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First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion
Mark Fletcher builds software, that’s just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop making software. And it’s not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples’ lives.
Fletcher will unveil his newest creation, a lightweight group communication tool called SnapGroups. You probably going to like it a lot: it’s easy, it’s clear, it’s got good social design and it’s real time. Check out the screenshots below …
Can iTunes App Store Take the Challenge from Mobile Web Apps?
The delays and uncertainty in submitting an iPhone app to Apple for consideration is inspiring some developers to skip the process all-together and release mobile apps that leverage increasingly powerful mobile browsers.
The latest mobile web apps that have knocked our socks off are from a startup of ex-Googlers called NextStop and the Yahoo-owned events calendar Upcoming. Both offer new mobile iPhone apps that can be updated seamlessly, are available immediately and are a lot of fun to use. Could mobile web apps challenge the dominance of native apps on the iPhone? That’s an active debate …
Why people skip newspapers and read news on the web instead
You can’t be involved with what’s happening on the internet without coming in contact with the “newspaper crisis” somehow. From a business perspective it’s simple really: Much fewer people buy newspapers (on paper) nowadays. Please note that this has very little to do with advertisement or business models, I’m talking about newspapers from the user perspective here.
Internet is really a commodity nowadays. People process loads of information on the web every day, and this of course affects how they expect newspapers to behave. Every time I hold a big newspaper in my hands I’m surprised at how inferior it is compared to reading news on the web …