20 Oct 2009

The iPhone Gets a Solid Video Editor

Given my mobile lifestyle, slowly but surely my iPhone is becoming my primary computer. I just finished a seven-day, five-city business trip where all I took was my phone. If call goes according to plan I have hopefully taken the last trip where you will see me toting a laptop.

My phone is already chock full of all kinds of useful apps that make this all possible. However, there remain two that are missing: a good PowerPoint document editor (Documents to Go handles Word and Excel files just fine) and a video editing tool. The latter issue just got solved with ReelDirector. Check out the demo below for more. It looks terrific.

26 Sep 2009

Debate: Can You Still Build a Profitable Blog?

Earlier this week I appeared on Canadian TV (specifically BNN.ca) where I discussed blogging vs. lifestreaming with Lainey Lui of Laineygossip.com and eTalk. During the interview I maintained that it's difficult today to build a profitable blog since many of the big niches are taken. Lainey disagreed. What's your view?

25 Sep 2009

The Pitch: Alan Warms of Appolicious

Alan Warms, CEO of Appolicious, stopped by my office today to give me a rundown of his site - a social network for mobile apps. Right now it's just for iPhone apps, but they will be expanding soon to cover Android and Blackberry. For more see this short video. It's an interesting concept, although I would be eager to see them do more to connect to Facebook and to bring the social network to the iPhone - which is in the works.

28 Aug 2009

Screencast: Google Reader Isn't Just for News, It's Also an Awesome Database


Think RSS is dead? Think it's too slow for the age of streams? Perhaps that's true for news. But have you ever considered using Google Reader as a private database? In this screencast I will show you how I do just that. This is why, for some like Marshall, RSS still remains essential.
24 Aug 2009

Video: Mr. Kawasaki's Wild Ride


You might think Guy Kawasaki lives a sweet life. Well maybe he does, but he still drives a beat-up Toyota Sienna mini van. I took a ride in it today in Palo Alto where we caught up on Alltop and its growth and had a laugh or two. I am a fan of Alltop and, now that I survived the ride, one of these days I will set up my own My Alltop page.
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