Category: Web 2.0

Wen Chrome decides to take over the world, this is how it will do it

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Kevin Tofel looks at Google’s latest Chrome strategy, and how it hopes to ride over the traditional OS using the Chrome browser on the Windows and OSX desktops: In fact, I’d go so far as to say, within a year, many of you will be using a Chromebook. Before you roll your eyes, let me add one caveat: That Chromebook won’t be Google-designed hardware; instead it will be on the Mac, Windows or Linux machine you have at that time. So it won’t be a Google-built device like my Chromebook Pixel is… For many Chrome is just a browser. For others

iFixit and Cult of Mac win the ‘thirtieth anniversary blog post’ award

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iFixit tear down equipment to see how repairable they are. Cult of Mac are good friends. So the latter shipped the former an original Macintosh 128K to see what they would do with it. As CNN would say, the results will amuse you. Join us as we live the time-traveler’s dream—the deep, lucid, Orwellian vision of hope, fear, and nostalgia that is 1984. Just in time for its 30th anniversary, we laid hands on an ’84 original: the Macintosh 128K. And, you guessed it—we’re tearing it down like it’s the Berlin Wall. Today’s blast from the past is brought to

The difference between effective eBook pricing in the UK and the US

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Some interesting numbers that show the different pricing needed for eBooks in the US market and the UK market by (Techcrunch). First of all, in the US: See how the $9-10 range shows a spike of revenue? I suggest this validates the industry viewpoint that there is a good market for books priced around $10… The most revenue was earned between in the $9-10 price range. And in the UK? Well we’re looking for much better value. By far, the largest number of units sold is £1 or less (mostly 99p). And then it tails off as the price rises. There

The world of PR is already messing up Jelly

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Mobile start-up Jelly (a sort of post an image and ask a question about it and hope someone in your social circle (a) knows the answer (b) is on Jelly and (c) will happily post the answer) is just over a week old. Showing just how fast the internet works, the social media teams from the big brands are already “leveraging their real-time social virility and trading friendship capital for marketing messages.” Over to David Meyer: The thing launched like three seconds ago and already I’m getting notifications for “questions” from mobile phone companies, soft drink firms and so on.