October 2011
4 tags
“That’s a lot of people. Maybe now my kids will understand what I mean when...”
– Population Reaches 7 Billion | The Onion
5 tags
“It’s available only in select stores for a few weeks at a time, a marketing ploy...”
– The ineluctable return of the McRib
5 tags
“I would challenge the assumption that a sandwich can’t be interesting. Life is...”
– Kevin Systrom | Oversaturated: Is Instagram’s Popularity Changing Photography?
6 tags
“Facebook is about your real friends and Twitter is about who you would like to...”
– Time to cut the Facebook and Twitter clutter, says AOL’s ‘digital prophet’
6 tags
“If I have 2,000 friends on Facebook or Twitter, how do I work out which one will...”
– Time to cut the Facebook and Twitter clutter, says AOL’s ‘digital prophet’
4 tags
“Hayes Valley is the Castro Street for straight people.”
– SFGate
5 tags
“Facebook, which began as a crude, clumsy translation of complex human...”
– Facebook Introduces Super-Friends
4 tags
“This is unheard of — no medicine comes close to delaying the onset of...”
– First physical evidence bilingualism delays onset of Alzheimer’s symptoms
3 tags
Gap between rich, poor is widest in Atlanta →
3 tags
5 tags
Scottish Accents Foil iPhone 4S’ Siri →
“And just like us humans, Siri can be befuddled by “strong” accents. The Times of London ran a story Wednesday reporting that many people in Scotland are having a hard time getting Siri to understand their commands and comments.”
5 tags
6 tags
4 tags
“Then, a few days later, she used my phone to watch videos on YouTube, and...”
– 5 things my 4-year-old taught me about technology
3 tags
4 tags
“Jobs said in a post-dinner Q&A that newspapers like the [WSJ] were bungling...”
– Steve Jobs Called Fox News a ‘Destructive Force in Our Society’
5 tags
“You’re blowing it with Fox News,” Jobs told [Rupert Murdoch] over...”
– Steve Jobs Called Fox News a ‘Destructive Force in Our Society’
3 tags
5 tags
After Being Burned in ’08, Republicans Embrace... →
“This is the first time that both parties have people on staff who are specifically focused on social media and willing to deploy and use it.” Mr. Rasiej, of Personal Democracy Media, said. “It won’t be tanks against the cavalry this time. Both sides have tanks, both sides have fighter jets and both sides may have nuclear bombs.”
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
3 tags
“Fool me once, Harold Camping, shame on you. Fool me twice, what am I supposed to...”
– @WadetoBlack
5 tags
6 tags
Facebook Is Better Than Sex →
“Pride. Feeling good about yourself. The joy of self-reflection, of posturing, of status. Timeline is the lushest garden of digital self-indulgence ever cultivated by man, spanning years and faces. It transcends breakups. You tell your own story. There’s no erectile dysfunction or disappointing performance. There’s your life as you frame it, in resplendent high definition....
5 tags
“I’m a big believer in game mechanics to push people to do new things in real...”
– Dennis Crowley | How Foursquare is moving beyond the check-in
4 tags
Big Drop In Car Crashes Tracks With Blackberry... →
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20% from their average rates. In Abu Dhabi, accidents fell by 40% and there were no fatal accidents.
5 tags
Teenagers Will, Like, Totally Abandon Facebook for... →
Teenagers aren’t thrilled about the changes on Facebook and 25% said they would be using Google more often. In fact, teens say that Google is actually more social than Facebook, which is trying to become more news-oriented.
Teens really disliked the news ticker, calling it a “scrolling stalker” that just felt like a distraction. They tended to worry that the ticker showed them...
5 tags
4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing... →
Google and Facebook are “consolidating identity and making people seem more simple than they really are,” Poole said. “Our options are being eroded.”
…Creativity and self-expression are at stake, Poole says, and he’s particularly concerned about young people. Facebook’s new Timeline will lock people into their Facebook identities from birth.
“I...
4 tags
4 tags
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier… A majority of Americans say, for the first time ever, that this generation will not be better off than its parents.
“Generation X is sick of your bullshit. The first generation to do worse than its parents? Please. Been there. Generation X was told that so many times...
5 tags
4 tags
6 tags
Siri and Her Girls: Why So Many Robot Helpers Are... →
“You’re probably familiar with a few of these ‘ladies’: the default voice on most GPS systems, the computer that guides you around your voicemail, Julie the Amtrak lady. These ‘women’ assist you in your planning, help you find what you’re looking for, and, in the case of the GPS, keep you calm when you’re lost. They perform, to put it bluntly,...
3 tags
iOS 5: Exploring 7 Hidden New Features | Wired.com →
Just type in the word or phrase that deserves a shortcut, and then plug in the shortcut itself. Now, for example, when you type in “fwiw,” iOS will provide an auto-correct prompt for “for what it’s worth.”
…And the fun doesn’t end there. I see great potential for mischief too: Grab your pal’s iOS 5 device, and begin entering shortcuts for common words like “hi” or “siri,” as in the...
5 tags
5 tags
“It’s kind of like having the unpaid intern of my dreams at my beck and call,...”
– With Siri, the iPhone Finds Its Voice | Wired
5 tags
“Instead of patterning Siri on a humanoid body, Apple used a human archetype...”
– Siri: The Perfect Robot for Our Time - The Atlantic
6 tags
5 tags
Steve Jobs on Why He Wore Turtlenecks →
On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became...
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
4 tags
4 tags
Oh my: Bravo now casting Silicon Valley reality... →
Here’s the email [GigaOm] received from a Hollywood casting director:
Are you a young, successful, professional living in America’s most emerging area — Silicon Valley?
Whether you’re in law, business, technology, film, advertising, medical, culinary… any career goes, as long as you’re living life in the fast lane, we want to hear from you!
How about a hotshot lawyer, who works hard from 9-5...
5 tags
4 tags
In Praise of Bad Steve - The Atlantic →
When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his approval. Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big.
The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was simply impossible to make it any smaller. Jobs was quiet for a...
4 tags
“Our whole goal here is to help you be proud of your story,” Lessin said....”
– Q&A: Sam Lessin on Facebook Timeline - AllThingsD