Category Archives: Web/Tech

Goodbye, JKOnTheRun

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Warner Crocker on the demise of JKOnTheRun: jkOnTheRun was one of the first mobile tech blogs I followed and JK was one of the guys who I always turned to hear or read his opinion. I still do. Whether it … Continue reading →

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Google’s “proprietary information” (or, what makes Google money stays in Google)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

From Steven Levy’s marvellous new book on Google: “[Google] was becoming less a research project than an Internet start-up run from a private university. Page and Brin’s reluctance fo write a paper about their work had become notorious in the … Continue reading →

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Rugby AND video games. What’s not to like?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

I love rugby, and I love video games. So you can see why this might appeal…  

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Google, Larry, And Social

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Scoble gets it: “In yesterday’s Gillmor Gang I argue that Google and Facebook have completely different cultures. Google is very much about finding information while Facebook is all about helping people “waste time.” Think about why Zynga, a company that … Continue reading →

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad compared

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

How will the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 compare to the iPad 2? Seth Weintraub at Fortune highlights four points where the Samsung scores well compared to the iPad: Runs on HSPA+ ’4G’ networks at up to 21Mbps without sending it … Continue reading →

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If you want to know the core of the Twitter API changes, this is it

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

That clever Matthew Somerville character has done a handy page visually showing the differences between the old and new Twitter API terms. There are lots of them, but I think the most important one is short: “We want to empower … Continue reading →

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Why “evil” is the most over-used word in tech

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

One of the things which you often hear reading tech blogs, and particularly the comments, is that such-and-such a company is “evil”. What this usually means isn’t that they’re deliberately employing children or forcing workers to work in polluted factories … Continue reading →

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The Nokia/Microsoft Elephant Tango

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Alan Patrick ponders if Nokia and Microsoft ever be Mobile?: “The reason the JV is happening is that the assets being brought to the table are not so much incredible but non-credible. The two companies have completeley dropped the ball in … Continue reading →

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Why free software will remain a niche, in a nutshell

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Steven J Vaughan-Nichols on The new Debian Linux: Irrelevant? | ZDNet: “For example, the default Debian distributions won’t include any proprietary firmware binary files… If, as is likely if you’re using a laptop or a PC with high-end graphics and you find … Continue reading →

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What the Goldman Sachs Facebook investment really means

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Ian Betteridge

Alan Patrick sees through the hype around Facebook being “worth $50 billion”: “The one sure thing you can tell from this is that Facebook clearly can’t self fund itself enough for what it needs, even on $2bn turnover a year.” … Continue reading →

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