Death of email predicted (yet again)
This time it's the Wall Street Journal that's not thinking straight. Email is still good for what it's good at; what we're seeing is other applications that are better at doing things that email is unsuited for, but previously was the least-worse way of doing. Email was the hammer, so those tasks looked like nails.
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/google-wave-and-the-dawn-of-passive-aggressive-communication/
Searchtastic: yet another 'real-time' Twitter search startup
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/11/searchtastic-throws-its-hat-into-the-twitter-search-engine-ring/
- http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/searchtastic-aims-to-extend-twitter.html
Twitter denies rumors that it's adding video functionality
- http://mashable.com/2009/10/11/twitter-video-tweets-2/
- http://twittercism.com/twitter-rich-media-fail/
Death of Sidekick/Hiptop platform predicted, as Microsoft loses users' data
Microsoft has lost all users' personal information for the T-Mobile Sidekick service (aka Danger Hiptop). Little hope of recovery. Looks like there was a disk failure in its Danger subsidiary, and no working backups.
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