February 2010
9 posts
Fighting over sarcasm
A month ago, a company called SarcMark began selling a special punctuation of the same name, intended to denote Sarcasm. As some of our commenters pointed out, punctuation shouldn’t cost money, and SarcMark was charging $2 for the privilege. Now, a group called Open Sarcasm is staging a protest to crush SarcMark and replace it with an upside-down exclamation mark (¡), which text fields already...
Why Facebook is not dead (yet)
There’s a whole lot else that people do on Facebook besides comment on one another’s status messages—the biggest of which is the company’s groundbreaking third-party app platform. The biggest social game on Facebook, Zynga’s Farmville, attracts 75 million people per month. That’s nearly a fifth of the social network playing a single game. Then there are the...
Buzz proves the difference between Google and...
When I read the leaked news about Google Buzz, I was reminded of Yahoo’s effort in social networking a few months before. Yahoo Updates is an offering that integrates social networking service with Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo sites. I remember writing about Yahoo Updates then, expressing my lack of confidence in Yahoo. When Google Buzz was announced, Yahoo issued a response to highlight...
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Will Telkomsel hamstring iPhone's attempt to...
Indonesian digerati Aulia Masna wrote an interesting article at Jakarta Globe, wondering if the iPhone can challenge Blackberry’s dominance in Indonesia. Blackberry’s market penetration in Indonesia has been impressive and in contrast, the iPhone has been a very small player in the Indonesian smartphone market. As Aulia states, Telkomsel has kept iPhone price relatively high. In...
iPad and ebook readers comparison
How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide Apple iPad Amazon Kindle 2 Amazon Kindle DX Barnes & Noble Nook Sony Daily...