Design neutrality and why Google Chrome rocks
Last week, I gave Microsoft’s new browser a shake, now it’s time to look at the competition. There is a lot else to like about Google’s new browser. But this, this is my favorite feature:
Why does (almost) every product google touches, feel so refreshingly natural to use? A significant part of their competitive advantage comes [...]
Do androids dream of electric pants?
Thanks to Open Gardens for pointing this out. Two good vids on youtube demoing googles new mobile phone operating system/software platform called android.
The first video features Sergey Brin himself introducing some of the things android can do. (which are pretty cool)
As for the second video, I don’t even know what’s more interesting, the fact you [...]
Social Network Portability Has Arrived
Google has launched it’s Open API for Social Networks. It’s about time someone did this.
This explains why the goog wanted so badly a piece of facebook. And why Microsoft would pay at any wacky valuation for FB to keep it out of teh google. Facebook is the singular major social network not participating in google’s [...]
The G-phone stirreth
Google said to be shipping 50,000 Gphones by year’s end. A UBS analyst is rumored to have information that HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, will ship about 50,000 cell phones made for Google by the end of
the year. “These initial phones are not going to be for sale, says Benjamin Schachter, at UBS. “These are [...]
Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
