April 2009
Is Palm Rolling Out The Pre The Day Before Apple’s... →
“A public launch of the Pre the day before could suck some of the wind out of Apple’s sails.”
Are you kidding me? Really? Come on Palm (and TechCrunch reporting.) Do you really think your phone can match the PR juggernaut that is Apple? Even if you think your phone is head-and-shoulders better, there’s no way you can touch the editorial sway coming from Cupertino.
This is just...
“As a non-Nielsen viewer, I feel the most effective means of making an impact is...”
– To which Hamilton added, “And Subway of course is all like ‘HEH, yes, buy our sandwiches, it’ll be good for your show, or whatever, sure, just buy those sandwiches. We love that show, Charles, or whatever.’” (Via Gawker)
Apple Plants BizWeek Gadget Story To Turn Up Heat... →
Best theory yet, as the story is from two credible reporters and AT&T is back at the table with Apple.
Obama proposes unprecedented scientific effort →
High-speed rails for public transportation and science spending to match military spending?!?!
Best vote I’ve ever cast.
MLB Nearing $1 Million In iPhone Revenue →
WatchTwitter is the Macerena of 2009. (Via The Soup)
Sean Hannity offers to get waterboarded for... →
filthyphil:
Please, please let this happen. And don’t let FOX conduct this- they’ll make a mockery of the horrid reality of such a form of “enhanced interrogation.” They’ll put him on a gurney, splash a little water on his face, Hannity with a big smile and putting on a show, all to say “See America, this isn’t so bad.”
Props to the writer of this article, for being able to use...
“Overall, 52 percent think a television is a necessity. That is the lowest figure...”
– What’s a Necessity? (via Mike Hudack) (via marco)
“Until today, if edgy digerati blog Boing Boing mentioned Comcast, it was with a...”
– Gawker - How Comcast Bought Its Way Into Boing Boing’s Good Graces - Boing Boing
Apple 2Q profit gains 15 percent, beats Street →
Sales of iPhones more than doubled to 3.79 million units from the year-ago quarter.
“Coachella exists in two time zones: the event itself and its digital afterlife....”
– (via NYTimes.com)
“You can blame it on the grim economy, or you can blame it on the fact that...”
– Gizmodo - Ugobe Folds, Pleo Goes the Way of the Dinosaur
A quick look into the crowdsourcing potential of... →
The rapid minigame structure of Wario Ware is tailor-made for crowdsourcing. This game will print money.
Paul Boutin, our Media Safari Leader, Explains the...
He spells it out for us in no uncertain terms: The Observer says there’s a backlash.
A Gartner analyst uses the article to say there’s a media backlash to Twitter. He’s right: It’s in the Observer, which means that it will be repeated by the most trend-conscious journalists all over Manhattan. Didn’t you know about the Twitter backlash? It was in the Observer.
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“Instead, Oprah will transform Twitter. The addition of every celebrity turns it...”
– Owen Thomas. Damn, Valley Wag is on today. (via Valley Wag)
The Pirate Bay Lost
brokep: According to leaked information from the court we lost (got the news last night). Trustworthy source as well.
brokep: Really, it's a bit LOL. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before the official release.
“In the war between video sites, Hulu might have the Daily Show, 30 Rock and 24,...”
– ValleyWag - YouTube’s Sad Studio Deal Just Highlights Hulu’s Superiority
“A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you want. The one thing that...”
– Apple spokesman Bill Evans
“We’ve been scattered to the winds. JP Morgan is doing its best to destroy...”
– A former Bear Stearns employee, lamenting the JP Morgan’s closure of the business unit that specialized in mortgage credits and mortgage backed securities. Pity. (Via Clusterstock)
US can switch off Internet if it is threatened →
“With only a few exceptions, what the genomics companies are doing right now is...”
– David Goldstein, Geneticist @ Duke University.
Kudos to the NYTimes for going against the trend piece tide (for once) and pointing out that DNA is not a magic bullet that will explain all our pains and mysteries at once. The 23andMe wave is just another round of brain-scans and phrenology that...
