December 2010
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“App developers are watching what platforms make the most money. So, if you want...”
– Dear dad, don’t listen to my cheapskate brothers about iPad apps — Scobleizer
Great point made in three sentences.
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“App developers are watching what platforms make the most money. So, if you want...”
– Dear dad, don’t listen to my cheapskate brothers about iPad apps — Scobleizer
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Mac and iPhone-friendly alternatives to Delicious... →
Wherein I round up a bunch of services and apps that are good havens for Yahoo refugees who want smooth, integrated experiences, not just Web apps.
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I like this new trend of keeping a single ad in... →
Link goes to a fairly involved Salon piece about a spat between Glenn Greenwald and Wired, but I’ve noticed it at other publications.
iggyp asked: Where can Ivey that "Don't Panic" wallpaper? :)
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Interesting stats from Mac mini Colocation →
They’re hosting the Reeder ripoff page since it got fireballed, so they shared a few stats: 46mb/s of traffic is taxing 19% RAM and 16% CPU on the Mac mini.
MobileRSS 3.0 for iPad carbon copies Reeder's... →
Pretty lame move.
Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for... →
via Chris Foresman
iggyp asked: Where can Ivey that "Don't Panic" wallpaper? :)
“A total fear of failure permeates the ranks. Netflix basically gives you a...”
– Netflix - Netflix: Culture of Fear | Glassdoor.com
A scathing review of Netflix’s corporate culture from a supposed former (and obviously anonymous) manager.
via Randall Bennett
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Fox News Comments →
“In my experience, entrepreneurs moving into Yahoo! often got stuck doing...”
– Chad Dickerson, former Yahoo developer evangelist and the current CTO of Etsy - Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed - TechCrunch
There are a ton of great ideas behind many of our beloved Internet apps and services. But as we watch old media struggle to...
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The Onion names the iPad as one of the "Most... →
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Tron: Legacy
Absorbing Pixar has clearly taught Disney nothing about telling digestible stories or how to pace believable character development. Pretty movie, though.
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Tumblr adds editorial layer to tagged pages like... →
Tumblr has apparently begun adding an editorial layer to its tag pages, starting with #fashion and #news (and others?). You’ve been able to track any tag you want in your Tumblr dashboard for a long time, but these tag pages now have a short list of editors who are presumably curating the page. Note the “On Our Radar,” “Popular,” and “Everything”...
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Delicious blog » What’s Next for Delicious? →
A “Chris” responds on Delicious’s official blog to press coverage that Yahoo is canning the service. Turns out Delicious should live on, as it sounds like Yahoo is entertaining buyout offers. In fact: “there’s no reason to panic. We are maintaining Delicious and encourage you to keep using it,” Chris writes, though “we have export options if you so...
“What the tablet does, for the first time, is let us hit the reset button on the...”
– Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard, in Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times
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“Do you even realize what you have with Flickr? It’s the largest well organized...”
– An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. - Thomas Hawk
This is the problem with so many CEOs that are shipped in to fix an ailing company. Most of the time, you’re lucky if they actually use the products. They typically don’t know much, if anything, about the company, its...
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US Military bans removable media again, this time... →
Under penalty of court-martial if personnel fail to comply.
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“Just got a crapware notification for QuickOffice on the Droid X. That’s a...”
– Nilay Patel
But hey: OPEN!!!
Major tech manufacturers to drop VGA by 2015,... →
Not kidding: I chuckled out loud (COLed?) when I read this. My mother-in-law’s eight-ish year-old Dell has a VGA port and I thought the industry caught up to putting this silly thing out to pasture years ago. Now it’s only planning to do so five years from now? Ugh.
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“I’m pretty confident I’ll never buy another MP3 player that isn’t also a...”
– Nothing Is Forever: Tech Products I’ll Never Buy Again - Technologizer
It’s an interesting checklist to compare with your own buying plans.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Movie Trailers →
Comes out on the five-year anniversary of the day I married Jessi. It’s a sign. I don’t know from who, or what it means, but it’s a sign.
And I’ll tell you right now that if you leave a comment hating on Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, I reserve every right to nuke it from orbit and never send you a Christmas card. Ever.
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Enslaved: A game worth watching | Pens and Paws →
My wife Jessi on watching me play Enslaved, not just a fun PS3 game, but one refreshingly rich in writing, story telling, and voice acting.
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I don’t understand why most big tech companies besides Apple bother to go through with press conferences anymore. They announce a conference, but leak everything interesting days, weeks, or months ahead. Aside from a few recent exceptions, pre-conference, Apple-related leaks are usually a Mr. Blurrycam shot of a logic board or some dingbat’s bad Photoshop job for a rejected school...
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Google Voice Blog: Call credits for military... →
Google partnered with Blue Star Families and Sesame Street to offer military families 30-60 minutes of free overseas Google Voice calling.
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Xmarks Blog » LastPass Acquires Xmarks! →
Great to see Xmarks get a second life. It’s a great service that doesn’t really have a competitor, and I’m glad to know I can continue using it.
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“It seems odd that Microsoft would consider helping developers build apps with...”
– Microsoft extends olive branch to Windows Phone 7 unlockers | Boy Genius Report
Knock knock, Apple. Anybody home?
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Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers... →
Google responds to this New York Times story from David Segal which documented the search engine ranking success that one one online merchant, Decor My Eyes, has had. Instead of aspiring to treating customers like human beings, Decor My Eyes has managed to rocket to the top of search results by being an asshole to customers and, in some cases, even stalking and physically threatening them.
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Google launches official Google Reader app for... →
This is becoming a trend. The iPhone has no shortage of Google Reader clients. But now Google is debuting more of its native apps and new features first for Android, with no mention of the iPhone, Windows Phone 7, or BlackBerry.