Blame it on Apple. Blame it on iTunes : U.S. Justice Department

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Monik

When you spread your hands wide and far, you’ll have antitrust cases against you waiting to be defended! That’s the game with Music Industry’s game changer, Apple.

In 2001, they introduced iTunes which was to sell and organize music on your Mac. Now it’s spread all over to PC’s and has most of the worlds music labels signed on to sell creations of all artists for a price of $0.99 a song. It’s hell lot of change from those walkmans to the iPods and iPhones. Wow, hats off Apple.

Now, the bad part. Perhaps Apple has been spread it’s wing far and wide, too wide. It holds abot 26.7% of the music market share which makes it the biggest music vendor online and offline too, in terms of sales figures. But recently, Apple has been playing the role of the culprit.

Amazon was working with labels to gain exclusive rights for selling music a day before they would release all over. This didn’t make Apple happy, and they decided to warn labels that if they did something like that they would penalized by Apple. It would cease all it’s marketing campaigns for the songs belonging to the label on iTunes.

With Antitrust regulators jumping on board, clearly cards aren’t going right for Apple.

Google Chrome’s the pirate now : Ready to raid IE and Firefox

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Monik

It won’t be right to call Google just “lucky”, because wherever they step in they rule the market. This is functional with the browsers too, and now Google Chrome has a market share 6.73%. It’s not a huge number but the dazzling part stays that Chrome is the youngest browser of all and it’s also ahead of Safari, Apple’s Native browser for Mac’s with 3% more.

The adoption rate has been rapid, in about 18 months they had some millions of users. Thanks to Google and it’s delicious marketing campaigns and also, the product itself. Chrome is indeed the fastest browsers on earth and if you’ve seen those speed test ads, you probably know Chrome loads about 2700 frames a second.

I’ve shifted to Chrome few months back, and ever since and I never looked back or needed any other browser. It’s fast, fun and looks great. That’s not just me but a large number of Chrome user base that says and numbers are going to add up to the base soon as Firefox and IE users are migrating to Chrome at a perplexing rate.

[Via RWW]

What in the world, did Twitter break?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Trevor Greene

So as most of you avid Tweeters probably already noticed, Twitter has had a small breakdown. As it turns out an exploit allowing any user to force another user to follow them was found on accident when trying to follow a personal favorite on the site. One user could simply type “accept Kimkardashian” and like magic she’d be in your followers tab, without ever asking her permission.

According to different reports the man immediately started forcing famous celebrities and such to follow him, blogging about it all the way. Well, word got out and lets just say the tech department over at Twitter had an interesting day. As of now the hack is not working, so a round of applause to the team, and a “dang it” to those of you who were hoping to have Jessica Alba follow you. All is well in the world of Twitter, at least I know you’ll be back to sleep soundly tonight.

[Via Gizmodo]

Facebook join likes of Foursquare, Twitter- Location sharing Feature expected.

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Jasbir

Next time when you log in to Facebook Mobile, you might get to share location. Yes, Facebook is following the lines of Twitter, that is to share location via the status updates (Remember Geotagging tweets?). The reports have been circulating for quite some time about the location features. These announcements were expected in the f8 conference, Facebook did announce some, but not the location feature.

The code has been spotted Facebook’s touch version for iPhone and iPod touch, that reveals a coming “places” tab to accommodate location features. If you run around the code, you’ll find a clue in the Javascript code, and stand up and say “Places” is coming! Mcdonald’s has already started building a campaign around them.

The mobile version will be using the HTML5 location component to extract your location from your phone. Once done, you will be taken into a new Places area, which will have the list of venues around you to check-in. Yeah, the Foursquare way, isn’t it? The code also suggests, that Facebook will not only record the latitude and longitude, but also your altitude, heading and speed. This will give Facebook a hell lot of your information, seriously.

The Places feature could be a major threat to it’s Facebook’s friend, Foursqaure which offers similar type of service. One thing is for sure, once Facebook enters the location sharing arena, user acquaintance with it’s new feature will be very alacritous since it beholds and army of 400+ Million Users. That means Location Sharing is here to stay and stay longer.

[Via TechCrunch]

New Google is better, dont beg for the old one.

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Jasbir

Change is constant, and change is the only thing that makes people from around the globe, to be connected via the world wide web and keep them glued to their screens. Google , last week upgraded its view from a classical one to modern.

And, as we all know, the most common homepage is Google’s, so any change to that, will catch attention.The new rolled out model, has three columns, if you search for any option, you get a result page, which is what I think similar to Bing.

There is a middle column consisting of the results, there is a right column consisting of the ads, and the left column for the advanced search options. The newer interface allows us to get multiple results at once, without going for the advanced options in the top left options row in the classical model. Simply put, the new Google layout is good, user friendly.

In the Google forum, there are ,variety of people complaining of the design and want the old one back in. But Google is not going to listen to them, The google spokesman Nate Tyler confirmed by stating : “We’re not offering a way to revert back to the old design.” That is expected, Google has had changes in the past, and there come a bunch of people who hate the change in the first place and then going on to be liking it. People can use the search preferences page to control number of results shown, popping-open search listings in their own windows, enabling subscribed links and other options. For people who desperately want the old design back, they can bookmark this site.

The move to a permanently three-column design sees Google following in the footsteps of Ask.com, which pioneered the look back in 2007. Bing and Yahoo followed the three pane trend in 2009, and now it has effectively been given the stamp of approval by search giant Google itself.

Facebook Evolution : It sucks more than it actually should

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Monik

I am not a corporate guy with bags of pie charts and stats to explain vividly simple stuff any layman would understand with just words. I am just a school student with eyes to observe things going around me and being a web developer gives a bit more insight into how things work online.

Hottest thing up everywhere – Facebook. For some reason or the other, those doctors call Facebook, “treacherous”, and i don’t think Facebook will ever need to defend itself, it’s got 400 million users with nothing else but to do that.

Social Media is the big thing right now, but it’s more ugly than it looks like, esp. with Facebook being a key game changer in this. The original concept behind the 20,000 + server stacks that run Facebook is simple – Networking.

The truth is that it’s passé. Facebook has grown into what it should not be. Most adversely affected are the USERS. Damn it.

A decade back, when camera’s were every gadget geek’s wish, which is probably not so today-ish, people did stuff to enjoy it. Today with every piece of digital crap having image capturing lens (except iPad!) blows its reach to a much much huge market. It includes kids, who do make up a huge part of the Facebook population. What Effect I am talking about is simple, people do things just so that they can capture it with their $10 worth lens, create the fuss on facebook (so called “likes and comments”) and get lost.

The mind concept being generated in today is bull s***. I just can’t digest it, if I am going on a cable car ride to some peak couple of thousand meter high, why shall I stick my face to the window, just do all types of trials and have the scenery fit in with my face in that damn picture made of pixels, all so that I can upload it and make others burn about it? Yuk.

This way, your missing out on the actual fun, and if you don’t know what I am speaking about your probably one of those facebook-take-a-pic-and-upload-it-addicts.

Misery Songs, I hear them a lot these days on Facebook, don’t you? Unless you’ve got Russel Peters as your friend on Facebook you are most probably to hear them from “Depressed Souls” on Facebook. Negativity keeps flowing in from those dull statuses, comments and to some extent, even pictures. A Social Network is there for you to connect and not to viralize your sadness!

Bullying, Fights, and all. This one screws my head. Wars, who loves them? Ah yah, some bullies do who can ramble with words and flaunt their skills harassing people with better jobs to spend time answering their shit. Man, Network? Where do fights fit in?

The whole reason behind this lengthy post is – What Social Media was meant for and What we’ve made it. I just wanted to propel difference between these two. If doesn’t sounds as sick yet, wait till your hit by this hurricane OR Avoid It.

Yahoo! calls Google’s homepage “A Button and a Box”

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Monik

Last thing you would have ever pondered would be Yahoo! taking over the web and becoming homepage to everyone. Google’s phenomenal success scares a lot of tech companies, Yahoo! esp. as it’s business’s are continuing to be shot down one by one. Yahoo! search has shrunk rapidly and simultaneously Google has grown to take a large part of the Search cake.

Both the companies have different philosophies. Big “G” believes in simplicity and it’s homepage is a mark of it, while at Yahoo! they want the homepage to be your eternal lookout for everything, yes Twitter, Facebook, Search, News, Entertainment, Everything. Yahoo! constantly stresses that Google needs to “diversify” if it wants to retain it’s market, and that’s what Yahoo is doing with multiple partnerships with leading social networks, portals and lot more.

Here’s a piece of Yahoo’s 85 Million Dollar marketing campaign, the commercial is straight from Yahoo!’s heart. BTW i kinda like the tune they’ve used! Video down after.

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