April 2010
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HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion →
A brilliant move by both the companies which should see HP to make a better entry into the mobile market with the ownership of the OS as well unlike the PC market. No-one makes the same mistake twice I say.
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Apple Buys Siri →
Hardly few months old Siri app has been bought by Apple to continue its stake in voice activated technology.
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The Power of the Like Button →
A beautiful execution of the use of all the new mojo from Facebook. Rightly said, this is the Age of Facebook.
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CanvasMol →
The power of HTML and CSS used in 3D rendering.
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Snap Bird - search twitter's history →
A more powerful twitter search.
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scr.im →
URL shortener service for your email. Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.
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Embracing the digital book →
@craigmod has some great business ideas around ebooks in this article. For starters and entire social network and bookstore based on reading. Yes, very plausible.
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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write...”
– Martin Fowler
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Winfo Widget - Know More! →
Like the idea, yet to try this on a real website.
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The Dueling Fiddlers →
This is exactly why started learning Violin lately.
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“Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the...”
– Paul Rand
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Cadmus →
A social media aggregator of sorts giving priority to your tweets and RSS, so that you see only what is important. The algorithm seems not so great as of now, but the idea has been there in the back of my head since Shaun Inman created Fever as a self hosted app and not a free web app.
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“We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product...”
– We finally find out why all the iPhone marketing material shows the time at 9:42. (via davidkaneda)
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Heapr.com - Search Google, Twitter, etc. super... →
Nice search engine mashup that uses Gogle, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia to give really fast search results.
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Twitter acquires Tweetie →
Frankly this was not expected . However, in hindsight the delay in launching Tweetie for iPad should have been the biggest hint.
Wonder what happens to the Mac version though.
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Stupid Fight →
In case you wanted to compare your followers with your opponents, here is the tool you would need.
The best part is the fact that “stupidity” is a measure of things like the following:
Are they using twenty exclamation marks in a row? Do they endlessly use the abbreviation ‘OMG’? Do they seem incapable of working out where their Shift key is?
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What is wrong with the idea of iAd →
I agree to the case put forward by Mark Wilson. It will deteriorate user experience. For larger screen devices like iPad, it might be tolerable, but for iPhone it is being a bit too greedy.
Also I think selling your App as Ad Free could turn out to be one of those Freemium models we see on Mac Softwares like Tweetie and NetNewsWire
Apple’s already built, shipped and more than funded the...
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“A blog is a a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies.”
– Andrew Sullivan (via @swissmiss)
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The Many Faces Of →
Gorgeous design, nasty illustration and above all brilliant idea.
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Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City - Interactive -... →
If you ever wanted to chose a career driving cabs, this infographic on NYT would be helpful.
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WatchiPad Magazine Art Direction on Vimeo (via Vimeo) A nice analysis by Brad Colboy.
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iPad Peek →
Nice concept though the screenshots are not always perfect rendering of the iPad version.
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Browse Sad →
Yet another relentless attempt to make people aware of the limitations or IE6 (as if any is needed).
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WatchFuture of Magazine: Mag+ live with Popular Science+ on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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WeTransfer - the easy way to send big files →
Sponsored Backgrounds and a nice tool to transfer files.
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SolarBeat →
Interesting Solar System based music record player.