Is Apple’s new iPad a game changer or just a shiny new toy for Apple fans? What games will it change (if any)? What niche does it fill and what impact will it have for business? Quick News – Apple, Hulu, Blockbuster. Web Strategy & Marketing News & Tips.
Show notes. Here are the links we discussed in the podcast:
- iPad Day In Numbers: 300k Devices Sold, 1 Million Apps And 250k iBooks Downloaded
(TechCrunch) - Kleiner Perkins Doubles The iFund To $200 Million, Ready To Fund iPad App Makers (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Don’t Forget, The JooJoo Won A ‘Most Brilliant Product Of The Year’ Award Before Going On To Sell 90 Pre-Orders (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Yelp Changes Site To Make It Less Extortionist (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Digg’s Kevin Rose: DiggBar Is Bad For The Internet, So We’re Killing It (TechCrunch)
- Fox And Sony Throw Blockbuster Another Lifeline (TechCrunch)
- Hulu Turns Profitable, We Eat Crow (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Digg CEO Jay Adelson steps down (Cnet)
- Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) (Boing Boing)
- The iPad and computing’s middle ground (O’Reilly Radar)
- Is iPad a game-changer? (Scripting News)
- The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati (NYTimes)
- Ars Technica reviews the iPad (Ars Technica)
- The iPad Backlash Begins: “After having slept with her, I am having morning-after regrets.” (Silicon Alley Insider)
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