August 2012
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Studios Should Take Notice of IMAX's Dominant... →
Forget the 3D nonsense, if Hollywood wants to keep butts in the seats, they need to go all-in on IMAX.
While you can certainly argue that the home theater experience is comparable to that of many standard theaters (and in some cases, much better), IMAX is incomparable. It enhances the magic that made movies so special in the first place.
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Digg v1
rethinkdigg:
On July 20, we announced that we were turning Digg back into a startup and rebuilding it from scratch in six weeks. After an intense month and a half, we managed to get the new Digg up and running on a fresh code base and infrastructure. We now have a solid foundation on which to build, and we expect to build fast. Yesterday, we previewed the new Digg applications for web, iPhone, and...
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Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV →
Awesome. I imagine HBO Go is the next step. Then ESPN content. We’re inching closer to the actual TV aspirations…
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"Making It Even Better" →
Google, in an email to those that pre-ordered a Nexus Q:
We also heard initial feedback from users that they want Nexus Q to do even more than it does today. In response, we have decided to postpone the consumer launch of Nexus Q while we work on making it even better.
It sure seems like nearly everyone realized this would be a big ball of fail upon seeing it. My question is: how on Earth did...
July 2012
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Send No Email Day →
emptyage:
OCTOBER 10 IS INTERNATIONAL SEND NO EMAIL DAY
I’m in.
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“We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn’t to make money....”
– Jonathan Ive on Apple’s business.
It really is that simple.
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thejokerman asked: Has there been any confirmed prices for the Surface tablet?
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Microsoft Surface Lands On October 26 →
No big surprise on Microsoft’s end, as that’s also when Windows 8 is launching. BUT October 26 is a little different in context now. Namely, it sure looks like Apple’s “iPad mini” will be out by then.
Given its size, the Surface (at least the first iteration) will obviously compete more with the traditional iPad. But the existence of a smaller, cheaper iPad will...
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3 Million, 4 Days →
Apple:
Apple today announced that downloads of OS X Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history.
For some context, Apple announced that OS X Lion sold one million copies in one day — which might imply it was selling a little faster than Mountain Lion. But by October, about two months later, Lion had moved six million...
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“So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures,...”
– Peter Jackson on his Facebook page today.
Previously, they had decided to turn The Hobbit into two separate films, one release this December and one release in December 2013. Now they’re adding a third film, with footage they shot — based not only on The Hobbit, but on the appendices of The...
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Peter Jackson announces a third 'Hobbit' film →
rickwebb:
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Middle Earth, round three!
“It is only at the end of a shoot that you finally get the chance to sit down and have a look at the film you have made. Recently Fran [Walsh], Phil[lippa Boyens] and I did just this when we watched for the first time an early cut of the first movie — and a large chunk of the second. We were really pleased with the way the story was...
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A Busy September →
Rene Ritchie:
iMore has heard that Apple is planning to debut the new iPhone at a special event on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, with the release date to follow 9 days later on Friday, September 21. This information comes from sources who have proven accurate in the past.
The iPad mini will be announced at the same September 12 event, as will the new iPod nano.
There’s no question...
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thecizco asked: What do you think of these leaked "next generation" iPhone parts? Do you think after saying, "We are going to double down on secrecy" that Apple is being so careless as to let these parts leak so easily? Is it possible that this is all a misdirection and the phone they unveil will look nothing like this?
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The BuzzFeed Doctrine →
After reading this, I must say that I have a lot of respect for not only what BuzzFeed is going after, but how they’re going about it. My favorite part is about respecting the readers. It’s amazing how many sites/publications fail to adhere to this simple and crucial principle.
To that end, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti:
First of all, we don’t publish slideshows. Instead we publish...
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omfgtech asked: You say "Naturally, the TV commentators had no clue who Tim Berners-Lee was." but I offer a correction: NBC didn't have a fucking clue. British, German, French and Spanish commentary all named him immediately. Words cannot do justice to just how ill-informed and ignorant NBC's commentary was throughout the entire night.
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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
– Albert Einstein (via nirvikalpa)
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Stamped: Is It Worthy?
When I first met the Stamped team in mid-2011, I got excited. They were finally throwing away the notion of the 5-star rating system in favor of something much more natural: if you like something, say so. If not, do nothing. It was an app built solely so you could give your “stamp of approval” to things in the real world. Simple. Brilliant.
I wrote up a preview in September of that...
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"Net Income Decreased 96%" →
Amazon’s Q2 numbers are wild. And the release is just odd (why the quote about Amazon Prime, exactly?). Sales were up, but:
Net income decreased 96% to $7 million in the second quarter, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared with net income of $191 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, in second quarter 2011.
$7 million. Amazon made $7 million dollars last quarter on sales of $12.83...
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Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on... →
Samsung, like Apple, seems to have this phone business down. Everyone else? Not so much.
This binary system is also more interesting in context.
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Google Maps Finally Knows Where The Fuck You Are →
This little detail used to drive me insane about Google Maps. I’d open the site and it wouldn’t have any clue where I was even though I had set default locations. And searches would require city, state, and sometimes even country names, etc.
Finally, all these years later, it’s fixed.
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matrinox asked: About your "Timing Is Everything" post. Are you trying to imply that Facebook will make a phone because SJ once said he wasn't but did so anyways? Two different people with two different reasons. Also, do you really think a FB phone makes sense? Would it just be Facebook apps with a store that sells other Facebook-enhanced apps? To me, that is what FB has been doing in the last...
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Anonymous asked: Do you know if Google Fiber TV will come to non Google Fiber networks? I imagine Comcast wouldn't be too happy with Google TV going over their pipes.
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Anonymous asked: "Google is giving away the service I pay Comcast an obscene amount of money for." Obscence, really??? What is Comcast charging over there that you consider obscene?
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Google Fiber Is The Very Best Of Google →
Milo Medin of Google:
It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s. Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be. While high speed technology exists, the...
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Timing Is Everything
Steve Jobs, 2003:
“We didn’t think we’d do well in the cell phone business.”
Mark Zuckerberg, 2012:
It Wouldn’t Make Sense For Us To Make A Phone
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Facebook's Q2 2012 →
Facebook’s first quarterly as a public company seems like a very mixed bag. They beat expectations, but just barely (and they were very low to begin with). The company did post their best revenue ever, but they failed to turn a profit on that revenue.
Amazingly, they now have 955 million users. That’s not some bullshit number, it’s monthly active users. They also have 543...
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Twitter Shuts Off “Find Friends” Feature For... →
Let’s hope this is some Twitter API scaling issue and not for purely competitive reasons. But it doesn’t look good.
Instagram, of course, recently sold itself to Facebook. And today it announced that it now has 80 million users. Twitter has 140 million users. It’s amazing how quickly that gap is closing. (Though to be fair, Instagram’s number is registered while...
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Kwaga Acquires Boxcar →
As odd as it seems now, when Apple first launched their iOS Push Notification services, they had absolutely no way to corral and manage them. For that, Boxcar was a godsend.
I had written about Boxcar a number of times over the past couple of years as it became a must-have app on my phone, and later, my iPad and the Mac as well. Even after Apple entered the space with their own Notification...
