February 2011
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January 2011
71 posts
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At Apple, the Platform Is the Engine of Growth -... →
Things look different for Apple in the market for mobile devices. There is some debate whether Apple has become a platform strategist by design or by default: When it introduced the iPhone in 2007, Apple did not have software tools for outside developers to make applications. That came in 2008.
“The iPhone was such a great product that lots of people wanted to write applications for it,” says...
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RT @tweetny: Whales return to NYC http://nydn.us/fcUu4i
I’m at Bar Tabac (128 Smith St, at Dean St, Brooklyn) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/f7QlPG
"Towards a Manifesto for Interactive TV Design" at... →
Happy Birthday Lee!! (@ Kang Suh w/ @r2the @leekc) http://4sq.com/eanixC
I’m at Bar Basque (839 6th Ave, btw 29th & 30th St, New York) w/ 4 others http://4sq.com/fmdvBq
“These mobile devices are the Gutenberg presses of our generation. This is not a...”
– The video above is less than a minute long. Please…
“NFC would let Apple’s iAd advertising network personalize ads to the...”
– IPhones, iPads to Gain NFC Payment Features - BusinessWeek
“Apple has created a prototype of a payment terminal that small businesses, such...”
– IPhones, iPads to Gain NFC Payment Features - BusinessWeek
RT @zimbalist: Monday Note: Why Apple’s upcoming subscription plan is making large publishers hysterical. http://bit.ly/hCwi8r
“Starting next year, fourth to 12th grade students attending the Webb School in...”
– Tennessee school requires iPads of all 4th-12th grade students
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WatchDomenico DeMarco crafting our late-lunch on this Sunday @ DiFara.
RT @alleyinsider: Shooting Victim Giffords Is Up, Using An iPad http://read.bi/dFQE5S
“In this new role I know [Larry Page] will merge Google’s technology and business...”
– Eric Schmidt: Here Is Why I’m Stepping Down
I dunno, it sounds less bitter, and more like an attempt at reassurance to shareholders and staff… even if a bit short of pitch-perfect, which is perfectly within normal limits for the alpha-geek set. Quite generous and clear given it’s...
“Starting with Eric’s bizarre and self-serving...”
– Let’s Be Serious: Eric Schmidt Got Canned
“So, the judgment that you have to make is a) is this market really much bigger...”
– Ben Horowitz: Should You Sell Your Company?
“The new AMD Embedded G-Series platform uses the first Accelerated Processor Unit...”
– AMD chases Intel into gadget market with embedded chips | VentureBeat
Again, please don’t call it a graphics card. Thanks.
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“Where we should look instead is at what is possible in the private sector. If...”
– Continuations
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“Specifically, AI claims that Apple is moving to dual-core SGX543 graphics, up...”
– More details emerge on Apple’s A5 chip for upcoming iPad 2 and iPhone 5 — Engadget
See? Others, please stop calling it a “graphics card”… (cringe)
Introducing the New Mobelux Website
mobelux:
Whew! After moving into a new office, getting to know our neighbors and throwing a massive Tumblr meetup at Legend, we thought: how could we start next week?
Introducing the new Mobelux website!
We’re super proud of it and we’ll be filling it up with even more awesome projects over the next few months. Follow us on Tumblr and Twitter to keep up with the latest.
Mobelux has been...
“Apple just posted up the first iOS 4.3 beta, which allows devs to send video...”
– iOS 4.3 beta arrives for devs, brings AirPlay video support to apps, personal hotspot and customizable iPad side switch (update: video!) — Engadget
AirPlay video support for 3rd party apps is dyn-o-mite!
“The iPad also gains some multitouch multitasking gestures, which are pretty...”
– iOS 4.3 beta arrives for devs, brings AirPlay video support to apps, personal hotspot and customizable iPad side switch (update: video!) — Engadget
Very nice interactions here.
Scientists plan mission to probe Uranus →
Seriously awesome headline.
“That’s not likely because H.264 is already so widely supported elsewhere....”
– Google Paints Chrome Into A Corner With Open Stance
Google’s muscles enlarge considerably when you consider their browser strategy will/might carry over to Android devices. If site publishers shift/relent, it exacerbates Apple’s efforts to shift folks off Flash and into html5 and h.264....
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
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I believe that they will fix this.
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I ignored my plumber’s friend request. Me =...
It’s Sunday night already??? (@ John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) ✈ w/ 75 others) http://4sq.com/i9kw2Y
iHome iW1 with AirPlay: Beatweek Best of Show 2011... →
CES. Over. (@ Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) ✈ w/ 143 others) http://4sq.com/gP4odi
Boxee iPad app finally makes Boxee compelling for... →
Browsing for crap to watch on the tv screen, no matter how pretty the menus are, is so 1990s. Throw in all the new content the Internet can throw at the user and the TV alone is simply inadequate.
Boxee put their money to work very wisely here.
RT @shibanijoshi: Just got an invite from Verizon to an event at Lincoln Center on Tues, jan 11…iphone announcement?
RT @engadget: iHome iA63 motorized spinning iPhone alarm clock hands-on http://engt.co/dXiSLY
“Together with iHome+Sleep, iheartradio users will be able to wake and sleep to...”
– iHome Highlights App-Enhanced Product Line at CES 2011 | Business Wire