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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: android

A Programmer Explains Why Android Apps Are Ugly | MIT Technology Review

Why I will not buy another Android phone anytime soon… The opinion of this programmer is worth his weight in gold.  

The role of linker superusers in catalyzing online network evolution

An older study by Kumar et al. looking at Flickr and Yahoo 360 noticed not only the typical 80/20 distribution of connections, but also the social importance of the people in the top 20%. These individuals are the “linkers,” the ones that…

Android Phones Outselling iPhone, BlackBerry – NYTimes.com

My bet is that the iPhone will win this fight… Back in March, I wrote about the increasingly personal fight between Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive, and Eric E. Schmidt, his Google counterpart. In it, I quoted Mr. Jobs saying:…