A million voices crying out in terror, etc. The fanboys of the world just work up to a pretty lame Monday.
so I got this phone call from Joe Quesada and it was just the sound of him rubbing himself with money and now I am confused
You have to admire either their balls or their total disconnection from reality.
Bruce Sterling’s keynote, given at the launch of Layar’s Layer Reality Browser, is fun, smart, and full of a genuine excitement from Bruce that I really enjoy.
The URL shortening service will continue to operate, due to “he popular response, and the countless public and private appeals [they] have received to keep tr.im alive”
Sadly, it does not say when they launch. Their mission statement gives me a slight bit of hope:
Simply put, we want to create the most unforgettably positive customer experience in Canada.
… which has the added benefit of being the opposite of what the major two Wireless carriers in Canada, Bell and Rogers, provide. Without some solid numbers, though, it’s vapor.
Financial terms not disclosed, as usual. The acquisition makes sense as Facebook has basically spent the last 6 months trying to emulate FriendFeed and Twitter.
URLs will continue to function until 31 December 2009 and will then go dead. Yet another reason to use a self-hosted short URL service with a system like my own la petite url.
It’s hard to read this and not imagine News Corps’ chairman, Rupert Murdoch, standing on a beach, impotent, shouting and swinging his tiny fists at the ocean waves. “THIS BEACH BELONGS TO ME,” he’d scream.
Money can’t buy you control of the waves, Rupert. At least, not yet, anyway.
Apple’s latest incredible move: Censoring a fucking dictionary. Apple’s conduct re: the App Store has long since passed the yardstick of “stupid” and into “utterly inept.”
If they cannot be trusted to stick to the rules set forth by human society, then fuck ’em. NOBODY censors dictionaries. Not Wal-Mart, not Borders, nobody. Censoring reference material is not just stupid, it is dangerously stupid.
… is not very good. I wonder how many millions it cost them to have someone make their logo worse?
I have many fond memories of Nickelodeon properties on my TV (Rocko’s Modern Life, the first series of Rugrats, Invader Zim, the crappy foreign-produced ‘toons they’d show during school hours), and it’s sad to see them step on those so blatantly.
It was only a matter of time before Radioshack attempted to make itself hip and failed miserably. I mean, it worked great for Circuit City, right?
This had better be for real. My emotions cannot take much more of this.
Jesper answers my call. Makes sense, now.
Earlier today Yahoo and Microsoft signed a 10 year deal which sees Yahoo not developing any new search technologies, and using Bing for it’s algorithms. Like most of you, I fail to see how reducing the main Search players from 3 to 2 creates “more innovation”, but does anyone even read these press releases anymore? The official site for the deal is begging for a PR-Speak-To-English translation.
Also important: What happens to BOSS, Delicious, Search Monkey and Yahoo’s other search products? (via Andy Baio)
This is super not cool, Apple. How is GV Mobile (the App’s name) not okay, but Skype is?
For all Windows PCs, ASP was $515 in June. For Macs: $1,400. Desktop Windows PC ASP: $489. Mac desktops: $1,398. Windows notebook ASP was $520, or $569 when removing all those nasty, margin-sucking netbooks. Mac laptops: $1,400.
If you use your computer more than an hour a day, you’re wasting your time with a cheap/flimsy/poorly made one.
I was going to post this with the title “Tortured iPhone Worker Commits Suicide”, but then I realized I don’t work for TechCrunch. That seems to be what happened, though:
According to various Chinese media reports, the worker at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn committed suicide last week after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype for which he was responsible went missing.
Word is that the worker was then tortured by Foxconn security, which led him to snap and take a leap off the building. If this is true, Apple needs to step up and tell Foxconn to fuck off.
Update: Fake Steve says it’s fucked over there, and we all knew that already. He’s basically right.
Very expected, but sooner than I thought. What are the odds on an Apple/Palm legal showdown over iTunes lockout? Seems like Palm would have a good chance.
Phil Nelson