• 16GB Nexus 7 Sold Out on Google Play

    The Verge:

    While the sell-out may be welcomed as good news by Google marketing execs, it’s one more blow to customers eagerly seeking the device — major retailers including GameStop, Staples, and Sam’s Club all sold out of the Nexus 7 on its first day of widespread availability last Friday

    More good news for the Nexus 7. After a (surprisingly?) good review from resident Techcrunch Apple fanboy MG Siegler, now it’s apparently sold out on its own official store as well as conventional brick & mortar store.

    I’m not sure about the use of “Coming Soon” as a marketing statement though. Customer might wonder what has happened to the device, and stocks being sold out might not be the first thing that come to their mind. They might be, in my opinion, better off using “Sold out, stocks coming soon” or increase the predicted shipping time like Apple does when they’re overwhelmed with orders. Increase the hype, why don’t you?

    Also, what is up with those screen problems?

  • The OUYA Will Be Around The Size of a Rubik’s Cube

    Gizmodo is hosting an online Q & A session with the designer of OUYA game console, and he’s got some really interesting answer, especially regarding the size of the main console:

    Q: With digital distribution media becoming more and more popular, do you think the standard tower like shape that is used by the current generation of consoles will continue to be used?

    A: I don’t know what others are doing in the future, but we have made a deliberate attempt to go away from current shapes…our console is quite small, around the size of a Rubik’s cube, and so it will easily fit anywhere in a room, or be easy to throw in a backpack.

    Let me repeat and emphasize that sentence again. The OUYA will be around the size of a Rubik’s cube. Wow. I don’t know if this was widely known already, but i personally tought the size of this thing would be like a gamecube! To know it’s a very small sized console is very cool indeed, and they should’ve emphasized this more in their marketing material.

    Or maybe there’s a reason they don’t want this to be emphasized, just in case?

  • Marissa Mayer’s First Memo

    Kara Swisher got the leak:

    While I have some ideas, I need to develop a more informed perspective before making strategy or direction changes. In the meantime, please do not stop. You are doing important work. Please don’t stop.

    then:

    Please come by my office in building D on the third floor and say hello. I cannot wait to hear your ideas for Yahoo!’s future.

    Nothing really juicy is on the memo, but it’s nice to hear that she seem to welcome any employee who wants to share their ideas to come to her office. Some people on Quora seem to compare her to Steve Jobs for psychological reason that both are trying to revive old giant, but this seem to suggest she’s more the classic ‘open’ & popular type of CEO.