Seeing Forests

I’ve been wondering about this for a little bit.  I’ve always thought the notion of “checking in” digitally to some place via a local social service like BrightKite or FourSquare to be a particularly novel behavior enabled by mobile Internet technologies.  I’ve just wondered who came up with it first.  I only ever saw it [...]

After playing around with the Nexus One for a while, I’ve come to the conclusion that the Nexus is a cat and the iPhone is a dog.  The iPhone is just warm and fuzzy and wants to jump up in your lap and lick your face.  Nexus One, with it’s little “shrug” every time you [...]

Following a tweet from Greg, and Sebastien, and now the post on Read/Write Web, I went to the Google built-in browser on the Nexus One to try out Google’s “Near Me Now”.  I don’t quite get why Marshall at RW says this doesn’t bode well for the likes of Yelp and NextStop (can someone say, [...]

I don’t really care about Pogue one way or the other.  He writes some useful high-level consumer stuff (like about pocket projectors).  But I do have to kind of sympathize with him for some of the hostile reaction he got to his generally positive piece on the N1.  I mean, come on. Idiot?  Incompetence?  Pogue? [...]