Windows Phone 7 Destroys The iPhone (Well, Its Foursquare App Does)

Windows Phone 7 Destroys The iPhone (Well, Its Foursquare App Does): "As shown off by Windows Phone Senior Product Manager Anand Iyer on his blog this morning, Foursquare for Windows Phone 7 looks amazing. In fact, it looks much nicer than the recently-revamped version of Foursquare for the iPhone. As you can see in the screenshots, the app has a simple elegance to it, with most of the app being made of different color text against a black background (just about the opposite of Foursquare for the iPhone). Also nice is the maps (Bing, naturally) implementation on the check-in pages, venue pages, and individuals’ profiles"

How Apple Is Dogfighting To Control Your News - ipad - Gawker

How Apple Is Dogfighting To Control Your News - ipad - Gawker: "In short, there's a quiet dogfight going on between Apple and its prospective media partners over the future of the iPad. It's not open warfare; it's the sort of quiet maneuvering you'd expect from parties who, on the one hand, need to cooperate but, on the other, can't stop competing. We've outlined some of the maneuvering below:"

Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy

"Yahoo’s strategy is focused around integrations with already-popular social services, while Google is focused around building and acquiring its own social media powerhouses." - Ben Parr

See full article from http://mashable.com/2010/03/08/yahoo-google-social-colum/

Windows Phone 7 advertisement

Meet Anna... - The Windows Phone 7 advertisement

Looks like a video version of user story.


And people it looks too similar with this Palm Web OS advertisement which is 2 days earlier than it.

Tim Bray joined Android team rather than Apple, why?

ongoing by Tim Bray � Now A No-Evil Zone: "Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other."

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been: "Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com"

Apple sells 50,000 iPads in two hours - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

UPDATES FROM CASTROLL:
2:28 p.m. "We're now at about 74k in 4 1/2 hours."
4:21 p.m. "We're at about 91k in six hours."

Apple sells 50,000 iPads in two hours - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech: "'51,000 orders in two hours,' announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He's an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member who, with the blogger-analyst who calls himself deagol, has been monitoring the spreadsheet.

His estimate — which is adjusted for the roughly 15,000 online orders that come in a typical day — jibes with a 20,000-per-hour figure published earlier by Silicon Alley Insider. That number was based on two sales made within 30 minutes that were 10,000 order numbers apart. Rumors from the supply chain suggest that Apple may have as few as 300,000 units available for sale on April 3.

Which iPads are people buying?


The 48 orders (for 54 iPads) reported to AAPL Sanity by Friday afternoon break down as follows:

Wi-Fi-only: 37 units (69%)
Wi-Fi 3G: 17 (31%)
16 GB: 21 (40%)
32 GB: 15 (28%)
64 GB: 18 (33%)"

It’s time for Microsoft to turn itself upside-down

It’s time for Microsoft to turn itself upside-down: "Microsoft is simply too big and too inflexible to really push truly interesting products out the door as fast as they need to. This isn’t any sort of big revelation, but it’s a problem with a solution: turn the company upside-down. Give the people with infinite power to crush and elevate projects direct access to the “garages” (or rather, give the garages access to them) and let them rule their arbitrary way."

Feedly – RSS Reinvented!

Feedly – RSS Reinvented!: "I tried Google Reader but it reminded me too much of all the other RSS readers and clients out there except I accessed it through a web browser rather than a desktop application. Don’t get me wrong, Google Reader has some really wonderful features that make RSS easier to deal with but it still didn’t present it to me in such a way that I enjoyed reading, it was still a chore and at the end of the day one that required management."

Google Apps Marketplace: Instantly Connect Your App To 25 Million Users, Profit.

Google Apps Marketplace: Instantly Connect Your App To 25 Million Users, Profit.: "Tonight, Google has unveiled their Google Apps Marketplace. This is an app store for enterprise apps in the cloud. Using a set of APIs, these third-party apps can deeply integrate their products within Google Apps, which already some 25 million people are using. And that also includes over 2 million businesses ranging from startups, to small businesses, to Fortune 500 companies."

The Slatest: Slate's new aggregation service tries to keep up with the news cycle

“The Slatest” from slate.com is a idea similar with cheat sheet in Daily Beast.
http://slatest.slate.com/
It presents a list of summaries of 12 top news stories, including blog entries, magazine features, and web videos, entitled the Slate Dozen.
This is published at 7am, noon and 5pm US east coast time.

Quoted from editorsweblog.org,
“In the fact that the speed of the news cycle has increased dramatically in recent years,
Slate has dispensed with its Today's Papers morning aggregation service based on print newspapers,
replacing it with updates three times a day called The Slatest. “

Universal Search Takes Off: Kosmix Posts 419% Growth In March

Universal Search Takes Off: Kosmix Posts 419% Growth In March: "Kosmix, the universal search engine that dynamically generates guides to search queries using dozens of different content sources, is quickly gaining momentum. According to today’s latest comScore numbers, the site has jumped up to 3.2 million monthly uniques in March – a 419% growth since February."

Mediagazer: Techmeme’s Editors Will Help Us Watch The Death Of Print; Find What’s Next

Mediagazer: Techmeme’s Editors Will Help Us Watch The Death Of Print; Find What’s Next: "Today, the people behind Techmeme are rolling out Mediagazer, a new site focused on aggregating and serving up all the best media news from around the web. The timing seems perfect given the level of interest surrounding the slow but interesting death of print media. And the interest around exciting new devices like the iPad, which may or may not reinvigorate the industry."

The Slow-Mo Secrets of the iPad

The Slow-Mo Secrets of the iPad: "In all honesty, these glitches are quite funny and odd and, sadly, I suspect someone at their agency is about to be fired this morning."

Who Wants an iPad? The Young, the Social & the Pop-Culture Addicts

Who Wants an iPad? The Young, the Social & the Pop-Culture Addicts: "Social media data company Rapleaf recently investigated the profiles of users who 'fanned' the iPad on Facebook in order to get a better sense of the type of users who are interested in Apple's upcoming slate device. After analyzing the top three Facebook pages and their respective fanbases, Rapleaf discovered that there were some common themes among these users. The prospective iPad buyers on Facebook are young - much younger than the overall Facebook population, in fact. They're also fairly social, with nearly a third of the fans having over 300 friends. And finally, iPad fans are also very interested in other pop culture activities and themes including various celebs, brands and internet memes."

Cascaad Personalizes Your News Stream In Real Time, Raises Funding

Cascaad Personalizes Your News Stream In Real Time, Raises Funding: "Cascaad, which is billed both as an ‘awareness engine’ and a ’smart social media browser’ by the Italian startup behind the service, aims to make the realtime streams you tap into more about you."

Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) -- Engadget

It's a good device to do mockup review and design journals. I can't wait. (if the fluent interface keeps the same when launch)

Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) -- Engadget: "We're told Courier will function as a 'digital journal,' and it's designed to be seriously portable: it's under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed."

Nowness.com get LV more than 0.3 million subscribers. (Mr.6)

LV's latest website - Nowness.

Rather than any typical branding site, it focuses on the daily "high-level" stories and it's a "blog".

現在還開部落格？Nowness.com為「LV」快速累積30萬訂閱戶 (Mr. 6)

上星期LV宣布開了一個新網站叫「Nowness.com」（其他文章請見這裡、這裡）。雖然LV官方是表示「Nownews.com」乃一本「日出刊」的電子雜誌，但由於它每天只出一篇故事，所以應該算做是「部落格」的一種。它的方向就是每天找到一個可能影響現代藝術、全球時尚的故事、照片、或影片，每天不多，就一個。新聞稿是說，這一個網站想創造一個「新體驗」(new experience)，主要想表達LV這個品牌除了高檔之外，她特別的創意、創新、以及對新流行的熱情！

也就是說，掛著LV旗號，這個網站是一定要維持高檔的感覺！但，要如何在「死死的高檔」之外，再加很多創新？

Nowness.com找來藝術，而且講求到連這些藝術作品本身的故事一定也要和「高檔」有關係，一定不是隨便一件藝術品；許多高階品牌可能打的公益牌、鄉土牌、全球融合等等可能都不會出現在這裡，它走的是「偏、冷、酷」的藝術。對LV的目標客戶來說，他們要的不只是貴，而是「別人拿不到」，所以這些故事，第一點就是要「別人都不知道的」，第二點則是「裡面也是很有品味的製作」的， Nowness的製作團隊據說是跨國的，分別去找素材、執行、拍攝……上周開站的第一天的文章，Nowness就找來了全球知名的髮型設計師Sam McKnight，為知名模特兒Lily Donaldson做一頭很高的頭髮，然後整段過程以「Phantom HD GOLD camera」超高檔攝像機來拍攝，你可以感覺到，這整個故事就是要透露出一種非常高檔的感覺，竟然能在創意中也呈現這樣的味道真是不簡單。然後，在今天的這篇文章，則找來Viviane Sassen，她是知名時尚攝影師，但這次卻秀出Viviane到非洲的坦尚尼亞所拍攝的一系列「Moshi」相片，這系列都是非洲黑人頭上有一環「光」，解釋這是要呈現非洲人的動感及這些神秘的民俗背後所代表的靈魂；她說，在非洲的晚上，真的是完全的黑暗，在拍攝的過程她時時在做光的實驗……。

10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online

10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online: "Unless you are a creative agency, most small businesses don’t have the luxury of having an in-house designer. There are literally thousands of freelance designers and design agencies out there that can fill various niches and services, but finding someone in your price range – and if locale is important, in your area – can be difficult.

Fortunately, there are some great online resources that can take the sting out of searching for a designer. Here are some of my favorites:"

Online drinking parties for younger Japanese

Online drinking parties for younger Japanese: "One way to get around this but still enjoy drinking in groups is to go online. Apparently net nomikai are gaining in popularity, according to reports by J-Cast and others. All you need is a web cam, Skype and a pair of headphones and mic. There is no boss, no seating arrangements — and even no geographical limitations! Obviously it’s a lot cheaper than boozing in an izakaya too, which might appeal to the recession-minded younger drinkers who can’t rely on company expenses."

News Has “Become a Social Experience”: Pew – GigaOM

News Has “Become a Social Experience”: Pew – GigaOM: "The rise of social media like social networking sites and blogs has helped the news become a social experience for consumers; people use their social networks and social networking technology to filter, assess, and react to news. They also use traditional email and other tools to swap stories and comment on them."