Author Archives: Jose Miguel Cansado

Thank You Steve Jobs

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A genius. Thank you for making the World a better place and inspire millions of people.

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Google TV should turn into Chrome TV

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Chrome has revolutionized web browsing. It has evolved the web in 3 years more than in the previous 10. ChromeOS, though, has failed to challenge the PC and laptop status quo, in part because it was conceived before the iPad … Continue reading →

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[Chart] Search Vs. Discovery

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

  The chart via Business Insider seems conclusive on the Google versus Facebook war of who is more relevant for online advertisers. When people want to buy something they go first to Google. Full stop. If I want to buy a … Continue reading →

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Is Google that good? or Microsoft that bad?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Comparing Chrome and IE9, I can only wonder whether Google engineers are genius, or Microsoft has lost its edge. I fell in love with Chrome since it launched in 2008. It was so much faster, with a minimalist design, the … Continue reading →

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It is Time to Phase Out Nuclear Power

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It is easy to be against nuclear in the middle of the Fukushima crisis following the earthquake in Japan. It seems opportunistic. But it is not. It is just that a nuclear accident HAS happened. If anything can go wrong, … Continue reading →

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Who said the iPad was not for creation?

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

See the new iMovie and GarageBand apps that were launched at the iPad 2 special event, and you can not longer think that iPad is good just to consume content. (See demos around minute 40 to 60). Music creation and … Continue reading →

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Copying Is Not Theft

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It can not be explained better.

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Disruption: Technology or Business Model? Definitively, not Laws

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com, according to the quarterly results just released. For every 100 paperback sold, Amazon sold 115 Kindle books For every 100 hardcover sold, Amazon sold 300 Kindle … Continue reading →

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Why Google Acquires Widevine?

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

W3C’s HTML5 FAQ page might give some clues (see screenshot) about why Google buys Widevine, a DRM vendor that powers Netflix among others. What if Google adds DRM to HTML5 video? Google did something similar when they bought On2 and open-sourced … Continue reading →

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HTML5 and Netflix

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Netflix explains in this post how they use HTML5 for their UI frontend and logic HTML5 brings to the table, the freedom to create rich, dynamic and interactive experiences for any platform with a web browser. In fact, we’re also … Continue reading →

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