If someone questions your nifty web apps with, “What about Blackberry users?” Ask them back politely, “What is Blackberry?”

@ialexs

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia

Software piracy in Indonesia went up in 2010 according to a study by IDC. The research claimed a record 87 percent of applications installed on computers in Indonesia are pirated.

This 1 percent increase over 2009 figures actually caused a significant increase in monetary losses to software companies from $886 million to $1.32 billion. In 2003 the losses amounted to a relatively small $157 million.

Nvidia CEO explains slow Honeycomb tablet sales

“It’s a point of sales problem. It’s an expertise problem. It’s a marketing problem to consumers. It’s a price point problem,“ he reportedly said, adding: "And it’s a software richness of content problem.” – Jen-Hsun Huang

Honeycomb tablets are chock full of problems. In the meantime, iPads continue to dominate tablet sales, mindshare, and discussions despite its lack of availability.

Nvidia CEO explains slow Honeycomb tablet sales

Has Instagram decided which logo it wants to go with?

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Day 108. Morning surprise.

If you aren’t willing to disrupt your product, someone else is going to do it instead

@mikeysan

Just about everybody’s linked to this epic review of Color on the US App Store by someone who goes by the name Ghostmoth and you’re more likely to have read it since it went up a few days ago.

What’s the fuss? The fact that the team behind Color got $41 million in seed funding from a number of investors while the app so far has caused nothing but confusion among its users. TechCrunch is clearly obsessed by the startup, they’ve devoted a week’s worth of coverage to it.

Here’s the link to Mike Cohen’s original post on his discovery of the review but if you’d rather read it in its full glory, here’s a screenshot of the entire description from the App Store on iTunes on my Flickr account.

Creative writing has reached another high this past weekend.

160 users in three months, 200 million in 5 years

Twitter only had 160 users after three months but they were sending up to 1000 messages per day, or roughly 6 messages per person per day. Of course, the whole thing didn’t really start to catch on until March 2007 at SXSW. That’s when they started to get thousands of users.

160 users in three months, 200 million in 5 years