Links 1-31-11: Android wins!, Snooze your gMails, Quora
Top of the Interwebs:
Android has made notable market progress in their latest reports. Google’s OS now claims the top spot in smartphone sales and went from less then 10% to 22% of the tablet market. With their the new Honeycomb due to come out soon, it’s no doubt that the iPad will soon be given a run for its money.
Self-aggrandizement:
I ask you what publications should look like on an Android tablet. Then I give some answers. Then I ask again. Someone should post a comment so I’m not just questioning myself…
If you decided to be a normal person this weekend and relaxed, you may have missed out on the crazy stuff happening in Egypt. Don’t worry, I’m not normal, so I have ALL the links that matter from this weekend.
It’s a miracle (tool)!
I always need new tools to manage my e-mail and the one I’ve always prayed for is the ability to snooze my e-mails. IT HAS COME!
Worth looking at today:
Holy shit… everyone is yelling about Quora and how it is or isn’t awesome and is or isn’t a blogging service. Then it just degenerated into how everyone hates Robert Scoble… which is really just what happens to every web startup.
On the less geeky OMGs (literally, because apparently Yahoo has a site called that) Bristol Palin got dropped from some speaking engagement. Which I guess is a huge snub. Maybe DC will un-invite Snooki too.
Wonkette summarizes the latest poll that promises good things for Bloomberg’s presidential run and bad things for the British. Read this so you don’t have to watch the banal CNN broadcast about it tomorrow morning.
Motorola continues to hilariously tweak Apple via advertising.
American TV people have good things to say about Al-Jazeera. (As they should.)
The things you should have read on the weekend:
It’s not Twitter or Facebook, It’s the power of the Network.
10 more reasons why parents should not send their kids to college.