Daniel Langendorf of Last100 has a few good thoughts on why Google should have produced their own phone, rather than producing Android for others to use. Good thoughts, but not too many that I agree with. Here’s why I disagree, picking off his arguments in order…
It makes sense from a design and development perspective
I think [...]
I don’t consider myself an internet pundit, but I do think Caterina Fake’s latest move is a smart one. She co-founded Flickr, saw it bought by Yahoo! and has since left. What to do? She’s joined the board of Hunch to be chief product officer (as reported by Jemima).
Why do I think this is a [...]
It sez here:
Top Gear stars James May and Richard Hammond have not yet signed new contracts despite their agreements expiring at the end of the month – leading to fears they may leave the show.
That’s right, folks: there’s a real risk of Jeremy Clarkson staying on television. Start panicking now.
Tags: topgear, jeremyclarkson, [...]
Over on the Observer’s Business site there’s a report about UEFA taking umbridge at fans videoing and photographing matches and then putting them on content-sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr. The more I think about it, the more I’m in sympathy with UEFA, having started from a position of opposition. The matches are held [...]
To me the most remarkable feature of last night’s iPhone 3G announcement was the maths. Before the presentation Apple had one iPhone (albeit with memory options). The announcement presented a new, 3G, iPhone. The total number of iPhones Apple now sells is… one.
Compare that to, say, Nokia, who still sell the N95 alongside the more [...]
Here’s the extract from the new Bond book that Toby Litt begins his review with. Why do you think it might be worth quoting…?
“Bond and Scarlett went into a spacious air-conditioned room that was painted crimson: floor, ceiling, walls - there was nothing in the room that wasn’t poppy-red. Behind a desk stood an old-fashioned [...]
A similar — but distinctly more convivial — experience to Neil McIntosh’s run-in with AOL. I got a mail about a photo I put on Flickr: it’s nominated to be included in a forthcoming visitors’ guide, and I had the opportunity to agree to this or withdraw it. Following up, the site said:
While we offer [...]
I just went out out to buy a card reader for a Micro SD card, and maybe my camera’s Compact Flash card as a nice-to-have. I have returned having spent twenty quid on a — ahem — 55 in 1 card reader. I am currently both in wonder that someone has produced a device that [...]
Here’s a photo sequence that appeared in the paper this morning, and I couldn’t stop looking at it for ages. A man taking a photo above the Grand Canyon, and… oh, goodness.
Update: There’s some discussion about whether it’s a hoax. It would seem that any possible hoax is about not revealing the full picture, which [...]
Reg Developer picks up on Microsoft’s defence[*] of features causing confusion for Windows Vista users. Of interest to me is this, from Microsoft’s document:
We’ve heard some of you say that Windows Vista runs slower than Windows XP on a given PC. So what’s really happening here? First, we need to avoid comparing apples to oranges [...]
