I was going to write an article on this very subject but Adam's beat me to it and has said all that I had planned to say and more. A must read.
- Nicholas Helke
Oddly, TwitterFon Changes Its Name to Echofon: "[…] It seems like this might be a move to avoid any kind of legal problems with Twitter. As we’ve written in the past, Twitter is apparently okay with you using the word “tweet” but they must protect their trademark of “Twitter”. Still, something like “TweetFon” seems like it would have been a better... - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I admire MG Siegler for not shouting out about how the reasons given for the name change are BS—I can think of one other author at TechCrunch that probably would have spelt it out. Regards it has to be said that this obvious deception does not reflect well on the company's honesty—an important value for the web crowd i.e. <del>TwitterFon</del>Echofon customers.
- Nicholas Helke
from Bookmarklet
It starts well enough. Goes wring as soon as they pull their guns and have a character die from a tweet. Also, the video is a bit on the long side for what it is.
- Nicholas Helke
This actually illustrates that there is a lot of work to be done to optimize the canvas element. CPU usage rockets with the experiment.
- Nicholas Helke
I want one for its HD video ability and small size factor. I think I will settle for this one instead on of the more bulky reflex HD video-able cameras. ALthough it would be nice to choose one's own lens.
- Nicholas Helke
Pretty. I love Penguin covers. They are contemporary when released but also timeless. Those old Penguins look just as good today as they day they were printed.
- Nicholas Helke
I love the new Safari bar on iPhone 2.2. I also really like that finally iTunes Mobile Store is truely mobile on iPhone and accessible through cell networks as well as WiFi.
Damn! Only the podcasts are available everywhere? Why is it that the best media capable mobile phone in the world is the only one without a truly mobile music store? To make matters a little worse podcasts you download on the road don't count as mobile purchases and are not synced back to iTunes.
- Nicholas Helke
On the iPhone that is. (I forgot to specify, oops.) I have turned auto-caps off as well. I found the feature annoying in web forms where it would activate. I prefer that it do it nowhere consistently then that it do it sporadically. There is only one case where I miss auto caps. and that is for the word "I".
- Nicholas Helke
Croissance stimulée par Fastweb - Stabilité de l'activité principale en Suisse - Baisse du bénéfice net de 10% due à la résiliation des contrats de leasing - http://www.swisscom.com/GHQ...
What can I say? With results like these how can they deny they overcharge? At the very least they should use the massive profits to give us better DSL or better still with all those billions why aren't they deplyingdober optics?
- Nicholas Helke
Wouldn't Google Street View provides a wider area to explore?
- Nicholas Helke
When will MS come up with something new? They seem to be content with copying everything that google does. Although, I didn't have to download Silverlight, and wasn't asked to use a more 'up-to-date' browser, so I'll give them credit for that.
- Paul Grav
Did you read the word Technology Preview? May be we will see more cities in future..
- Jigar Mehta
"Of the teens Wells polled online, 93 per cent say they prefer the internet to television."
- Timo Heuer
from Mento
Reminds me a lot of what Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse, author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online has been telling us for some years now. Her recent mashup marketing event in SF represented this view pretty well too. Others like Danah Boyd and Eszter Hargittai have also explored the topic at length. Nice to see Sydney picking up on this though.
- Lynne d Johnson