May 2012
97 posts
WatchSummertime Jams
31 Acronyms and Initials All Spelled Out - Mental... →
Facebook Camera Could Backfire and Get All Of FB’s... →
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Editorial: I’m done with Android →
Fantastic read.
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The Full Story: How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice,... →
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Facebook Camera →
While I think this is a cool idea, I wish Facebook would just make there standard application work properly. Facebook should have one application that does everything. At current count they 4 - Facebook, Messenger, Page Manager, and Camera. The only apps that make sense to me are Facebook and Page Manager everyone else shoulde built into a streamlined Facebook app.
parislemon:
It’s about...
What's the Next Instagram? →
Technology Review has a good write-up of a variety video-gram apps (aka instagram like video apps). While I think these apps are the next step for mobile sharing, I don’t really think the infrastructure exists to support them yet.
People like instagram for a lot of reasons, primarily ease of use and upload time. The upload time and ease of use on video-gram apps is horrendous. Until these...
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The Lure of the Store: How Apple Gets Incentives... →
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The Mark of Maker’s Mark →
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Chris Dixon: Four types of mobile apps →
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Core iOS apps being replaced, one at a time
bijan:
The home screen on my iPhone has changed quite a bit over the years.
The most obvious thing is Apple’s very own core apps have been replaced by 3rd parties.
The default camera app has been replaced by Camera+, Hipstamatic and Instagram
The default notes app has been replaced by Simplenote
The default messenger app has been replaced by Kik
The default calendar app has been replaced by...
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In a Crane at 1,100 Feet, There Is No Room for... →
Amazing NY Times interview with a crane operator building the New World Trade Center.
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MySpace Ghost Town →
A very funny read.
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“This is the true story… of seven strangers… picked to live in a...”
– Reflections from 20 Years of ‘The Real World’
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Podcast To Oblivion →
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Foursquare: Today's best-executing startup - Anil... →
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A Sunday Recipe: Homemade Wendy's Chocolate Frosty... →
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Relax, Facebook Is Not Making Bono Richer Than... →
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Rise of the Tech Bandits →
A really great read on the rise of the tech blogging community.
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Dan Lewis: Jeff Bezos on eBooks ... in 1998 →
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In 1998, Jeff Bezos sat down with the Commonwealth Club to discuss the history and future of Amazon. The speech itself is amazing — one of my favorite things I’ve read ever. But today, I discovered that he also did a Q&A with the audience. One question in particular shows just how forward looking Bezos has been.
Q. What is the future of purely electronic books, for example, of...
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These Are The Technical Reasons Why Facebook’s iOS... →
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Facebook's Technology Timeline →
(h/t Next Draft)
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NY Times: Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News... →
I love profiles of hard and fast working journalists. I think it is kind of a dream job for me.
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Mobile money in Africa: Press 1 for modernity →
Many people know that “mobile money”—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile money most frequently are in Africa, and mobile banking in some of them has reached extraordinary levels.
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Sarah Lacy: The Irony of the Social Media Era: It... →
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Last Great Thing — What's the last great thing you... →
A really great website you should check out, only one post a day.
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