Author Archives: Tomer Tishgarten

IE6 Must Die Movement Requires More Than Google

By: Tomer Tishgarten | Published: February 3, 2010
ShareIt seems that every day that goes by, another one of the user interface developers that I work with talks about how Internet Explorer 6 must die. Granted, they have plenty of justification for why this browser should go away. For example, Internet Explorer (aka, IE6) is “ancient” — it was released in late 2001 [...]
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How to make FourSquare more social

By: Tomer Tishgarten | Published: February 1, 2010
ShareOver the past few months, I’ve been using FourSquare more regularly. FourSquare is a social networking service/game that you can use to track your whereabouts. It is typically accessed via an app on a mobile smartphone (Droid, BlackBerry or iPhone). The idea is that you earn points each time you arrive at a location and [...]
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Recent iPhone sales provide greater reach for mobile marketers

By: Tomer Tishgarten | Published: January 26, 2010
ShareApple has done it yet again. According to the Q1 2010 results (source), consumers snapped up 8.7 Million iPhone devices this past quarter. While a few mobile market analysts feel that Apple missed their sales target (BTW, some expected sales to reach the 9 Million to 11 Million units mark), the growth of the iPhone [...]
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Paying the price to use Twitter

By: Tomer Tishgarten | Published: January 22, 2010
ShareUPDATE: I recently spoke with Joel @Rapleaf and he clarified that the data that Rapleaf collects is not used to deny individuals credit. Instead the information is used by the marketing departments to target potential customers (source). While Twitter is free social media tool, there’s a price that one pays for tweeting. For example, there are [...]
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Fancast Service Needs Some Tweeking

By: Tomer Tishgarten | Published: January 12, 2010
ShareLaunching new services is rarely a silky smooth process, especially for a large enterprise. Take for example my recent “experiment” with Fancast: A few weeks ago, I tweeted about the streaming service from Comcast called Fancast. While other streaming services allow you to watch videos from the major networks, none give you streaming content from premium [...]
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