James Whittaker, while explaining why he left Google: I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.” Google was the rich kid
There’s been rumors about this for a while, but Les Moonves, CBS’s CEO, confirmed that Apple approached them about a subscription TV service for AppleTV. CBS said no: “I told Steve, ‘You know more than me about 99 percent of things but I know more about the television
We have computers which fit in our pockets and are the size of a notebook, and they are dramatically different than the personal computers that preceded them. They have cameras, microphones, accelerometers, gyros and GPS. People can use them almost anywhere and unlike PCs, people enjoy using them, too. There’
Shawn Blanc made some additions to his membership. He added a new non-regular newsletter, and an “Executive Membership” level for people who want to support the site even more. If you don’t read Shawn’s site (which I’m sure is only a small fraction of my readers)
Ads will soon be placed in your Facebook news feed: Premium On Facebook will allow advertisers to place “stories” — ads which look and act like regular content — directly into a user’s News Feed, into the company’s mobile apps, and even on the site’s log out screen. 85
This will sound like a bad joke or a “Modest Proposal”-like satire, but it’s not. In the Journal of Medical Ethics, two Melbourne academics argue that infants are equivalent to fetuses and, when the burden they put on their parent(s) or the government is too high, can
New evidence suggests the first Americans may have come from Europe, not Siberia (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/radical-theory-of-first-americans-places-stone-age-europeans-in-delmarva-20000-years-ago/2012/02/28/gIQA4mriiR_story.html): Archaeologists have long held that North America remained unpopulated until
Mark Jardine, when asked what he’s failed at in life: Everything? I think you have to fail to learn and get better at something. There’s really no way around it. The trick is to accept failure as a part of the process and know that by trying again,
A Chinese immigrant whose aunt worked for Foxconn wrote David Pogue about Foxconn’s factory conditions: If Americans truly care about Asian welfare, they would know that shutting down “sweat shops” would force many of us to return to rural regions and return to truly despicable “jobs.” And I fear
With Mountain Lion, Apple announced they are moving OS X for Mac to an every-year release schedule, like iOS. That’s significantly more aggressive than Apple’s been since 10.3 was released in October 2003. Since then, each successive release has taken at least 1.5 years. 10.
Lukas Mathis (http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2012/02/21/steal_webos_features/): So when I bought a TouchPad after HP discontinued it, I never assumed that I would use it for actual work. But I am doing just that. I’m using it to respond to email, to do research
This morning, Apple introduced the next version of OS X for the Mac—10.8 Mountain Lion. There’s a number of things worth writing about, and I will, but what’s most fascinating is how Apple introduced 10.8. There was no special event at the Moscone Center, or