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Избранное: “The Mac App Store is already now the number one channel for buying software (beating Best Buy). ¶ Starting with OS X Lion, Mac App Store apps can gain Push Notifications and In-App purchases. ¶ Updates will also now be delta updates — meaning you’ll only have to download what’s new, not the entire app. ¶ There are now 54 million active Mac users. ¶ There are 225 million iTunes accounts (with credit cards attached and ready to spend) ¶ After just 9 months, there are 50 million Game Center users (Xbox Live has gotten 30 million in 8 years)” - × × ×

Aggregation makes us strongrr. - × × ×

(При том, что парни когда-то начинали с позиций «ещё одного недослэшота и бетаньюс», а постепенно за восемь лет выросли в серьёзное издание, с очень осмысленными и «медленными» текстами, и пишут не только про привычное скучное железно-софтверное, а про последствия, собирая данные, аналитику и большие истории, которые раньше можно было встретить только в длинных фичерах Нью-Йорк Таймса или там Вайреда.) #рубрика_прекрасное - × × ×

“One of my favorite startups in the world, Postrank, has been acquired by Google. Here at ReadWriteWeb we use Postrank every day and if Google shuts it down I am going to be sick. New account creation has already been shut off and a shell of the technology is most likely to become a part of Google Analytics. Here's what Postrank does: you plug in any RSS feed to the system and it scores each post in that feed by the relative number of comments, inbound links, mentions on Twitter, saves on Delicious and other social media metrics. Then you can subscribe to a filtered feed of just the 10% most-discussed items in any feed. It's magic, it's gold and it's all too often unappreciated. Unfortunately, the company hardly focuses on that aspect of its business anymore. his deal could go one of two ways, very good or very bad, not just for Postrank but for its users and users of the entire social Web.” - × × ×

А каков будет твой прогноз? - kuchin

Очень сложно тут вилами на воде написать, слишком много переменных. Поменяли ли при Пейдже биздев, чтобы он не просто покупал крутых парней, а ещё и вводил их внутрь проектов? Кто покупает — биздев или конкретная команда? Купили для того, чтобы утопить, потому что делают что-то своё, или для того, чтобы встроить куда-то? Уже знают, куда встраивают, или это «о, смотри, это очень крутые парни, давайте их позовём к нам»? В таких раскладах непонятно, как прогнозировать. Я бы был скорее скептичен, потому что давно не слышал хороших историй про гугл. - × × ×

“The most interesting aspect of this new UI is the fact that it doesn’t just sit on top of Windows, like Windows Media Center for example. As demonstrated, both the application switching and system menu capability remain when viewing the traditional Windows desktop and there’s no “application” running in the taskbar. It is very much baked into Windows 8.” - × × ×

“Here are a few aspects of the new interface we showed today: Fast launching of apps from a tile-based Start screen, which replaces the Windows Start menu with a customizable, scalable full-screen view of apps. • Live tiles with notifications, showing always up-to-date information from your apps. • Fluid, natural switching between running apps. • Convenient ability to snap and resize an app to the side of the screen, so you can really multitask using the capabilities of Windows. • Web-connected and Web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript that have access to the full power of the PC. • Fully touch-optimized browsing, with all the power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10.” - × × ×

Techmeme: http://www.techmeme.com/110601... - × × ×

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad: http://daringfireball.net/2011... - × × ×

Да, конечно. Даже если интересы остаются общими, а человек до ужаса назойлив и этим мешает (или беспокоит), то это уже неплохой повод прекращать общение. Правило большого пальца: «люди, которые с нами долго и последовательно не совместимы, должны употребляться редко и в качестве исключения. Лучше — в гомеопатических дозах.» * Ок, поехали: спрашивать сюда, $username$ - × × ×

Анорексичная худоба меня совсем не увлекает (исключения возможны, но всё равно это будет скорее в противоречии с моим вкусом, чем в соответствии). Норма для привлекательных девочек ближе к стандартным 90-60-90 для роста в 175 см. Идеальная же фигура — немного больше в бёдрах, чем в груди, уверена в себе и следит не за килограммами, а за формой и ощущением внутреннего комфорта. * Ок, поехали: спрашивать сюда, $username$ - × × ×

“While Semantic Web technologies are successfully being applied to library catalogs and digital libraries, the semantic enhancement of books and other electronic media is ripe for further exploration. Connections between envisioned and emerging scholarly objects (which are doubtless social and semantic) and the digital libraries in which these items will be housed, encountered, and explored have yet to be made and implemented. Likewise, mobile reading brings new opportunities for personalized, context-aware interactions between reader and material, enriched by information such as location, time of day and access history.” #будущее_мидий - × × ×

http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publica... — материалы воркшопов по «семантическому паблишингу», дата-майнингу, обучению, семвебу и прочему всякому скучному NLP. - × × ×

Human Factor Delivers. (А так как сервер настойчиво отдаёт для этой картинки кэшировательные заголовки, то при рефреше картинка не меняется, приходится либо кэш чистить, либо к картинке какой-нибудь бесполезный параметр приделывать.) #карма_бета_тестера - × × ×

“The ten additional APIs being shut down are the Blog Search, Books Data, Books JavaScript, Image Search, News Search, Patent Search, Safe Browsing, Transliterate, Video Search, and Virtual Keyboard. Additionally, the Code Search, Diacritize, Feedburner, Finance, Power Meter, Sidewiki, and Wave APIs have ceased active development but there is no plan to shut down the APIs themselves.” - × × ×

“Apple is aware of the issues, which are currently filed as bugs. But according to Matt Asay, who is vice president of business development for mobile Web framework maker Strobe, Apple supposedly has no plans to fix them. Instead, they are marked "not to be fixed by exec order," suggesting that a higher up at Apple is preventing engineers from fixing the problems. Asay characterized that scenario as "slimy" and "malicious," believing it is designed to make Web-based apps appear to perform poorer. That might persuade developers to create native apps that must be distributed via the App Store, where Apple has full control over what is approved or rejected.” #now_ipad - × × ×

Интересно, откуда у вице-президента некого мобильного девелопера явно внутренняя информация про «not to be fixed by exec order», конечно. - × × ×

“Founded by Jack Dorsey (who also co-founded Twitter), Square began offering its hardware credit card reader, which plugs into the iPhone or iPad’s 3.5mm headphone jack, in May of 2010. It briefly stopped shipping the device between June and August of last year while it addressed a security vulnerability, and then continued shipping out free readers to any who signed up for the service and requested one. Square charges nothing for the hardware, or for the service, but it does take a 2.75 percent cut of each credit card transaction processed using its software.” - × × ×

“Horace Dediu took this, did the math based on how many Android phones HTC has sold, and figured out that Microsoft has made five times more money from Android than from Windows Phone 7.” - × × ×