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- The creator of Google News on how journalism will change in the next 5 years
- The creator of Google News on how journalism will change in the next 5 years
- The Naked Entrepreneur
- Flock abandons Firefox for Chrome. New beta is available for download.
- Man posts suicide note on Twitter before taking his own life
- Now it’s official. US Apple store out of iPhone 4.
- Some Reasons More People Aren’t Using Check-in Services
- The HuffingtonPost iPad Application And The Over Appification Of Content
- iPhone 4 pre-orders are sold out at AT&T.
- iPhone 4 Ordering Process May Have Exposed Your Data To Other People
- Happy Father’s Day From T-Mobile: Free Phones This Saturday
- An Uneasy Ceasefire For Google And China
- Report predicts online advertising spending will increase by $10 Billion in next 4 years
- The New Mac Mini And Apple’s Missed Shot At Market Share Growth
- Kevin Rose announces new show: fforward.
- What Twitter Places Means for the Geosocial Startups
- New Hotmail Coming To Your Inbox
- [Updated: App Store app may work] iPhone 4 pre-order? Probably not today.
- Office 2010 now available worldwide.
- The Apple Store Gets Its Own Official iPhone App
| The creator of Google News on how journalism will change in the next 5 years Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:53 AM PDT
Bharat openly discusses where the Google News concept stemmed from, the role Google News currently it plays in modern day journalism and towards the end of his fireside chat, how he envisages journalism to change over the next 5 years. You can watch the video in its entirety below but it was the latter point on how professional journalism would develop over the next few years that particularly interested me. Bharat is convinced professional journalism is here to stay and while understandably unsure as to how things will develop, he briefly lists a number of points he believes will take shape over the course of the next few years. FYI none involves the death of professional journalism, or paying for it either for that matter.
I’d agree with all the above but would add two more:
What are your thoughts? Full video below:
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| The creator of Google News on how journalism will change in the next 5 years Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:52 AM PDT
Bharat openly discusses where the Google News concept stemmed from, the role Google News currently it plays in modern day journalism and towards the end of his fireside chat, how he envisages journalism to change over the next 5 years. You can watch the video in its entirety below but it was the latter point on how professional journalism would develop over the next few years that particularly interested me. Bharat is convinced professional journalism is here to stay and while understandably unsure as to how things will develop, he briefly lists a number of points he believes will take shape over the course of the next few years. FYI none involves the death of professional journalism, or paying for it either for that matter.
I’d agree with all the above but would add two more:
What are your thoughts? Full video below:
Original title and link for this post: The creator of Google News on how journalism will change in the next 5 years |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:26 AM PDT
The only drawback was that you weren’t allowed to wear clothing in the sauna and pool. It was awkward at first but we quickly got used to being naked. A few weeks ago I went back after a hiatus of maybe 2 months. While I was away they had changed the rules: from now on you HAD to wear swimming wear. No more nudity! Guess how I found out. Yes, I walked into the pool area, buck naked, and only then realized that I was the only one NOT wearing swimming shorts. Can you imagine my embarrassment? Starting a company is risky business. You have to be prepared to fail. You will have to beg for work, an investment and a chance to prove yourself and your company to investors and customers. Being cocky and arrogant won’t get you far. You will have to swallow your pride and treat customers like kings, even if deep inside you think they don’t deserve that. It can be a humiliating and sobering experience. Kinda like standing in a swimming pool naked. The only way to deal with this is to toughen up and make sure you are not alone. The only people in the world who can understand your fears, doubts and issues are other entrepreneurs. Connect with them and share your experiences. Find your competitors and befriend them. Sure, they are your competitors. But they will have the same challenges as you do and talking to them with make you both stronger. Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely profession, but it doesn’t have to be. Lets all stick together and go skinny dipping. Original title and link for this post: The Naked Entrepreneur |
| Flock abandons Firefox for Chrome. New beta is available for download. Posted: 16 Jun 2010 02:01 AM PDT
The new beta abandons its Firefox back end roots, and replaces it with the open source Chromium – from where Google Chrome draws its source code. The beta is currently Windows only, with a Mac beta due in July according to an article over at CNet. With Chromium being a webkit based browser, there’s an immediate familiarity when you download Flock, taking design inspiration from both Safari and Chrome. The creators of Flock have improved on things this time around by toning down the Social Networking clutter to a default 4 of most popular services; Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Flickr. By doing so, there’s a noticeable improvement in performance.
One major aspect we liked about of the new Chromium based Flock is the ‘Talk about this page’ button which provides an automatic URL Shortner (currently Bit.ly) plus the option to post to Facebook and Twitter. Actually it seems to borrow its concept from other similar Social Network sharing tools such as StumbleUpon’s URL shortner and sharing tool yet with less power than StumbleUpon’s such as the ‘Schedule for later’ publish option. Also breaking ground for the first time is the Flock Sidebar, making it the first Chrome based browser to support the feature neatly concealed with a hide button made possible by finally unifying the split preferences buttons from earlier versions. All in all we moving to the Chromium engine seems to have made Flock a better browser, yet according to Flock that doesn’t mean they’re going to end their 5 year relationship with Mozilla Firefox any time soon, version 2.6 of the popular social networking browser is available for download.. You can download Flock beta here if you’re ready for a splash of Chrome in your social life. Original title and link for this post: Flock abandons Firefox for Chrome. New beta is available for download. |
| Man posts suicide note on Twitter before taking his own life Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:53 PM PDT
According to the Telegraph, police found the body of 27 year old Lee Kye-Hwa hanging from a ferry dock on the Han river in Seoul early on Tuesday. His family reported him missing on Sunday when he posted a short Twitter message in Korean.
Lee also reportedly left separate written suicide notes for his family and friends complaining of financial troubles. From Wednesday, Twitter restricted access to his twitter account. This isn’t the first case of a “twitter suicide”, A Florida woman posted her final public words under the name “rsangel04″ on her Twitter account before taking her life because she couldn’t pay her rent. A few days before the suicide, she said
In another case, actress Demi Moore reportedly came to the rescue of a woman claiming she was to take her own life. The woman was visited by police and taken to the hospital for evaluation. Original title and link for this post: Man posts suicide note on Twitter before taking his own life |
| Now it’s official. US Apple store out of iPhone 4. Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:20 PM PDT
The image pretty much sums it up. If you want an iPhone 4, you’ll be waiting until sometime in July. Thanks to 9 to 5 Mac for the heads up.
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| Some Reasons More People Aren’t Using Check-in Services Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:30 PM PDT
In addition to revealing a number of bugs in Foursquare, Gowalla and Brightkite, a recent report by crowdsourced bug testing service uTest on social location services included some survey questions about the check-in space in general. One of the more interesting questions asked was “What most prevents you from using check-in services more frequently?” Here is what the responses were:
What is most interesting about these responses (and keep in mind, they only asked 300 people, who since they are volunteering to bug test software are at least probably more technically savvy than the average user), are the top three answers. Notice something? None of those three really have anything to do with the services themselves. Privacy & security fearsThe first is a simply fear of displaying where you are and where you’ve been to other people. Unless Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and other services turn into completely private (i.e. no friends allowed) services – which of course isn’t going to happen – then there will always be that fear, at least to some extent. So really, all these services can do is to take all precautions they can and build trust – i.e. there really isn’t much they can do about this except to keep a tight ship and hope more people will come around to the idea of sharing location. My friends don’t use check-in servicesThe second response is again to a certain degree out of these services’ control. While they obviously want to more people to sign up, none of them has reached a scale where when anyone signs up, they are going to find their real life friends, as they currently do on Facebook. This is an important distinction – unlike other types of social media where connecting with total strangers isn’t really that strange (i.e. Twitter), with location services, most users almost require that most, if not all of the people they share their location with are someone that they at least know. So until location services as a whole have more scale, this problem will continue. I don’t have a smartphoneThe third reason that respondents gave to this question is completely out of the control of these services. There is simply no way that they can get smartphones into more people’s hands – they aren’t Google or Apple or Microsoft, and even those companies can subsidize phones, they rely on the mobile carriers to do that. However, once these phones do get into the hands of more users, social location services are very likely going to be strong beneficiaries. ConclusionsThe final two problems: “deals and badges don’t appeal to me” and “not easy to use” do, however, go to the core of these services’ value proposition, and if these responses were higher on the list, these services would have something to worry about, but they seem to be more of outliers than main concerns (thought that doesn’t mean that services shouldn’t improve these aspects). As we said above, this is a small survey from what are probably early adopters, but it would be very interesting indeed if a larger market research firm did a much larger and statistically viable survey asking this same question. So what’s the moral of this story? The moral is that the environment for social location services simply hasn’t reached its peak yet, and is being slowed by privacy fears (Facebook’s issues certainly haven’t helped) and scale and smartphone adoption that will both take some more time to really heat up this space. Original title and link for this post: Some Reasons More People Aren’t Using Check-in Services |
| The HuffingtonPost iPad Application And The Over Appification Of Content Posted: 15 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT
As a recent convert to the iPad world view, I have been hungry to discover the best uses and tools for the gadget. It has been a fun hunt; the developers of the world have been working overtime to craft some amazing applications for the iPad. I love to use their work. As an avid reader of the HuffingtonPost, which is probably my number one read source in Safari on my iPad aside from TNW, I was quite excited to learn that they had released an iPad application. Perhaps I was a bit over excited, because the application, while still in its first version, is not something that I will use. Me, perhaps their exact target demographic with the right gadget, dislikes their application enough to prefer the normal browser version of their content. Why is that? Their website does not need help, and their iPad application has had important features stripped out of it like fat during a long liposuction session. To keep this post short, and to avoid me doing a regular and talking for an hour, let’s break this down. On the web version of the HuffingtonPost on my iPad I have never had a single problem aside from the occasional Flash induced episode of content exclusion. Zooming and panning around the site is fun, and I can use all the sites features. I can search, for example, something that I tend to do online. On the iPad version of the website, the content loads more slowly than on the normal website, there is no ability to zoom in on text, Flash content is of course still broken, and there is no search capability. The HuffingtonPost fell for the iPad trap, alas. Many publications translate well to the iPad, newspapers and magazines are the best examples. Blogs do not. The Mashable application is an excercise in annoyance. The HuffingtonPost would do better to merely focus on upgrading their normal website to work well with mobile and touch devices than to devote those recourses into building new applications for locked down platforms that do not add value to what they already have. Original title and link for this post: The HuffingtonPost iPad Application And The Over Appification Of Content |
| iPhone 4 pre-orders are sold out at AT&T. Posted: 15 Jun 2010 02:40 PM PDT
According to Boy Genius Report, if you ordered your phone after 1:30 PM Pacific time, you will receive it between June 25th and July 5th. To those who didn’t manage to get in…better luck next time. We don’t have actual numbers from the sales, but those don’t really matter. What comes to mind here is that both AT&T and Apple should have been more prepared for today. iPhone users have been chomping at the bit for an upgrade, so more should have been available. Then there’s AT&T, who just proved again how irresponsible it is as the sole carrier in the US. Update: As a commenter points out, the pre-orders that are confirmed to be out are only through AT&T. It is believed that, if you order directly through Apple, you’ll be able to get your iPhone 4. Original title and link for this post: iPhone 4 pre-orders are sold out at AT&T. |
| iPhone 4 Ordering Process May Have Exposed Your Data To Other People Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:55 PM PDT
Very bad indeed. But it gets worse. When using that website, AT&T has been making massive mistakes. Users, when signing in, have been taken (in numerous documented cases) to the accounts of other people. Yes, they log in as themselves, and are taken to a different account. This gives them access to damn sensitive information about other people, and means that other people might have the same access to their data. This went on for hours. AT&T has now taken down the iPhone 4 eligibility page, most likely to prevent further mistakes and embarrassments. There has been no official word from either company. In a related tip to Giz, an AT&T employee said this:
Heads are going to roll tonight. Original title and link for this post: iPhone 4 Ordering Process May Have Exposed Your Data To Other People |
| Happy Father’s Day From T-Mobile: Free Phones This Saturday Posted: 15 Jun 2010 12:08 PM PDT
While supplies last, any phone that T-Mobile currently offers will be free, including the HTC myTouch 3G that runs about $180, the Garminfone and a host of phones that well, few people really want, but hey, free is free! Frankly, T-Mobile must be getting very desperate as it continues to lose ground to not only the market leaders Verizon and AT&T – which have better coverage and most of the “cool” phones – but also the carrier if failing to compete with its closest (in terms of market share) competitor, Sprint, which has been doing better with its massive ad campaign, rolling out its 4G network, getting strong customer service reviews and getting the first 4G phone onto the market in the HTC Evo. T-Mobile really needs a jump start, and heck, free is free so we’d imagine at least a few people are going to consider this deal on Saturday. h/t Engadget Original title and link for this post: Happy Father’s Day From T-Mobile: Free Phones This Saturday |
| An Uneasy Ceasefire For Google And China Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:45 AM PDT
According to analysts covering the region, China has not fully blocked Google’s .cn to .com.hk redirect. Instead, they are balancing the desire of the internet using Chinese population and economy to use Google, while keeping their eye on effective, if restrained, censorship. To maintain that balance, the Chinese government is blocking certain searches from being allowed on the uncensored Hong Kong version of Google that Bring and Page now serve to the Chinese market. The redirect was put in place after a hacking incident compromised private information on Google’s servers. It seems that perhaps fewer total terms are blocked. The most sensitive, Falun Gong and so forth, are completely dark. In a small way, this is perhaps the best of both worlds for the company and country. Google no longer censors their results, thus ending their moral quandary. All the while China gets to censor the most ‘offensive’ queries, and the people of China deal with slightly less government intrusion into their internet use. How long this situation will last is unknown. If China becomes increasingly aggressive on any particular front, Google may become nervous and pull the redirect, thus ending Google search in China. That seems unlikely. What we have now may be the circumstance for the next year. Time will tell. Original title and link for this post: An Uneasy Ceasefire For Google And China |
| Report predicts online advertising spending will increase by $10 Billion in next 4 years Posted: 15 Jun 2010 11:25 AM PDT
According to the Wall Street Journal, the report says that online advertising will increase from $24.2 billion in 2009 to $34.4 billion in 2014 to overtake newspapers which will continue to lose ad revenue over the next 4 years (big surprise right?) to fall from $24.82 billion in 2009 to $22.3 billion in 2014. PwC says that interactive media, video and email will increase to $6.6 billion in 2014 from $4.7 billion in 2009, with mobile advertising going from only $414 million in 2009 to $1.6 billion in 2014. Honestly, we believe that both of these 2014 numbers actually seem on the low side, as we believe both markets are ready to simply explode, but the PwC is probably thinking that the cycles for advertisers are going to take longer to switch over to these mediums. But still, only $1.6 billion in mobile advertising in 2014? This especially seems low as not only are smartphones selling like hotcakes, but both Google and Apple now have fully-featured mobile advertising platforms, and both companies are very trusted, so spending should increase rapidly for both. The full report should be available today from PwC. Original title and link for this post: Report predicts online advertising spending will increase by $10 Billion in next 4 years |
| The New Mac Mini And Apple’s Missed Shot At Market Share Growth Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:51 AM PDT
Changing topics for just a moment, never has Apple had (since perhaps the days when the iPod was ascendant) a better spot in the eyes of consumers. The iPhone is a hit, the new Macbook Pros are a hit, and the iPad is a hit. Nearly anything Apple touches turns to a mega-selling success story. But not the Mac Mini. It never hit its stride as the company might have hoped. With today’s Mini refresh, and Apple’s near perfect consumer position, Apple could have knocked a ball so far out of the park that the personal computing market would have never looked the same again. They did not. Apple could have done two things, a $500 Mac Mini, or a $700 Mini bundle that included a monitor. Instead, the new Minis start at $699, and can only be paired with the cheapest Apple monitor at purchase, a 24″ screen that costs (by some repudiation of nature) $899. How consumer friendly is that? The simplest Mac computer, if purchased with a monitor at the same time will cost you $1598. Try and get someone on that bus, I dare you. Apple could sell a simple monitor from any other quality manufacturer to make the Mini a more serious option to consumers. At the previously mentioned $500 price point, consumers might do the leg work themselves to get a screen, but it is better to give them the option at the same time they buy their machine. Consumers want convenience, not to be tossed to the wolves of NewEgg on a hunt for a screen just to use their new computer. And at $699 and $999 the Mac Mini at its most expensive is only $200 less than either an iMac or Macbook Pro, and the same price as a Macbook. Apple has the ear of the consumer in a way that any company would kill for. Excellent, consistent, and innovative products have put them on a pedestal. Instead of using that vantage point, Apple refuses to release either a budget machine or consumer friendly bundle. It is their loss. Original title and link for this post: The New Mac Mini And Apple’s Missed Shot At Market Share Growth |
| Kevin Rose announces new show: fforward. Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:40 AM PDT
That show is fforward. TechCrunch relays Rose’s thoughts on the show, stating that it will be a weekly live streaming tech and geek culture show. Sounds…familiar. The difference, of course, being less Digg and more random. We can go for that. In the article, Rose goes on to muse about Diggnation for a moment:
And as for the fate of Diggnation? It will go on until the end of the year, and have a grand finale in front of a live audience. A proper burial for a piece of geek culture. Want the heads up on fforward? You can sign up via the site. Original title and link for this post: Kevin Rose announces new show: fforward. |
| What Twitter Places Means for the Geosocial Startups Posted: 15 Jun 2010 10:05 AM PDT
You know, just like what you can do on Foursquare, Gowalla, Rummble, Loopt Star, Brighkite, and a whole bunch of other services. Here is the flow: I write my tweet, I choose my location, and I hit submit. Unlike the clumsy, buried location implementation we saw from Google Buzz, Twitter’s implementation is front and center. In the vernacular of the industry, it’s clear that Twitter considers location to be “core to the platform.” Our friends over at TechCrunch are calling Twitter Places a “Big Win” for Foursquare and Gowalla because Twitter is aggregating check-ins from those respective services on its new place views. We aren’t so sure. - While Twitter is indeed using the APIs of Foursquare and Gowalla, they are aggregating content, not posting content. If Twitter users choose to share their location with their tweets, that action is not going through Foursquare or Gowalla. It’s going through Twitter. The cynic in me says that Twitter is using Foursquare and Gowalla check-in content as backfill, until they can generate substantial location volume via their own mechanism. The best comparison I’ve seen in the market is Google Local aggregating reviews of local businesses with one hand, while pushing their own review engine with the other. You’ll note that Yelp said “no f’ing way” to this arrangement, which is why you won’t see Yelp reviews aggregated on Google merchant pages. - The additional distribution benefit that Foursquare and Gowalla will get from having their check-in data aggregated will likely be minimal. My suspicion is that not too many people will be drilling down to Twitter venue pages – it’s not the behavior that people are used to with this service. And even if they do drill down, it will be an awfully tough conversion to get first time visitors clicking through to a Foursquare or Gowalla venue page to become a user of those services. - Twitter Places has been put front and center. This is a far more competitive, aggressive implementation than what we saw from Google Buzz or Yelp, where the feature buried among a menu of other options. With Twitter Places, Twitter has made it awfully easy to share location, and has chosen to not use any of the existing geosocial start-ups to power this functionality. Of course, Foursquare and Gowalla offer a bit more than just blasting out your location. These services offer game mechanics, offers, and a friend graph that was built from the ground up to provide peace of mind that only your real life friends can see where you are. One final point here – I see yesterday’s launch of Twitter Places as part one of a two part threat to the geosocial startups. With Twitter Places, Twitter is making a bold move to claim the utility part of the geolocation value chain. Part Two of the threat will come when Twitter developers begin to build game mechanics on top of Twitter Places, as opposed to Foursquare / Gowalla.  Original title and link for this post: What Twitter Places Means for the Geosocial Startups |
| New Hotmail Coming To Your Inbox Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:56 AM PDT
With Kinect and a new Xbox 360 yesterday, the new Office 2010 hitting retail shelves today, Microsoft says they've started roll out of the new Hotmail. Microsoft listed the new features and showed us a preview of the new Hotmail a few weeks back. Taking note of one of the biggest complaints against Hotmail, the auto inserted promotional messages known as taglines have been removed as well. The new Hotmail is being rolled out gradually and don't be alarmed if you don't have it yet. The new features and interface changes such as Sweep and Quick View sure sound interesting. Part of the Windows Live suite – Messenger and Mail will be having better integration with Hotmail. Hotmail has come a long way and Microsoft has indeed improved it with this release. While the Oatmeal guys might not consider it cool enough, you can give it a spin to decide for yourself. Original title and link for this post: New Hotmail Coming To Your Inbox |
| [Updated: App Store app may work] iPhone 4 pre-order? Probably not today. Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:44 AM PDT
So what is causing the issue? Apparently it all lies on AT&T this time around. Not surprisingly, the AT&T system is required in order for Apple’s system to process your order. According to an article over at Gizmodo, employees are using a web interface that is quite similar to the same one you’d see on the AT&T website. It started with slow processing (one phone every 20 minutes, roughly), then moved to a complete crash of the system. Users outside of AT&T stores were reporting that they would time out of their own accounts, then refresh to find themselves logged into another. At this point, the entire order system has been pulled offline, without an estimated time of return. We’ll update you as we find information. At the moment, the prospects are looking grim. Update: Apparently some users are having luck using the new App Store application.
Original title and link for this post: [Updated: App Store app may work] iPhone 4 pre-order? Probably not today. |
| Office 2010 now available worldwide. Posted: 15 Jun 2010 09:06 AM PDT
Now, users worldwide can get their hands on to Microsoft’s golden child, including Visio 2010 and Project 2010 as well. According to the Microsoft press release, you can snag it at retail stores, and of course bundled with new PC’s from makers such as Acer, Asus, Sony and Dell to name a few. In a world where some things are simply the industry standard, Microsoft Office has found its niche long ago. Presently, it’s available in 10 languages, but will expand to 94 over time. Original title and link for this post: Office 2010 now available worldwide. |
| The Apple Store Gets Its Own Official iPhone App Posted: 15 Jun 2010 05:22 AM PDT
What does it do? Makes it easy to, er, buy Apple stuff. It’s intended to support both Apple’s online stores and their bricks-and-mortar outlets too. Here’s the full run-down of what Apple lets you do with the app, entitled ‘Apple Store’:
Apple has released surprisingly few in-house apps for iOS since 2008 when the App Store opened. This app definitely falls under the “small but very useful” category along with the iTunes remote that s already available, rather than being being anything as significant as iMovie for the iPhone. The app is available now, for free in the USA. Given that it integrates with Apple’s Genius Bar booking system, there may be a delay before it’s available everywhere. It will have to be especially tuned for each territory’s stores. Original title and link for this post: The Apple Store Gets Its Own Official iPhone App |
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Remember Flock? Yeah I thought it was done and dusted too. Well it’s just received a pretty hefty update.
A South Korean man and former DJ has committed suicide after leaving a suicide note on Twitter.
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