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This looks very interesting. Get used to mobile only apps: Flipboard, Path…
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Why is Greplin so much slower than CloudMagic?
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The new Vimeo is a beautiful thing.
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Smartr from Xobni
The Smartr Chrome extension is intrusive and confusing. The iPhone app, while beautifully slick, makes too many random decisions about what to display about my contacts that it is unsettling and off putting. A pity because it’s clearly powerful.
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Testing Xobi’s new app Smartr app which appears to be taking on both Rapportive and the upcoming Everyme in the ‘reinventing/ social contacts’ space.
It plugs into Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and there’s a nifty iPhone app too. So far, so slick. Let’s see if it’s actually useful in practice…
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Search me
Had a little peek at DuckDuckGo and it occurred to me that general search is not where the future lies. It seems they have skated to where the puck was, not where it is going.
I sense the puck is heading towards private search of your own data in the cloud. Good examples are the burgeoning Greplin and the super fast CloudMagic. While Google is busy fighting SEO spam and shoving their irrelevant social graph in our faces we’re all happily getting our information filtered by the social graphs and services we actually use every day.
A combination of services (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flipboard, Instapaper, Evernote, Pinboard etc.) and many more like them are now storing, filtering and providing us with better and more refined and useful information.
Google isn’t going anywhere any time soon but they do face a slow and inexorable death by a thousand cuts.
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Egretlist becoming Evernote To Do?
I had a little play about with Egretlist the To Do app from Minds Momentum which Evernote apparently scooped up last year along with Skitch, Notable Meals (which turned into “Food”) and Readable (which became “Clearly”).
It has quite possibly one of the most confusing UIs I’ve ever seen. Let’s hope Evernote rationalises it into something usable before unleashing it on us. I don’t doubt they will given the excellent work on the aforementioned Food and Clearly.
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OK so Evernote is releasing a To-Do app. For many, that’s game over.
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“Things going and to be done: …electrical piano… ink for blind… new expansion pyromagnetic dynamo…” Thomas Edison’s to-do list. (Compare to, say, John Lennon’s and Woody Guthrie’s.)
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I think I’m a neophiliac.
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Path usage has fallen off dramatically and I’ll probably use Instagram again for photos.
Flipboard continues unabated which says something.
Tumblr has surged now I’m doing more of a link blog.
Instapaper is back in action primarily as a publishing tool for articles saved from Flipboard.
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State of the apps
1. Flipboard
2. Orchestra
3. Instapaper
4. Tumblr
5. Evernote
