'Journalism' has hit a new low with this piece of drivel from Lance Ulanoff. The Death Spiral for Facebook? C'mon. Lance rehashes old news reports from a year ago, and then takes a run at elements like the newsfeed claiming that they're somehow privacy invasive.
a) You clearly don't know, use or understand Facebook Lance.
b) It also seems as if you must have gotten a failing grade in fact checking at journalism school.
It doesn't surprise me that this is on FOXNews. It's a good example of their typical factually challenged, innuendo laden horse manure. It does surprise me that this is coming from a PC Magazine editor, though. If they've sunk that low then they're in a death spiral of their own, methinks.
We had another very interactive call this morning. Of our three topics, the "death of mobile application development" was most thoroughly discussed. We were lucky enough to have William Volk, CEO of MyNumo — a mobile application developer — on the telephone. William eats, lives and breathes these issues every day. Afterward, one participant messaged me privately to say that he thought that this call was one of the best yet, based on the information learned today.
Tomorrow I’ll have special guest Karel Lukas of desktop collaboration startup Yugma on the telephone as well. Plan to join us and chat with Karel.
Welcome to a new way to promote the SquawkBox — Luca Filigheddu's Hictu!. Each morning i'll record a 1 minute preview of the day's call. You can subscribe to it via this RSS feed. And this morning's call? Today's topics: 1. The death of mobile application development. Rubicon's Michael Mace published a lengthy piece over [...]
I'm not at the point that Michael Mace has reached. Not yet. In his piece Mobile Applications, RIP, Mace sounds the death knell for the mobile applications industry. He blames it on the proliferation and splintering of platforms, and operator and distribution channel greed. He recommends vendors focus on the web, and ignore the operator. [...]
For the last few days I've been playing with Scanr on the N95. I first wrote about Scanr in October of 2006, but with the low quality camera on my BlackBerry Pearl, and the Rogers high seas pirate pricing on data, it wasn't an option. With the new 1G data plan from Rogers, and the [...]
From here it looks as if the FCC is in favour of Net Neutrality. At hearings held yesterday at the Harvard Law School, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had pointed questions for the cable industry, and opined that any traffic shaping based on content must be "conducted in an open and transparent way". Commissioner Michael J. [...]
