Mar
19
Why Safari won’t matter
Filed Under Editorials, Firefox, IE, IntellectualProperty, Internet, Opera, Predictions, Safari | 2 Comments
AppleĀ released Safari 3.1 today, and has claimed that it is “the world’s fastest browser”.
“Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers…”
Mar
2
Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2
Filed Under Email, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 5 Comments
So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.
Mar
2
Windows Vista and the “blogosphere”
Filed Under Blogs, Insights, Vista | 4 Comments
Just finished watching an episode of the GigaOM show with Dan’l Lewin.
When OM asked Dan’l why Vista was “everybody’s favorite whipping boy” and “what happened”, Lewin’s reply was that “the blogophere happened”.
Mar
2
Social Networks - The New Bulletin Boards?
Filed Under Editorials, Social, Trends | 2 Comments
In my previous post, I looked at how a social network “picks up” an application and “spreads” it to reach the audience that would be interested in using it. And I said that was because social networks make it easy to propagate information, but primarily because people with similar interests have numerous ways of “hooking up” - either via communities or interacting on these in-network applications.
Mar
2
Social networks - goodbye STP
Filed Under Facebook, Insights, Marketing, Social | 2 Comments
Seth Godin quotes Gavin Potter about the 21st century being about ’sorting out demand’. “When your messages reach the right people at the right time in the right way, magic happens”, Seth says.