Daily Archives: April 26, 2011
Audiences Shrugged
Box Office: ‘Atlas Shrugged’ collapses, even without a NY Times review Overall, the weekend’s take was a scant $879,000 — a whopping 48 percent drop despite adding 166 locations. Which certainly suggest they’re running out of audience quick. That means … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Sony’s PSN Intrusion: Devastating
This is part of Sony’s official statement and it’s chilling: Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Number 29 And Plummeting
News curation: finally, social media’s killer app? That article mentioned a site I’d never heard of before: Sulia. It claims to aggregate “experts” and divide Twitter into channels based on topics and subjects. So I went to investigate “ebooks” and … Continue reading
Filed under eBooks: General
What The Mobile Web Means
Square COO Explains Why The Web Is Dead Rabois also predicted that Facebook will soon change its mobile strategy — instead of putting all its focus on building an HTML5 version of its Web site that works on all browsers, … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow, Reference
Beating Apple Sounds Simple But Isn’t
How to beat Apple 1. Apple doesn’t do social well on a large scale. Ping? Game Center? Please. Social applications don’t seem to be in Apple’s DNA…their best applications are still single-player or 2/3/4-player. Well, this is ironic given the … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Apple: The Company, eBooks: General, iOS, Other Hardware, webOS
The Blind Spot
Don’t Do What You Love The best writers, [Charlaine] Harris said, don’t fall in love with their characters, or their words. They don’t mind being edited; in fact, they’re open to any suggestion that makes them better. Writers who get … Continue reading
Steve Jobs Demos Interpersonal Computing
This is a fascinating set of YouTube videos with Steve Jobs demonstrating the NeXT computer software. You can see many ideas that were later incorporated into iOS and perhaps even hints of things still to come. How different is “interpersonal” … Continue reading
Filed under Apple: The Company, iOS, Video
More About Twitter
twitter communities/the living dead For those of you who don’t know the Smashing Magazine Twitter, it’s pretty much set up like a direct feed of interesting links on web development. Because of that it garnered a pretty extensive base of … Continue reading
Filed under Digital Overthrow
The Great Devaluation Is Coming
Let Them Eat iPads Inflation is poised to do the kind of lasting, deep damage to the American economy that two long wars, unconscionable wealth inequality, labor-union excesses, and the best efforts of banking robber barons failed to do. And … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Pottersville
Sony Debuts Android Atrocity Tablet
Click = big Sony S1 and S2 dual-screen Honeycomb tablets get official (video) Because, you know, that dual-screen phone that’s out there has just been killing the hell out of the iPhone. Not!
Filed under Android, Other Hardware, Stupid
