January 2010
9 posts
iPad: Flash does NOT belong
I remember Macromedia Flash 5 with ActionScripting 1.0. WOW! This is the future of the Internet. This will really open up the possibilities to developers. Or so I thought. Ten years later we still have this proprietary, resource hogging, buggy standard we call Adobe Flash. I don’t blame Adobe in anyway; they do the best they can. I blame ourselves, the developers. We have all the...
2 tags
iPad - Target Audience part 1
In my last post I argued the iPad is aimed at a new Target Audience. Who is that exactly? First, let’s get the obvious out of the way: Apple FanGeeks Technophiles CEOs The Apple FanGeeks will buy a nice pile of steaming poo if it had an Apple logo on it. Don’t be insulted; that’s just the way it is. The sooner you can admit this to yourself, the easier it will be to...
2 tags
iPad - Target Audience part 2 - Baby Boomers
The target audience for the iPad? Baby Boomers. Steve Jobs invented a device for his people. An APPLICATION COMPUTER.
The generation that introduced YOU to the computer is the one in greatest need of a computer built for them. My dad (electrical engineer and at-first-glance-geek) has had computers all his life starting with punch-card mainframes. But as he ages, he becomes more and more...
2 tags
iPad - I missed the point.
Yesterday, I said I was underwhelmed. I think a lot of other people were too. Many people probably had grandiose expectations from a company and visionary the likes of Apple and Steve Jobs, and many people assumed the new iPad would be a revolution in computing that would make us all ditch our netbooks and laptops; it clearly does not. No, the iPad is probably something akin to what Jef...
1 tag
Which Web Services or Apps Do You (ab)use?
Here’s what I use: Skype tumblr Flickr Posterous getDropbox Evernote Gmail and Google Apps Google Reader Google Docs SquareSpace RememberTheMilk MindMeister MobileMe iCal to Google Calendar via BusyCal Bento KeePass TrueCrypt LiveJournal facebook Twitter Mint Kayak What do you use? Posted via web from jasonishibashi’s...
2 tags
Use Ketchup As A Meeting Manager
Ketchup uses a very plain interface that does what it promises and nothing more. When you need an easy and basic way to track an activity for a meeting, Ketchup could be the solution. With Ketchup you can keep track of agendas, attendees, action items, who said what, and more.
Ketchup could not be any simpler to use. The registration takes mere seconds, and it takes less than two minutes to...
