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2013-05-25 12:56:43 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

2013-05-25 05:09:03 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Buzz user,

In October 2011 we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17th, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online. Google will store two (2) types of files to your Google Drive, and the newly-created files will not count against your storage limits.

The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts you authored.
The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link, and may appear in search results and on your Google Profile (if you’ve linked to your Buzz posts). Note, any existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect users to this file.

Any comments you made on otheru... more »

2013-05-25 05:04:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via +Wayne Radinsky

There are a number of design aesthetics that are flatter than iOS, it wil be interesting to see what Apple come up with and whether it will be sufficiently differentiating from, say, W8's "Metro" or Android's Holo.

2013-05-25 03:03:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

What's your take on dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories? Do you have favorites? What do you think are the REAL threats to human civilization? War? Climate change? Greed? Stupidity? 

(I put this under Promotion b/c it's a link to my blog. Lemme know if I shouldn't post links like this in the future.) 

2013-05-25 02:50:32 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 20 +1s)

LoL. Awesome sauce!

2013-05-25 00:28:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via +mathew murphy

2013-05-24 11:37:42 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

#TGIF ...it's time to do different things :)

a great weekend to all!

2013-05-24 11:27:30 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Via Bruce Sterling

2013-05-24 11:02:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-05-23 21:45:02 (45 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Scoring by market share alone and ignoring profit is like saying that a baseball team won because it had more hits when the other team scored more runs. Scoring by market share alone and ignoring profit is like saying that a football team won because it gained more yards when the other team scored more points."


It is true. 

2013-05-23 13:55:41 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

You may recall this article http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html?_r=1&

Wikipedia is both an irreplaceable resource and a post-modern fiction.

2013-05-23 13:14:55 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Analysts broke it down like this: Globally, it’s estimated the Android industry made $5.3 billion profit in the first quarter of this year, while the profit estimates for Android phones shipped by Samsung comes in at $5.1 billion for the same period. The exact figure quoted is 94.7 percent profit share, and that’s not including tablets either.

According to Strategy Analytics’ chart, in a (very) distant second place is LG, with 2.5 percent profit share, while all the other Android phone manufacturers – think about it, that’s everyone from Sony and HTC to Huawei, Acer and ZTE – are lumped into an Others category, which totals 2.7 percent.

2013-05-23 12:41:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-23 01:08:02 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

This zoetrope features round wheel of chocolate bird characters that seem to come to life as device spins. http://youtu.be/bU8a1t99rQs

2013-05-22 23:24:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2013/05/dissident-spinal-taps-beijing.html

Someimes its difficult to get your head around how things change, and how fast. A few years back, Liu Xiaobo part authored and helped circulate a painfully earnest document calling for China to be established as a constitutional, democratic republic. Sympathetic media overseas gave it a helping hand but, basically, it died on its arse. Nonetheless Beijing decided that it had enough of Liu and jailed him for a decade for incitement to state subversion. A bunch of elderly Scandinavians gave him a Nobel to try and shame Beijing into releasing him, but no joy.

A few years later Ai Weiwei releases a spoof heavy metal video which I believe is called in Chinese ‘Stupid Cunt’: by a nice irony this had to be self-censored into ‘dumbass’ inEnglish... more »

2013-05-22 22:35:00 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

+mathew murphy on Google's abandonment of XMPP for Hangouts and how this is closing a door for him.

My usage on the other hand has skyrocketted since I've started using Hangouts to stay in touch with my work place. But there is no doubt that Google is becoming a silo just like the other players and all the arguments it used to use about openness and interoperability have been unceremoniously dumped.

Why use anything Google nowadays? Because it's Google and Google are big and trusted.

That's a very different argument to the one about not be locked into yet another vendor.

2013-05-22 22:10:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

2013-05-22 22:02:01 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

I mean, really.
It makes it so fun to chase a comment box.

2013-05-22 22:02:28 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-22 21:57:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Retuning the social mindset.

When I first heard about, and then joined, Twitter back in 2006 I knew we were on the cusp of a new age of social. The service excited me in a way that MySpace and others had never been able to achieve.

It wasn't until 2007 that Twitter's potential started to be realised but there was just something about the place: it was new, it was a truly level playing field and it's simplicity was key.

I've never been a big Facebook user and I sometimes wonder if this stemmed from having a "Twitter mindset" - connecting to people from anywhere regardless of whether I knew them, being able to hijack public conversations without the need to do the "friending thing".

I always say that a shift in social attitude occurred with FriendFeed and then carried through to Buzz as a lot of the same users moved from... more »

2013-05-22 13:35:18 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Great article by Bruce Schneier on the impending age of surveillance.

2013-05-21 23:08:55 (13 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

What a liar.

One thing Tim Cook did not say is that Goldman Sachs siphons off hundreds of millions in fees for providing Apple with cash to operate in the USA.

In the meantime they are hiding $100B+ away from legitimate taxation in the countries they are sucking this money from, including the USA.

You can read all about it here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578454691936382274.html

Google does the same. Most multinationals run the same rort but if you or I tried to pull the same stunt, we'd be prosecuted and possibly imprisoned.

The problem will continue because Goldman Sachs systematically bribes politicians in your country and mine to keep this con game running, euphemistically calling it "lobbying".

We should be marching in the streets.

2013-05-21 22:55:14 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

2013-05-21 22:43:00 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 24 +1s)

2013-05-21 22:41:57 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://william-hobbs.tumblr.com/post/50972730933/

2013-05-21 22:17:27 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Now it's time to advance the next cause:

Civil unions for straight people.

Don't get me wrong: Marriage is a fine institution.

Assuming you like institutions.

2013-05-21 13:42:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

And my wallpapers folder grew three sizes that day...
from http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1eqcak/if_we_lost_all_memory_of_photoshop_but_the/

2013-05-20 23:15:52 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)

Hey Google, your move.

#yahoo  #flickr

2013-05-20 23:17:42 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Before there were people wearing Google Glass and before there were people who saw it as their duty to call them #glassholes ... I mean way back to before the horizon of your memory, back to nearly the dawn of time, back to the dotcom boom days. Back to 1999. There was a website called

Phonebashing.com

A novelty home page that took as its mission to shame and humiliate anyone who dared to carry a mobile phone out in public. You kids may not remember this but there was a time when all mobile phone users were seen as pretentious wankers that needed to be taken down a peg or two.

That was before 2003 the year before which owning a mobile phone marked you out as a bit of a dick but after which not owning a mobile phone marked you out as a bit of a dick.

Yes I am drawing a parallel.

2013-05-20 14:35:30 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)

The future is now

2013-05-20 14:34:56 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:58:18 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:04:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-20 13:02:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Everyone

2013-05-20 13:00:36 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

2013-05-20 12:35:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Don't know where to start? You could start from here.

2013-05-20 12:16:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Darwin vectorized.

2013-05-20 09:28:52 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Interview with Google's web developer relations guy, Paul Irish, on the future of Chrome and Blink.

2013-05-20 07:03:23 (12 comments, 8 reshares, 16 +1s)

This is how geeks Mine #BitCOINS ...

2013-05-20 06:11:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Angular.js will build on the Polymer.js compatibility layer to deliver Web Components.

2013-05-20 03:25:36 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Web Components.

Probably should be paying attention to this.

2013-05-20 03:19:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-20 00:42:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Good practical tools for boosting website performance.

2013-05-19 22:47:20 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

My teenage daughter tells me that all the "Cumberbitches" are preparing to see the new Star Trek movie.

Not for Spock or Kirk but for the villain.

2013-05-19 22:15:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#glass   #googleglass  

2013-05-19 06:57:35 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Read this list of shootings... it'll blow your mind.

2013-05-19 06:46:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

AT THE END OF THE DAY

Seriously people, what the hell is up with the this term? I am constantly hearing people use it in videos, blog post, on Twitter, on Google+...  If I hear one more person use this term I am going to bang somebodies head on a really hard surface until blood spills. 

What is "end of the day"?? Is there even such a thing? 

#DumbestSayingEVER  

2013-05-18 00:31:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

He's an atheist and he's proud

Mike Booth has been branching out from the Some Grey Bloke series of satirical cartoons. In this video Jeremiah McDonald performs Mike's writing. It's a bit of fun but what I found particularly interesting was the weblinks to this thing called Patreon. The idea is that people can become a patron of an artist/content producer. We're talking about something like a dollar for anything they produce. No one is getting rich off it (yet) but I saw that when Mike makes a video he gets about $50 out of Patreon. Beer money if nothing else. I think it's a pretty cool idea.

2013-05-18 00:22:16 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

This is a winner!!! LOL

2013-05-18 00:21:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

:-)