Paying Your Bills: The Technological Divide in Tech Blogging

Jun 12, 2008 3 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

I between Steven Hodson’s post from this morning about (barley) eing able to pay his bills to stay online and my own thoughts (and the subsequent discussion about them) yesterday about whether a solo blogger can make a living out of doing this in the tech blogosphere, I started thinking about how privileged most of [...]

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Quo Vadis Blogosphere?

Jun 11, 2008 22 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

Sometimes I like to take a step (or two) back from it all and go over my old posts and try to see what the general trends are that I’ve been writing about lately. I know we do a lot of navael gazing in the tech blogosphere and maybe more so than in other blogging [...]

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Apple and AT&T Need to Start Communicating – Fast!

Jun 11, 2008 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Today’s iPhone rumor of the day… hey… wait… I thought we were done with rumors after Monday’s keynote… [Update: turns out this was a rumor indeed and completely false – however, the point here is that the missing communication from both companies is encouraging these negative rumors] Well – today’s iPhone rumor, according to this [...]

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Hyper-Specialists and the Blogosphere

Jun 11, 2008 2 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

Great post by Steve Spalding about specialization and the Internet today: The old adage goes that a Jack of all trades is a master of none. This is mostly true, but it’s equally important to note that if you plan on being a Jack of one trade, you better know for a fact that your [...]

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Plurk is joining the API game – with some help from their friends

Jun 10, 2008 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

The Inquisitr reports tonight that Twitter challenger Plurk is going to release an API tomorrow: A Plurk API will allow third party application development, a key step in taking Plurk to a broader audience. It will also mean the development of apps that display Plurk Twitter style (or even Plurk Mobile style), giving Plurk a [...]

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What a surprise: Women like smartphones, too

Jun 10, 2008 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

Maybe the New York Times is still stuck a little bit behind the times, but why exactly is it news that women are now starting to be more interested in smartphones? Does the New York Times assume that women are not interested in having a decent browsing experience on their phones? Keeping in touch with [...]

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iPhone 3G – Too Many Unanswered Question: SMS? Upgrades? Activation? Price?

Jun 10, 2008 17 Comments by Frederic Lardinois

I wonder if AT&T and Apple maybe haven’t quite worked out the kinks in this new system yet, or if this is simply an example of bad communication, but the information we got about the new iPhone at yesterday’s WWDC keynote left us with more questions than answers. Here are some questions I have: Upgrades [...]

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iPhone only available in stores? Expect some long lines

Jun 09, 2008 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

I’ve been reading the coverage of the iPhone 3G, and as I was browsing the Apple site and reading the AT&T press release, I noticed that there was no mention of any online sales (but then, why am I surprised, I already predicted this yesterday…) If AT&T is going to subsidize the phone, then they [...]

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Twitter Survives Stevenote – But FriendFeed was the Place To Be

Jun 09, 2008 Comments Off by Frederic Lardinois

I wrote a bit about my expectations for the Apple keynote yesterday (and I wasn’t too far off in my predictions). At the same time, though, I was also really interested how both Twitter and FriendFeed would hold up to what must have been a massive demand of geeks scouring for information during those two [...]

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Apple Keynote Predictions

Jun 09, 2008 1 Comment by Frederic Lardinois

I have a horrible record when it comes to my predictions for Steve Jobs’ keynotes. As I’m not an Apple faithful, I’m not quite as plugged into the Mac world as some of my friends (though fully intend to buy an iPhone 2 once it’s available). However, I have been following the coverage/rumors about tomorrow’s/today’s [...]

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