The Blog of Janis Krums

Cisco which bought Pure Digital, the makers of Flip in 2009 for $590 million, have announced that they are shutting down the HD camera maker. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner. The writing was on the wall once the iPhone and other Android devices had video capabilities. Flips niche disappeared and they became irrelevant. Flip [...]

Look at Facebook/Twitter (and any other service) as property that you rent, you have control of it, but if the landlord wants to make changes or upgrades you dont have much control over what he does. Where as your website should be looked at as property that you own, you have final say over what happens in and around it.

An interesting phenomenon is happening with geo-location based applications.

Let’s dive into all the reasons that I will not buy one and then see the positives that will come out of the release.