So, if you’re monitoring the comments on my post yesterday, Product Managers Should Know How to Write Code, you’ll know Bex (@bex) and I are having a bit of a disagreement.
This is good. I really like intellectual (vs. emotional) disagreement on the intertubes because it opens eyes to new viewpoints.
Too bad Bex is wrong.
He’s not [...]
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Last week, I realized that the smartphone is the ultimate anti-social device.
Sure, you can be all social, checking Facebook, tweeting and checking in to venues, but the paradox is that your smartphone makes you look like unapproachable IRL.
And by you, I mean me.
The week before SXSW, I [...]
After spreading its roots to leading operating system platforms like the iPhone, iPod Touch, RIM’s Blackberry and Microsoft Windows, Amazon has officially announced the availability of its Kindle for Mac app that allows Mac users to read Kindle ebooks on their Mac computers.
Interested users can buy Kindle ebooks from the Kindle ebooks store and save [...]
Google announced the official Orkut app for Android platform 1.6 and higher. The application does quite a bit when it comes to keeping up with your friends and their scraps on Orkut.
The new application lets you click pictures and upload them to Orkut in seconds. Scrap notification, the application would be called [...]
Facebook users, beware. Social networking scams are not new to us. McAfee has uncovered a facebook password scam, which involves email spoofing to steal passwords of facebook users’ profiles.
An email states that the facebook user password ahs been reset and to login, the user must download an attachment or feed the credentials required to reset [...]
Just a week after the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 was announced, Apple rolled out another update to the iPhone OS 3.2. The fifth beta release of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK is a successor release to the sequence of iPhone OS 3.2 SDK beta releases announced earlier.
The iPhone OS 3.2 SDK beta 5 release [...]
iPad is yet to be released and the claims of Jailbreaking iPad OS 3.2 are already floating around. Most users like us who do not want to be limited by the restrictions Apple has put in place look forward to these patches which can break free from the restrictions.
Joshua Hill, part of the [...]
Registered Apple-branded iPad accessories were supposed to go on sale starting April 3, the same day when Apple’s iPad would first see the light of the day in the stores, but Apple has delayed the release of its iPad accessories.
Some of these iPad accessories include an iPad Keyboard Dock, an iPad Case for carrying your [...]
iPhone apps let you do a lot of things and one of them is sing your heart out and share your it with your friends and torture them to death with your inexistent talent.
These karaoke iPhone apps are so much fun that one just cannot care about the torture part of the [...]
I’ve been absent for a while, not sure if this tweet from Chet was related to my silence, but if it was, I have an excuse.
Paul and I just returned from Austin and SXSWi, which ran March 12-16.
For those unfamiliar, SXSW is comprised of three festivals: film, music and interactive. It began in 1987 as [...]
With Apple iPad launch date closing in, iPad apps are on the surge of development. PadNotes for iPad is one such iPad app. It’s basically an editing tool for your iPad that lets you draw figures, highlight text, annotate, read documents and PDFs on your iPad.
The application lets you do these basic editing jobs on [...]Vodafone Essard has launched its mobile application store in India, days after the launch of Airtel app store. Reportedly, the application store has been on air since Feb 15th, but seems like no official launch announcement was noticed only until this week.
Vodafone, in collaboration with Arvato Mobile, is offering both paid and free mobile apps [...]
: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 17, 2010 How to avoid what's happened to American newspapers : Part two By Robert Niles 6 comments Archive Link Following my talk in Singapore last month , I decided to delve deeper into the question about what newspaper publishers outside the United States can do to avoid the market meltdown that's already claimed a few papers in the U.S . and endangers the survival of many more . Last week , in part one , I urged managers at news publications to become eager consumers of online communication technology Management should use and consume technology like a starving man at a free buffet . I wrote that people in the business of producing communication in new media first must learn as consumers of that media . Too few managers actually use the platforms that they are employing people to develop for , leaving them clueless about that technology and unable to provide leadership inEverything inside your Gmail account is private and inaccessible without a password right? Well, not anymore. Google has just started indexing your buzz conversations and it’s just a matter of time before they start showing those results on the first page as real time information like the information from Twitter.
Though the information [...]: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 10, 2010 How to avoid what's happened to American newspapers : Part one By Robert Niles 8 comments Archive Link Following my talk in Singapore last month , I'd like to delve deeper into the question about what newspaper publishers outside the United States can do to avoid the market meltdown that's already claimed a few papers in the U.S . and endangers the survival of many . more This advice applies not just to newspaper publishers outside the United States , but to all news publishers , including online start-ups and still-profitable U.S . papers , who haven't yet had to resort to crippling staff or feature cutbacks to remain in the . black Of course , much of what I'm going to say today is reflex for OJR readers . Consider this , instead , a second source that you can quote to a boss or print out to show to , uh , persuade her or him to do what you've been urging her or him
Thanks to a tweet from the @foursquare team and a post from TechCrunch, I have a new app for checking in to foursquare, Fourface.
Yeah, I know foursquare and location generally have been getting a lot of ink here and other place. Get used to it though because heading into SXSW later this week, location is [...]
The tradeoff between simplicity and features has been around for ages, but it was hotly debated on the web by two of the most forward thinking software luminaries: Jason Fried and Joel Spolsky. Their back and forth debate hit a crescendo last year around the time I attended the wonderful Business of Software conference put [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 5, 2010 DIY and passion give birth to a new journalists' weekly on Twitter By Robert Hernandez No comments Archive Link For me , it began with a snarky tweet journchat Bad name , good . PR Apparently that tweet touched a nerve and prompted Web journalists to come out of the Twitterverse to express . agreement Before I continue , let me define two : things journchat is a Twitter chat that is âan ongoing conversation between journalists , bloggers and PR folksâ held weekly on Twitter . Created by PRsarahevans the first Twitter chat was held Monday , November 24, 2008. While it has âjournalismâ in the name , it skews heavily toward public . relations A Twitter chat essentially is a regularly held chat , usually weekly , on a specific topic⦠tied together through a hashtag . A group of Twitterers gather and talk about whatever⦠blogging , book editing , . etc Moments after
When we started this team, three years ago, most people we talked to hadn’t heard of Facebook or Twitter and associated MySpace, assuming they’d heard of it, with something kids do.
Some people knew LinkedIn and that often helped get the wheels turning about social and how it could benefit work.
It was a lot like 1997 [...]: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 2, 2010 Creation or aggregation : What is the real added value of todayâ s journalism By Robert Niles 7 comments Archive Link The following is an edited transcript of remarks I delivered last week at the WAN-IFRA Future of News Media and Journalism Conference in . Singapore Generating original content , or aggregating someone else's If you're running or starting up a news website , which model should you choose Actually , this is a trick question . because they're the same thing . In journalism , our original content always has been the product of . aggregation Let's take a look at the newspapers where I've worked over my career , from a small daily in Bloomington , Indiana to the Los Angeles Times . Each paper has published reports from wire services , from feature syndicates , from freelancers . even letters and op-ed articles from readers . That's aggregation . Even the
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On a web conference today, I caught a glimpse of someone’s inbox.
Protip: Close your email and IM if you’re presenting something. Unless of course, you want me to see your email folders, including the ones where you store “house” email.
But I digress. The person’s inbox had probably 40 folders, [...]
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I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software.
I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software.
Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of these mutually-exclusive conclusions.
On the [...]
Not long ago, Twitter announced its inaugural developer conference, whimsically called Chirp, would be held April 14 and 15, 2010 in San Francisco.
It may or may not be coincidental that the dates are one week earlier than Facebook’s annual f8 developer conference.
Anyway, Chirp looks to be an outstanding opportunity to learn more about Twitter, the [...]
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Last week’s kerfuffle about foursquare and how it exposes you to would-be burglars was hilarious to me.
More accurately, it’s Twitter that poses the risk, which isn’t a new problem. Foursquare encourages people to socialize their game-playing by adding friends from Facebook, Twitter and GMail. As with any [...]
I did some printer support over the weekend, which reminded me of the whole “facebook login” fiasco from earlier in the month.
Long story short, the person I was supporting couldn’t get Windows to recognize the printer.
The PC tower was under a desk and in a difficult spot to reach. The area was so snug that [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 18, 2010 Top 10 reasons why you ought to apply for the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link You have until midnight Friday Pacific Time on February 19, 2010 to apply for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Why should you apply Because we'll be bringing 20 journalists to Los Angeles in May for an intense , one-week camp in entrepreneurial thinking , and showing you how that applies to publishing a news website . By the end of the camp , you'll not only have been trained in the right mindset to run a successful publishing business , you'll have materials in hand with which you can pursue the funding that you'll need to continue your journalism . career Oh , and we won't charge you a thing for this : It's free . We'll even kick in 250 to help get you to LA . You need more reasons to drop whatever you were planning to do today , and apply Here are :
Halfway through a blah post about Google Buzz, I ran across this post about the correlation between Facebook relationship status and happiness.
I’ve largely ignored Facebook for a while now, and it didn’t occur to me until Pete Warden released his initial observations about Facebook and US geography how much statistical gold exists there.
Turns out Facebook [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 11, 2010 How the Vancouver Winter Olympics and other big stories can help a hyperlocal news website grow By Dave Chase 2 comments Archive Link Hyperlocal sites , by definition , are focused on their local community . However , periodically something happens in your community that has national significance that can draw some broader attention . More important is how it can accelerate your reach within your community by exposing your site to a new set of local people . This latter form of traffic is the most . sustainable The reality for most communities is that their neighborhoods either never received coverage from local media or that coverage has pulled back as budgets have tightened . This has left a big opportunity for hyperlocal sites to get a marketing boost like no other . I will share how that has worked tremendously well for my local site www.sunvalleyonline.com so that
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots.
A post from Signal vs. Noise titled “Computers shouldn’t make people feel like idiots“ has been open in a tab for nearly a week.
Reading it, and other iPad coverage, has me torn. I know that I exist in a world populated by geeks, and I know that many outside this [...]
iTasveer, one of my favorite online photo printing service has recently launched a wonderful facebook application called Mast Calendar. This application lets you create a personalized calendar with your photographs and lets you put nearly 20+ b’day events. Once you’ve chosen the photographs and events – you can either download a high resolution calendar [...]