Tech/Cool
Ditch YouMail for Google Voice
I have been a happy camper with YouMail for a while now and recently they started charging for their subscription service. I have not had the volume really needed to start paying for the transcription service and reconciled with the free plan. But Google Voice was released last week and the new features are pretty [...]
That Was Fast: Kindle, Meet the iPhone
I think this is an amazing strategy by Amazon. Buy books on the Kindle iPhone which will increase demand for Kindle book and hence demand for the device (which is way overpriced I think.. see Jon Stuart’s take on it if you don’t believe me). Short term cannibalization, leading to long term profitability.
via That Was [...]
Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior
His findings: while many people have hundreds friends on Facebook, they still only actively communicate with a small few. Or to quote the author of the article, “Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever.”
via Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior.
Feedly for Firefox
Review: Feedly for Firefox – PaulStamatiou.com
Been using feedly for a few days now.. besides a few quirks, I really enjoy the paper layout going for rss feeds. The best thing going for it is that it maintains the state with google reader as well. So I am seeing the same new posts on mobile, reader [...]
How Do You Handle “Bacn”?
Ask The Readers: How Do You Handle “Bacn”?
Interesting.. with real spam on the decline (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/11/google_spam), is “bacn” the new “spam”?
Poll Update: Desktop Word Processing Still King
Poll Update: Desktop Word Processing Still King
Great article today(with poll) about state of office/web-office tools. The interesting thing to note is that the audience is primarily early-adopter crowd, who still seem to have a huge hurdle in trying to get past the MS office suite.
I think its primarily 2 factors – feature set(includes navigation of [...]
