Linked List: November 26, 2010

Friday, 26 November 2010

Switch — Multi-User Web Browser for iPad ★

Sort of like fast user switching for iPad web browsing — might be just the thing for shared family iPads. One buck, cheap.

LA Times Feature on Microsoft’s Retail Stores ★

Nathan Olivarez-Giles reporting for the Los Angeles Times:

John Smits of San Clemente bought a laptop at the Mission Viejo store, lured by a discount he found out about on Facebook. But he said the Microsoft Store lacked the exclusivity that draws consumers to the Apple Store.

“Everything sold here can be bought somewhere else, likely for a lower price,” Smits said. “There is no exclusive product here to pull me in. But at the Apple Store, there’s all kinds of stuff I can’t get anywhere else.”

Interesting consumer perspective. It gets to the heart of the problem with Microsoft’s copycat retail strategy: they’ve created Apple-like stores but have almost no Apple-like products of their own. Just Xbox.

Speaking at Webstock 2011 ★

I’m delighted to be heading to New Zealand to speak at Webstock this February. What a speaker lineup — looks like a great conference. I’ve got a few friends who’ve attended Webstock before, and they each rave about it.

Tom the Dancing Bug: A Security Issue at the Office ★

“As you know, somebody stole peanut butter from my jar in the break room’s fridge.”

The Talk Show, Episode 18 ★

What better way to celebrate a long holiday weekend than with a new episode of The Talk Show, wherein Dan Benjamin and I talk about the Samsung Galaxy Tab? This week’s show was sponsored by Rackspace OpenStack (open source, open standards cloud computing platform) and Camera Plus Pro (an iPhone camera app with a slew of cool filters and effects — for photos and video).

Apple’s Black Friday Shopping Event ★

All sorts of discounts, including iMacs and MacBooks for $100 off.