December 2010
“The technological revolution is more intertwined every day with our economy and...”
– Steve Jobs to Playboy in 1985. We’re still waiting for this to happen. (via marco)
Top 10 Tech Failures of 2010
marco:
Something from Apple that everyone loves
Something else from Apple that everyone loves
Your favorite cellular telephone
Something Facebook did
Something Google launched
A crappy tablet nobody has ever heard of
Microsoft’s latest initiative
Desktop Linux
Michael Arrington
Ping
There. That should generate some pageviews.
Gruber gives me the shits. →
Does Gruber give you the shits? You’re not the only one.
Beat it, Isle of Tune →
Interiors of Bahnof server bunkers in Sweden →
And you thought data centres were boring. Check out the video. The boss seems like a good bloke.
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iOS and Encryption
During this years NZiDev there was some chat about the US export restrictions on apps that use encryption. Any product that provides or consumes encryption for any purpose other than DRM, and some medical needs, must be registered with the US government because cryptographic encryption is considered a weapon. This includes https, so if your app connects to a server using https you need to...
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“To bad NASA didn’t have Bay and his CG effects to make the moon landings more...”
– http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/262-new-transformers-trailer-rewrites-moon-landing-history (via estatefourpointone)
Pete in Akl →
I could reblog all of @peteinakl’s stuff, but you should just visit his Tumblr instead.
(For the longest time I thought peteinakl was peteinnaki as in Taranaki. I’m all where is this cow poker getting all this cool stuff?)
“Turn down your thermostats? Buy a smaller car? Conserve? I have spent quite a...”
– Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy—the company that owns the Upper Big Branch mine that exploded in April and killed 29 coal miners. Blankenship announced his retirement last week shortly after an article in Rolling Stone called him “the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the business and...
November 2010
Twitter hires a Hollywood outreach guy →
jimray:
Because if there’s anything the world needs, it’s another megaphone for celebrities.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Twitter media team and they’re some of the sharpest people I know, which makes this particularly disappointing. It’s probably more of a reflection of my own naïveté, and that I hold the social network a little too close to my heart, but I actually believed...