Oct. 24, 2007
Apple using Facebook
Business 2.0
Jon Fortt blogs about the digital giants of our industry.
”Facebook is more than just a place to waste time and follow friends – it’s also a place to find iPhone engineers.”
Is Mary Bridges smart?
The browser
The browser is Fortune magazine staff’s attempt at analyzing the high tech industry.
“Mary Bridges sounds like a smart person. According to her bio on the Portfolio Web site, she went to Harvard and has written for some classy publications. But her recent snippet on presidential debates in wake of the CNN-YouTube experiments might well be the dumbest thing that Portfolio has published in its brief, well-heeled life.”
There will not be a Googlephone
Valleywag
Valleywag is a online gossip site covering the IT industry.
”I’ve been saying it for ages: There is no Googlephone. Last week, at the Web 2.0 Summit conference, I finally got confirmation that Google’s not getting into the cell-phone business. How? I overheard a rep from Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, chatting up a vice president at Google.“