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Clayton Christensen Presentation on Disruption(gartner.mediasite.com)
20 points by joebadmo 15y ago|2 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree. Personally, I don't expect great photos from my phone, but I am really excited about how fast the camera is. (This was one of the things that made me really envious of the iPhone 4S.) Because if I want to take really nice photos,
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's debatable. I'm an Android fanboy, but the retina display is a year old and is still debatably the best screen out there. 720p is awesome, but pixel density is still not as high as the retina display, and the sub-pixel density is defi
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Completely agree that it's a massive improvement over Tron-inspired Honeycomb. Also agree that the UX looks massively improved as well. It always felt like features and ugly shininess took precedence over UX before, but it seems like Duarte
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Well, the original Droid was kind of an almost-flagship. It was marketed in conjunction with Google, and it had an unlocked bootloader, unlike subsequent Verizon Motorola Droids. It also wasn't skinned with MotoBlur. I've owned both the ori
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Generally these Google flagship devices have little to no bloatware (depending on what you consider bloatware), and one of the more interesting parts of the ICS announcement was that you can easily disable apps (which stops from running and
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's encouraging to me that Google takes users' concerns into consideration. I prefer this dialogue to Google just 'getting things right in the first place' in fact. This is one example. Gmail's redesign is another. And I'm sure more change
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Google Reader adds share button (public +1 no longer necessary)(plus.google.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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Rogers offering a la carte Cable TV in Canada(theverge.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Google also seems like one of the most long-term thinking companies in existence. Self-driving cars come to mind.
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Google Buys Katango To Solve The Labor Of G+ Circles(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's fair, but I don't know who has the intersection of Google's clout and incentives. Google's the only powerful force that has the incentive to fight for an open web, as opposed to a collection of closed silos. My not-so-secret hope is
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I remember those times, too, but MySpace never had the sheer ubiquity that Facebook has. It feel qualitatively different to me, in that I never felt like I was out of the loop or unable to communicate with certain people or excluded from ce
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think that makes you not really a regular user. Don't get me wrong, I think it's fine that Google is providing tools for self-promotion and features for brands. But it seems to me that the best feature for brands is a lot of engaged users
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It seems clear to me that the author meant "always" wrt the inception of G+, not the inception of search. So your snark, while amusing, is misplaced.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Maybe you're right. But it's not just Pages. It's also stuff like Ripples, +1 integration with web sites, badgets, etc. These rollouts all seem to point to a prioritization of brands over users. I'm still hopeful, though.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The problem with your assertion is that a lot of technically inclined people know a lot of other people and want to interact with them socially. It's Facebook's most powerful and most difficult to overcome feature: all your friends are alre
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I really like G+, but I'm a bit dismayed that they seem to be addressing the concerns of brands over those of users. The nymwars was a prominent example, of course, and even the resulting promise of pseudonymity features have yet to surface
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Slightly tangential, but I recently compared this ad to Facebook's intro video to the Timeline in a blog post: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/10755504272/intimacy-and-perf... What's interesting here is that Google seems to understand what
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We Are What We Choose(blog.byjoemoon.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that the graph is an incorrect representation. Because people don't think that way. But that doesn't mean organic, activity/interest based communities are the only ones possible, or even desirable. I want a way to be able to communi
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You make a fair point. Some people do care about brands, and would like to interact with them. But I don't think this is the primary or even a very important part of social networking. My point was that TFA far overestimates their importanc
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I will never understand how Farhad Manjoo became an authority on anything. I was an early Google+ skeptic. Shortly after it launched, I likened its main feature—the ability to divide your friends into discrete groups, called Circles—to the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hm. If we're blue-skying, I'd say the ergonomic issues of a direct manipulation UI are still very bad. I prefer an indirect manipulation paradigm for two reasons: 1. Ergonomics; 2. Abstraction. I think the abstraction that digital media giv
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Me from another thread: I'm not sure that the benefit of making things intuitive or easy to learn is worth the cost of limiting the technology. Calculus is less intuitive, harder to learn than arithmetic, but it's much more powerful. Can't
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm not sure that the benefit of making things intuitive or easy to learn is worth the cost of limiting the technology. Calculus is less intuitive, harder to learn than arithmetic, but it's much more powerful. Can't we reboot our interfaces
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Insightful. It seems to me that the touchscreen, because of the reconfigurability you point out, is the lowest common denominator of input. It makes a lot of sense for a highly portable device, because you can pack many configurations into
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This was similar to my own reaction [0], that these concept videos don't look far enough forward. And, maybe because I'm just a born contrarian, as the world moves toward touch-based direct-manipulation paradigms, I've personally been mov
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"...I suspect very few end users to pick their Android based on the custom skin it comes with..." I, for one, have decided to only go with Google flagships from now on. So, in a sense, I pick them based on the custom skin it comes with: van
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Amazon's running an ad in which people use their smartphones to take photos of things, scan barcodes, and search to wishlist/buy things on Amazon. There's even a scene in which a guy in a brick and mortar store puts a package of diapers ba

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