January 2010
31 posts
“Then the iPad announcement confirmed what has already been obvious since the...”
– I agree. Even if the iPad is a dud (which I highly doubt), it suggests that a different and better way of engaging with content is fast approaching.
An Industry Reborn - robgo.org (via bijan)
“When that chute opens you feel like you’ve done something kings and queens can’t...”
– Gary Busey, on skydiving (via kevin)
“Trying to make a movie which truly conveys the raw thrill and expressive power...”
– Banksy via a statement read by his publicist Jo Brooks at the premiere of his first film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” at Sundance. Read the LA Times review of the film.
Percentage of US homes with a gaming console that...
mikehudack:
Source: Advertising Age via FOCUS by Mitch Oscar.
First step in widespread consumer adoption of over-the-top.
“In 2005, the online chess-playing site Playchess.com hosted what it called a...”
– The chess master and the computer, by Gary Kasparov (via cdixon)
Farrago
n. (pl. -goes) a confused mixture.
What a great word…
Iterative Foursquare Feature Idea
I’m sure someone’s thought of this and it may even exist, but here’s my idea: venue-specific leaderboards (ie. mayor trending). I think it’d be useful to see who’s sneaking up on you to steal your mayorship. Maybe, each time you check-in, show the mayor plus the next four contenders and offer some indication of how they’re trending. This will give you an idea...
“Users want to see more content on Boxee. Content owners want to be paid for what...”
– Boxee Blog » Coming soon: Boxee Payments
This is interesting, I hope they nail it.
(via fred-wilson)
Kottke on Momofuku Ssam
“Call it overrated if you’d like, but Ssam Bar is still the only place in NYC (or perhaps the world) where you can eat, using chopsticks, German-inspired cuisine served to you by a native Spanish speaker while drinking a glass of sparkling red wine and listening to 90s hip-hop in a restaurant conceived by an American junior golf champion from Virginia whose parents were from Korea.”
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Show @foursquare Check-ins in iCal
foursquare:
Login to your foursquare from your web browser
Go to foursquare feeds
Copy the link (URL) for the the ICS feed
Open iCal’s menu -> Calendar -> Subscribe…
Paste the ICS URL you copied from foursquare feeds
Click Subscribe in iCal
Adjust the Auto-refresh value to your liking then click OK
If I used iCal, I’d do this. Pretty neat.
(via peterwknox:overkill)
On Facebook and Black Helicopters
langer:
A couple of quick thoughts on yesterday’s bombshell Facebook interview in The Rumpus, revelations which sound to this engineer’s ears like much ado about nothing.
• Eye Tracking
A non-trivial number of people went looking for their tin foil hats after this exchange:
Employee: …now we’ve started running psychological analysis, starting to… Rumpus: Oh really? Employee: Fuck yeah. Are you...
“I found a fake account created from Berkeley that used the profile picture and...”
– Anonymous Facebook Employee (via bunch)
Twisted…
“Air Force drones collected nearly three times as much video over Afghanistan and...”
– Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones - NYTimes.com
(via evangotlib)
“Discovery, Imax and Sony confirmed on Tuesday that they are forming a joint...”
– Discovery, Imax and Sony Form 3-D Television Channel - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
I’m still skeptical about the 3D home theater experience taking root but I’m excited to see what the major manufacturers like Samsung will be revealing at CES this week from a hardware standpoint. ...
“The tablet is expected to be a multimedia device that will let people watch...”
– WSJ on the iTablet
So I have devices that cover off on all of these activities, but not necessarily together. Still, how am I going to justify this purchase even if it’s <$1000?
“Several years ago I told Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Derek Smith that Google’s...”
– Mel Karmazin
I’m reading Googled right now and this theme is central. I can see the logic behind both views.
(via soupsoup)