Ew.
Posted January 27, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
I honestly had Facebook pegged as the next MySpace. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong.(h/t @McCarron) yfrog.com/gzc0tmp
— Matt Drance (@drance) January 26, 2012
I hadn’t noticed this. It’s kind of embarrassing.
Posted January 27, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
I honestly had Facebook pegged as the next MySpace. When I’m wrong, I’m wrong.(h/t @McCarron) yfrog.com/gzc0tmp
— Matt Drance (@drance) January 26, 2012
I hadn’t noticed this. It’s kind of embarrassing.
(via The Huffington Post)
There’s absolutely no way that this ends well. What a shameful thing.
Because you have to sign in to your Google account to do anything [with your Android phone] except for browse the Web and make phone calls, Google will be able to track practically anything you do on your phone.
FAQ: Google’s new privacy policy - The Washington Post
This is a big opportunity for Microsoft. A large segment of the Anything But Apple crowd won’t tolerate this sort of behavior.
Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite greater scrutiny of its privacy and competitive practices….Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes.
Google tracks consumers across products, users can’t opt out - The Washington Post
Really wish I could have been in the meeting where they finally said, “You know what? Fuck it. Let’s just be evil.”
Vanilla Ice Goes Indie Rock (by WatchTheSoup)
3 days ago via bookmarklet ∞ short link
When I worked with clients on a time and materials basis, I hated logging hours. I hated having the stop watch’s tick tock over me, being forced to account for every increment of time. Or, as it often happened, trying to remember after the fact where the hours went. I never met another developer who liked it either.
Refusing administrative minutiae - (37signals)
I hate it so much that I wrote an iPhone app to deal with it. Guess what? Still hate it.
The process isn’t the problem. Clockpunch made the process simpler, which is nice. That the process still exists is what I ultimately hate about time tracking.
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
Y Combinator, an early stage investment company, announced on its Web site that it planned to finance start-up companies that would go after Hollywood and the movie industry.
Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood - NYTimes.com
WHERE’S THE FRICKEN POPCORN? This is getting good.
How do japanese multiply?? (by 15XG)
1 week ago via bookmarklet ∞ short link
(via The Telegraph)
If you ever needed proof—MORE proof—that lawmaking in the U.S. is controlled by special interest groups, here it is.
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