Conan O’Brien Says He Won’t Host ‘Tonight Show’ At 12:05
It’s good to see that Conan can still write like this. He says, among other things, that moving the Tonight Show to 12:05 will result in what “[He] honestly believe is its destruction. “
It’s good to see that Conan can still write like this. He says, among other things, that moving the Tonight Show to 12:05 will result in what “[He] honestly believe is its destruction. “
According to this: “$199 unlocked in stores. $100 rebate online if you have an active and old Google account.”
Sounds like the gloves are off.
Sounds like a racial epithet in multiple ways, birthed from a massive controversy on one of the most hated/read tech blogs on the planet, costing $500 with unproven software and hardware from a company nobody’d ever heard of until Michael Arrington started yelling “rip off”.
I have a feeling Kottke’s analysis is pretty spot-on: every tenth of a second longer a site takes to load, Google is losing revenue from ads. That might seem nuts to you or I, but Google isn’t exactly in the same ballpark, scale-wise, the stuff you and I work on:
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
For the Google behemoth .5 seconds is a serious problem, and with Google DNS they’re trying to whittle that down as much as possible. Do I trust them? Not really. Do I need to? Not really. I can change my DNS whenever I want, and so can you, and Google’s DNS privacy policy seems, as Gruber put it, utterly reasonable.
This is super interesting for a music industry outsider like myself, but the central question he asks applies to everyone who likes music: Are the labels just dumb, or are they actually hiding (potentially lots of) money from artists by using old, busted, opaque, accounting practices?
Or both?
I’m sure the sentiment is more widespread than this one rep.
Update: AT&T says it’s a hoax, and they’re probably right. Consumerist gets it, though: it doesn’t matter if it’s “true” or not. It felt true, and that speaks volumes about AT&T’s business and culture.
Please, Rupert. I’m begging you. Do this. See what happens. Here’s a tip: Google (and the rest of us) don’t need you. You need us. We’re your audience.
Leaked from the secret meetings in Seoul. It’s hard to view this as anything but an attempt by big business to employ government in propping up their busted-ass business models around the world.
Warren and his filthy assistant Adriana are doing a t-shirt a week, and selling via Cafepress. First up: “LOVE means never having to tell the authorities where I buried you.”
So you met someone new and the next time you see them they’re dressing exactly like you and they like all of your favorite bands now and you try to be nice about it and not get creeped out but it’s fucking CREEPY and a couple months later you wake up and they’ve stolen your skin.
Yeah, that’s what the Microsoft Store is like. It’s the Single White Female store.
Great detail and some analysis from 2d boy. Points of interest:
Overall, sounds like a win for everybody.
Derek Powazek takes SEO “professionals” out to the whoopin’ shed. He’s right, but I fear he’s preaching to the choir. Check this action:
Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.
Amen.
From a functional standpoint, I am fine (even happy) with this, provided it kills asshole astroturfers dead. From an ideological standpoint, I am pretty well against it. Either way, it’s an important moment in internet history. I wonder what effect this will have on Amazon reviews?
The first blog regulatory laws. Dang.
Not a story from the Onion. I don’t know where to start on this, I really don’t.
In no particular order:
App recommendations: Wholly necessary, but we aren’t out of the woods yet regarding App Store curation. I bet there’s a good deal of money to be made just doing that: Curating collections of apps. Boing Boing got huge during the blog boom for curating other blogs, why wouldn’t it work for applications on a still-new platform? Someone’s going to get rich digging down on serious Touch applications.
iPod Touch No camera, no mention of 3GS-type speed bump. Kinda got the shaft. I can’t think of a single good reason for not including a camera that doesn’t involve trying to trick people into buying a Nano. Surely they aren’t afraid a (not that great) camera is going to steer fence-sitters from the iPhone to the Touch? Update: It’s now come out that the 8gb ($199) iPod Touch has the older, slightly slower, hardware, and all the others in the Touch line have the upgraded “3GS” innards. You’ll notice on the “Compare iPod Models” page on Apple’s site, the 8gb is sectioned off from his higher-capcity and speedier brothers.
iTunes 9 Now with more bloat and cumbersome, non-portable, versions of the extra features that people who illegally download albums already get in more useful formats. Still a 32-bit Carbon app. Gruber was right about WebKit.
DC is now it’s own company, again, but still owned by Warner. I wonder if this is a response to the Disney/Marvel deal or if it was in motion before that went down?
Update: Warren Ellis says, no, in fact, neither company knew what the other was doing.
The New York Times reporting on a new pip appearing on cereals and other glop made by General Mills, Kellogg’s, etc. Here’s a great example of WHY we’re all so fucking fat:
She said the program was also influenced by research into consumer behavior. That research showed that, while shoppers wanted more information, they did not want to hear negative messages or feel their choices were being dictated to them.
Gee, do you think? Telling people that your cereal is going to contribute to their ever-growing man-tits won’t help sales? Incredible.
This show was a big part of my life as a kid, and it’s a shame to see it go. 26 years is a pretty good run. Shaking hands with LeVar Burton earlier this year was really something for me, personally.