Regardless of what you think of the iPad and its successor number two, the new magnetic smart cover looks awesome. I’ve seen iPad owners carry around all kinds of small and large covers, cases and bags and similarly they think of all kinds of ways to make the iPad stand up to type on it and watch a video. [...] Continue Reading…
Jive software, one of the social software vendors, has done a survey under its customers about the benefits of using social software.The survey has been executed by an unnamed independent research company. Some details have been given about the survey but not many. Since the results are being published by the vendor and the [...] Continue Reading…
Twitter is rolling out its new version of the web interface. Some people will never notice, because they are using mobile or desktop apps, but it’s still interesting because it says something about how Twitter see its product. Still mostly for flinging short messages into the webosphere and less for conversation, apparently. Twitter CEO Evan Williams also mentioned in [...] Continue Reading…
When you read a lot of things online, you run into some inconveniences pretty soon. First of all reading from a screen just isn’t ideal. I’m not sure what it is, the angle, the light or something else, but it’s more tiring and slower than reading from paper. I also do quite some reading on [...] Continue Reading…
For software you could say: it’s not important how good it is it, it’s important how fast it is updated. These are all called the iterations of improving software and show how much effort a developer is putting into it’s product. WordPress has it both. The product is already very good, full featured and polished, but it’s also getting [...] Continue Reading…
I enjoy reading news online. I also subscribe to a newspaper (the Dutch NRC Next), but get most of my breaking news and background information and opinions online. I have been reading the item “Media Diet” on The Atlantic Wire with a lot of interest. The idea is to ask journalists about their media diet, or how they get [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve been walking around with two devices for a while now. Not all the time but often I would have my Nokia N95 8GB with me, together with an iPod Touch. But now I have an HTC Desire.
I’d use the Nokia for phone calls, but also some mobile web browsing such as Google Reader or a mobile web Twitter [...] Continue Reading…
Perhaps you know and use Feedly, a sort of alternative interface for Google reader, which displays your feeds in a cool way that looks a little like a newspaper. But to use Feedly you have a Gogle Reader account and fill it with interesting feeds. Feedly does a good job in showing you the most interesting things from those [...] Continue Reading…
After have followed the keynote this week, the real insight and information about the new Apple iPad comes in the couple of days afterwards. Almost any blogger and her uncle have made a post with their thoughts on the iPad so why shouldn’t I. Technological Perspective There are two ways of looking at this new [...] Continue Reading…
I’ve gone and tried to follow the Apple launching event yesterday. Robert Scoble posted earlier his reasons for not going while he had a ticket, mainly because he had way better access to the backchannel, video, photos and opinions from everyone who did go by staying home. Since I obviously had no possibility to be there I felt [...] Continue Reading…