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Shared links for the past week

The most interesting link I’ve read in this week where Google decided to “sunset” Google Reader:

  • Google Has Killed Android (the Brand) – Gizmodo
    The operating system is becoming less and less relevant, desktop computing is becoming less and less relevant while brands and services are becoming more and more relevant. What matters now isn’t iOS, Android or Windows, but Google, Apple or Microsoft, and that’s why Microsoft has a grim future.

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    RIP Google Reader – Mashable
    We saw this coming: RSS is in decline, Google Reader lost its space inside Google (to Google+ or Currents), lost its space to social media (Facebook and Twitter) and lost its space to news aggregators (Flipboard and such). And with the end of Reader comes another problem, the various apps and services build around it, like my favorites: news reader Feedly or Android podcast app BeyondPod. Update: Feedly will be moving seamlessly to their own infrastructure, gotta love that service!

  • How I ended up with Mac – Miguel de Icaza
    While I’m not using Apple (at least until it’s time to upgrade my computers) I can totally relate to this. I’ve chosen Ubuntu some years ago so Linux fragmentation issue is not an issue to me, but some things and have been annoying me: sudden broken support with the latest upgrade of Xorg or the huge mess of the release of Gnome3 or Unity… But one thing is certain: I won’t go back to Windows in the near future.
  • Why do most of the successful startups come out of the USA? – Robert Scoble answer on Quora

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Some of the most interesting links from the last weeks:

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Shared links for the past week

In a week where the world was suppose to end and dominated by Instagram’s new Terms of Service, my handpicked links:

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My favorite links for the last week

A roundup of my favorite links in the past week, where Yahoo released a totally revamped iOS app (but forgot Android).

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Links for 2012-06-8

Some of the most interesting links I found for 2012-06-8

  • Android Rising | Tao of Mac
    Android is c rising but could it rise above its mobile world? I think it can, as long as Google is willing to do so: Android makes much more sense for a lightweight computer that ChromeOS.


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Links for 2012-05-10

Some of the most interesting links I found for 2012-05-10


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4 reasons why I renewed my Flickr Pro subscription over moving to Google+

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Recently my Flickr Pro account was about to expire and I faced myself with a quite simple question: Should I renew it or not? Google gave a new life to Picasa (possibly renamed to Google Photos one of these days) by launching Google+, has been growing steadily and has gained lots of popularity among photographers which have embraced it quickly as its social network, actually most of my Google+ followers and activity is related to photography.

The truth is nowadays I don’t use Flickr as regularly as I did, Google+ became much more interesting these days, and when my Flickr Pro account was about to expire I considered not to to renew it and move to Picasa. The option wasn’t abandoning Flickr, still is the largest photography community around, but changing the center of my photographic online presence to Picasa. I truly was tempted, but in the end it wasn’t enough to move.

The Lazy factor

Probably the less significant but a still valid reason , I would move a large amount of photos around, that would be painful and time consuming.

Google+ still has some annoyances

The Google+ has evolved a lot since its launch, all Google products are or will be tightly integrated, but still are some rough edges: user experience between Picasa and Google Photos isn’t coherent, although the contents are the same. Flickr feels more fine tuned and mature.

Flickr has a great integration

Flickr was one of the first services to make API‘s popular and the result is that currently you have thousands of apps or mashups and you don’t have to go to the website to actually being using it, you can easily take your data and integrate it in many ways: the archives section of my website is built over Flickr API.

Traffic

Flickr is huge and even on a slow week I can easily get a few hundred hits a day, and some of it ends up in my site, Google+/Picasa still can’t match this.

 

For now I’ll stay at Flikr, at least for another year, but I’ll still can be found at my Google+ profile.

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Steve Jobs death and the social media

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Steve Jobs‘ death was another reminder that nothing beats social media for breaking news. I got the news while writing a blog post, having a big and multiple screens allows us to have an always opened window with Twitter stream and at some point news started pouring. Within seconds I was searching, Twitter not Google, for confirmation and reactions from tech pundits and everyone else, was even able to get some kind of live coverage from Robert Scoble’s on “location coverage” via his Google+ at a time when traditional media only had a footnote or a press release of his death..

This isn’t new for me, although in this case the news weren’t unfolding, the event’s weren’t happening as we speak (like the London riots or the Hudson river crash), Twitter has a tremendous reach. Like some time ago when a earthquake struck Lisbon and the South of Portugal. My immediate reaction after the shake was checking Twitter. Within a few minutes I could gather tons of information, feedback from all over the country and all this before it got to one of Portugal’s 24-hour news channels.

The truth is nowadays I trust more the Internet for breaking news than social media.

 

 

 

 

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