Four things we’d like to see in the next iOS

Widgets: I’m not too hot on this, not a big fan of widgets getting in the way on the homescreens. Prefer to see Dashboard style widgets where you double tap the homescreen to see the activity dock and you find widgets on the unused space above it. And you can swipe that unused space sideways to see more screens.

Settings: This is smart. Shortcuts for the most used Settings item acting like folders to reveal the options available for it.

Notifications: Nice. Could work with my widgets idea, combined to increase the use of the two layers of screens. The thumbnail view of the app would be a cool option to have but it certainly would eat up more processor cycle and memory. There’s Mobile Notifier for jailbroken iPhones and its developer was recently picked up by Apple to work in Cupertino.

Favorite Friends: Useless as far as my usage is concerned. I don’t contact people through their phone numbers that often so the phone app is one of my least used app. Hardly ever text them either. For those who still use the iPhone the traditional way though, it could be useful. Reminds me of Matt Gemmell’s Favorites app.

BBC News – Entrepreneurs ‘most supported’ in Indonesia

Surprised to see Indonesia on top. I have my reservations about the results but I’ll probably elaborate on DailySocial soon.

BBC News – Entrepreneurs ‘most supported’ in Indonesia

Groupon’s IPO will be mailed out to daily email subscribers once it ruthlessly negotiates 50-90% off its own initial share price.

@phillryu

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.

IDC: $1.32 billion worth of pirated software in Indonesia

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

lydiawantstodraw:

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.