Fearing the iPhone Push

Posted on May 12, 2009. Filed under: Industry Themes | Tags: , , , , |

With Apple’s 3.0 version of the iPhone quickly approaching, one of the most widely anticipated features is the “Push” functionality.  This allows developers to send alerts, notifications, and other communications to the phone without the application actively being run. 
While one can see the obvious utility in the feature, the part of me that manages my [...]

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Facebook, Twitter, and the Convergence of Messaging

Posted on November 27, 2008. Filed under: Industry Themes | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Lots of chatter about Twitter being offered $500MM by Facebook.  Some think Twitter is crazy not to take it, while many others correctly point out that $500MM is not $500MM if it’s in stock.  While Facebook may hold out the Microsoft $15 billion valuation (an artificial auction given how strategically important the advertising deal was [...]

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