March 2012
“Well, it doesn’t make sense to the online ad industry as represented by...”
– Alexis Madrigal, observing the gap between the privacy assumptions made by advertisers, regulators, and audiences.
“This is the final stage of a revolution, the democratization of what used to be...”
– The New Inquiry
I’ve grown to somewhat enjoy Instagram after initially dismissing it. However: I cannot understand why journalists, reporters, and others intending to deliver events with accuracy warp their photos with filters. Doing so seems to admit that reportage is an act done with...
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“The claim that RIM has said it will withdraw from the consumer market is wholly...”
– RIM Managing Director Patrick Spence.
Translation: “That was a joke! You couldn’t tell we were joking?”
Spence continued:
While we announced plans to re-focus our efforts on our core strengths, and on our enterprise customer base, we were very explicit that we will continue...
"BlackBerry Maker to Focus on Business Customers" →
Translation: there will be no turn around.
One of the firmest trends in the last two years is the relaxing of IT regulations. Workers bring devices from home. Apple found a foothold in the enterprise as the C-suite demanded Apple support for their new iPhones. Without consumer support, by relying on what they assume is ‘locked in’, RIM will perish.
RIM needs a compelling,...
“The Vogue April 2012 issue weighs in at a whopping 408 MB. A special...”
– David Wheeler discusses Condé and the Retina iPad
Will be surprised if the entire iPad line doesn’t double it’s storage in the next gen.
Any enterprising data hackers up for cataloging and visualizing how the wind map spread online via blogs and twitter last week? Would be a great project.
“The chair will ask the Sargent of Arms to enforce the prohibition on decorum....”
– Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), who removed Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) from the House floor for violating House rules prohibiting hats. Rush was wearing the hoodie as he spoke against the murder of Travyon Martin. (Via Think Progress)
Google Patents Advertising Based on Weather →
If this is recent, I’ve participated in at least three instances of prior art. (Via The Drum)
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“More specifically, Adobe will require developers to share 9 percent of net...”
– CNET on Adobe’s upcoming payment terms for premium Flash features. Adobe’s Emmy Huang explains the motivation behind the charges, “We’ve designed this pricing to encourage the kind of innovation and experimentation that often helps to spark inspired and inventive...
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Burning Paper Gadgets for Ancestors →
Shanghai Daily reports:
Paper-made Apple products have become a fad during this year’s Qingming Festival, a time for the Chinese to sweep the tombs of their ancestors and burn offerings that are supposed to reach the dead in the other world.
A high-quality paper iPhone 4 and iPad 2 complete with an earphone and a battery charger cost up to a hundred yuan and more, the Beijing...
“Mr. Coast still heads OpenStreetMap, but about 16 months ago he joined...”
– NYTimes
Missed this from last week. Good round up of OpenStreetMap’s momentum this year.
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Forget Phone Hacking, If True: Allegations Surface... →
Via The Guardian:
The allegations stem from apparently incriminating emails the programme-makers have obtained, and on-screen descriptions for the first time from two of the people said to be involved, a German hacker and the operator of a pirate website secretly controlled by a Murdoch company.
The witnesses allege a software company NDS, owned by News Corp, cracked the smart card codes...
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PeteSearch: Twelve steps to running your Ruby code... →
Using CommonCrawl’s web archives, Ruby, S3 and Elastic MapReduce, Pete Warden shows you how to crawl 5 billion web pages for a few dimes.
Absolutely demystifying.
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“But if you’ve owned—or even played with—an iPad before, Cupertino’s...”
– Gizmodo’s iPad review
Anyone who fetishizes hardware will be disappointed with every tablet update. The goal is the disappearance of the hardware, not the notability of it.
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New Stock Exchange System Botches Own IPO Trading... →
Whoa! That little blip in Apple’s stock which halted trading is even crazier it already seems:
Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS)., the six- year-old equity exchange, canceled its initial public offering, stunning Wall Street after errors on its own computer systems kept the stock from trading and forced a halt in Apple Inc.
“I’m reeling from the shock,” James Angel, a finance professor...
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On Apple and China: A Quick Thought
It’s a good thing we’re having the discussion about Chinese worker conditions now. It’ll be more awkward in a year or so when China is Apple’s #1 market.
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The first app for Google Glasses will be to remove Google Glasses from all other wearers and your mirror self.
One guy covers Mastadon’s Leviathan on piano...
quartey asked: Any ideas for what Twitter is going to do with Posterous? Is it just a straight-up acqui-hire, or might we soon be seeing Twitter experimenting with micro-blogging?
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“The Supreme Court often has recognized that the First Amendment protects...”
– Miami Judge Marc Shumacher, writing in his dismissal order in the case of movie studio Boy Racer vs. 615 unnamed BitTorrent users. (Via TorrentFreak)
“All the political talk in America is about the economy, forgetting or ignoring...”
– In a letter to Bin Laden, Adam Gadahn, al-Qaeda’s media strategist, suggests that releasing a video after the November 2010 U.S. elections would be “very suitable.”
Also:
Gadahn discusses how to game the coverage. Bin Laden could offer “an exclusive press scoop” to one...
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“Ron Paul may be dead-last among the major GOP candidates in the all-important...”
– The Atlantic Wire
A good example of internet bias magnifying a relatively niche idea. Take internet trends with a grain of salt. (For now)
IFC to Air the Next Installment of "Trapped in the... →
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“In testing Angry Birds, Pathak recorded energy usage for one level of gameplay,...”
– The Verge, reporting on research from Purdue University and Microsoft. These tests were performed on Android devices.
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Humble Pie Quick Tips
America’s Test Kitchen’s Twitter account just alerted me to their simultaneous Tumblr and Pinterest contests.
Big business and media: the bow-tied, Vermont homesteader your mom watches on PBS has a better, more experimental social media presence than any of you.
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Is there a news startup that delivers content only via mobile? If not, why doesn’t one exist by now?
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“Geeks are born when children take apart things they shouldn’t.”
“While some precincts have yet to report in, Romney has taken nearly 90 percent...”
– The Atlantic Wire
Remember the year Republican candidates had to pander to Puerto Rico for delegate votes?
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New Device Fingerprints You from Two Meters Away →
The device, called AIRprint, is being developed by Advanced Optical Systems (AOS). It detects fingerprints by shining polarized light onto a person’s hand and analyzing the reflection using two cameras configured to detect different polarizations.
(Via Technology Review)
