Round up of this week’s conversations – week 10 2010
For people who don’t have the time or energy to read through 15 blogs, I summarize each week a number of online conversations that struck me somehow.
This week’s conversations where dominated by the iPad, tablets and other e-readers. This week Apple’s iPad became available for pre-order. According to some sources 90.000 units were pre-ordered in a couple of hours. The iPad seems to answer a consumer need. A number of manufactureres are launching similar devices or upgrading their existent ones: Amazon’s Kindle is getting a better browser, HP will be launching it’s Slate soon (contrary to the iPad, the Slate will support Adobe Flash). Barnes & Nobles is not taking sides. Its strategy is to provide books anywhere, anytime. besides it’s own Nook e-reader, the company is developing an iPad application. CrunchGear has a nice overview of the current state of tablet-like devices. All the iPad commotion has sparked the creativity of Dorito’s ad agency. Watch the iPad parody video below.
Another hot topic is location based services. FourSquare and Gowalla are the two hottest location based social networks at this moment. Here is a nice side-by-side comparison of the two services. Under pressure of these newcomers FaceBook and Twitter are updating their feature list. FaceBook is about to launch a new tool to share your location. Twitter is enabling geolocated tweets. The new feature allows you to see where tweets are coming from on Google Maps.
You may ask why location matters so much. TheNextWeb made an overview of location based revenue models.
And last but not least Google is about to leave China over censorship issues. The company will close its search engine, but not the rest of its operations.
Videos
Links
http://mashable.com/2010/03/12/ipad-preorder-numbers/
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/03/amazon-is-building-a-better-browser-for-kindle/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/hp-slate-strikes-at-the-ipad/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/
http://mashable.com/2010/03/11/barnes-and-noble-ipad/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/foursquare-gowalla-location-war/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/03/09/location-sharing-coming-facebook-month-big/
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/03/11/twitter-turns-tweet-location-mapping-tweets-twittercom/
http://thenextweb.com/location/2010/03/08/revenue-models-location/
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