Thursday, January 28, 2010

Has someone told Marissa about this?

The site is Goojje.com, and it’s a Chinese knock-off of Google. Then again, maybe it’s not. According to the Salon story, “Exactly speaking, Goojje is not a search engine but a platform for finding friends,” says one of the founders, Xiao Xuan.

Oh, OK.  Well, as long as they’ve made that clear.

As they say on TV…but wait!  There’s more. Check out YouTube.cn.  As the extension suggests, yup, it’s from China. I mean, I’ve heard of knock-off Rolex watches, Nike sneakers and Louis Vuitton luggage, but c’mon guys.


McGraw-Hill in total spin mode

Remember when McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw went on CNBC Tuesday and told us all about the iPad? You probably noticed that subsequently, the McGraw-Hill logo was absent from the festitivities. That’s because now they say they weren’t part of it to begin with. Well, whatever.


Apple takes on Adobe

The assertion by several writers is, if the iPad takes off (and it will, li’l droogies, like a Saturn V rocket, magnificent and terrible), by not supporting Flash, Apple is challenging Adobe’s mind-share monopoly over the entire Webosphere. Cringely has been insisting for years Apple was going to use it’s pile o’ cash to buy Adobe to get its hands on Flash in its bid to own the web, but think about it, why go into debt and risk a bad case of indigestion trying’ to swallow and assimilate an alien corporate culture when it’s much cheaper to simply crush it like a bug or simply make it seem irrelevant instead of essential?


More iPad reviews

The Apple Blog caught up with some guy on the street to get his take. Whoever he is, he doesn’t sound too impressed.


What does Adolph think of the iPad?

I don’t speak German, but I’d say he’s rather miffed.  You be the judge. Money quote: “They didn’t give it a camera, fine. But it’s on AT&T! How am I supposed to use their crappy network?”


El Jobso 1994: Like a Rolling Stone

Let’s take a trip back some 16 years ago, and re-visit a Rolling Stone interview with Dear Leader, at the NeXT offices.  Key quote:

“Today, Jobs, 39, seems eager to distance himself from his reputation as the Wunderkind of the ’80s. He wears small, round John Lennon-style glasses now, and his boyish face is hidden behind a shaggy, Left Bank-poet beard. During our interview at the NeXT offices in Redwood City, Calif., just 20 miles north of his old Apple fiefdom, he took particular joy in bashing his old rival Bill Gates but avoided discussing other heavyweights by name.”



SJV-N thinks Linux can do a better tablet

I think you’re a tad confused there Steven. Linux doesn’t do hardware. If the device don’t look cool and if it doesn’t have a cool intuitive interface, then Joe Consumer is not going to care how cheap an alternative tablet will cost. People, sadly, don’t care enough about DRM, or they would havetold iTunes to go soak its head years ago. A Chrome OS tablet, an Android tablet or any other mobile device Linux OS isn’t going to matter if it isn’t attractive, easy to use and has some killer must have apps. Until something of that ilk come along that has that crave aura about it that goes beyond geeks and fanbois, I don’t see anything coming up that’ll challenge or compete well enough.

Read his column and the host of blog commenters who disagree with his assertions here


McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV

VentureBeat’s Paul Boutin has the story here. We can’t confirm Moshe paid Mr. McGraw a visit…but we won’t deny it, either.


Everyone has an iPad opinion

Including The Woz, who popped up yesterday at Cal State Chico following The Main Event.


Did you miss the magic?

Here’s the whole thing, start to finish. Requires QuickTime, natch.