Category: Internet

  • FeedBurner Is Dead, And Here’s Why

    We all know Google Reader was shut down at the beginning of July. Users at first panicked. Then they (we) pleaded Google to keep Reader open. We failed. Life went on. Some users simply stopped using feed readers altogether, but I think that’s a minority. Others switched to another product. Personally I find Feedbin +…

  • Penny Pinching Online Music

    We’ve had Spotify for a while, which was, and under some aspects still is, very innovative. We have iTunes Radio, Pandora, Last.fm. We have borderline-legal services like Grooveshark. In other words, if you want to listen to music, you’ll probably find something free, or very close to free, especially if you live in the US.…

  • Quick Review: Windows SkyDrive

    In short: slow as hell and totally unreliable. I use SkyDrive just as a backup tool. I happen to have 25 GB for free (I don’t remember why), so I installed it on this very webserver and scheduled a script to dump relevant data to the SkyDrive folder for backup purposes. The script works well…

  • Samsung Is Killing Google’s Android

    About a year ago I asked myself whether Android was dead. The answer is, a year later, probably not. The trend we all can see is that Google is simply losing control over the Android ecosystem. If you ask them, they’d probably answer that control is not the point, and it’s probably not very far…

  • Tablets Are For Content Consumption – Or Are They?

    If you try researching how people use smartphones and tablets, you’ll probably come up with the following: smartphones are almost only for content consumption while on-the-go tablets are almost only for content consumption in a more static context (couch surfing, anyone?). I agree that I rarely produce content on my phone, except for communication –…