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03 Sep 2010 11:12

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Tech: Apple’s Ping service has some pretty big problems right now

  • bands The service doesn’t currently have a lot of popular bands on it, mainly because Apple inexplic­a­bly decided to do it by invita­tion at launch. Dumb.
  • control Profile pictures have to be APPROVED by Apple. The app approval process, we could maybe under­stand. This? What the heck, guys? This is stupid.
  • spam Apple’s social network­ing service is also overrun with a lot of spam because of a pretty thin spam filter. Those links will not earn you free iPads.
  • The root of the problem: Apple is trying to run a social network, which by defin­i­tion needs to be open, the same way it runs its hardware business. They’re setting themselves up for a pretty embar­rass­ing fall as a result. If they bought Lala to build this, they wasted their money.
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03 Sep 2010 09:43

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Tech: TechCrunch relives the early Twttr days with an old-school logo

  • There has to be a good story behind this decision. TechCrunch redid its logo today, but they redid it to look exactly like Twitter’s origi­nal logo, launched way back in 2006. Arring­ton posted an article noting how he was sort of wrong about how Twitter’s success would play out, and it’s a bit hilar­i­ous to see how off-base some of the commenters were. Blast from the past, indeed. source
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02 Sep 2010 21:21

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Tech: Copyright owners use YouTube ads as a backdoor into ¢A$H

  • 2 billion views of YouTube videos with ads every single week
  • 14% the percentage of total weekly views on YouTube each week ad-supported videos make up – a small chunk, but definitely still a lot
  • 33% of those videos (or more) are clips which are copyright violations that the owners have chosen to make money from source
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02 Sep 2010 21:00

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Tech: Consumer watchdog group to Google CEO: Don’t be creepy

  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said some pretty weird crap lately. He thinks you should be able to change your name as an adult. He suggests that you shouldn’t say certain things online if you don’t want them to get out there. And it’s got consumer groups pretty concerned. We don’t think Schmidt is anything other than a weird dude, but this clip makes him look like the second incar­na­tion of Chucky from “Child’s Play.” Is it really this bad? Really? source
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02 Sep 2010 11:07

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Tech: Stephen Hawking doesn’t think universe is God’s creation

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Someone had to say it, right? And that someone is riding around in a the coolest chair anyone in the world has ever owned. source
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02 Sep 2010 01:30

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Tech: New Twitter iPad app blows every other Twitter iPad app away

  • Even though we’ve felt like Twitter’s official iPhone app (formerly Tweetie) has been overrated to some degree, we can’t say the same thing about Twitter’s official iPad app. It’s got this magical ability to be as simple or as complex as you’d like it to be, and that’s really hard to pull off. Layers can hide as neces­sary as the content requires. Links are done in a way that feels intuitive, and it could even teach Flipboard some things about elegance, which is saying a lot. Let’s just get it out there now: We’re fans. Nice work Atebits. source
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02 Sep 2010 00:16

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Tech: Two thoughts on whether Apple’s Ping is actually a big deal

  • maybe Apple is a big company and iTunes is their most popular piece of software. And, while it’s start­ing with music, it’s pretty obvious that this is a play for a much larger, Facebook-sized market.
  • maybe not However, it has the same problem as Google Buzz – it’s  another social network piggy­back­ing where it’s not needed. Also, why focus on just music? Trying to top MySpace, are we? source
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02 Sep 2010 00:10

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Tech: Oh yeah, we almost forgot: Apple released a bunch of crap

  • Steve Jobs needed a good keynote today, after all of the crappy PR Apple has faced over the last few months. And he did a great job. Too bad that guy had to go into the Discov­ery Build­ing and hold it hostage. But that said, the products were pretty cool. Our favorites were the new iPod Nanos (above) and the freshly updated iPod Touch. And the Apple TV update was definitely a good move – especially the newfound focus on Netflix. We’re totally pouring a 40, though, for the old-school iPod Classic, which wasn’t updated at all this year (though it’s still for sale). source
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01 Sep 2010 12:19

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Tech: Twitter’s all excited about today’s music-focused Apple keynote



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01 Sep 2010 09:48

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Tech: For touch screen story, the NYT found woman who can’t use BlackBerry

  • I had to use my sister’s Black­Berry to make a call, and I just kept swiping and touch­ing. It didn’t even occur to me to use the keyboard.
  • iPhone nut Susan­nah Wijsen • On being forced to use a Black­Berry at some point and not knowing what the heck to do. Uh, really? We don’t think that someone who works in adver­tis­ing in San Francisco could make a mistake like that, but whatever it takes to push forward this NYT story about how people love touch screens. source
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