Tweet This is the year of increased productivity, particularly on mobile. Just a week ago we saw the highly-hyped launch of Mailbox. That is a really nice email replacement app that’s a lot nicer than Apple’s own email app. (I can’t use it because it doesn’t support Gmail’s labels, which I use extensively, but other [...]
Tweet Shel Israel just announced that we have raised $100,000 to fund the development of our book, “Age of Context.” If you haven’t heard that we’re working on a book, we are, it’s going to focus on how companies are able to build highly anticipatory services (think of Google Now) and highly personalized services (ToyTalk, [...]
Tweet Rocky Barbanica and I visited Facebook’s headquarters today and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that I’m writing with Shel Israel. What’s the age of context? Five radically expanding technologies/data types. 1. Sensors. 2. Wearable computing. 3. Big Databases. 4. Social network behavior. 5. Location. What will that bring [...]
Tweet eBay sells billions of dollars of things on mobile. Cars. Boats. Jewelry. Clothes. Gadgets. And more. Here Steve Yankovich, VP of mobile and platform at eBay, tells me how eBay is competing with Amazon. What the trends on mobile are. eBay’s new eBay Now app lets you have things delivered from stores in San [...]
Tweet Today WordPress 3.5 shipped. I quickly updated. This year I’ve been bored with my blog. I spent a ton of time this year on Facebook. Today Facebook told me that I added 2,272 friends and liked 4,007 pages this year. Yet I let WordPress languish. Why? Because posting inside the social networks, whether on [...]
Tweet George Takei believes its his right to make sure every single message he posts to Facebook gets through to his fans’ screens. Jason Calacanis says that Facebook is in a bad war with George Takei. I told Jason he’s wrong. What we’re really in is a war on noise. Our computers bring us HUGE [...]