Cool stuff, but using Control4 is cheating. And expensive.
[From The iPad that controls all - CBS 6 Tech Talk : WRGB CBS 6 Albany]
- #The grass is always greener on the other side...
[From 'Junkware' comes standard on Verizon, T-Mobile smart phones | Technology | Los Angeles Times]
- #This is so cool. Love that under New York is this hidden world of old.
[From 18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com]
- #So, its not as good in the screen, the speed, weight, cell modem, video or apps, and yet is a competitor? How?
[From Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor « Mike Cane's iPad Test]
- #I find it amusing that the same people who lament, mock and take glee in the demise of traditional media are very happy that one of the hallmarks of "New Media" - Techmeme - got a (deserved) profile in the New York Times.
- #I just had a heart attack and vowed that we will never, ever get a pool in our backyard. EVER.
[From Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning]
- #Pretty much sums up my feelings on Android. I fear as well that with the rapid pace of "This is the BEST ANDROID PHONE ON THE MARKET" -- seemingly every three weeks -- we are nearly to the point where one company (say HTC) will cause an Osborne Effect on another manufacturer (say, Motorola or Samsung). It is only in each companies best interest to have the worlds best Android phone (WBAP for short). I fear its about to get nasty.
[Related: Marco.org - Great since day one]
- #Shocker!
[From Apple PR: Steve Jobs iPhone 4 "conversation" is a fake - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech]
- #Here here!
Ancillary data produced by your business can become more valuable than the profits from the business itself. Don't throw anything away.
[From How to Spy on Ryan (Moulton): Men's Wearhouse is missing a major business opportunity.]
- #R.E.M. should, one random day, close down College Ave between Broad and Washington, setup a stage, play, pack up and head back into their office. Unannounced.
[From Features: Is AthFest Ready for R.E.M. or Widespread Panic to Headline? - Flagpole Magazine: Colorbearer of Athens, GA]
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In my experience, facebook has attracted all my “non-geeky” friends to “network socially” via the web.
Prior to facebook, most of them thought using the internet was the province of nerds. Given the network effect & stickiness of facebook, I can’t see my non-geeky friends (ie normal people) switching en-mass to another site just because its “open”. There needs to be another killer feature (which can’t be replicated in facebook)
Your AOL example is flawed – there was another killer feature – all the websites outside of AOL…
I have yet to see how open social will cater properly for privacy. This is one area that facebook got right and made my non-ggeky friends feel comfortable. Of all my friends (including the geeky & Muso’s, non of them use their real names on myspace)
I totally agree Opensocial is a good thing, but don’t hold your hopes for probably 40-45m of those facebook users switching.
Then thats your friends. I though the “Internet as the place for nerds” thing broke long ago, at least in my experience.
I’m all for Facebook, but I think a universal platform API (which Google may or may not provide) is only a good thing. A container which abstracts interfaces to different web apps, and to each other (key point) would rock much more than a single platform would.