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Thursday Night Thoughts

At least on my side of the net, the day was mostly driven by FriendFeed really taking off (which lead me to spend a lot of time adding people to my network there). It almost seems as if all the SxSW goes have returned and started looking for something new. I hope a lot of them stay around.

But there was also some other news – here are the items that stood out for me:

AOL is buying Bebo: I guess it doesn’t matter to me much and even though it is the Techmeme headline for the day, it doesn’t really seem to get too much play in the blogosphere beyond the ever incessant repetition of the news, either.

Windows 7 is coming in 2010: Not really much news either. Did anybody think there wasn’t going to be a next version of Windows?

David Pogue loves the new iPhone software: what else is new? In the comments, David says he doesn’t love the new software.

Google Sky has launched: Somewhere, in a quiet corner, Robert Scoble is weeping.

Phillipp Lenssen sums up all the Google Tools that have quietly disappeared over the years – interesting stuff.

[...] over at The Last Podcast posted his Thursday Night Thoughts, and mentioned his and the blogosphere’s general apathy over the AOL acquisition of Bebo. I [...]

“David Pogue loves the new iPhone software: what else is new?”

That remark is objectionable for two reasons. First, the new iPhone software doesn’t even exist yet, so how could I know if I love it or not?

My column is a reaction to Apple *opening up* the iPhone to software written by OTHER PEOPLE (not Apple). And that won’t happen until June.

Second, you make it sound as though I give Apple a free ride, and that’s just not true. I always ding Apple where it’s deserved. Here are 40 examples to get you started:

http://www.davidpogue.com/bio_photos/fanboy.html

–David Pogue

Thanks for the comment David – I will link to it from the article.

However, in your column you do say:

That’s because last week, Apple announced iPhone 2.0. It’s not a new phone model (although that will be coming this year, too)—it’s new software for the existing phone [update: and for the iPod Touch!]. And in my considered opinion, it will be an even bigger deal than the iPhone itself.

and:

The release of iPhone 2.0 is over three months away, but I’ll stick my neck out and make a prediction: it will be a gigantic success.

That sounds quite loving to me.

However, I know you are not an Apple fanboi, but my “x x thoughts” pieces are usually a bit tongue-in-cheek. Didn’t want to offend you.