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Feb 09

Thoughts On The Kindle

Amazon has announced the launch of their Kindle 2 product today, and it is rightfully getting a lot of attention. I’ve used the first iteration of the Kindle, and it’s an excellent ebook reader. I can easily see someone using it as a replacment for their books, especially with its ease of instant gratification—just buy the books via Amazon and immediately download them. However, in terms of growing the category, my business development sense tells me that Apple is a real player here.

Feb 08

Yahoo Mail Growing Faster Than Gmail

Comscore released their site information about webmail providers, and the real winner was Yahoo Mail, which not only cemented its lead as the number one webmail provider, but also extended its lead over its rivals. The other big news was the growth of Gmail, which is on a pace to surpass Windows Live/Hotmail by the end of 2009.

Feb 05

Twitter Spam & The Follower Problem

I continue to be stunned by the number of headlines that are generated in the tech press about Twitter spam. The facts are quite simple: You cannot be spammed on Twitter unless you allow others to spam you. It is an entirely opt-in system–You must give others permission to contact you. The key issue isn’t the Twitter platform but users who see followers as evidence of their popularity or as a status item.

Feb 04

Five Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone

There have been a number of articles about why to jailbreak your iPhone (10 here, 10 more here, etc.), but none of them really focus on the average user experience. For example, SSH file access is a critical reason to jailbreak your iPhone, but for the consumer it means little, as setting up SSH access is too complicated. So here is a list of five reasons to jailbreak your iPhone that focus on things that an ordinary user with a standard iPhone would see and respond, “ahh, I get it. I want to jailbreak my iPhone now, too!” Check out the list after the break.

Feb 03

Beta Means Not Ready

People in the Internet and tech world have a tendency to think of the beta tag as something cool, like a product so cutting edge that it hasn’t even left that mythical beta stage. Of course the poster child for this is Google’s GMail product, which is still in beta and appears to be ordained to never leave that status. But perceptions within a community are often different than the perceptions outside a community, and that is often the case in business development partnerships with traditional media, where “beta” all too often means “not ready.”

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