May 2010
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Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Piracy Tech →
Hypocrisy at its best:
via grindlebone:
Warner Bros. is notorious for its attempts to squash piracy, which have included suing popular music search sites and hiring interns whose sole purpose is to find pirated content and issue takedown notices. The company also began embedding each film distributed to theaters and critics with a unique identifier, so that Warner could trace leaked and...
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HP to launch a WebOS tablet by October
Talking to Digitimes, VP of HP Taiwan’s Personal Computing division, Monty Wong, has announced that HP will use WebOS, which they acquired alongside the rest of Palm, to power tablets and smartphones. An official announcement will come at the end of July and the device will supposedly be available by the end of October.
via Heise Online and Digitimes
I’m very fond of WebOS and have...
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Re-inventing Twitterrific →
The Iconfactory is in the process of redesigning their famous Twitter client almost from the ground up, providing a textbook example on what to do when facing strong competition; innovate.
I’d suggest this article to all companies who resort to complaining about how a competitor is making their life miserable, instead of trying to be noticed by creating value for customers themselves.
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The Conversation: Valve's Steam on the Mac →
Great podcast in which Dan Benjamin talks to Gabe Newell and Jason Mitchell of Valve and John Siracusa of Ars Technica about the introduction of Steam to the Mac.
The most interesting bit I gathered from it, was that in some respect the Mac is easier to develop for, because of platform-inherent similarities to gaming consoles.
It’s really worth a listen if one wants to know where games are...
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I trust Facebook just as much. →
Few things display a more firm grasp of the concepts of “economy” and “trust” than leaving the watermark on the cover of the first edition of your book. Well done!
I don’t know if I want to feel pity or Schadenfreude seeing this.
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Ignorance is bliss. Adobe edition. →
John Paczkowski conducted an interview with Adobe’s co-chairman Chuck Geschke, in which the latter demonstrated an incredible capacity for cluelessness.
The link above leads to John Gruber’s comments on a few of the more extreme examples of said cluelessness. Sweet, sweet reason…
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Graphicpeel: MobileMe Mail Beta, a Visual... →
Great and comprehensive walkthrough of the new MobileMe interface. I’m excited about this, even though I don’t use the web interface regularly.
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Compelling alternative for Facebook in the making →
Lately Facebook has taken a lot of flack — and rightfully so — for its abysmal approach to customer privacy. Left and right pundits are advising people to quit Facebook …without naming alternatives.
All of this might change if the guys behind Diaspora* get their project off the ground. Their decentralised approach to creating social networks could be the thing people are waiting for.
I’m...
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“I pay for MobileMe precisely because it is not Gmail. No ads mucking up my apps,...”
– David Chartier.
My thoughts exactly.
MobileMe is one of the few subscription services that I gladly pay money for, every year. It’s inexpensive, too: In Germany a mail provider like GMX charges you €5,- per month for IMAP access to your mails. That equals €60,- in twelve months, which is...
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“An Authorized Developer will have demonstrated the ability to develop and...”
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An excerpt from Nintendo’s developer application form. Good luck on that war with Apple and iPhone OS, Nintendo. via Craig Chockenberry
(via chartier)
I concur, also; *cough* Trism *cough*
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“[…] but it’s really about being a middle man. The networks—and many...”
– Adelaide Dugdale in a report on the plans of the WAC.
For the network providers it is the wrong realisation! By definition they are providers of infrastructure, why don’t they concentrate on being just that? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this consortium will never ever...
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“Apple’s stock is rising because Apple seems poised to capture a new market.”
– John Gruber.
He’s dead on, as usual, here’s why:
Thinking along the lines of Ansoff’s ‘Product-Market Growth Matrix’, it depends how you look at it, or rather whom you ask:
From a tech-versed person’s point of view, Apple does product development; a new product...
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