March 2012
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“Another way to interpret the results is that for every $1.00 an app generates in...”
– Amazon appstore is more lucrative than Google Play (Android Market)
Blackberry logo updated to better reflect the future of the company:yfrog.com/h2akiehj
— Robert Padbury (@padbury) March 30, 2012
@padbury @marcedwards if they start taking the “sue everybody” business model, we can call them “Research In Patents”, aka “RIP” :-/
— ʎoolԀ ɹəpuɐχ (@XanderPlooy) March 30, 2012
Google makes four times more money from iOS than... →
Charles Arthur writes for Guardian:
Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright infringement trial are an accurate guide.
The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such as its Maps as...
Apple's war on Android →
BusinessWeek has a lengthy and comprehensive feature on the situation involving Apple and Google Android ecosystem. Though Steve Jobs spent his last breath fighting Android from infringing on Apple’s prized iOS, the other side hasn’t let up. Samsung, Motorola, and HTC are geared up to defend their livelihoods and won’t stop at anything to maintain that. After all, without...
Will RIM survive? →
Though the average selling price of a Blackberry has been very volatile over the last year, an almost $40 drop in ASP in one quarter is unprecedented. My data goes back to 2007, and I couldn’t find anything like it. ASP dropped by more than 13 percent in 90 days.
Fall in average selling price can only be helped by a rise in sales but when both drop, as it did over the past year…
YouTube uploads hit one hour of videos every... →
There is so much video content online today it’s far beyond what YouTube’s founders probably had in mind when they started their service. Cory Doctorow at Boing BOing notes that YouTube is now receiving uploads of one hour of user generated videos in every second. That’s 24 hours of video content in 24 seconds, an astounding amount of cat videos if people are still into that kind...
Everybody's getting on the money transfer wagon,... →
Bump is an app that lets you share things such as contacts and photos by literally bumping your phones together and the company behind it is releasing Bump Pay as it takes a further dip into the mobile money transfer/payment pool. While it may be a logical move for Bump, it’s a curious one because it’s being powered by PayPal.
PayPal itself of course has an app that does exactly this...
Google to sell Android tablets directly through... →
Because we all know how well the online store did for the first Nexus phone and the rest of the Android line up.
Japan's Prime Minister meets Mark Zuckerberg, gets... →
It’s a funny feeling to see you here because I watched the film,” Noda told Zuckerberg
Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Japan to attend Mobile Hack Tokyo in which developers get to meet with Facebook’s developer relations team. The company has found success in Japan following its moves to connect last year’s disaster victims with relatives and...
“Slides can be a great supplement to a presentation. But they can also be a...”
– Press B for focus
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Indonesians use the least secure passwords, says... →
A paper to be presented at an IEEE conference reveals a number of concerns regarding passwords including:
Older people use better passwords than younger ones.
Koreans and Germans choose the most secure passwords, Indonesians choose the least secure passwords
Telling people their passwords are not secure does not make a difference
People whose accounts have been hacked do not don’t...
Startups on YCombinator Demo Day →
PandoDaily has a comprehensive list of startups that presented on stage at today’s YC demo day. Some of these may make it big while others may fail miserably but in the world of startups and ideas, there’s always more of them. Most important aspect is that these people have working products to show. Here is TechCrunch’s top ten list.
Last November Koprol’s Facebook listing said it had 30k monthly users. Today, 8 thousand. Wow. yfrog.com/ob233up
— Aulia Masna (@amasna) March 28, 2012
YC Demo Day - It makes VCs feel like a 7 year old kid at Disneyland. So many rides! Really long lines/valuations though. Fun!
— Michael Arrington (@arrington) March 27, 2012
@salsabeela startups coming up with useful, functional, well-designed and widely adoptable products are exciting. Startup events are not.
— Aulia Masna (@amasna) March 28, 2012
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Remember Yahoo! Meme? No? Well, it's shutting down... →
Your Meme blog will be available up to May 25, 2012. Until then, you can go to your posts and save to your computer any images that you want to keep. You can export all the posts you created by going to the Settings page and clicking on “export my posts”. You can also go to the Settings page to delete your account.
What’s a Yahoo! Meme, you ask? It’s a Tumblr clone made by the...
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MG Siegler is certain Google will launch Drive in... →
parislemon:
Om Malik says Google is planning to launch Google Drive next month (maybe as soon as next week). Yes, finally.
He touches upon some of the illustrious history of the Google Drive rumors throughout the years, but they haven’t actually been rumors. Google had a project several years ago that they were widely using internally, but they killed it. The project started up again last year...
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Jeffrey Zeldman Gets an Invitation to Google I/O →
Funny story from the web design guru about how Google messed up an invitation to Google I/O
So Google wrote to my zeldman.com address, which they won’t allow me to associate with my Google+ address, to invite me to start a Google+ account (which I already have) on my zeldman.com account, which they won’t support. And if I do that (which I can’t), and some other complicated stuff, they promise...
Lack of paid upgrades on Apple's App Stores give... →
The Mac App Store should allow developers to submit, with our applications, a list of our other applications from which the user can upgrade, along with a separate price we’d charge people who already own those applications.
Wil Shipley paints the unfavorable situation for Mac app developers in which they are not able to charge for upgrades, something that they’ve aways been able to do...
Some data on Indonesia's digital scene
The next information I will share, based on @andyzain presentation on’Telematika’ national meeting Indonesia chamber of commerce
— unilubis (@unilubis) March 26, 2012
#Indonesia population 240 Mio, number of PC 12 Mio units, 5% penetration. Spore 90%, Msia 73%, Thailand 55%, Vietnam 12%.
— unilubis (@unilubis) March 26, 2012
eCommerce? Banking 40M Costumers (16% penetration),...
Google Drive coming in April? →
That’s what Om Malik was told although he is a little bit skeptical about it simply due to the multiple rumors about the plan since 2006. Right now Google’s storage options are much cheaper than Dropbox although it doesn’t support seamless and effortless synchronization the way Dropbox does. At least not yet. If Om’s sources are right, Google Drive will come with a desktop...
Instagram may have the people but Smugmug has the... →
Both Instagram and Smugmug are photo sharing services. One has taken massive venture funding, the other happily bootstraps. Despite the nearly 30 million users that Instagram has, Smugmug’s Camera Awesome for iOS with four million users in one month is already making more money through in-app purchases of photo filters that cost only $0.99 each or $9.99 for the complete set of filter,...
“make an app if it’s better as an app. If you’re not sure, then...”
– Loren Brichter
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Silicon Valley's hottest VC is a carpet dealer →
Nozad is one of Silicon Valley’s greatest connectors. Top investors take his calls. Hit-making entrepreneurs consider him an uncle. And somewhere in between he’s piling up small stakes in some of the hottest startups in the world. Yet Nozad doesn’t have the staple calling card of Silicon Valley. No M.B.A. No Ph.D. No “technical background whatsoever” (his words). He’s never even worked at a...
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Square reinvents payment with the new Square app →
In yet another case that innovations don’t usually come from incumbents, US-based payment startup Square just reinvented payment by releasing an app that allows people to pay for goods simply by saying their names and having their faces verified by store attendants.
Ryan Kim at GigaOm explains how payment works with the new Square app. It’s incredible:
The Pay with Square app...
Are you and your partner using Pair? Here's the... →
Pair for iOS was just launched last week, in fact it’s not even one week old yet. It does have quirks, there are things that should have been included in the first release but not (deleting posts for example), and the most popular request right now is for an Android version (it’s coming in a few weeks). It’s pretty mind-blowing that developers would release a messaging app that...
Draw Something took OMGPOP from the brink of... →
Sometimes all it takes is a simple idea. One major breakthrough. One hit. Thomas Alva Edison had dozens of lightbulbs fail on him before he managed to produce one working bulb which set him off on a world-changing innovation. Rovio had done over 30 games before it hit the big time with Angry Birds. OMGPOP had done 35 or so games before coming up with Draw Something and according to the New York...
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Paying for Angry Birds from Google Play with your... →
That snippet from last week about the negative relationship between in-app advertising and battery life? That doesn’t seem to be a myth or propaganda against Android as Angry Birds maker Rovio also discovered the same correlation. It has worked with Nokia Siemens Network to try and optimize power usage but NSN says the ability to do that lies with the advertisement provider, in this case,...
There are indecisive basketball players who pivot less frequently than Seesmic.
— Paul Carr (@paulcarr) March 22, 2012
Seesmic lays off half its staff, goes back to... →
What is going on at Seesmic? Every few years it would switch from whatever it was doing and do something else. At first it was a video platform, then it switched into doing a Twitter client. Later, it became a Salesforce CRM platform. In the meantime, it purchased Ping.fm in 2010. Now, it’s apparently going to focus on Ping.fm again.
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“Every time a new communication technology is invented, people try to apply the...”
– Because they don’t know any better.
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Instagram lets Hipstamatic join the photo-sharing... →
One earns $10 million last year, the other earns $0. One has over 27 million users, the other has less than 5 million. Both are still iOS only for the time being, each won Apple’s iPhone app of the year award.
What does this collaboration mean? For one thing, Hipstamatic users can post directly to Instagram instead of having to save it to the Photos app and then import it from Instagram....
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Zynga buys Draw Something maker OMGPOP →
Marc Pinky’s… I mean Pincus’s company Zynga has acquired OMGPOP, maker of the supremely popular game Draw Something for roughly $200 million.The six week old game has had over 30 million downloads, over 22 million daily active players as of today and is clearly OMGPOP’s greatest hit. The six year old company has had many games before but this one managed to beat Zynga’s...
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A winter of piracy is coming →
Online or digital media piracy is never about paying or not paying, it’s all about access. Make something available and affordable immediately with easy access and payment method, you’ll reduce piracy. There are people who will pirate no matter what but the majority will switch to legal downloads when this happens.
Case in point, iTunes Store and streaming music services. Both have...
“#TeamBlackBerry Fans on Social Media geographically:
Europe, Middle East and...”
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Analyst: Apple to be top mobile processor company →
Having shipped 176 million devices containing Apple’s own mobile processors in 2011, the Cupertino company is quickly becoming one of the leading mobile processor companies in the world. Although Intel is still far behind in terms of shipping processors for mobile phones, it did ship 181 million processors in laptops which are clearly mobile products.
In terms of market share, Intel holds...
