The annual Apple Developers Conference was held in San Francisco 6-10 Jun 11. Steve Jobs announced iCloud, a new free service. The rationale is that most people find it a hassle to synch mobile devices with their main desktop. Instead they will be able – at greater cost, risk and convenience – to synch with [...]
A curiously aptly named website. Do you recognize yourself? Indeed, I cannot help wondering if it is some kind of MSc project for a student in the Psychology Dept of a university. I signed up for twitter a few months back to try to discover what all the fuss was about. I fairly randomly selected [...]
LinkedIn Corp was floated on Thursday on NYSE and NASDAQ (ticker LNKD). 7.8M shares were offered to the public at $45, 4.8M by the company and 3M by existing shareholders. So the company raised just over $200M (and various hardworking investment banks and others got $25M for taking the risk that the float might flop). [...]
I am still experimenting with Twitter and only follow 62 people, a rather eclectic bunch. One is Edward Champion (@drmabuse), a writer and literary critic, best known for the Bat Segundo Show. At 16:46 yesterday I noticed him complaining: Peter Laing and @deadlinenews: If you take quotes from my Bat Segundo interview, can you at [...]
The list above is a useful summary by Jakob Nielen, based on some research by John Boyd of Yahoo and Christian Rohrer of eBay in 2005. They got replies from 605 people. Exactly how the survey was conducted I have no idea. I assume it was not a random sample. Nonetheless, it is quite interesting. [...]
