While it may not be as good as this student’s Microsoft rebranding, it is still good to see Microsoft moving in the right direction again. Unfortunately, this update seems to reinforce Microsoft’s undying love of Windows, something which I think the company needs to rethink.
Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience.” And to reiterate what I wrote in my last post, that guidance continues to apply today. More ominous words from Twitter, but it doesn’t seem to be the end of […]
Another nail in the coffin for RIM. Next: Dell buys RIM.
Don’t act too surprised.
Ten days, nine people I have spent these previous ten days camping and canoeing in the Canadian wilderness in Ontario. Attempting to put aside thoughts about the “outside world,” I spent my time thinking about deeper human issues while observing the surrounding beautiful scenery. I would like to say that the experience was therapeutic, that […]
The beginning of the end, or just the beginning for Sparrow?
Microsoft has just announced its financial results for the fiscal quarter ending June 30th, 2012, and the company has posted a net loss of $492 million. Despite record revenue of $18.06 billion, the company was weighed down by what it’s calling a “goodwill impairment charge” of $6.2 billion… …the quarter’s revenue figure represents an increase […]
The play here is simple: buy 500px and rebrand it as “the new Flickr”. Migrate the entire existing Flickr user base and instantly make them all happy. Yahoo buys DuckDuckGo and starts serving ads on it, and make it the default Yahoo search engine. Yahoo is already an option on most browsers and devices (like […]
The only way I interact with Yahoo now is through the Weather and Stocks apps on my iPhone. I honestly can’t decide if Yahoo has any place in Silicon Valley anymore, it excels at nothing. Congratulations, Marissa Mayer, you have the dead-end job no one wanted (start at 3:50).
Twitter follows Facebook down the walled garden path “The early adopters who have tasted the fruits of polished third party clients are also the key influencers in media, print, television and digital, and the backlash would be swift and lengthy,” said Andrew Stone, Twittelator’s founder. “All of the good will people associate with Twitter could […]