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Link: How Low Can You Go? →
Mel Martin poses a question: [I]f you don’t have an iPad yet, would a cheaper tablet from Apple get you to the Apple Store? And if not, would an Android tablet and $250-$300 tempt you to try one? If I … Continue reading
Link: Schmidt Makes Dig at Apple →
Yesterday in a post about HTC’s falling share prices I said things would start to get interesting. Well, today Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has come out and said: “We have seen an explosion of Android devices entering the market and, … Continue reading
Link: Exactly This →
MG Siegler: Of course, we can rest-assured knowing that Twitter is very likely are not this foolish. After being in business for a full five years, they must know by now that their strength is not to mimic every just-launched … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Social Networking, Twitter
Tagged googleplus, scoble, twitter
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Weekly Download #4: Microsoft & Tablets, Netflix, Google Earnings, Spotify
Microsoft is trying to play catchup, Netflix is taking a turn in a different direction, and Google is sitting pretty with the Q2 earnings call. All this and a little (large) plug about a service that we both haven’t used … Continue reading
Link: Scoble Thinks Twitter Is Boring →
Robert Scoble thinks Google+ is the best thing since sliced bread. Is his experience a general case for using Google+ and ditching Twitter, or an exception to the current status quo? Continue reading
Posted in Features, Google, Twitter
Tagged engagement, googleplus, twitter
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Link: Poor memory? Blame Google →
The actual article is behind a paywall via Science, but this quote was particularly telling: Just as we learn through transactive memory who knows what in our families and offices, we are learning what the computer ‘knows’ and when we … Continue reading
Possible Privacy Hole in Google+
Tarun has discovered an awkward privacy implication with Google+. The bug/feature stems from reshares of posts from limited circle sharing. Continue reading
Link: 350 Billion > 1 Billion →
Nice catch, MG Siegler: Today, exactly 5 years to the day since they launched, Twitter adds the context. Google+ may be serving up 1 billion items a day, but Twitter is doing 350 billion items a day.
Link: Google Earnings for Q2 2011 →
In our podcast last week we talked a little bit about cash and how companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple are using it. Some people are a little frustrated over the amount of cash each of these companies has on … Continue reading
Link: Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook. →
Paul Adams: Google values technology, not social science. (Thanks, Leo!)
Posted in Facebook, Google, Social Networking
Tagged facebook, googleplus, social networking
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Link: The VideoChatting Madness →
With all of the recent talk about video chatting I felt it was important to give the readers close comparison between all of the services that are currently out there. We have talked about many of these services in the … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iOS, Social Networking
Tagged facebook, facetime, Google Hangout, skype, social networking, video, video chatting, videochat, youtube
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Link: Like It Or Not →
Here’s a better take on what Google+ is trying to do in relation to Facebook, from Dhanji Prasanna: It might surprise you to learn that I don’t find Google+ all that innovative. It hits all the notes that a Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google
Tagged competition, google+, social networking
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Link: A Modest Proposal →
Bill Gross: I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history. I just don’t see the point of using the Plus without the additional features that Google has yet to bake … Continue reading
Link: Android to Add Video Rentals →
Do you own an Android device? If so, it looks like Google Videos (not the youtube like service it once was) is coming soon to Android devices. Google Videos is a movie rental service Google already has that allows you … Continue reading
Link: What MySpace’s Tom Anderson Thinks of Google+ →
Tom Anderson: My original vision for MS was that everything got better when it was social–so I tried to build all the super popular things used on the web (blogs, music, classifieds, events, photos) on top of MySpace’s social layer. … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, Social Networking
Tagged google, googleplus, mashable, myspace, tom anderson
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The Answer to Facebook
“When one stands on the tallest mountain, all of the others seem small.” How can Facebook’s monumental incumbency be overthrown, and what does it take to create a successor to the social network? Continue reading
Link: HP Licensing its Mobile OS →
WebOS maker HP has is reportedly set to start licensing its mobile operating systems to other manufactures. Both Microsoft and Google already sell their respective operating systems to multiple manufacturers. This could be a great move for the company for … Continue reading
Link: Survey: More Americans Own e-readers Than Tablets →
Pew research institute: Tablet ownership grew from 5 percent to 8 percent over the same period. Tablet ownership had been climbing “relatively quickly” through Nov. 2010, Pew said, but growth was virtually flat from January to May, growing from only … Continue reading
Link: Google+ →
Google’s supposed answer to Facebook. Keep in mind, the last time they tried a foray into the social media world ended up being a disaster. But, if anyone has the user base to pull it off, it is this firm.
Link: Swiffy →
This is excellent news for iOS, and the video looks stunning on this small example. I wonder if this is just as good in converting larger, obtuse Flash files like banking websites; etc. In any case, a browser plug-in would … Continue reading
Link: Office 365 →
While Microsoft Office 365 has been around for a little while now, today it officially left beta status and is going mainstream. Office 365, offering several strong online applications (Exchange, SharePoint, and Office Online), is clearly a worthy competitor to … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Microsoft
Tagged google, googleapps, microsoft, microsoft office, office
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