AppBrain – Finally a way to cope with Android Market chaos

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by mishagray on July 8, 2010

There is this mis-perception that somehow Android owners are “cheaper” than iPhone owners. Analysts would like us to believe that iPhone owners are “wealthier” or more ready to spend money.

But the real problem is that the Android Market just has a lot more crap in it. And so much of it isn’t worth a dime. There are plenty of gems, but finding them and installing them is more difficult than it’s worth.

Enter AppBrain..

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Did Wired officially crown Mark Zuckerberg the new Bill Gates?

by mishagray on May 6, 2010

I thought putting the phrase”from Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg” on the cover of Wired last month seemed especially very salient.     Is Zuckerberg the new Bill Gates?   The leak about how he doesn’t care about privacy raced across the internet like wildfire.  Personally I’m not too concerned about an “off-the-record” comment made by single employee [...]

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Insert Wonder updates..

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Been buried in lots of changes. While I’ve been buried in generating prototypes at work, so I’ve been way to busy to post some much needed blog posts. Upcoming posts: I need to give a real response to Facebook’s new folly into the Social Network API wars.    Short answer: OpenGraph API and the new [...]

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Google Buzz will Win (part 2) – The Buzz APIs, and Google’s plot to change everything.

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I’m not gonna talk much about today’s Buzz.  Plenty of other blogs have covered that. The current user interface is decent, but users are already demanding enhancements  - more user and content filtering, better private group management,  an interface separate from Gmail.  And  I fully expect that Buzz will continue to improve. But if you [...]

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Google’s Plan for Buzz to be the Last Social Network on the Internet (and why it will succeed) (part 1)

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Why should anybody want another social network? What’s so different about Buzz? Don’t we already have Facebook and Twitter?

And in the end, it Google doesn’t really just want to be “another inbox” or “another network” – what they really want to do is to change the way social networking will work for everybody.

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Hurray! Finally! Threaded Twitter!

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I literally was ranting just 2 days ago about the lack of good threaded twitter conversations!  Maybe it’s because I’m a gmail addict.  Without any way to see and understand various twitter conversations, twitter ends up feeling more like noise and chaos. Seesmic (a web twitter client) has added the ability to see a basic [...]

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