Monthly Archives: September 2010

In the same week as Nokia World, we read this article on the Guardian about how being acquired by Nokia was the kiss of death for the startup Dopplr. (“Since then, Dopplr has fallen completely out of the web’s view. … Continue reading →

In tech, we read another article about the irrelevance of the RSS feed reader. Comically, to bolster its case, it cites another article from 2006 that also pronounced the RSS reader dead. Google Reader was a wonderful idea to begin … Continue reading →

We begin today by a rant on how, thanks to carriers (mobile operators), Android is often more closed – and more anti-customer – than even iPhone. (“What happens when Verizon won’t update your phone to the latest greatest Android software … Continue reading →

Today we begin with a profile of Sean Parker in Vanity Fair. Parker, of course, hacked into military databases, founded Napster, then Plaxo, and was the president of Facebook – all by the time he was 26. (“Parker, a svelte, … Continue reading →

Google Instant is little use for people who search Google from the Firefox or Safari or Windows explorer search box, or the Chrome address bar, or the Google Toolbar. I wonder percentage of all Google searches are made from locations … Continue reading →

Today in tech, we’re reading about couples who’re split between physical books and reading on the iPad or Kindle. The larger story, of course, is about how publishers are walking the delicate line between appealing to adopters of digital books … Continue reading →

With the experimental “Compose in a tab” extension, you can now (partly) do in Thunderbird what you could do in Outlook for most of the 2000s – WYSIWYG editing (by using CKEditor). Although creating tables – my one big wish … Continue reading →

Today, we’re reading commentary on our age’s inability to disconnect from work while on vacation, our self-expectation of all-time-availability. Just very good, very true and quite sad. (“Five years ago, in Barbados, none of us consulted a computer. Three years … Continue reading →

Today we’re reading about the difference between the news and the account of the news, the story and the narrative that brings the news to its readers (“Collin Siedor was the best, most imaginative storyteller I ever worked with. The … Continue reading →

Today we begin with this rant from a colonel stationed in Kabul about Powerpoint use gone crazy in the US Army. (“The commander’s immediate subordinates, usually one- and two-star generals, listen to the CUA – commander’s update assessment -  in … Continue reading →