Aug

10

Phone, meet IM

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Being able to choose to be contacted by either voice, IM or SMS is an extremely attractive proposition. Using all three from the same device, though, is the holy grail of unified communication. With VoIP, smartphones and IM, we might be getting pretty close to that.

9

The Mobile Internet Lifestyle

Filed Under Editorials, Email, Facebook, Gmail, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, Opera, Social, Twitter | 4 Comments

(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.)

My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than satisfying, but that might well be a result of my usage pattern. Your mileage may vary. And yes, my ideal internet-access device would be iPhone, but I’ve already written about why iPhone is a no-no for me.

14

Moving to an Online Life

Filed Under Blogs, Editorials, Email, Firefox, Gmail, Google, HowTos, IM, Internet, Mobile, Nokia, RSS, Social, Thunderbird | 6 Comments

So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable.

19

Why Safari won’t matter

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Apple 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…”

23

How the New Web is changing PR

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Steve Rubel explains on PBS’ PublicEye:

… our practices are becoming more public. All of us who work inside PR agencies recognize that we need to build transparent bond with the public directly and not just serve as corporate intermediaries…

22

Misguided iPhone/Safari strategy analysis

Filed Under Apple, Insights, Internet, Safari, iPhone | 1 Comment

More iPhone strategy from Bob Cringely. While he’s spot-on with most of his columns, I don’t agree with his line of thought in this week’s column.

15

Scoble is not an idiot…

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… but he doesn’t seem to have gotten things bang-on either, with regard to the supposed “closed” nature of the iPhone.

Steve Jobs admitted at the D conference that Apple was rather cagey about allowing developers to write third-party apps to run on the iPhone: Read more

May

24

Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!

Filed Under Editorials, Google, Insights, Internet, Trends, Yahoo | 1 Comment

Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment into search by either Yahoo! or Microsoft will be negative. Both firms will be better off putting their money in other lines of business.Why has GUS ended the search wars? Apart from standard Web Search, Google’s also ruled vertical search - maps, books, images, and video. (The only exception was news, where Y! did a better job.) So if Y! and MS were to follow suit with their own integrated searches, the top video (or book) results would be on Google’s properties. In fact, the better they made their searches, the more traffic they’d drive to YouTube or books.google.com! Not only does Google do the best job with vertical search, today it also owns the properties where this vertical content resides!

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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry

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It means everything. It means a massive opportunity and a massive threat. It means a period of flux in the SEO space for the next six months. Why?

Until today, everything - everything - in the SEO industry was to do with optimising web pages. Firms in this space have fine-tuned the art of Optimization into a science over a decade. Pagerank was all that mattered, and SEO firms knew what worked and what didn’t.

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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search - Part 1: Industry Disruption