Mary Meeker finally gives mobile the thumbs up
Morgan Stanley Internet guru Mary Meeker presented her much-anticipated annual Internet trends talk at the Web2.0 Summit yesterday. This is the first time (she’s been at this about a decade) that she’s finally seen this to be the year of the mobile Internet, and spends most of the slides on that. Couldn’t agree more, in [...]
The birth of mainstream 3D screens that don’t suck
There must have been a bunch of garage-dwelling coders being roused today with a poke in the ribs and an urgent “Dude wake up, you gotta see this!”. As they groggily clear away the pizza boxes and gather round their PC screen, I imagine there’s a collective intake of breath and murmured profanities as they [...]
The new Picasa – Big brother with a friendly face
One of my favorite (and somewhat underrated) services from Google is their photo management sofatware Picasa. They bought this from IdeaLab in 2004, but unlike numerous other Big Co acquisitions, it’s kept improving. It has a very smooth PC photo management client that is good at handling large numbers of pictures (though navigation is sometimes a [...]
