Apr 27
I found this article for a new Twitter app today :
WhenDidYouJoinTwitter is one of the simplest twitter apps I’ve seen. But a much needed one! It’s so good to know the date you joined twitter and realize twitter only gets more exciting with each passing day!WhenDidYouJoinTwitter – do you remember!?, Apr 2009
You should read the whole article.
Apr 22
I originally was going to have my first post back be an in-depth review of social networking today or reflect on Earth Day… but this was just too good to pass up!
Beyonce was performing a song live on the TODAY show and apparently her vocals are feed through a soundboard that adjusts her pitch before it goes out. Some spiteful enterprising person was able to record her original, unedited vocals, allegedly. Take a listen if you can take the pain but make sure that dogs and/or small children aren’t in the room.
P.S. This may be a hoax so please don’t sue if it is.
It’s been over two years but I’m finally getting back into blogging. Real world things like getting married and having a baby kind of extended what I thought was going to be a two week break form blogging into a two year one.
If you are a returning reader you’ll still find the same tech coverage you were used to seeing but now with a bit more reach hopefully. This time around I plan on having contributors (so you don’t get sick of reading just my point of view) and hopefully get some press credentials. If you would like to help in either area please let me know.
This blog used to be known as infoblog 3.0 and was at a different location (which is still up btw) but I imported as many posts as I was able to. Somehow I lost about 500 posts over the years but I will make up for it. I also plan on using social media to expand my brand and this blog. I have already set up J-M-Williams as a Facebook application and am looking at doing other exciting things.
Please take the time to let me know your ideas on this blog, what you’d like to see and how we can make it better. I’ll talk to you again!
Mar 19
If you’ve noticed a slowdown here in the last few days that is because Infoblog is on vacation. We will return on March 24th, rested and ready to go.
Robert Scoble wrote a scathing entry in his blog attacking Microsoft’s focus (or lack of) in its “we’re in it to win” campaign.
I don’t think Microsoft is. The words are empty. Microsoft’s Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that’s “in it to win” then I don’t get it. I saw a bunch of posts similar to the one on LiveSide coming out of the MVP Summit. I didn’t post any of them to my link blog for a reason: All were air, no real demonstrations of how Microsoft is going to lead.
Microsoft isn’t going away. Don’t get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the Internet? Come on. This isn’t winning. Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where’s the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo’s Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?) That’s how you win.
He’s got a point. When was the last time Microsoft catered to the user instead of the business. When was the last time they innovated?
Microsoft has two problems really. 1. They don’t develop, they takeover/buy (although Google seems to be heading in that direction). 2. When they do develop, they do it for the lowest common denominator (Reminds me of AOL).
Its all about the bottom dollar and not innovation for them. If it’s not pre-installed it doesn’t do well. Give anyone a choice and 9/10 times they will use a competitors product.
With all their problems with One Care… is now the time for Microsoft to be beating thier chest about how great they are?
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