Ged Carroll

Month: January 2016

  • Twitter troubles

    You can read elsewhere about Twitter troubles, I have linked to some of the best analyses I found out there at the bottom of this article. If you don’t have time to go through the the analyses around Twitter troubles, here’s the ‘CliffsNotes’ version: Management turnover. Three different heads of engineering in 18 months, five…

  • Susan Kare + more things

    Susan Kare Things that made my day this week included mac pioneer Susan Kare, Luxxury, Greg Wilson and JG Ballard: Great interview with Susan Kare. Susan Kare is famous for her icon designs that appeared in the first nine versions of the MacOS. Even now veteran Mac users will have a reaction to the ‘Dogcow’…

  • Safari suggestions + more things

    Safari Suggestions bug causes browser crashes in iOS and OS X | Ars Technica – I noticed this first thing in the morning with Safari Suggestions my Mac, goes to show how dependent we are on network based services. Safari Suggestions are a great concept, let’s hope that Apple gets it right. More Apple related posts here.…

  • Dish network + more things

    I, Cringely Final Prediction #10: Apple will buy Dish Network – I, Cringely – bit of a reach. Dish Network has a customer base that is full of the wrong demographic for Apple. Dish Network has a legacy infrastructure that will be a cost, not an asset Hurt by China economic slowdown, luxury sector can recover…

  • Yahoo! – how did we get here?

    Understanding who Yahoo! is today means understanding changes in the technology and media sectors. These changes occurred over the past 20 years. The Fear Yahoo! started off as a hack. The directory grew from a list of sites catalogued by Jerry Yang and David Filo. They did this as students in Stanford. This was back…

  • Topless model + more things

    Twist ending of moving company’s sexy topless model ad has a silver lining 【Video】 | RocketNews24 – one of the better 15 second spots I’ve seen involving a sexy topless model. This is one of the few times that you will see the words sexy topless model in one of my posts. IBM, Ustream-BM, we can’t believe…

  • Focus on the user + more

    Focus On The User – interesting lobby and direct consumer action that is very EU focused. The idea of Focus On The User brings to mind past antitrust remedies against Google and Microsoft. It will be interesting to see where Focus On The User goes. More posts related to antitrust in the EU specifically here Why…

  • McRefugees

    McDonalds and McRefugees McDonalds Restaurants in Hong Kong is famous to Economist readers for consistently providing the best value in the publication’s ‘tongue-in-cheek’ ‘Big Mac Index’. But it is also increasingly becoming a cheap source of social housing for what has become known as McRefugees.  The restaurants are ubiquitous, offering cheap consistent food. And many…

  • Habbo + more things

    Growing up Habbo: My so-called life in the first social network for teens | The Kernel – gen-y journeys in computing. Memories of Habbo Hotel as an online experience and social network. Habbo Hotel gets forgotten in its role as a social network. Chinese luxury shoppers increasingly turning online: KPMG | Shanghai Daily – interesting move to…