January 2012
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“You can set all the rules you want, but they’re meaningless if you...”
– The root of the problem and why this mini expose in The New York Times is making so many waves now (just after Apple’s record Q1 profits announcement), even though there’s really not much new news in it.
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loser: A Brief History of Dumb Internet Searches... →
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“Cancer” on Gossip Girl in one of their many attempts to make “bing” happen.
“Vampires” on The Vampire Diaries. Seriously, do you know anyone outside of a CW show that uses bing?
“Mutism + Cell Phones” on last night’s premiere of Touch which is a show you can…
God’s work.
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“Apple’s profits for the last quarter exceed Google’s entire revenue for the last...”
– MG Siegler - “Apple’s Massive Numbers And Some Context”
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“From an early age, they had, it seems, achieved peaceful coexistence with the...”
– That’s a great line from Gary Stix on Scientific American - “A New Generation Already Knows How to Love the Bomb”
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"Though reluctant, Samsung's Ryan Bidan agreed...
From an insightful piece on the state of tech from CES by Josh Topolsky on The Verge. Seems like maybe the industry has gotten the message that more does not mean better. Perhaps everyone has finally noticed Apple’s tremendous success with the opposite strategy! But we’ll see for sure over the next year.
The Android ecosystem would seem to benefit in particular if manufacturers...
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“On the 53 bus Wednesday morning:
Girl 1: ‘I don’t get why...”
– Overheard in DC
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“Ice Cream Sandwich is by all accounts very nice; but what good does that do app...”
– Jon Evans on TechCrunch about developing for Android vs. iOS
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WatchMIT Media Lab identity project, from Creative Applications Network’s Best and Most Memorable Projects of 2011. The whole list is great.
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"Android has had a lot of terrific developer API...
Android gets UI guidelines - awesome. Was just poking through the Apple HIG a few days ago and wondering why Google didn’t have an equivalent.
By last count, over 700,000 new Android devices are being activated every single day. That’s spread across dozens of manufacturers and hundreds of different types of devices, each with different hardware specifications and sizes. These device...
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WatchCompletely missed these when they came out - a look at The New York Times’ work (via their R&D department) with Microsoft Surface tech, from Megan Garber of Nieman Lab. Very cool stuff. Her videos of their “magic mirror” are below too. See source for more.
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