July 2012
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Is Fiber Google's biggest breakthrough product...
Matt Rosoff thinks Google Fiber is the same type of innovative leap as Gmail was for three reasons:
It exposes how slow incumbents have been to innovate
It leverages Google’s hardware expertise (in data and storage) to get prices low
It paves the way for new business areas
Fiber does look amazing. But the fact that they still don’t have some core channels (ESPN, CNN) and...
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Things I want from OS X Mountain Lion
I’m not always a fan of OS X or iOS, but there are a number of features from Mountain Lion I’d love to see stolen for one of the OSes I actually use (Windows or Chrome, but really most of these would suit Chrome OS more):
Gesture-based notification center
Gesture-based browser tabs
System-wide “share” command (I think I seriously TRY to do this at least twice a day by...
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So, reminder to Mitt Romney: With respect to the presidency, national security...
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Some of Crovitz’s errors seem to stem from technological ignorance; in arguing...
– Farhad Manjoo on Slate debunking a predictable WSJ op-ed on how the internet wasn’t actually invented by the government (bonus predictability: that it’d be Slate doing the debunking)
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Memory is a haunting. You remember times you liked, and you want something like...
– Fitz Wahram, 2312
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Somebody has to sit there and filter out all those dicks. You can’t let...
– “Here’s Why It Really Sucks To Be An App Reviewer For Apple”
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Our hardware is changing our lives far more profoundly than anything that we...
– From Bruce Sterling’s essay on the the “New Aesthetic,” which I’m only just becoming aware had a name
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The 2012 NHL playoffs, made music, by Bard Edlund.
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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is one of the best products Google has ever produced....
– Dieter Bohn’s 4.1 review on The Verge. Having used it myself for the last week or so, I have to agree.
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