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

In a post several days ago , I had predicted that Yahoo! would sooner or later get out of the search business and concentrate on Community (since that’s what it is best at) and Personalization, which follows from the community focus. Read more

So Google’s decided to take the plunge and buy DoubleClick. And what’s more, along with the big bird, they also get Performics as part of the deal. Performics was a bit player in the affiliate marketing space until yesterday, but under the Google umbrella it transforms into a potential 800-pound gorilla. Understandably, the affiliate marketing corner of the blogosphere’s gone ballistic over it. Every affiliate consultant worth his/her salt has a take on it. There are two things which everyone seems to have missed. The less significant one first:

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I wrote an opinion piece a while back about the battle between 3G and WiFi (that is, 802.11b/g/n v/s WCDMA/EDGE). To put it briefly, ISPs are increasingly getting households, businesses and cities connected via WiFi. At the same time, telcos are offering Internet access via mobile using 3G. Once they get ordinary devices (desktops, laptops) with 3G cards to access the Internet through their 3G networks, we’ve set the stage for a fierce turf battle between ISPs and Telecom Companies.

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This announcement by Lenovo to include Cingular’s 3G implementation with its notebooks throws up some interesting questions. Right now, 3G only supports data transfer speeds of about 400-700kbps, and it is primarily used in high-end mobile smartphones. However, as this standard evolves, and it is able to support transfer speeds in Mbps, it’ll begin to compete with WiFi itself.

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Jamie Zawinski’s (author of xscreensaver) has a post up on his blog (same article here), about how he talked Nat Friedman into changing the focus of Novell’s new calendar server project Hula. There’s one point that Jamie made in the article that set me thinking:

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