This week we learned of Facebook’s internal project (code-named Buffy) to build a Facebook Phone. Much of the tech press laughed: it’s too late! It’s too crowded! Facebook isn’t a hardware company! And so on.

If you read me regularly, you know that I have a major pet peeve around unoptimized (and often dysfunctional) mobile experiences. So often mobile is treated an extension of the web experience and that results …

A Dogpatch Labs NYC and Polaris-backed startup, Mixel launched this morning. Using the iPad – Mixel lets you make, share and remix collages in a whole new way. You can download it in the app …

In the last month alone, I have purchased three books on the Amazon Kindle store (I use the Kindle app on the iPad)… had Amazon’s new Kindle Lending Library program been live, I would have …

Google has rolled out a new Chrome homepage that allows users to toggle between “most visited” websites and Chrome Applications. It also creates a navigational panel at the page’s footer.

Amazon finds a promotional ad unit they like… and they stick to it. I’ve written before about Amazon effectively selling the “buy / create once, access anywhere” tagline. It’s simple and it speaks to:

Below is a screenshot of HBO Go’s iPad App. It’s gorgeous, fun and highly dynamic.
It represents the shift of paid content to mobile: HBO Go, ESPN Watch, Netflix, Hulu, etc.

Notice anything about the below screenshot of a Twitter search? Only two of the tweets actually contain the search query (“Peyton Hillis”)…. but all of the returned tweets are relevant and discuss “Peyton Hillis” on …

Speed and computing power are the major iPhone 4S upgrade.
But Siri is the real innovation and marketing ‘sexiness’.

The most important part about Facebook’s new iOS apps that they unveiled yesterday? For starters, the app actually works and I had given up using Facebook for iPhone (which failed 90+% of the time.

When Amazon announced the new Kindle product line and the $199 Kindle Fire – I declared that Amazon did more than introduce a disruptive product… they changed the non-iPad market with remarkably disrupitive pricing:

I am a sports nut. That shouldn’t be news if you follow me here or on Twitter / Facebook. I also spend my professional life on the web and looking at new technologies. In part …