Technovia on Facebook
If I’ve set this up right, you should now be able to find Technovia on Facebook. Yeah, I know the logo’s rubbish, but I haven’t had time to do a new one yet. Come along, Like it, and all that …...
View ArticleByword updated with Markdown support
Now this is really rather fine. Byword, which is my weapon of choice when it comes to writing pretty much everything, has been updated with support for Markdown syntax. If Markdown doesn’t mean...
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Is $40m a fair price for Tweetdeck?
Alan Patrick thinks not: Is it a fair price – no, of course not, its a Bubblenomics business case. In any “normal” economy, paying $40m for a zero-revenue feature that uses your own platform to...
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On anonymity
The launch of Google+ has started a huge debate over the role of anonymity on the Internet. But what I see again and again in the debate about this is two massive straw men: “Anonymity is essential so...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with RSS readers?
Dave Winer should know: If you miss five days of reading the news because you were on vacation (good for you!) the newspaper you read the first day back isn’t five times as thick as the normal day’s...
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Why Don Norman is right about Google. And it’s no big deal
In Don Norman’s talk at dConstruct, he said something that I’ve been saying for a long time: “They have lots of people, lots of servers, they have Android, they have Google Docs, they just bought...
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A thing that I’m loving today: Retro Games Blinds
How can anyone not love this: a set of blinds with designs based on retro game stuff, like Pacman and Space Invaders. Just the thing for your retro gaming den. You do have a retro gaming den, right?...
View ArticleI too will be Tabletized
Tabletized: Then I went into the Apple store and tried out the iPad mini, just for yuks. I don’t know what kind of gas they were pumping into the store, but whatever it is has the same effect on my...
View ArticleMicrosoft-Intel Push to Rival Apple in Tablets Sputtering
Microsoft-Intel Push to Rival Apple in Tablets Sputtering – Bloomberg: “Early demand for Microsoft’s first computer, the Surface tablet, seems ‘disappointing,’ said Craig Berger, an analyst at FBR...
View ArticleIn which I predict Nicholas Carlson’s next headline
Nicholas Carlson, Monday: “Google Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It’s Working” Nicholas Carlson, today: “Apple Is Blasting A Multi-Billion Dollar Hole In Samsung’s Business” Nicholas...
View ArticleEmotion and technology
We are an opinionated age. We obsess over it. Who’s opinions you follow define who you are and – that perilous belonging – what tribe you are a part of. We defend our own, and attack those who...
View ArticleLeaving Redwood
It’s been a fun ride, but I’m leaving the sunny climbs of Redwood. This Friday will be my last day in the rather glorious St Martin’s Place offices. I came to Redwood to do a single print project for...
View Article“It’s great when you’re straight, yeah”– How Straight Pride UK attempted to...
Editor’s note: This post was originally written by Oliver Hotham on his blog, after he’d emailed a set of questions to a group calling themselves “Straight Pride UK“. After he’d posted his article,...
View ArticleApple’s obsession with thin and light
Jason Perlow doesn't understand Apple's “obsession” with thin and light: It's not like the iPad 4 was a heavy device to begin with. The previous generation weighed 662 grams, the iPad Air weighs just...
View ArticleYour New Quote Title
“Had Microsoft brought out a version of MS Office for iOS 7 within a year of the iPad being on the market, it would have been a big success and serious money maker for them. Now it is too late. You...
View ArticleOn the demise of “Angry Mac Bastards”
I’m not surprised that Angry Mac Bastards ended the way it did. Sooner or later, the show was bound to pick on the wrong target and ratchet things up to way beyond the point of no return. I should say...
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John Gruber on the relish with which tech journalism pours scorn on stuff: There’s a nihilistic streak in tech journalism that I just don’t see in other fields. Sports, movies, cars, wristwatches,...
View ArticleThe Information on Apple’s iWatch
Jessica Lessin has a nice little scoop on the putative Apple iWatch Apple appears to have run into some challenges with the screen technology, according to two people close to the company. Toward the...
View ArticleThe iPhone 5c is not doing worse than the iPHone 4S… probably
Ina Fried, reporting on a survey of iPhone users which apparently shows the iPhone 5c doing worse than the equivalent model in the range did last year, the iPhone 4S: The iPhone 5s accounted for 59...
View ArticleRepeat after me: Chrome is the platform, Android (and iOS) is just the host
I’ve been saying for some time that Google’s longer-term plans for application development all hinged around Chrome. Native Android apps are silos: although Google has built tools which allow...
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