Mar
4
The End of Clicking?
March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Check out dontclickit.it. Is this the next stage in GUI design?
Mar
3
Hedge fund to Buy Novell?
March 3, 2010 | 5 Comments
I think for once, I am very, very lucky. Like many former Novell employees I’ve held Novell stock for over five years and it’s languished at $3 — $4 for almost all of that time (apart from a brief $12 blip when SuSE was purchased).
Feb
5
Has Microsoft dropped the ball?
February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
Dick Brass is a former exec at Microsoft. He is careful to mention how well Microsoft is doing financially but in the month that Apple launched the iPad he writes about how the company has lost its way. Microsoft has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones . . .What happened? Unlike other […]
Oct
11
Latest from Spotify
October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A great post from Spotify’s boss Daniel Ek. I think that by increasing the streams to the trillions on a monthly basis that we can take big chunks of people and move them from illegal file-sharing services to legal services. Trillions!! I already experience degraded Spotify streaming performance in the evenings here in central London […]
Sep
8
Spotify’s iPhone App in Action
September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment
Spotifiy’s new iPhone app . . it’s a rockin’ and a rollin’!
Jul
29
“You lot aren’t programmers, you’re just coders”.
Jun
29
Twitter — how do you rate?
June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
According to Twitter’s Evan Weaver the average user has 126 followers: Since, on average, each user has 126 followers, it means there are 126 messages placed in the queue for each tweet. Beside that, there are times when the traffic peaks, as it was during Obama’s inauguration when it reached 300 tweets/second or >35,000 messages […]
Jun
16
Iran’s army of mutts
June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just spent a day monitoring Twitter.com’s #iranelection feed.