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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The New Gmail Compose Window: I Like It

I just tried it and I like it. Made me wonder why Gmail has not had this all along. With the old way when you were composing a new message you were cut off from the inbox. You could not multi-task. That was weird, no?

Vimeo, Circa, Instapaper All Look Good

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But she does not have the money for Pinterest. She gave it away.

I am not that sure about Quora. It might be too expensive.

Vimeo would be a must in my book, and Circa would be a great foray into mobile.

I don't think Path is for sale.

Flipboard and Circa are both interesting. News is a major consumption item on mobile, just like on the web.

"Search is a core daily habit for all of us and a fundamental user behavior, the top priority for Yahoo," she said. "We'll focus on reshaping Search, driving smart distribution deals and making organic investments to grow our market share. There's a clear upside potential here, and it's time now to execute against it...... Mayer will likely be courting search start-ups that can beef up Yahoo's algorithmic chops in the ad-tech space."

When Mayer takes on Page on search, sparks will fly.

She has a better chance of competing with Google in the ad space than search. A number two position in search is pretty good too.

I am not familiar with Criteo, but if it is like Google AdWords, that would be swell.

A Roadmap of Yahoo's (Potential) Acquisition Targets

Apple: Challenged

Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes

And not just by Google. I think by now Microsoft also has its shit together. It is war now.

Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10.

Google's New Line Of Nexus Devices Challenge Apple On All Fronts

Nexus 4 At $299: Really?

$299 competes with $600, handsomely so. For the longest time I have wondered, if Android is free, why are Android phones the same price as iPhones?

Nexus 4

Now only if the Nexus 4 could show up on MetroPCS and Republic Wireless.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Google Now

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Google is never far behind.

Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead

Google has ambitions to go well beyond what Siri has shown so far. ..... Google Now doesn't have a pretend personality like Apple's sassy assistant, instead just appearing as a familiar search box. But just like Siri, it can take voice commands ..... combines the constant stream of data a smartphone collects on its owner with clues about the person's life that Google can sift from Web searches and e-mails to guess what he or she would ask it for next. ..... Virtual index cards appear offering information it thinks you need to know at a particular time. ..... the intimacy of people's relationships with their smartphones makes Android one of the best places to take that to an extreme—by pulling together everything Google knows about the world, and you. ...... it uses every system that Google has built in the last 10 years. It touches almost every back-end system at Google .... increase in a person's tranquility ..... having the search engine come to you, rather than vice versa, can be uncanny. Thanks to Google Now, as I stroll around San Francisco, live bus times are offered to me whenever I pull my phone from my pocket at a bus stop ..... Google Now will show the status of a flight if an airline confirmation e-mail in my inbox shows I'll be taking it or if I did a Google Web search for a flight number from my work computer—providing I've logged into my Google account. ..... estimates of emotional state can be useful