March 2010
The Future of Social Networks is Storytelling Part... →
Part of where I think social networks need to move is to give people the ability to author stories, and to recruit and notify others that they are part of that story. The best online games make this explicit - you participate precisely because you want to be part of a story. Joining a group isn’t a story. Stories have focal points - beginnings and ends. Social networks just sort of fade....
Apple Audit Shows Some Suppliers Used Child Labor... →
Apple has disclosed that child labor was used in three supplier factories last year to build iPhones, iPods and Macintosh computers. The new report, designed to highlight its strong workplace standards, comes amid greater scrutiny of the working conditions at Apple’s suppliers, particularly in Asia. Last year, a worker at Apple’s massive Taiwanese supplier Foxconn jumped from his...
WatchBill Gates on Energy: Innovating to Zero!
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
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the rolling stones “can’t you...
February 2010
“I know that sounds strange, but you don’t want to make every single...”
– Eric Mangini enjoying his revamped role as Browns head coach with a boss | cleveland.com
“This reeks of the same bush-league decision-making that hobbled Hulu, gets music...”
– kung fu grippe : nostrich: Summary: There’s a thin line between…
WatchTake-Away Shows - Fleet Foxes - LA BLOGOTHEQUE IN PARIS
The Frightening Future of Augmented Shopping -... →
Online retail is nothing new, but now brick and mortar stores want to get in on the high-tech action. The New York Times has a disquieting look at new technologies that will make you shop ‘til your signal drops.
Take, for example, Norma Kamali’s boutique in Manhattan, which recently implemented a system called ScanLife that allows shoppers to find more information on products from...
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Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge...
Op-Ed Contributor: Al Gore - We Can’t Wish Away... →
The truth about the climate crisis, inconvenient as ever, must still be faced.
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Reporters Hole Up With Just Facebook, Twitter :... →
Earlier this month, five French-speaking journalists spent a week in a house in the French countryside. No cell phones, no TV. They could use only Twitter and Facebook in their reporting. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Janic Tremblay of Radio Canada to find out how the experiment turned out.
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Don’t Stop Me Now — Queen
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“Also, my rug was stolen.”
– The Dude
WatchTemple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all...
“Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was still standing on stage addressing an...”
– AppleInsider | Amazon frantically phoned publishers as Steve Jobs unveiled iPad
Week in Apple: The Great Sexy App Purge of 2010 -... →
News about the iPhone OS was all over the place this week, from Apple’s plans to expand to more devices to hints in the latest SDK beta. We also discussed why NVIDIA’s Optimus is ready to be dumped into some new MacBooks and why a paid version of Hulu on the iPad would make sense. What, you thought this week was all about the sexy app purge? Read on to get the low-down:
MediaShift - How Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing... →
The importance of social media in politics was made clear by Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential run. But there is a new frontier of Web 2.0 technologies that politicians and political groups are slowly starting to embrace: the smartphone app. These apps have the potential to reshape how politicians communicate, raise money and get out the vote.
The biggest player on the smartphone app stage...
After Digital Switch, Basic TV Offers Cable... →
Just before summer 2009’s switch from analog to digital cable, TV viewers were inundated with commercials from cable companies. They urged viewers to subscribe to cable in order to get a clear picture and plenty of channels.
But it turns out that — for the price of an antenna — over-the-air television offers plenty of different programs.
The Steady, Efficient Decline Of Yahoo -... →
When it comes to a company like Yahoo, efficiency is not a positive. The Internet is still in its wild west days, and the “ready, fire, aim” game plan of Facebook and the other young guns is eating their lunch. Even the massive Google is still trying to shake things up with new and controversial products.
Yahoo’s strategy seems more like “ready, aim, aim, aim, aim…”
“Apple’s new iPad is facing criticism for using the streamlined iPhone OS...”
– AppleInsider | Inside Apple’s iPad: iPhone OS vs Mac OS X
How Digg Found a Way to Make Money – GigaOM →
Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn’t a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring search or brand ads onto sites like MySpace and Facebook had pathetic results compared the trajectories of the sites’ popularity and attention. But now, a few years in, social media companies are starting to discover how to advertise...
Daring Fireball: Yet More on the Unfolding... →
I love this whole unfolding future-of-Flash saga because it’s a wonderful mix of politics and technology. It’s complex and multivariate, but not toocomplex to get a handle on the basic gist. It occurred to me this week, after both reading and writing quite a bit regarding Flash Player’s performance issues, that the whole performance angle is a distraction from the fundamental issues at hand.
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“Apple’s next update to the blockbuster iPhone handset is expected by one...”
– AppleInsider | Apple predicted to introduce lower cost iPhone models in June
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WatchDiggnation: Episode 243 - 40oz. To Freedom
Kevin & Alex decide to kick it old school Diggnation by breaking out some 40oz. beers. As a result, Kevin ends up spitting beer all over Alex’s studio for the third week in a row.
Associated Press Announces Plans for iPad... →
The group already has drawn up plans to charge for an application designed for the iPad, a 1.5-pound tablet computer that Apple Inc. is scheduled to release at the end of March. The price of the application has yet to be determined, although it might start free, according to Jane Seagrave, a senior vice president who becomes the AP’s chief revenue officer Monday. Much like the AP Mobile news...
10 Billion Songs Sold Contest Winner Thought Steve... →
Louie Sulcer won Apple’s 10 Billion Songs Sold contest. He just didn’tbelieve that he won or that the guy calling to congratulate him was Steve Jobs himself. Guess he thinks Cupertino is full of prank callers.
The contest was simple: You buy the 10 billionth song and you win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. Louie happened to purchase a copy of Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen...
