Google Allo: yet another messaging app

Google announced Allo, its new messaging app, at I/O back in May, and launched it last week. I didn’t rush to download it because, frankly, I don’t need another messaging app. Right now on my phone I have Hangouts, which works well with my Gmail contacts, which are the majority of the people I want to …

Follow up Monday: LinkedIn’s Reference Search & Facebook’s news feed

A short update for two companies I often write about, LinkedIn and Facebook, and some product news for each. First up is LinkedIn. An article in the NY Times described a product that LinkedIn offers corporate recruiters (for a fee) called “Reference Search.” It looks up people with employment locations and dates identical to a …

The Case For Aereo

The Supreme Court is going to hear the case brought by the American Broadcasting Companies against Aereo, an evidently extremely disruptive start-up that places thousands of antennas around the US to capture local broadcasts and then stream those broadcasts to individual, paying customers. I understand why the cable/satellite companies hate this model: it allows more …