Monthly Archives: August 2010

Last week, we learnt that the Web Is Dead. Actually, it turns out that everything that’s alive today has already been dead once before: Facebook, Microsoft Office, Microsoft itself, E-mail, the Desktop, the iPod and more. Then, we read an … Continue reading →

Dan Gillmor in Salon, about what telcos are doing to handsets running the ‘open source’ Android OS: The emboldened carriers have started loading all kinds of “crapware” — apps from partner companies that can’t be removed in standard configurations and … Continue reading →

Today we’re reading about Kevin Rose’s (of Digg fame) tips to save time dealing with email. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill stuff (“Type “Sent from iPhone” under your short responses.  People don’t expect long responses when you’re on your phone. Don’t … Continue reading →

Today, Lifehacker’s put together a list of the best Android apps. Very rich list, spanning multiple categories: Productivity, Internet, Media, Photography, Entertainment and more. We also read about Dell’s ‘business arrangement’ with Intel, that was eventually deemed to be fraudulent … Continue reading →

Today, we dug up (slightly) older articles: like this one from August 8, about how brands are finding innovative ways to advertise on social networks (“Honda will have in-game ads on “Car Town,” including billboards embedded in the game that … Continue reading →

For a brief couple of weeks last months, I was very active on Facebook – reading my news feed, commenting on status updates, viewing photo albums, like-ing items, accepting friend requests – all the normal stuff Facebook-ers do. And now … Continue reading →

Today, we’re reading how bite-sized pieces of entertainment (cell-phone games, quick news articles on mobile phones, podcasts while working out) are tiring our brains. Also see the New York Times’ excellent series on our age of information overload and what … Continue reading →

Today, ‘Why Free Plans Don’t Work‘ examines why removing the free part of your freemium strategy can actually improve paid signups. Ironic, coming in the week that Skype’s IPO filing revealed that all its massive revenues come from less than … Continue reading →

Today, we’re reading Chris Anderson’s flame-bait lead article in Wired (‘The Web is Dead’) on how the proliferation of apps and streaming services is on the Internet is making the Web obsolete (i.e. the World Wide Web of HTML pages … Continue reading →