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Microsoft picks up the Steve Jobs spirit...

Microsoft picks up the Steve Jobs spirit…

In the times of IBM / Apple (1980′s) apple has placed various ads they poked at the competition. Now Microsoft does the same thing on Google.
Apple got a good patent for E-Commerce and Store integration

Apple got a good patent for E-Commerce and Store integration

Apple was granted a new patent today, involving a store affiliation system, which may not sound interesting at first glance, but it could potentially bridge the gap between brick-and-mortar and online retailers. The patent, 8108261, is a system designed to track online purchases made from a particular store’s wireless network, which can be used to...
Social media expertise

Social media expertise

Sometimes I wonder why we suddenly have so many social media media experts. There is a big parallel to the time when everybody was a webmaster.. And everybody was a blogger. The difference now though is that the background of the “experts” now is more from marketing side and not only anymore from it. Now...
Excellent Lego iPhone app

Excellent Lego iPhone app

This is just one of the best comibinations of AR and Toys. Can’t wait to really play this with the kids some day.
Steve Jobs Day

Steve Jobs Day

There’s already a lot written about Steve Jobs. There have been many links to video’s. The Stanford speech is now know by everybody. What is there to add? Not much. Everything that can be said about Steve Jobs is by this time said. Did Steve Jobs inspire me as a person? Yes. Did I idolize...
Isaac Asimov explains the Internet

Isaac Asimov explains the Internet

Isaac Asimov explained in 1988 what the internet would be like in the future. Amazing how accurate this vision was back then!  
How china views Steve Jobs' leave

How china views Steve Jobs’ leave

Using the Chinese twitter alternative is useful to see what’s going on in this part of the world. It was amazing to see how many chinese internet users are shocked by the Steve Jobs leave. I can’t read chinese, but Google translate helps a lot in getting a feeling of the sentiment… Look at this...
Google Catalogs app

Google Catalogs app

With the new introduction of Google Catalogs will this be the end of all the seperate catalogs apps on the appstore? Imagine what else google starts to know about you. Normally you would browse the paper catalog and maybe look at the adds in them. Now it is easy to see how you scroll through...