Archives for May 2007
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about what Jason’s Calacanis’s start-up, codenamed Projext X might be about.  Well, it’s just launched, a bit earlier than planned.  What did Project X turn out to be? Well, it’s officially called Mahalo… here’s my take…
What is Mahalo?
Mahalo calls itself a “human-powered search engine”.  What does that [...]
In a recent discussion on this blog, about the design of Apple laptops (I said, the design wasn’t as great as other Apple products), it was suggested by an Apple supporter that if I don’t like Apple laptops, then I probably wouldn’t like Ferraris either
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. [...]
For as long as I can remember, the state of the Java platform on Mac OS has been rather frustrating for developers (we started building desktop applications in Java on the Mac back in 1997/98). In some ways, Apple has always done a good job with Java, in that the applications ran pretty [...]
Microsoft has just claimed that one million Zunes have now been sold. Is this true? After all, as Benjamin Disraeli once said - there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics; so what does this claim actually mean?
I last wrote about Zune sales towards the end of March. [...]
Apple is enjoying spectacular success with its laptops, growing sales much faster than the laptop market as a whole. The company just posted 94 year-on-year growth in retail notebook sales. But why? What do people see in Apple laptops?
I ask because, whatever it is that people see in these laptops, I don’t [...]
Technorati, the blog search engine, has just re-invented itself. No longer focussed on blogs, Technorati wants to be a search engine for the so-called “Live Web”; searching not only blogs but also video, music, and photos. It’s a great idea; and one that could be valuable. However, I think [...]
Back in January, when iPhone was first announced, I blogged my initial reactions. At that time, I questioned whether the mobile operators and handset makers actually understood what Apple had done with iPhone. I made the point then that they probably didn’t “get it”; because if they had got it, they’d have already [...]
Robert Scoble, blogger extraordinaire, “reads” 31,000 articles written on other people’s blogs every month. Now, assuming Robert spends around 4 hours per day reading news feeds, that means he spends around 15 seconds reading each article. I think that’s called “wide, not deep.”
I wonder what value he gets from that…
Update: The avarage [...]
Today, Jonathan Schwartz has a great post about the power, and value, of free media. Rich media (audio and video) is an important part of this story on the Internet. Now that Sun is finally focussed on making Java applets work well for consumers - the new consumer version of the Java runtime is [...]
Paul Buchheit, who was employee #23 at Google, is blogging about what he sees as the benefits of Python over Java. Paul doesn’t like Java APIs - he thinks they are “amazingly bad”; and he dislikes what he believes are “Java fashions” in coding. Paul makes some valid points, but his central [...]