December 19, 2010 – 6:47 pm
TweetLet’s start by reviewing the basic ingredients of a successful online publishing operation: 1 / Quick load. 2 / Ease of operation and update 3 / Consistent visual identity 4 / Platform independence 5 / Open to the rest of the web 6 / Geared for transactions 7 / CRM and marketing-friendly Why am I [...]
December 19, 2010 – 6:27 pm
TweetWe’re done with 2010 and off to 2011 with CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. Still hungover from New Year festivities, hordes of exhibitors, store owners, and civilians brave one another and the refined Las Vegas culture in order to show off and ogle the latest gotta-have-it gadgetry. Once upon a time, the computer industry’s signal [...]
December 13, 2010 – 1:07 am
TweetLast week, Akamai quietly rerouted loads of its client’s traffic to deflect Wikileaks related attacks. The company, based in Cambridge (Massachusetts), had a surfeit of busy days fighting massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. These raids were directed at companies seen as too complacent with the US government (the so-called “Wikichickens”, as coined by [...]
December 13, 2010 – 1:06 am
Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Friday morning, I stop at Il Fornaio to get my last caffeine fix of the morning. Once arrived at the office across the street, I realize I “lost” my iPad. Not to worry, I’ve done this before. Find My iPhone will tell me where it is. It worked a couple of months [...]
December 5, 2010 – 2:12 pm
TweetThe more diverse and ubiquitous the internet gets, the harder it becomes to measure. Especially with the mobile version’s rapid growth. A few weeks ago, my friends from the International Newsmedia Marketing Association (INMA) asked for a presentation discussing audience measurements for smartphones and tablets. The target was a conference held last Friday in Boston. [...]
December 5, 2010 – 2:07 pm
Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée This year, three wishes were on top of my list: A smaller, lighter MacBook, an app store for the Mac, and a curated iOS app store. I got two out of three. The 11” MacBook Air works quite well when the passenger in front of me fully reclines his seat; and Apple, [...]
November 29, 2010 – 12:16 am
TweetCan it fly? Last week, Rupert Murdoch announced he was plotting a tablet-only newspaper. Or rather, an iPad-only paper — at first; other tablets would follow. The Daily, as it is to be called (how modest and innovative) is to be blessed by Steve Jobs Himself at a media event introducing the new venture. Initially, [...]
November 29, 2010 – 12:13 am
Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Insider trading isn’t new but it’s still exciting, especially if you don’t play the stock market. For spectators, the cops and robbers game mixes ingenuity, mischief, furtiveness and confederacies. And the unavoidable dunces who talk or do too much and get the miscreants in serious trouble with the Law. The latest episode [...]
November 22, 2010 – 8:51 am
TweetIt’s high time to fight the theft of news-related contents, really. A couple of weeks ago, Attributor, a US company, released the conclusions of a five-month study covering the use of unauthorized contents on the internet. The project was called Graduated Response Trial for News and relied on one strong core idea: once a significant [...]
November 22, 2010 – 8:50 am
Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée One must be at least a little skeptical of product reviews, and, even more so, product reviewers. They usually don’t spend their own money on the product and they’re under constant pressure to produce more newspaper columns, or blog post after blog post. There are exceptions: I trust Consumer Reports (they buy [...]
