Category: Web 2.0

Re/Code opens up with an incendiary article to drive traffic

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I really don’t want to use the term linkbait and Walt Mossberg in the same sentence, but as the former ‘All Things D’ team open up their site to the public (Re/Code) I’m hard pushed to think of a better term for ‘It’s Not a Church, It’s Just An Apple Store‘: The biggest tech religion is the Church of Apple, with countless blogs defending its every move, regardless of whether it’s a good one. Some carry a sort of permanent sense of suspicion from the old days of the 1980s, when using a Mac was considered weird by many. Apple cultists

This is how Facebook dies…

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…it dies in exactly the same way as every other mainstream social network of the past decade or so. It stops being cool. Jemima Kiss covers the research over on The Guardian: “Facebook is not just on the slide – it is basically dead and buried,” wrote Daniel Miller, lead anthropologist on the research team, who is professor of material culture of University College London. “Mostly they feel embarrassed to even be associated with it. Where once parents worried about their children joining Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists they stay there to post about their

You gotta have an app store, even your wrist needs an app store

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And so we move on to the next digital revolution. Once upon a time you knew that your cutting edge technology had made it because someone had ported ‘Doom’ to it. Now you know you’re with the hip crowd when your device gets its very own app store. My wrist now has an app store, thanks to Pebble: We are extremely excited to announce the Pebble appstore! Many of you, as developers, have asked for it and we are happy to announce that it will go live with Pebble SDK 2.0 early next year. Pebble appstore will be included in the

Some thoughts on the Pebble smart watch

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Four weeks on the wrist, and I’m all set to go Charlton Heston on you if you try to pry it off. The Pebble smartwatch cracks the challenge of the smartwatch, and while it’s not the final iteration of the wearable technology, the Pebble reminds me of the promise of the early Psion and Palm devices I used. The Pebble reminds me of the early days of the PDA, with many limitations in the hardware and software being overcome by smart hacking. The limitations of size and interface are obvious, while others are down to the hardware design (the Pebble