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Problem with Tumblr

For all the updates and improvements made to the Tumblr app, they removed any and all abilities to share existing posts elsewhere. You can’t grab a link to a post from the app unless you’re accessing the dashboard from a browser. That sucks.

This behavior contrasts with the latest update to Vine which now lets you share other people’s Vine videos from the app to Twitter or Facebook and even grab the direct links as well as the embed codes.

Of course, Vine doesn’t yet have 100 million active accounts and has far more to gain by expanding the reach of its videos to other places so more people know about it and hopefully adapt the service. Tumblr, well, it doesn’t need that sort of strategy actively implemented any longer.

I wonder why some online services and networks, like Facebook and Google+, become silos once they reach a particular threshold. – Read on Path.

I want iOS to be modernized a bit more

The lack of gesture support on the iPod touch and iPhone makes for an awkward moment when you’re far more used to using the iPad which has a greater range of gesture recognition.

Not being able to do things like switching between apps simply by swiping from the side edges of the screen as opposed to a four finger swipe on the iPad or closing the app by pushing up from the bottom of the screen makes these tall screen devices feel rather quaint and underdeveloped.

I realize that Apple can be both revolutionary and conservative with regards to introducing interface features but after more than five and a half years of iOS, it needs a little more of the modern abilities not just to compete with offerings from other platform providers but also as a milestone in its own software development roadmap.

As it stands, the iPhone remains a safe bet for consumers who don’t want to have to learn too many new things as its comes with arguably the easiest and simplest mobile OS to learn and use.

I’ve got high hopes for Jony Ive to reboot iOS. – Read on Path.

About BlackBerry data usage

A Telkomsel executive said BlackBerry users typically use 200MB of data per month thanks to the data compression in use by BlackBerry Internet Service. If they pay Rp 5000/day, that’s 150k/month. If I pay 150k per month, I expect to get more than 5GB of data allowance per month since I currently pay 100k/month for 3.6GB for my general mobile data usage.

Same executive also said he expects BlackBerry data usage to grow to an average of 600MB per subscriber beginning with the Z10. And current BlackBerry users worry that they’re gonna have to pay more for data per month if they switch to BlackBerry 10?

Really. – Read on Path.

I now have a reason to take this iPad absolutely everywhere I walk. This is a free app called Moves. It tracks your position and movements throughout the day and calculates the number of steps you’ve taken on a daily basis. It it knows whether you’ve walked, run, cycled, or taken a motorized transport.

I had this app installed a few days ago and completely forgot about it until just now. It helps you remember where you’ve been, how you got there and for how long. While it doesn’t know the names of the places you’ve been, you can input that info based on Foursquare data.

It’s actually an iPhone app so it runs on the iPad in iPhone format. – View on Path.

Samsung’s Galaxy poses a threat to Android

The fact that Samsung does not mention Google or Android in any of its promotional material for its mobile devices should tell you something. Its Galaxy branding is so powerful, by the time Tizen is ready to roll out carrying tens of thousands of apps on Samsung Apps, people might care less that it doesn’t run Google’s Android because they have a Galaxy device. – Read on Path.

Thought via Path

Forgot I have iA Writer on the Mac. The lack of an always connected iPad kind of added to that problem. This mini is probably going to let me be more productive since I won’t have to worry about lack of connection but more importantly, it’s so much lighter and smaller than that old first generation iPad that I can type a lot faster and more comfortably.

I can’t understand why Apple doesn’t have TextEdit for the iPad which would let people switch between the Mac and the iPad or iPhone a lot more seamlessly. For those who want more complex layout, collaboration, and formatting ability, there’s Pages, but those who just need to hammer out words, we need a simpler cloud-based app. iA Writer is the perfect app for that.

Apple probably squandered an opportunity there, but then it would have taken sales away from Pages. – Read on Path.

Thought via Path

In terms of hardware Nokia is arguably in its most innovative period since it went in to the phone business but people simply don’t trust Windows Phone enough to make it a viable option. Today’s announcements would have had consumers raving if Nokia were still a big player. It’s low end phones are even more amazing. – Read on Path.

Dear PR People

I know Cision has however many hundreds of thousands of phone numbers of reporters, but don’t call any of them. Don’t call them ever. Don’t call them unless they say “call me” and then give you a number. No, I know you sent them an email. No, I know you didn’t get a response to it. No, I know they didn’t respond to your follow-up. Don’t call them. No, I know your boss said to call them, don’t do it. Don’t.

Don’t call or even send me a text message. One way to seriously piss me off is for you to somehow get a hold of my number and contact me through there. Don’t listen to Nike. Don’t do it. I don’t store your phone number, you don’t store mine. If I somehow give you my phone number out of my own insanity, don’t even think of saving it. It’s useless. I will never pick up your phone calls and I will never reply to your text messages. There will be no communication through a phone number. My phone number is not for work.

We’ve seen time and time again that culturally relevant content achieves engagement at much greater scale than that which is forced. So, all the brands suggesting hashtags and slapping platform logos on the end of their commercials are better off tuning into CNN or ESPN for inspiration to create something people will actually care about.

Mike Mikho for AdAge
Source: adage.com

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