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The magic of the age we live in: I’m sitting around on a Friday afternoon, drinking a beer and doing some email. Twitter alerts me that Johan Santana is on the verge of a no-hitter — the first in New York Mets history, mind you. Major League Baseball is forward-thinking enough to put live, historic look-ins online, so I can actually watch as well. I tweet out the link to others, and a father gets to watch the moment with his son.
Beautiful.
friendsdontletfriendsusefriends:
MG Siegler is a friend and long-time former colleague, so this one pains me — especially since he knows full well about this site’s mission and is obviously hoping to get featured here as part of his never-ending quest for page views. Nice scoop, though.
I must admit that I did think of Jason’s mission when writing that headline. But I powered through and added “Status” in there just for good measure as well. “Poking Around” barely missed the cut.
Reblogged from Friends Don't Let Friends Use Friends Source friendsdontletfriendsusefriends
caro:
Netflix just recommended this to me. I give up.
This needs to be re-released in 3D.
“Lumia is probably the best-designed phone, besides the iPhone.”
Probably? I think we can update that to “definitely”. The bar is just so low.
(Also, congrats to Path on 3 million users!)
A very extensive list from Rene Ritchie of things Apple *could* add to iOS 6 given the current mobile environment and Apple’s update history.
Web Tumblr looking all pretty-like on iPad. I can haz official iPad app?
Prometheus
Great poster. One of the few movies I’m looking forward to seeing in 3D.
Tags film prometheus
Reblogged from Fuck Yeah, Movie Posters! Source fuckyeahmovieposters
Chrome Gets Mountain Lion-Ready
Anthony Laforge from the Google Chrome team:
The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.53 on Mac to support the transition to OS-X Mountain Lion.
Excellent. The transition begins…
5 days before the WWDC keynote where Apple will boot Google Maps from the iPhone and unveil their own cool new 3D mapping technology, Google Maps is holding an event to discuss “the next dimension of Google Maps”. Coincidence, I’m sure.
Note that Google is saying they will “provide a sneak peek at upcoming features” — in other words, they aren’t done yet, but they wanted to get them out there before the blowback from WWDC.
Also worth noting, I have June 6 marked down as the day of Eric Schmidt’s “six months from now” prediction. That is, on this day, Schmidt promised that more developers would be working on Android apps first instead of iOS ones. Obviously, this event isn’t related, but a nice distraction from the complete and utter lack of reality.
Random Wednesday from the Venture Brothers, “Mid-life Chrysalis.”
Excellent usage of “jackassery”.
Tags game of thrones jackassery
Reblogged from DUDE OF THRONES Source dudeofthrones
Why Spencer Tipping Left Google
Lots of good pros and cons for working at Google, but you have to love his simple one-word con on the “corporate culture” side of things: “Google+”.
He elaborates a bit in a footnote:
I think Google+ is an effort that does not deserve the engineering minds at Google. This is mostly a personal bias. I see Google as solving legitimately difficult technological problems, not doing stupid things like cloning Facebook. Google, in my opinion, lost sight of what was important when they went down this rabbit hole.
Tipping is not alone in this feeling.
(via @dalmaer)
A Bad Windows 8 Omen?
Admittedly, I haven’t been following the news about Windows 8 all that closely — I care because the dominant computer OS is getting a major overhaul, but I doubt I’ll end up using it much — but reading pieces like this one, my instinct is that Microsoft is in for a very rude awakening.
By most accounts I’ve read, the Metro elements of Windows 8 are good, but they clash badly with the legacy elements of the OS. Why is Microsoft insisting on both living side-by-side? “No compromises”, or something.
Then when you consider that there’s a special version of the OS — with special rules — for ARM chips, things start to sound really complicated. It’s starting to sound like consumer poison, to be honest.
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is apparently pulling out all stops in an attempt to get developers writing new Windows 8 apps. But most of the big players are’t biting.
One bullish player was highlighed by Bloomberg for their story today:
Mobile games maker Digital Chocolate Inc. also plans to have games available for Windows 8 at launch, said Chief Executive Officer Trip Hawkins, while declining to specify further.
In a bit of unfortunately timing for Bloomberg’s story, — and really for Microsoft — Hawkins resigned from Digital Chocolate three days ago as major layoffs loom.
Facebook's 10-Second Rule
Josh Constine:
If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you’re in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline.
A simple, good change. I’ve actually avoided clicking on things inside Facebook, worried that one would be a “landmine” — some bit of clickbait tied to Open Graph sharing. Why was I clicking on it in the first place? That’s another story…
Now let us return to the tale of C1. Or should I say, MacMan. The agency team was heartbroken to learn that Steve had fallen in love with such a disappointing name as “MacMan.” Unlike C1 itself, for which our feelings had evolved from shock to love, there could be no love for “MacMan.” Ever. It had so many things wrong with it, we didn’t know where to start. Phil Schiller, Apple’s worldwide marketing manager, was in the room, and Steve revealed that “MacMan” was Phil’s contribution.
“I think it’s sort of reminiscent of Sony,” said Steve, referring of course to Sony’s legendary Walkman line of personal music players. “But I have to tell you, I don’t mind a little rub-off from Sony. They’re a famous consumer company, and if MacMan seems like a Sony kind of consumer product, that might be a good thing.” It was hard to know where to start picking at that argument. It seemed that Apple, more than any company in the world, stood for originality. Having a name that so blatantly echoed another company’s style couldn’t be the right way to go. We were also disturbed by the “man” part of “Mac-Man,” with its obvious gender bias. And then there was the fact that the name just gave us hives, but we’d need to be a bit more tactful on that one.
Steve Jobs Almost Named The iMac The MacMan, Until This Guy Stopped Him
“MacMan”? Ouch. That would have been painful on the eyes and ears.
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