Yahoo! seems to be the new web underdog, a company that is making a come-back for some people and a company that is helplessly sinking for others.
Delivering news through Vine
As I mentioned a while ago, in July I started highlighting my favorite news through Vine. Using the tag #vinews, I can bookmark those news that I find interesting.
This is how they look like:
You can find every #vinews edition on Twitter.
Future of the RSS format
It has been a while now that Google announced it would close Google Reader, one of the most popular RSS readers, and since then lots of services and apps have rushed into what looked like a race to be the “best alternative”.
Digg launched its own version, Feedly also started working nonstop on its own independent infrastructure (which successfully launched), and it was rumored that even Facebook was working on some sort of reader.
Now, why did Google finish its Reader? According to Richard Gingras, Senior Director of News & Social Products at Google:
As a culture we have moved into a realm where the consumption of news is a near-constant process. Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news in bits and bites throughout the course of the day — replacing the old standard behaviors of news consumption over breakfast along with a leisurely read at the end of the day.
Risks of third-party apps
As soon as the Vine app was launched, I started thinking how I could use it in combination with Twitter; I was looking for something useful and new, an idea to create interesting vines, and I finally decided to do show what I love the most: tech news with the tag #vinews. Nobody had done it yet!
The social network war
Not many people were surprised when Facebook announced a couple of months ago that 751 million users connect via mobile each month (54% more than the previous year); the trend is clear: our mobile phone will soon become the main device we use to connect to the Internet (if it isn’t already). Today I will focus on two clear examples, a failure and a success.
Finding the perfect mobile OS
Two months ago, iOS 7 was introduced, Apple’s new mobile operating system. If you watched the official keynote, all attendees welcomed the news by cheering, but not everyone ended up convinced.
Geek on record 