Twitter: this is because of single-key shortcuts 4 spam, star, archive, delete. Really good. 12 hrs ago

Jan

29

The GigaOM show and videoblogging

Filed Under Broadband, Social, Video | 1 Comment

Watched a few episodes of the GigaOM show over the last few days.

Video or audio is far more effective than text when it comes to expressing ideas or opinions. There’s so much you can tell from the tone and other nonverbal communication that you’d lose in a transcript.

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Jan

12

Syncing Nokia Phones - Alternatives to Outlook?

Filed Under Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 2 Comments

I am very close to dropping Outlook as my email client of choice for my institute mailbox. It is slow, incredibly disk-intensive and requires too much maintenance - the same problems I had with Lotus Notes during my time at IBM.

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Jan

10

The Three Degrees of Personalization

Filed Under Editorials, Facebook, Google, Insights, Social, Yahoo | Leave a Comment

Facebook’s Beacon brought some spice to the tech community, which had been longing for some juicy stuff to blog/discuss/pontificate about since the iPhone’s launch several months ago.

Beacon is (was?) part of Facebook’s new online ad system which shared a user’s actions on other (partner) websites with all his/her Facebook friends. (If you rent a movie on Blockbuster, your friends will be notified via Facebook’s mini-feed). Scary, eh?

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Jan

3

Mobile 2008 = PC 1982

Filed Under Editorials, Insights, Mobile, PC | 3 Comments

Why the mobile phone industry today looks a lot like the PC industry 25 years ago:

  • Several players selling standalone “boxes” (or bricks). Atari, Commodore, Tandy, Apple back then. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Apple now
  • Incompatible software platforms
  • Incompatible hardware and peripherals
  • Nascent application development industry
  • Device seen as replacing several existing devices

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