ios 7 – expectations.
Most of my concerns and changes that I would wish to see in iOS 7. Fraser has pretty much nailed it in his post. As much as these are his concerns these are concerns of the entire iOS user community as well. I would like to add that Apple should give a set of gestures like swipe left, right, up, on any screen (app or home) to do a set of user customizable actions like switching back to a previously open app, open contacts/any user preferred app instantly, change(turn wifi or 3g on/off) settings instantly etc. This would help improve the usability on the iPhone. Getting to turn the data on/off is so deeply buried, its down right annoying now and so is switching to the previous open app with double tap to get the multitasking bar and then switching.
LinkedIn’s Direction
Now, I entirely understand that the LinkedIn business model is to sell my CV to recruiters, not give me useful tools to manage my network. I also understand that all the mediocre me-too news-aggregation is a way to try to get me to spend more time on the site, rather than visiting every month or two. But really, it needs to get the basics right. It needs to give me useful tools. Right now it’s a not-very-good CV database with an interface that would be second-rate a decade ago, that I have no reason to stick with if something remotely, you know, useful came along.
So, Reid Hoffman is a genius, with a great vision. I just wish he’d join LinkedIn, and implement some of it.
Looks like Ben and I have a very similar stand on linkedin. I do share his annoyances as well.But i have another point to add. Interesting thing here to notice is that I am a recruiter and he is not. But none the less we both have a very similar thought at where linkedin is heading. Simply put they are loosing focus in terms of what they intented to do and where they are headed.
When I joined, Linkedin was a professional netowrking site, now it seems more of a job portal targeted towards recruiters, As a premium user (yeah my company pays for it), I defninetely get benefits out of the way Linkedin is heading, but i doubt whether on the long run i would get much benefit at all. Professionals signed up on linkedin for the want/need of newtorking with similar like minded people and have conversations and discussions with industry experts in their industry of choice, not looking for a job or a career move. Jobs and career opportunities were not the core reason why they joined.
Linkedin is slowly pushing for more of Job Opportunities and less of networking on their site because recruiters are willing to pay to get connections/one to one interactions with professionals. That is where the money lies for them. Very valid, but what happens to professionals who are not seeking opportunities? The constant emails and connection requests are going to annoy other industry professionals. Soon either they will disable their accounts or delete them and move else where. Over the past couple of years i see a lot more recruiters joining LinkedIn than other industry professionals, which in my opinion isn’t good for recruiters in the long term.
Peter Belanger- We should have known him..
Every apple fan should have known about him, but we probably haven’t heard of him at all. Yes Just like how Sir Ive takes tremendous amount of energy to make apple products look perfect, Peter Belanger is the man who makes them look great on the apple website and the other ads with his Photography skills. A very nice interview of him with the verge. Don’t miss the Video.
Some breathtaking backdrops, hard battles , winning moments. A celebration of bike racing that is Giro in some beautiful pictures.
Life isn’t easy at all. We all thought that was easy, make a pic taking company and sell it to facebook for a billion dollars, boy that was easy. Nope! Read the Instagram story to find out. Life is never easy, if it comes easy, it just doesn’t last.
Samsung galaxy s4 commercial
Was that all they could come up with ? No NFC ? There is a lot of scope for Samsung to think and grow. Remember the Mac vs Pc ads. At least some thing of that sort would be nice. The other thing that’s lame is smelling the phone for Ribs ?? Kidding me? I am not Dumb. May be Samsung Customers are dumb to buy one on that one. Samsung galaxy S4 commercial is funny for sure, not sure it adds value to their business though.
Feed Wrangler- Alternative to Google Reader ?
I haven’t used it yet, but it will only be wise to link to Feed Wrangler for the majority of people showing up here in search of alternatives to Google Reader.
I heard of feed wrangler a few days back from Shawn blanc and I was curious to find out more about it and read this review of it by Viticci.
From the review, Feed Wrangler does feel like it is robust and has been built to last with a business model. You should read the review by Viticci if you are looking for an alternative for Google Reader.
For me though, i would prefer to run my servers and will be switching to Fever shortly.
A brief peek at the technology that went into the making of the amazing Monsters University. Simply Mind blowing!
Via Stephen Hackett
I wish i had, but I sure will be doing more here on.
Google Glass source code now OPEN.
Now I am very convinced that this a pet project that Google doesn’t care about in terms of making money out of it. Google makes two types of products, one for themselves to make money out of and the other just to disrupt or balance out the market and make end users their product for their advertisements. Google directly makes money out of Google apps, Google search, Youtube, etc. Their other products(Open Source) such as Android, Chromium, WebM etc are just out there with a reason claiming a reason of giving back to the community, but in reality Open source is the key word they use to conceal their inabilities to create a success story out of the product and there by asking the world to make it better and a success. Can’t Google make their own hardware with a partnership and sell just Google phones? No, clearly that won’t succeed against apple at the same rate as android has grown over the past couple of years with the support of Samsung,LG,HTC,Motorola,Sony etc. Same is the case with Chrome/ WebM. It will be the case with Google Glass as well. Google Chrome, Android are out there to show and market Google’s products and Ads to End users like us. Its a yet another platform for making us the product. Now with Google Glass “Open Sourced” the entire geek community is now going to tweak Google Glass and make it even better in turn making the adoption a little more evident, without which it would just disappear like the Google phone(oops had forgotten it was called Nexus) in oblivion.
When the Google glasses hits the market I predict it will just be mediocre and have similar sales figures like the Google Nexus. It just won’t be a revolutionary product like the iPad.