After being sold for half a million dollars to Betaworks earlier this year, Digg is looking at something of a revival according to a new report from Buzzfeed. The once-mighty referral site, which was a precursor to the now ultra-popular Reddit, has fallen on hard times in recent years, but it looks like a summer relaunch has righted the ship (at least slightly) for Digg, which now refers a million hits to Buzzfeed Network sites — after a full reboot into a human-curated news site. Do you use the new Digg? (Photo via Buzzfeed) source
Windows head Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft
Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft executive in charge of Windows, has left the company. Julie Larson-Green is to assume control of Windows software and hardware engineering, and CFO Tami Reller will be in charge of the Windows business.
I guess we know how sales are going.
Yeah, looks like sales have only scratched the … Surface.
Yes it’s here, a list of the most expensive keywords in Google. This is only a partial list, but you can check out the full list here.
There’s good money in asbestos.
The curious case of Microsoft’s Metro, a design language that cannot be spoken
Microsoft’s Metro design language has gone through a name change of late. Used to describe the company’s design principles around typography and minimal graphics, Metro is now referred to as the “Microsoft design language.”
More companies should put focus on systems of design like this. Simply put, these are the new highways and mass-transit systems, and we need to treat them that way.
Growing Family: Even though today’s Android event was cancelled, Google went forward with product announcements for the LG Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 tablet via the company’s blog this afternoon. The company also revealed an upated 32GB Nexus 7, the 32GB Nexus 7 with mobile data, and Android 4.2 in the post. source
Welcome to Polygon! It’s a website (finally) | Polygon
Officially welcome our friends at Polygon to the internet!
This is an amazing site. Like The Verge, it makes everyone else look like they’re not trying hard enough.
Google hits the Grand Canyon: Google’s Street View is hitting the trails of the Grand Canyon. A car can’t fit down those tiny trails, though, so Google came up with backpack-mounted cameras. ”Any of these sort of iconic, cultural, historical locations that are not accessible by road is where we want to go,” said Ryan Falor, product manager at Google. source
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Tumblr this morning. [h/t anne]
#@#$%!.tumblr.com
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Hey.
My name is Michael Arrington. For newer readers who don’t know, I founded TechCrunch back in 2005.
Last year I was fired and began writing on Uncrunched.
Today AOL unfired me.
I am a venture capitalist and have all sorts of conflicts of interest. Many of you think that conflicts of interest are inherently bad and people with them shouldn’t be writing stuff for other people to read. A lot of people would agree with you. It was the reason AOL fired me last year, after they invested in my venture fund CrunchFund.
AOL now also disagrees.
Before everyone starts freaking the fuck out, just hold on a second and hear me out.
We don’t know how many of you are TechCrunch readers, particularly after last year’s AOL fiasco, but today brought some good news for longtime fans of the tech news site. In an open letter, posted on TechCrunch this afternoon, founder Michael Arrington has announced plans to return to the site he created as a paid contributor. Welcome back, Mike!
Sur..prise?: Apple has officially unveiled the iPad mini, though we’re not sure how many people were unaware of the device’s existence at this point. The iPad mini will ship with a 7.9-inch screen, modified A5 chip under the hood, and a starting price of $329 for the Wi-Fi only model. Pre-orders begin on Friday and the first devices will land in consumers’ hands on November 2. So, are you planning to get the smaller iPad? (Photo via The Verge) source
Amidst all the Twitter vs. developers hoopla, Tapbots has made another brilliant app. With Twitter itself stopping support for their Mac client, there’s no doubt that this is the best way to use Twitter natively on a Mac.
Yes, it’s $19.99, but if you use Twitter as much as I do, it’s well worth it. And Tapbots actually pushes the native client forward with retina display support and get this, syncing of DM read statuses over iCloud (amazingly, Twitter itself still has no way to do this).
Paid the $20. Why not support the developers, especially since we use the app?
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