Seems like every month or two another iPhone killer is released. First it was the BlackBerry Storm, which turned out to be such a bad device, the only thing it ended up killing was itself. Then there was the Palm Pre, which did not even threaten the iPhone’s thrown in the least bit. There are of course many other devices along the way that caused people to throw out the overly used and ridiculous “iPhone Killer” title.
Month: October 2009
Eight Google Wave Annoyances
I am a big fan of Google. Generally speaking, I like using Google products whether it is Gmail, which is years ahead of its competition, or Picasa, which makes picture management easy and fun, Google has impressed me countless times when it comes to the usability of their services. Google Wave is different. If you have spent any time at all on Twitter or just listening to the online buzz over the last few months, you must have heard Google Wave spoken about, and if you did not, you need to get your hearing checked. Everyone is talking about it.
Some Recent Mobile Industry Updates
On any average day, I come across hundreds if not thousands of interesting articles on Twitter. Being that most of my Twitter friends are geeks like me, I would say approximately 80% of those articles are about the mobile industry. If I would blog about even half the exciting mobile developments I read, I would never stop writing. So I figured I would write a short summary of what is happening with the major mobile players based on things I have read recently. Here goes…
Five Myths/Misunderstandings about Social Media
While the buzz surrounding social media is growing, so is the number of people who just don’t get it. In fact, I come across tens of people daily that use Twitter and have a significant following but are totally clueless about maximizing it. They make mistake after mistake and see none of the results social media can bring. Let me emphasize that there is no one way to use social media “properly”, everyone uses it differently, that is part of the very essence of social tools. However, if these people are annoying their audience with spam-like tweets and causing people to unfollow, it is safe to say they are doing it “wrong”.
5 Exciting Mobile Phones Not Made by Apple
As I was browsing through my content over the past few months, I realized that the vast majority of posts are about social media. In fact, if someone only recently started reading my blog, they would never know I was a mobile geek. The truth of the matter is there are mainly two reasons I have written mostly about social media and not mobile developments over the last few months. For starters, it is what interests people and it is what interests me. Social networks and the industry supporting them are evolving and changing daily in a major way. While the mobile industry is booming and there are new phones introduced hourly, there really is nothing new to speak of. The technology is really all the same, some phones have better processors, some better UIs, but all in all, nothing revolutionary. Social media on the other hand is renewing itself on a regular basis.