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HP's aquisition of Palm is clearly for their mobile OS market (and maybe some patents) but why would a company with little to no mobile phone experience jump in to an extremely competitive market like that? Its similar to how Yahoo was rumored to want to acquire Foursquare for the sake of saying to their investors that they are in the location space. Buying companies to keep investors happy does not seem like a good idea to me—And I think that's exactly what HP just did with Palm. Ironic that HP's tagline is Invent considering the situation. HP better invent a way to capitalize on a failing company, and quickly..

So now that Android 2.2 will support Flash, it looks like Google has kicked Apple straight in the nuts.

I see it as Google wanting to make everything open for developers —- akin to Microsoft's success —- and Apple being the snob in the crowd that wants everyone to play nice with their OS. I can understand wanting to limit Flash because of hardware/battery issues, but somehow/someway Android based devices can do it…

I think this is a crucial time for Apple. Not being open enough and pissing off developers will inevitably lead to them losing steam in surpassing Microsoft's market cap.

Need an example how hypocritical, irrational, non-transparent and irritating they are? Look no further than their app approval process which has taken a new turn today by rejecting apps based on what they think is moral. Evidently you can't create apps that club seals, but you can create apps that kill police officers. To me, it seems like Apple values virtual baby seals more than police officers.

I propose they open everything up and allow hackers to create the best programs they can—just look at how innovative the jailbroken iPhone market is—and to take it one step further, let parental controls/ OS control restrictions and actual parenting be the kids moral compass, not you Apple. Maybe you wont get annoying parent groups attacking you for the iPhone's content that you are trying to be Big Brother on if you just give up on your moral crusade.

Apple, once you get up from Google's roshambo, maybe you will reconsider?

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/04/google-bring-free-turnbyturn-navigation-ip…

According to his father, Gary is a hard worker and CNET's interview leads us to believe he wont be fired.
I cant even imagine the shit storm and backlash Apple would get for firing the poor guy…I can see it now

I mean he was celebrating his birthday, c'mon Apple cut him some slack

Google just announced their government requests tool to the public with the underlying idea for greater transparency. However according to the FAQ, there are certain limitations. Censorship is not good with any medium, but I think the whole thing is a good step in the right direction.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYf5iSA6t6g?wmode=transparent]

Evidently, Google's Social Circle Beta was released back in January, but I just noticed the results for a search of "dodgeball" in Google.

Because I have emailed Andrew Warner before, it picked up on his blog about "dodgeball". Pretty cool.

This is a really great idea— now I wish I could connect all my social profiles (twitter, facebook, etc) together to get more realistic results of a term in my social circle.

I got to say I feel bad for the poor shlub that lost this never released, most sought after device. I hope he doesn't get fired. I know Apple wants to keep things under tight control,  but this is generating a lot of organic/viral attention in of itself. I would pat him/her on the back…

Watch the full video and see all the pictures here

You got to love Gmail coming out with drag and drop attachments.

It only works on Chrome and Firefox right now, but who still uses IE anyway…

Good Job Google!

But it really should be 'build users first, then figure out a way to screw them'

Twitter's founders had an interesting comparison of their own company and Google. They wanted to follow in the same steps as Google by building up users first (creating value and a sustainable advantage) and then figuring out a way to monetize. Well what did Google do when they realized they were the best search? They introduced ads…and now so has Twitter.

So why does Promoted Tweets screw Twitter users? Because Twitter will become the billion dollar company they want to be valued at and will lose focus of the value that got users on the site. They will be more focused on making sure they are making their investors happy than the 70% of users have a bad opinion of Promoted Tweets.

And if I hear 'resonate' in another piece of marketing material to make it seem like you are making the service better, I am going to blow my brains out. Why don't you listen to the majority of your users resonating that they hate the idea?

Don't get me wrong, I would screw users over too if I was them: they are looking at becoming (if not already) a major player in the ever shifting news business.

But don't expect your users to accept it with open arms.

I forward 10 different email addresses to my Gmail, but Gmail only lets you use one signature…
So I came up with a brilliant solution (that I am sure someone else has already thought of):

Use Canned Responses for multiple email signatures

Viola! Now I can send mail from different emails and have a professional looking signature to match!

UPDATE/HEADS UP: The plugin uses the Drafts function in Gmail for each signature/canned message.When accessing Gmail from the web, it doesnt show up in drafts, but when I access it from my iPhone, you see the signature/canned messages as drafts. I deleted them the other night and had to redo them