March 2012
23 posts
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Canada Gets Rid of the Penny →
thedailybeast.com
PINCHER The Royal Canadian Mint will end production of the penny this fall thanks to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s austerity budget, and he told reporters Friday that the coins are a “nuisance.” “The penny is a currency without…
Nice to see some sanity up north. Hopefully this can trickle south and we can ditch both the penny and the...
Video from a recent talk at Sup’Internet →
fuselabs:
Paul Steckler and David Raskino recently spoke at Sup’Internet, a web design and engineering school in Paris, about So.cl and Fuse Labs. The school put together a video with some highlights and an interview, enjoy!
Tooting my own horn a bit, but I like this video. Thanks Yannick for making it.
Google Drive Gets A Jump →
parislemon:
Om Malik says Google is planning to launch Google Drive next month (maybe as soon as next week). Yes, finally.
He touches upon some of the illustrious history of the Google Drive rumors throughout the years, but they haven’t actually been rumors. Google had a project several years ago that they were widely using internally, but they killed it. The project started up again last year...
Check out Pay with Square
Pay with Square
About time. I know NFC is coming someday but there really was no reason a
trial like this couldn’t happen. If I can bump info from phone to phone,
why not cash?
I hope there is a merchant nearby I can test this with
Check out this application on the App Store:
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Updated: Mar 26, 2012
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Cory Doctorow: I wish weather reports wou ... →
twitter.com
This is a clever idea and to my knowledge novel. Complaining about the weather is a Northwest specialty, why not show that yes in fact yesterday was better/worse.
To assist here is the forecast I snapped from yesterday; this is an easy app in these parts:-) http://flpbd.it/oWKoi
“If you’re younger than 13, don’t use Tumblr. Ask your parents for an Xbox or try...”
– The new Tumblr TOS. [NPR Books site, for those of you younger than 13.] (via nprfreshair)
Short, simple, and to the point.
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Microsoft Fuse Labs Blog: Read what some of our... →
fuselabs:
Today we found some nice So.cl reviews written by our users. Enjoy!
“to be honest, I liked it when started using it, but after writing this, I like it even more!!” Read more
“Personally I have big hopes for this network and I think Socl has what it takes to make a difference in the…
Nice wrap up of one my projects at work. Nice when someone else spends the time and energy...
Social is the new Internet (Why I left Google - JW... →
Interesting read from a guy who left Google (disclaimer: I don’t know him,
no idea what he is doing at Microsoft). The interesting quote is a
paragraph towards the end (italics and highlighting are mine):
*As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and
dandy, Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and
seemed quite happy. A user exodus...
@kevinrose, 3/16/12 9:29 AM
*Kevin Rose (@kevinrose )*
3/16/12 9:29 AM
It’s official, I’m joining Google! More details here:
plus.google.com/u/1/1103189825…
Interesting… Not clear if this was an acquisition of Milk/Oink or just a
hiring. Regardless it’s a good move for Google likely as they could use a
few fresh ideas in the space.
Update: looks like Oink was shuttered and is closing...
Google Wallet’s Founding Engineer And Product Lead... →
parislemon:
Kim-Mai Cutler:
Google Wallet has seen a wave of departures over the last month or so and the company may need to rethink its strategy.
Over-promise, under-deliver. The Google Way.
It seems so obvious that mobile devices will replace most of what we do today. And yet with so many players and so much money at stake it will take far longer than the tech problems involved. ...
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter - The... →
Didn’t see that one coming. The first thing is that Posterous +
Twitter looks a lot like Tumblr. So look out there (he says while
posting on Tumblr).
Also seems like a move which makes Google+ possibly less interesting.
Want to do more than tweet, need a few more characters, then slide up
from Twitter to a full blog with Posterous.
Looks like a good move. Hope my two Posterous...
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More Advertisers Abandon Limbaugh →
thedailybeast.com
Backlash It’s unclear whether Rush Limbaugh’s apology will be enough to keep his advertisers. The conservative radio host has now lost seven advertisers, with flower company ProFlowers being the latest. Two mattress companies, …
Still no real apology from Rush Limbaugh. A real apology in a case like this would be actually doing something...
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Looking for a book
Finished “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”. Need a book, what should be on my list?
Note: this was auto-posted from Path, the formatting needed a little help or maybe a URL for context.
digithoughts asked: Hi Sharper, of course I noticed the difference between the wp and wm curves. The post is about the fact that wp phones hardware are lagging behind. I just think it's sad that there aren't any wp vendors out there that push the spec limits a little more. I think it's important for them in order to reach the next step in the graph. Which is the hockey stick part that both android and...
http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog/A-Message-from-Car... →
It would be nice to see more CEOs act this way. Yes, Limbaugh apologized. But does anyone, anyone at all, think he means it? He is surely sorry the money is being pulled, but Limbaugh has a history of awful misogynistic comments, this is a pattern, not an incident.
“I’m sorry” should only work if you one is in fact sorry. And is going to change. When we see Limbaugh testifying...
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Why Google+ Doesn’t Care If You Never Come Back -... →
Swallowing a line almost wholesale. If G+ were simply an exercise in
getting biographical data they would add that to Gmail or any other
service sign up. Easy. No huge cost.
But the writer here swallows that line. No critical question like”hey,
can’t you infer that data anyway?” or “isn’t the location data more
important?” Sure, Google can target better with...
