Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)  —  I’ve read two books on it, which explains why I haven’t been on Twitter very much in the past week.  But the Kindle really bugs me now.  I’m hitting all sorts of little things that the Kindle team simply didn’t think through very well.

Source:   Scobleizer — Tech […]

ABC News and Facebook in Joint Effort to Bring Viewers Closer to Political Coverage  —  Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become a full-fledged platform for communicating, sharing and advertising.  ABC News is betting that it will become a platform for political coverage, as well.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Brian Stelter
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/technology/26abc…

The wonderful horrible life of Facebook users and their data (or, “data hogs get slaughtered”)  —  Doc has an important post today that reflects on data and privacy.  The post comes back to Marc Cantor’s “but it’s our daaaaaatttttaaaaaa dudeeeeeeeessss riggggggggghhhhttt?!?!?!!!!!!” …

Source:   The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Author:   Jason Calacanis
Link:   http://www.calacanis.com/2007/11/25/the-wonderful…

Time to write our own rules  —  So I’ve been reading Dave Winer, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Jarvis, David Wienberger and Wendy Seltzer, all of whom have problems with what Facebook is doing with its members’ data.  —  Dave in particular is looking for action:

Source:   Doc Searls Weblog
Author:   Doc Searls
Link:   http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/25/time-to…

Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains  —  After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see previous post), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS.

Source:   exo.blog
Link:   http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-xp-sp3…

Update: More Leopard Problems Plague Apple  —  Apple Leopard: From Questionable Customer Service To Questionable OS?  —  This is something I never thought I’d hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready.

Source:   Tom’s Guide
Author:   […]

British iPhone Users Complain Of Serious Reception Problems  —  British iPhone buyers are in an online uproar over reception problems they’re experiencing on the network of O2, Apple’s exclusive service provider in England.  (No bars for iPhone Brits?)  —  The issue has come to light …

Source:   InformationWeek
Author:   Alexander Wolfe
Link:   http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives…

Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far  —  ON the surface, the mobile Web is a happening place.  There’s the iPhone in all its glory.  More than 30 companies have signed up for the Open Handset Alliance from Google, which aims to bring the wide-open development environment of the Internet to mobile devices.

Source:   New […]