The best iPhone blogging apps of 2011
Being a blogger may not be as difficult as being a firefighter or a doctor or even an accountant, but that doesn’t mean bloggers don’t need some help from time to time. Whether in need of inspiration for story ideas, or simply dying for ways to actually get their posts up, there were plenty of apps in 2011 that catered to the blogging crowd. Here are my picks for the five best apps for bloggers in 2011.
Pinterest (Free)
Blogging took many forms in 2011 but Pinterest, an app that takes what Tumblr started on the web and brings it to iOS, might be the most fascinating of the bunch going forward. Like Tumblr, the emphasis in Pinterest is on brevity. A picture with a brief caption fits the bill on a Pinterest post. But instead of posting a funny picture and calling it a day, the Pinterest app creates a collage of the things the user likes. As if the song “My Favorite Things” was turned into an app.
The app’s added social element — allowing users to re-pin and comment on things they liked from other people’s pages — completes the social cycle for this new kind of blogging. Long winded opinions are out, and showing off pictures of your new kicks are in. Read more...
Apple inspires Oracle on hardware-software combo strategy
Oracle's strategy of launching hardware-plus-software appliances - known as engineered systems - finds inspiration in the successes of Apple, according to the database giant's CEO Larry Ellison.
The company launched its first engineered systems with the Exadata database machine and middleware system Exalogic some years ago, subsequently adding Database Appliance and Exalytics in recent weeks. During his keynote at the company's annual OpenWorld event, Ellison cited Cupertino's approach to making both hardware and software inhouse. Read more...