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What should we make of Blink, Google’s new rendering engine?
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There is a clear trend with mobile phones that they just get bigger and bigger. Here’s my thing: I want a small smartphone. I…
Forget Inbox Zero, here’s how you actually go about getting things done
People are always on the hunt for efficiency and control over the massive information flow they’re facing, and the latest fix for actually getting…
What’s the real value of a Facebook Like?
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Voice assistants: who actually wants to talk to their phone?
In a world of communicating with our devices, voice control seem to have gotten a lot of attention. But is that really what we…
Society’s dilemma: mobile versus social
Reading the heading, you’re probably thinking: “It’s a typo, it should be ‘Mobile and Social’”. But no. What I wanted to talk about is…
A critical view of social media campaigns
This morning, we were talking about the KONY 2012 movement, various reactions around it and how easy we share things without even looking at…
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