GigaOM founder and award-winning journalist, Om Malik. mastermagazines here. Award-winning journalist Om Malik leveraged years of tech and business media experience -- senior editor at Forbes.com, senior writer at "Red Herring" and later "Business 2.0," and contributor to "The Wall Street Journal," "The Economist," and "MIT Technology Review" -- to found leading indie tech weblog GigaOM, back in 2006. Offering opinion and news on startups, social media, cloud computing, mobile gadgets, and of course, software, Malik's CNET Blog 100-recognized Web magazine has since spawned numerous conferences such as GigaOM Structure (cloud computing and Internet infrastructure), GigaOM Mobilize (everything mobile), GigaOM Roadmap (the intersection of design, UX, and UI), and paidContentLIVE (the business of content). Now, GigaOM's founder talks to Download.com about the programs that keep him connected, organized, and entertained even. What are your top software and why? Instagram, TweetBot, Camera Plus, Square Wallet, and Foursquare. New Review: Typinator. I love those applications because i use them all the right time. Trailer Online Star Wars Watch here. Twitter and Instagram are my two favorite social platforms and I prefer the TweetBot app, mostly as the ability is had by it to sync across various platforms (iPhone, iPad, and Mac.) Camera is my favorite picture iphone app as it allows me to take pictures and edit them. Foursquare is what I use to find interesting places to try, especially when I am not in San Francisco. Wallet, because it is the simplest way to pay. I can't wait for more outlets to start out accepting Square Wallet. On my iPad, I also like Sonos, Kindle, and Netflix apps, but then who doesn't? Do you remember the first iphone app you ever downloaded? What made you choose that particular one? I can't remember, to be honest. internetpersonal. Of the earliest apps, I can only remember Angry Tweetie and Birds. Do any applications are being used by you to stay organized? First Look video: Air Mouse for iPhone 1.5. Which kinds and how do you are helped by them? I use Drafts and Wunderlist. Other productivity programs are mostly default apps: Mail, Cal, etc. If you were stranded on a desert island, and could only use one app, which would it be and why? Instagram. Obviously. Instagram: If Malik had to narrow it down to one. Which software do you use to distract yourself on a long flight? Java J2me 240X320 Games Free Download here. Any guilty pleasures? Kindle. It is the only time I get to read without being disturbed. I love other magazine apps, though none of the mainstream stuff. I like Surface magazine. I like Port Magazine's app. Is there an application that you think is one to watch? Well, since programs come and go so fast, I would says Dots from Betaworks is my current "one to watch," though it could be something else very soon. While my first screen doesn't change much, the second screen is an exercise in experimentation essentially, un-launched products mostly. Are there any interesting trends that you're noticing in app development? magazinestracker there. I think we are going to see far more software that do "predictive" computing and it is an area to watch. I think Google Now is showing the real way but there is a lot more fun stuff coming, and we shall see it come to market at rapid speed.
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