The Times paywall is going to work … for now …
[update : I've provided extensive feedback to @davidcushman's comments below, further elaborating on the ideas in this post]
When you click an article on The Times site you get confronted with the paywall
The Times paywall is now active, I read this morning in a short piece on The Next Web. You know what? I’m going to make a bold prediction about this (which I always love doing). Contrary to what many Internet experts say, this is going to work.
Steve Jobs says a few important things about making successful innovations at D8
The summary of the interview with Steve Jobs at All Things Digital D8.
I just watched this 5 minute summary clip of an interview with Steve Jobs at D8, the eighth annual conference of All Things Digital, see also this post at TheNextWeb. In my opinion almost everything he says in this clip touches upon important principals of successful innovation and also relates to ‘the secrets’ of Apple’s success. Below I summarized what these principles are according to me and what Jobs said related to them.
We shouldn’t need @Soluto, what we need is a better OS where apps can’t drain resources by design
I find it ridiculous that, after so many iterations of the Microsoft Windows operating system, we still need a service like Soluto (which won the TechCrunch disrupt 2010 competition) to be able to have a proper personal computing experience and to force the industry to change in the future. No offense intended here, Soluto just tries to lift the burden of all these Microsoft Windows users that have to use their ever slowing and destabilizing machines. However, in my opinion, it’s because of the bad design of Microsoft Windows OS(s) that 3rd party apps can claim resources in the way they do and interfere with stable operation of the system.
Why the Apple iPad is a computing revolution in disguise
After the introduction of the Apple iPad most of the blogosphere filled with critiques and rants, specked here and there with some praising stories. I must admit that my very first reaction was also skeptical, but when I took time to view Jobs’s iPad presentation (‘the day after’) and thought a little bit about what this product was about, my opinion started to shift, … big time!
As usual, this post is quite long, so I listed URLs to the sections below for easy navigation:
Smartphones 2010-2011: It’s not only about Apple vs. Google, but also about relevance shifting away from Microsoft and Nokia
Robert Scoble wrote an interesting post, asking: ‘Is the mobile tech press wrong in positioning Apple vs. Google?’ He poses that, although, Apple and Google are competitors it’s currently actually about the divide between Web-and-app-friendly devices and non-web-and-app-friendly devices. His thesis is that companies that make web-and-app friendly devices ‘will steal market share from those that do not and a confused strategy, like Nokia has, is going to look mixed because consumers will go with a company like Apple or Google who has said “we’re all in.”’
I think Scoble could be right that there is a divide. On one side there are the innovative Google (Nexus One + Droid) smartphones and Apple iPhone, providing very user friendly access to-, and development for web browsing and applications, and on the other side the other smart phones out there, notably Nokia, Windows Mobile OS based and RIM (Research-In-Motion) BlackBerry phones, that perform less in this respect.
However, looking at numbers calculated by AppleInsider.com on smart phone market shares (see chart below), I don’t think it will be a matter of Apple and Google stealing market share from other parties, but of low-growth or loss of market share in a growing market: in other words, other parties will lose some of their relevance. With this conclusion, the mobile tech press isn’t wrong in positioning Apple vs. Google, but some might indeed forget the shift in relevance from Nokia, Microsoft, and to lesser extent RIM BlackBerry, to Apple and Google.
The Synaptic Web ‘upgrad[es] the web to a machine learning stage’
Fantastic image, published at Wired.com, of connected neurons in the cereberal cortex that are involved in higher-thought processes and perception of different senses. Image: Tamily A. Weissman
A few days ago I asked @preona, in a short post on my Three Tweets blog, if he could explain to his readers why he thinks the synaptic web paradigm is so focused on the user.
@preona replied with a post: ‘Why we think Synaptic Web will focus on the user.’
From Freddy’s Tweet overflow blog …
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