March 2010
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“I think of science fiction as the realism of California.”
– Kim Stanley Robinson quoted in an article entitled Kim Stanley Robison maps the future’s gray areas in the Los Angeles Times.
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Names
Writing about the Toshiba TG01 reminded me of this post by mrgan:
Product names currently topping Engadget’s feed: (these are all real and not particularly cherry-picked)
Kula TV PMP
Optio I-10
Gateway EC14D
Alienware M11x
Projectiondesign Remote Light Source
DMC-ZS7 (Or is it 7SZ? Or SZ7? Or Z7S?)
MvixUSA Ultio Pro
Moto CLIQ
OLPC XO
Mustek MER-6T
I like “iPad”.
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Foundem vs Google
Foundem, “the world’s most advanced vertical search engine” (as they sell themselves), is one third of an antitrust complaint against Google. They’ve previously complained about being dropped from Google search results, although that’s apparently been resolved since.
In the business news segment on Today, the section that caught my ear was a company representative...
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“I think people in general […] think enterprise is bigger than consumer....”
– Tim Cook, Apple COO quoted in Business Insider’s coverage of the Goldman Sachs conference.
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“My highlights from the day included Jon Spooner from Unlimited Theatre who used...”
– Jez Paxman, in That’s the story, talking about a talk at The Story conference Matt Locke organised that I attended on Friday.
Spooner’s talk, which was early in the day (when most people were still shocked at arriving at Jackanory Live rather than How To Convey A Narrative) probably...
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A Manifesto.
unlinkyourfeeds:
You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another. Look, I know it’s tempting. New service, not sure how you’ll keep up with the ever demanding maw and there’s the “import your content” button, right there in the sign-up process. A quick trip through a login screen or an OAuth link and there you are: All your stuff automatically aggregated into a...
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“In its urgency to offer a me-too product, Buzz confuses the read/unread email...”
– Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are at counternotions.
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