MichaelFruchter.com
It’s been a very exciting week for me, as it has been with the select few of you who were lucky enough to snag one of the 100,000 invites for Google Wave. Being an early adopter, I have been ecstatic trying to get my hands on the next new shiny object. The hype that has gone on for months billed it as the next generation (Read More)
louisgray.com
Sending messages to and monitoring Twitter on your Mac usually requires running a RAM-intensive Adobe AIR application or dropping into Twitter's standard Web interface. And with Twitter continuing its skyrocketing usage trajectory, more and more utilities are being developed to handle the load - from TweetDeck to Seesmic De (Read More)
Mashable!
It’s only their second day in court, and The Pirate Bay already seems to be winning the legal battle against the plaintiffs - Universal, Warner Bros, MGM, EMI, 20th Century Fox, Colombia Pictures, and Sony BMG. According to TorrentFreak, half of the charges against The Pirate Bay have already been dropped due to lack of evi (Read More)
Webware.com
(Credit: Skype)BARCELONA--Skype is racking up deals with mobile handset makers here at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009.On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by eBay, announced a partnership with Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, to put the Skype Internet calling software onto its phones. Nokia will initial (Read More)
: "N97 users will be able to make free and low-cost phone calls over the Internet whether they are on a 3G cellular network or a Wi-Fi network. " - what does this 'free' implies??
Silicon Alley Insider
I think the news that Flash is coming to smartphones over the next year is a big deal. Most of the rich media experiences I have on the web are in flash. YouTube's success had a lot to do with its choice of Flash for its video player. Now almost every video site on the web uses a Flash video player. The same is true of audi (Read More)
: Interesting article, but I think adobe is gonna have really hard time making a flash version which will run on all smartphones and provide a 'seamless' experience, since not all smartphones are eqaul. To give a decent example, just look at a current WinMo phones, some of them will run flash quite well, while others might choke on it. Computers, flash is so vast, like 80% or more of all computers can run it, and it will run on older hardware, besides for the HD stuff. The current iPhone does not have enought hp to run it, maybe something for the model coming out this summer.. who knows.. But I think were atleast 2-3 years of from seamless web browsing experience with audio and video embedded on webpages on a smartphone
: skim the article, read the comments. I'm in the "iPhone does not need Flash Player" camp. I think a standalone flv player that Safari can hand off to for embedded video is optimal - like how mp4 is handled on sites like YouTube.
TechCrunch
Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network. In his blog post announcing the 5-year milestone, foun (Read More)
: a reminder for us all that amonsgst us good folks, there are people out there with a different agenda - using our cool tools for negative use. 1% sounds better, 1.5m sounds terrible! we have to be able to do more..
Submitted by Gridsix
from Digg:
The Mac GUI is seriously lacking in some aspects. It's simply impossible to do many things with the GUI, and some other basic tasks require more keystrokes and mouse clicks than necessary. The Mac way to do it can be the stupid way to do it. Here is a detailed list of the UI deficiencies. (Read More)
: C'mon, this dude hates Mac os X so bad its not even funny. I sell Macs as part-time job, and some people who want to configure everything, than Apple is just not your cup of tea. So use Windows or Linux or whatever, don't come up with several said arguments because you can't use Mac OS X. Who ever creates new text files from a contextual menu???