Why do I use Foursquare, I’ve been asked this question several times. The service that wants you to tell others where you are makes little sense to many. I don’t blame them. I never started using Foursquare to tell others where I was, on the contrary to know where I was. It’s data for me. Where I was, with whom I was, what was I doing. When did I see a specific film, which restaurant I was at when I was traveling to a new city. These aspects of my life that I want to look back at. These are memories captured in time through technologies like GPS, a smart phone, 3G and services like Facebook or Foursquare.
Shooting Themselves In The Foot
While I slept back in Bombay, Microsoft announced two very interesting applications. One of them was the SkyDrive app for Windows Phone 7 and iOS; the other was Kinectimals for iOS and the Xbox app for iOS. This much iOS love in the same week where OneNote now supports the iPad and rumors of an actual Office version for the iPad.
Apple Copies UX Gesture For iOS, Fails Miserably
Link-bait headline? Well, wth. My membership of the World Consortium of Bloggers Who Call Themselves Journalists allows me three each month; I’m encahsing on one. With that aside, I came across a tip that I can swipe on the camera app in iOS5 and access the photo library–something that was not possible earlier. Apple’s scorecard of WP7 inspirations and being a Windows Phone user using an iPhone, my first reaction was Apple copied Microsoft.
iOS5 vs WP7
So I got an iPhone 4S and here’s me trying out Siri vs TellMe and a few small things between the two platforms. This isn’t a lengthy video and there’s a ton of stuff I could’ve talked about but that wasn’t the point.
The TellMe video I mentioned in the video can be found here.
Microsoft May Be Tweaking Windows Phone Search, Here’s What It Should Be
In Windows Phone 7, the Search button is part of Microsoft’s bigger plans. While Eric Schmidt might say Google’s not dominant in search, Microsoft knows they have a long way to go with Bing. In Mango, Microsoft’s bigger plans with Bing started to show—Bing Vision, Music Search and Local Scout.