cocoy

Is it just me, or is Google's Chromebook fighting yesterday's war? Chromebook for me doesn't make sense, not with Android. I'm sorry, the zdnet article is crap.

Chromebook is not a Windows Killer, and none of the five reasons cited would not compel the grandmother who lives next door or that man who doesn't care about the religious nature of Microsoft Office versus LibreOffice. Nor do I see a compelling reason for a business owner to make a switch.

Normal people just want things that work when they turn them on. And they don't want complicated.

on the desktop, i go for google reader. what i find on the iPod (i've yet to receive my iPad) is that i go for the app. like marketwatch or strait times. i find it more convenient. you on the other hand find it less convenient that way.

That's interesting to me.

i also find it interesting you think apps are a fad. I don't think it'll turn out that way--- quite obviously. i think market forces, meaning people making money off the apps can be enticing.

i don't think this will be limited to iPads--- Google Android apps could be another vector, but you make a good argument re: that it would be like another browser to support. imho they'll support it too as soon as more and more people use mobile to browse the internet. iPads, iPhones, Android phones, are awesome platforms to make this happen.

iPad and its ecosystem doesn’t offer a threat to the Open Web, it creates new ways for Content Creators like bloggers, and podcasters who can choose to offer their content for free. What iPad and its ecosystem does however is to create a threat against Search Engine Optimization, ergo: a threat to Google. Simply put, iPad content is a clear and present danger to Google indexing all the web’s and by extension, all of humanity’s content.

yep. me too. i got FF3 too but i'm sticking with WebKit as my number 1 browser!

i share your distaste for social networking. i hardly check my facebook, just once every couple of weeks. there are just too many people blasting you some game or stuff like that. boring.

but w/twitter... it was different. after you get past certain barriers, it becomes a conversation.

some people use the sms function to blast all their friends "wanna meet for lunch". hey, if you only need to send once, right and pay once?

there are business leaders on twitter and some really smart people. think of twitter as a party that goes on 24/7. you get interesting conversation.

sometimes, some people come in and shouts out that they're on ustream, and hey a couple of people slip out to go to that room. while everyone else keeps the conversation going.

sometimes, you get the really breaking news. other times, you get good links to interesting stuff.

there are times, you just listen in on a conversation between two twitters and you learn stuff.

how do you keep up? you don't. you don't need to keep up. you can miss stuff and that's ok. i use growl on the mac to give me a heads up when someone twitters. that way, i don't have to actually be directly engaged. just think of it as background conversation in the office. And of course you can really turn it off.

just my two cents.

yep. that's true.

Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune by Frank Herbert are my favorites. the sequels God Emperor, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse were good as well but I like the 1st three the most.

Dune was about how people shouldn't let supermen lead. it was complex. it was an ecological novel. they had quotable quotes like "thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind". people say it's the lord of the rings of science fiction. the characters are rich, the plot thick. i highly recommend Dune.