Monthly Archives April 2008

Funny: Social Networkig Wars

This video is based on a true story:

Twitter and friendfeed are missing!

Facebook chat and the death of structured data

Many have complained about the facebook chat, while other think it’s just awesome(couldn’t find a link for this post…lol). I don’t really care much about it to feel strongly either way, but do think there might be some serious consequences down the road.
The whole purpose of a social network is to keep in touch [...]

NBC really needs to get it’s priorities straight

Where does the policing stop and the great user experience start web TV show? NBC is already giving the TV shows for “free” on TV. Why not have a version with ads put up on the torrent sites and profit from that as well as iTunes sales(at a reasonable price). I would love to see [...]

Irony: Dowmforeveryoneorjustme.com down (for a few minutes)

Since MediaTemple’s Grid Service started suffering outages, I started using downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check my website availability.
I know they are not indestructible, but the irony of them being down when I wanted to check if my site was down, left me wondering where can I check to see if downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down so that I [...]

iPhone: the phone of the people

Since the iPhone was announced people have been criticizing all the different features or lack of and defended contenders like the Blackberry or N95. Apple has followed every single request and obeyed in promptly fixing everything:
-Price too high: cut after just 3 months
-No 3rd party applications: SDK announced shortly after, released in March and apps [...]

thebetaguy: Microsoft Windows 7 Exclusive

Dev Corvin from the beta guy claims to have an exclusive on Windows 7:
In Windows 7, Microsoft will break from the Windows’ norm by breaking previous API compatibility, offering new API frameworks as a native solution, and providing support for legacy frameworks (COM, ATL, .NET Framework, etc) through monolithic libraries designed to provide the functionality [...]

Ryan, welcome to the blogsphere!

Ryan Kuder is up and running with his new blog at www.ryankuder.com. Being an ex-Yahoo Marketing guys with tons of experience, his blog is bound to have interesting insights:
I plan to write about social media and marketing, people and companies, things I like and things I don’t.
He is an article on him from the L.A. [...]

Unlike Facebook’s iPhone site, here is one you won’t see in a commercial soon

Playboy.com’s iPhone website just launched. Judging by the screenshot it’s more of a guy’s portal than a pr0n site.
Missing: Sports scores(hopefully Colombian Soccer) and games!
(Via TechCrunch.)

64 bit Adobe Apps in Mac very slim posiblity

John Gruber has written an interesting post on the future of Adobe Carbon apps and their lack of 64 bit support because of what seems like time constraints and a whole lot of work:
If Apple had shipped Leopard with the 64-bit Carbon support promised at WWDC 2006, Photoshop CS4 would run in 64-bit mode on [...]