Posts tagged with Technology
Can Free Mobile Content Survive?
Facebook Instant Articles. Apple News powered by iAds. These are the ways that tech companies are telling us that the web is not good enough for text and images anymore, and that full native is still the holy grail for…
The Complexity of Mobile Software
Like most folks who work in technology, I get roped into helping non-technical friends and family out with their software woes. Though once in a while this would be a legitimately technical task (e.g., trying to remove spyware…
The Unique Properties of Photos
Another month, another great photos service. Google Photos is the latest service to one-up its competition, and there’s a lot to like about it: both the effectively unlimited storage[1] and the machine-intelligent search play to Google’…
Google and the Currency of Data
As usual, the a16z podcast is full of interesting insights and commentary: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy Benedict Evans makes the point, over and over again, that Google has continued to leverage its core…
The Inconvenience of Ergonomics
Put your hands out in front of you. Press your fingers on both hands against each other, and arch your palms back. Now push your fingers towards each other with moderate strength for about 10 seconds. Do your hands feel…
The Modularization of Microsoft
All the interesting news coming out of Microsoft from their Build conference revolves around interoperation. Across desktop and mobile, they’re courting developers with initiatives – Visual Studio in OS X, Android apps running in Windows, cross-compilation of Objective-C…
