Archives for 2007

Opposites attract

October 11, 2007 by Michael Boyle

No transgression — outrageous reaction : Real transgression — measured and proper reaction. Strange day on the interwebs.

The Globe and Mail’s Jack Kapica wrote a piece on Rogers data rates and the problems these pose in relation to bringing the iPhone to Canada. Take special note of the insulting comment from Rogers’ communications flack, who managed to both be inappropriately aggressive AND completely avoid the point of Kapica’s article. I wonder if mobile carriers – particularly those in Canada – will ever get it? Not only are they gouging their customers, but they’re leaving a ton of money on the table by completely underestimating the demand for wireless data in Canada.

From TidBITS’ Adam Engst:

October 10, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Confessions of a Twitter Convert.

I’m eating a hearty meal of crow (roasted, with garlic and rosemary) today, since I’m here to tell you how interesting and downright useful I’ve found Twitter to be since being turned onto it properly at the C4 conference in August. My initial reaction to Twitter was that it was utterly inane…

I think a lot of people were misled by the early talk of Twitter that was focused on whether or not it was useful. That was likely the wrong question, the wrong focus. In fact it is (sometimes) useful, but more importantly, it’s (almost always) fun.

Trillian for OS X

October 7, 2007 by Michael Boyle

Cerulean Studios have announced an alpha version of Trillian for the Mac, which they have gone out of their way to clarify is not a port but an entirely distinct dev project. I’m not sure how relevant Trillian will be in a Mac universe that already includes Adium. It will be really hard for Cerulean to improve on Adium – and certainly Trillian for Windows is nowhere near the quality of Adium.