Here’s my thoughts:
I haven’t worn a watch in years because I spend 14 hours a day at a keyboard and the banging drives me nuts. So why would I want to buy something else that I would just end up sticking in my pocket?
I spend good money to wear contacts so I can ditch the glasses. Why would I voluntarily go back to them?
A new computer that defies category – Computerworld.
Wow… if this is real and not just vaporware it is going to be incredible.
“The device will run Android OS Jelly Bean, have 8GB of memory to support applications, music, video and presentations, and a microSD slot up to 32GB of storage.”
That is more RAM than is on the work-supplied Dell I’m currently typing on.
Under a $100 is amazing.
I’m going to keep a close eye out for this one…
An interesting read, coming on the heel of Microsoft’s Surface tablet being released yesterday.
It sounds like a wonderful idea and it’s got a very clean and attractive look. However, I’m curious how it handles something like CoD or MoH or even L4D. What’s the stats?
It’s stories like this that reinforce why I’m not on Facebook. The idea of trumpeting every little fact about myself from the roof just sounds incredibly stupid to me.
It often seems as though Facebook’s (s fb) main purpose is to continually remind us of how much we have chosen to share with the world about our online behavior — whether we realize it or not. The latest lesson along those lines comes from the social network’s new “graph search,” which sounds at first like a fairly boring feature of interest only to marketers. Like much of what Facebook does, however, it is also a warning sign: if you were counting on certain things about yourself staying not so much private as obscure or hidden from view, those days are effectively over.
For an example of what this means in practice, look no further than a new Tumblr blog started by London-based programmer Tom Scott, entitled “Actual Facebook Graph Searches.” This also sounds somewhat dry and academic, until you take a closer look at some of the things that…
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A very interesting read…
Finally, a story not about the new iPhone. Question: is Netflix and Amazon Prime successful enough to warrant another player in that space?
The Redbox Instant by Verizon joint venture wants to have its Netflix (s NFLX) competitor up and running in time for the holidays, according to a Bloomberg report. A Verizon (s VZ) exec told the news agency that the service is currently being tested by 500 of its employees, and that there is going to be a short public beta test before it finally launches between late November and mid-December.
The Bloomberg story also revealed a few more interesting details about the joint venture’s business model. Apparently, Redbox and Verizon are going to pay rights holders per subscriber. That’s different from Netflix, which regularly spends many millions of dollars to license titles for a set amount of time.
Paying per subscriber will minimize the the startup costs of the new venture, but it also means that customers likely will have fewer content options. Netflix is now regularly betting big…
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I’ve noticed this more and more lately. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t trust any rating with less than 200 reviews to back it up.
A recent spate of fake online reviews is just the beginning of a trend, according to Gartner(s it) research.
The book publishing world was roiled by the recent disclosure that self-published author John Locke bought Amazon reviews and author Stephen Leather used “sock puppet” accounts to build online buzz for his books, as GigaOM’s Laura Owen reported earlier. This kerfuffle comes after months of reports about too-good-or-bad-to-be-true restaurant and other reviews on Yelp and other online review sites.
Well, get ready, because it’s just the beginning, according to Gartner, which expects that 10 to 15 percent of all online reviews will be paid for by companies within two years. As companies seek to cash in on consumer time spent on online review sites, Facebook(s fb) and Twitter, it’s not surprising that companies would try to steer consumer perception of their products.
According to a statement by Gartner senior research analyst…
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The man makes some good points, but I immediately had two questions.
1- Wiki?? Seriously?? We are prepared to use Wiki as a source to replace schools? I don’t even let my daughter quote Wiki as a source in her 7th grade papers. Sure, I recommend that she search it, but only to get the list of sources on the bottom of the page.
2- Education is only one function of schools. The other important function is socialization- teaching one how to deal with different personality types. I’ve known a few home-schooled kids and while they were very well read and educated they were also sadly lacking in the basic social skills. They just had no experience in being a part of a huge, varied community.
Let’s face it- we all learned who we are and how we deal with the nastier type of person in high school, not when we got into the business world.
Very interesting piece, but not sure that it’s news. Remember that this is the guy the Secret Service had a fight with about giving up his cell phone (a fight Obama won). This is a guy who is roughly my age and I can’t imagine relying on pulp-and-ink sources for my news. The only question I would have is security. You can’t tell me that the iPad pictured is not Target Number One for every hacker in the world.
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