Tweetie, the popular iPhone Twitter client, is about to land on the Mac. A longtime user of Tweetie, I was excited to see Macworld’s “first look” at the upcoming software: Tweetie sports a healthy dose of visual flair without trying to get you drunk on whooshing around. Clicking between your friends’ tweet list, mentions, and [...]
Computerworld’s Windows guru, Preston Gralla, on spending two weeks on the Mac: For PC users, Mac OS X takes some getting used to, but once I did, I found it a more elegant, polished piece of work than Windows (either XP or Vista). With so many nice little touches, it seemed as if I was finding [...]
It seems Apple has grown tired of the “You Find It, You Keep It” ads from Microsoft. Macworld: “Millions of people have switched to Mac because they love the security, stability and power that comes with world-class hardware and amazing software that just works, right out of the box,” Apple spokesman Bill Evans, told Macworld. ”A PC [...]
Journalism Online, a new LLC focused on (obviously) online journalism. Here’s a bit from their homepage: “We have formed Journalism Online because we think this is a special moment in time when there is an urgent need for a business model that allows quality journalism to be the beneficiary of the Internet’s efficient delivery mechanism [...]
As a Memphis native, I found this quite interesting: Today’s weird Apple rumor has the turtle-neck exec moving to Memphis, Tennessee, of all places. The idea is that Jobs is going south to help treat his pancreatic cancer–Memphis, it turns out, is the home of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Private equity blog PEHub is citing a “well-connected business [...]
Yesterday, I discussed the work of BJ Fogg, a social media guy at Stanford, and I said I could not find the pricing for his 6-week Facebook course. Turns outs there was a reason I couldn’t find that information. Here’s an email I received from him this morning: FYI — To date. I’ve not received [...]
Over the last few months, I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by social media – and those trying to make a buck off of it as “social media gurus.” So what does CNN do? Give me someone else to dislike: Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful [...]
Wired: “We have invented this idea of retail 2.0,” says Gilbert Fiorentino, chief executive of the Technology Products Group at Systemax, now parent company of CompUSA. Fiorentino is also the founder of Tiger Direct, a web only electronics retailer and another subsidiary of Systemax. “Every screen in every CompUSA store is now connected to the [...]
BuisnessWeek on the new iPod Shuffle: All told, the cost of the shuffle’s components, the headphones, and the packaging it ships in comes to $21.77, according to iSuppli’s estimates. That’s about 28% of the device’s retail price. The smaller the component cost as a percentage of price, the higher the potential profit. This suggests the [...]
TechCrunch has a great piece up about online news. Here’s a taste: So how powerful is Google when it comes to parceling out traffic to news sites? If you are talking about Google News, the answer is that it is not quite as powerful as you might think. In the U.S., Google News is overshadowed by both Yahoo News [...]
