Monthly Archives: August 2009

Mark Cuban on the non-value of aggregator traffic

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Mark Cuban on why traffic from aggregation sites is worth diddly-squat to publishers: The value of the traffic sent by most sites is minimal at best. Lets look at your best friend Michael Wolf’s site Newser.com.  According to Quantcast he gets … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-08-08

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Murdoch On Leading The Charging Charge | paidContent:UK

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Canaries in the Windows 7 coalmine?

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Like myself, Joe Wilcox likes Windows 7. In fact, Joe went as far as to conduct bit of an experiment by swapping his wife and daughter’s Macs for Windows 7-based PCs. The results, though, have no been promising. As Joe … Continue reading →

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Eroding the link economy

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Amidst Alan Patrick’s piece on the “yoof driven off Facebook” story, he notes this: (By the way, the Grauniad piece doesn’t link to the Ofcom piece, but does self-link to other Grauniad pieces on the obscure terms “Social Networking”, “Internet” … Continue reading →

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How Microsoft is snatching Windows 7 defeat from the jaws of victory

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

I made the point with rather more swearing on Twitter yesterday, but Joe Wilcox says it without the bad language: “After commandingly executing Windows 7 development, Microsoft had run off the track right before the finish line. Suddenly, Windows 7 … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-08-06

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Red Sweater Blog – App Store Mercenaries As I Twittered, I'm beginning to believe that Apple wants to drive developers away from the iPhone. (tags: iphone review danieljalkut) iPhone Is NOT A Smartphone! | World Of Nokia A good rant, … Continue reading →

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Why Sony’s eReader beats the pants off the Kindle

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Sony‘s set to release some new ebook readers following on from the very-nice PRS505, and Jordan Golson at GigaOm looks at them and finds them wanting. His point is that the killer feature for ebooks is wireless. and makes some … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-08-04

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Ofcom insists mobile phone transfers be reduced to two hours | Business | guardian.co.uk About time. (tags: mobilephones uk) Amazon Needs to Make the Kindle Available Beyond Amazon.com: Report It would be kind of nice if it made it beyond … Continue reading →

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NetNewsWire is a long way from a legacy app

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Louis Gray thinks standalone feed readers are dead, including NetNewsWire “Yes, NetNewsWire is still around, and now points to Google Reader, but it’s pretty much a legacy app at this point. (In my opinion, of course) I humbly disagree. In … Continue reading →

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Got root on your Apple keyboard?

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Now this one is fun. According to ZDNet, it’s possible to hack the firmware of some Apple keyboards in order to install malware on it. Yes, on the keyboard – not the Mac. In fact, even if you wipe the … Continue reading →

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