Get short, timely messages from Benedict Evans.

Twitter is a rich source of instantly updated information. It's easy to stay updated on an incredibly wide variety of topics. Join today and follow @BenedictEvans.

Get updates via SMS by texting follow BenedictEvans to 40404 in the United States
Codes for other countries

Two-way (sending and receiving) short codes:
Country Code For customers of
Australia
  • 0198089488 Telstra
Canada
  • 21212 (any)
United Kingdom
  • 86444 Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
Indonesia
  • 89887 AXIS, 3, Telkomsel
Ireland
  • 51210 O2
India
  • 53000 Bharti Airtel, Videocon
Jordan
  • 90903 Zain
New Zealand
  • 8987 Vodafone, Telecom NZ
United States
  • 40404 (any)

BenedictEvans

  1. Ironic that Facebook and Google IPOs were both fiascos despite taking opposite approaches. Though doesn't actually matter to either of them
  2. @christianhern you don't need Acrobat
  3. Jubilee decorations on the Thames twitter.com/BenedictEvans/…
  4. @christianhern use built-in mail, contacts and calendar instead of outlook, if possible. Check out Soulver, Evernote and twitterrific
  5. @alexvans Try the coronation chicken gelato. Carefully.
  6. LinkedIn reminds me of Craigslist - a mediocre web 1.0 product protected by network effects from competition from actual good products
  7. I do get irritated by the gap between Reid Hoffman's rhetoric and reputation and the lazy web 1.0 product that is LinkedIn
  8. @maoxian for a while
  9. LinkedIn UX is disintegrating. Opening links on mobile redirects to the login for the mobile app - no way to see the content I asked for
  10. @andrewchen @pkedrosky Apple sells devices for $650 ASP. Everything else is aimed at supporting that. So yes, crazy.
  11. ia601206.us.archive.org/6/items/gov.us… "Apple admits that absent the agency agreements, it would not have entered eBook distribution"
  12. @thismademecool journalism.co.uk/news/21m-page-…
  13. @degusta I suspect Nokia had that 10 years ago. Always strong on that sort of thing.
  14. @ericjackson How did you get Alex Baldwin to stand in for you?
  15. Mail Online's iPhone app has 214k daily average uniques & 21m daily app page impressions: 98 page impressions per user per day. Wow.
  16. If there is nothing interesting to do at a company, no-one interesting will work there. This rapidly becomes self-re-enforcing.
  17. The ways that handset subsidies might change (retailers, banks, OEMs) are far more interesting than the idea they might go away entirely
  18. @DigitalMasala yes, but that didn't disrupt their revenue model. Unbundling pay TV, on the other hand…
  19. journalism.co.uk/news/21m-page-… Is the Mail Online iPhone app really getting 98 PV/day/user? That's a lot of bikini shots cc @jamesbromley