February 2012
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Some Interesting facts about Mobile Phone Owners... →
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Viavisualoop:
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“Journalists are much better at writing than they are at reading — which means...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
“The content creators with the broadest reach will be the ones who care the least...”
– Felix Salmon, How Sharing Disrupts Media via Wired.com (via stoweboyd)
“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– Rick Bookstaber, The Bifurcated Society (via courtenaybird)
“Weblining describes the practice of denying people opportunities based on their...”
– Lori Andrews, Facebook Is Using You via NYTimes.com (via stoweboyd)
“The creepy factor at [Zynga] comes when they start designing for “behavior”...”
– A former Zynga engineer does an AMA. Wish I could say this is surprising.
I can’t wait until casual gamers become more mature, indie developers figure out how to market actually fun games, and the Zynga world of social gaming falls apart.
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Q: How does the creative process work when you...
“And then Schmidt’s stand-up act: beware billionaires describing technology as...”
– Stowe Boyd • Google Is Now Officially Evil (via mediafuturist)
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“I also think Kickstarter should be used less like a fundraiser and more like a...”
– Julia Nunes, in conversation with American Songwriter. Nicely put, Miss Nunes! Read the rest of the Q&A here. (via kickstarter)
January 2012
77 posts
Wind on a Leaf: Don't wait for Readability's iOS... →
chartier:
Readability is my read-later service of choice these days, partly because of its polished design and clever URL shortener, but primarily because the service lets me directly contribute to the sites I read most. Its official iOS apps have been caught up in App Store review hell for some odd…
Is webOS a cult?
adora:
When the notion of Apple fans as cult members began–it dates at least to the mid-1980s–the company’s customers were indeed a small, obsessive group, at least in comparison to the teeming masses that used PCs running Microsoft software. […] Back then, the fact that there were relatively few Apple enthusiasts, clinging to the products of a company with a questionable future, was supposedly...
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon →
futuramb:
There are lots of ways of publishing content onto the web, and if you look at the relative popularity of, say, WordPress vs Tumblr vs Twitter, then it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the easier you make it to publish, the more popular you’re going to be. But at Tumblr, at least, there’s something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every...
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How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the... →
parislemon:
Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman of Freakonomics discuss the claims that piracy leads to $250 billion a year in loses and 750,000 American jobs lost:
The good news is that the numbers are wrong — as this post by the Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez explains. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report noting that these figures “cannot be substantiated or traced...
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AT&T Punishes Its Customers For T-Mobile Merger... →
parislemon:
GigaOm’s Kevin Fitchard:
After blasting the Federal Communication Commission for “picking winners and losers” in the wireless industry by scrutinizing every deal, Stephenson claimed AT&T is now in a mobile capacity-constrained environment which has forced it to raise prices and manage connection speeds (aka throttle) for its highest volume subscribers.
As I wrote back in...
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Education on a Digital Scale
dbreunig:
Felix Salmon provides us with an update on Sebastian Thrun’s free Stanford class “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”, which wrapped in last year:
Just a couple of datapoints from Thrun’s talk: there were more students in his course from Lithuania alone than there are students at Stanford altogether. There were students in Afghanistan, exfiltrating war zones to grab an hour of...
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“The webOS dev community is so reminiscent of the early Mac dev community. A...”
– From the Enyo forums… (via adora)
“Palm’s problem was that the mobile Web was not ready for devices. We are just...”
– Rise of Mobile Web Apps Will Give webOS A Time to Shine (via adora)
“Journalists, I find, tend to come quite late to sites like Tumblr and Pinterest....”
– How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon (via markcoatney)
“At Sundance, Weinstein Co.’s Bob Weinstein got a first-hand taste of the...”
– Attention, Wall Street Journal archivists: Please file this anecdote under “Things that probably didn’t happen.”
(—The Web’s Growing Muscle - WSJ.com)
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Here's your backup phone →
stevespinello:
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via FastCoDesign:
$50 does seem a teensy bit pricey for the cell-phone equivalent of an MRE, but just like those indestructible emergency rations, the SpareOne can sit in a box for 15 years and still be ready to go when you need it. (Since it runs on an AA, the phone will hold a “charge” as long as the disposable battery itself will.) That works out to a little more...
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The Brilliant "Don't Be Evil" Bookmarklet →
parislemon:
Kudos to Facebook (with some help from Twitter and MySpace) for having the balls to do this. It’s a bookmarklet that replaces Google’s new “People and Pages” area, the hardcoded social search area, and the search completion drop-down, with organic results.
In other words, it makes the new Google behave more like the old Google.
There has been a lot of back and forth in recent...
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[Infographic] What are the Best Times to Blog? →
digital-diva:
By Dan Zarrella
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“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S....”
– In this NYT piece about Apple and why, as much as we love tech companies, they are not the economic drivers in the United States that their industrial brethren are/were. A telling paragraph from the same article:
Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small...
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deltamualpha:
Here’s something that I don’t think a lot of people working in what are euphemistically referred to as “content industries” — books, movies and television of all kinds, and more specifically the delivery of those said items to consumers — are aware of:
Customers don’t care about your excuses.
They don’t want to have to understand what an mpeg4 file is, or that there are two...
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maxistentialist:
New York Times:
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products...
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How the US lost out on iPhone work →
aulia-m:
This incredible investigative report by the New York Times takes a look behind the scenes on why Apple outsources its manufacturing work to Chinese companies and workers.
The company held out for as long as it could to maintain manufacturing within US borders but eventually caved in and in 2004 shut down its last US plant in Elk Grove, California, which was making Macs. The former...
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Bringing Apple's Jobs Back To America →
neontommy:
In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled to appear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket.
Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone could see the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic screen, according to someone who attended the...