Monthly Archives: September 2011

Facebook doesn’t want you to “dislike” things

September 30, 2011
Facebook doesn’t want you to “dislike” things

Facebook has perhaps become best known for its “Like” button. You can like news stories, videos, and whatever else your friends decide to post in the newsfeed. With f8′s announcement of Open Graph (Want to know everything that happened at Facebook’s f8 this year? Here you go.), one of the most exciting things announced...

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This is a sweet mockup of iOS 5′s rumored Assistant feature [Video]

September 30, 2011
This is a sweet mockup of iOS 5′s rumored Assistant feature [Video]

The voice-activated Assistant feature that Apple has been rumored to be building into iOS 5 has gotten a clever looking mockup courtesy of Macrumors and Jan-Michael Cart and it looks pretty great. This still image and the video are based on information that was given to the site by a source that it feels has accurate...

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A Really Cool Video Mockup Of How The iPhone 5′s Voice Control Will Work (AAPL)

September 30, 2011

We’ve been hearing a lot of cool things about the iPhone 5′s voice-controlled “Assistant” feature, thanks to 9to5Mac. Based on that information, MacRumors put together this cool mockup video demo of what Assistant will probably look like. Check it out: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/K5KwnpZgsUg/iphone-assistant-video-mockup-demo-2011-9

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Facing Low Bids For A Site That’s Working, Hulu’s Parents May Not Sell At All

September 30, 2011
Facing Low Bids For A Site That’s Working, Hulu’s Parents May Not Sell At All

See Also: Here’s Why Dish Could Win The Hulu Bid The Facebook/Hulu Love Affair About To Tie The Knot Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu Hulu’s owners are reconsidering whether to sell the company at all because the bids are not coming in as high as they hoped. Two sources say that...

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Yahoo Is Having A Big Mystery Press Conference Monday (YHOO)

September 30, 2011
Yahoo Is Having A Big Mystery Press Conference Monday (YHOO)

Yahoo’s president of Americas, Ross Levinsohn, will speak at a press conference early Monday morning to announce some as-of-yet undisclosed news. We’ll be there! Our guess is this is not a press conference to announce a Hulu purchase, a new CEO, or a Yahoo buyer. We’re guess the news will be that Yahoo is...

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Hack Your Help Files

September 30, 2011
Hack Your Help Files

You probably have lurking around your company a collection of moldy compiled HTML files, left over from another era when those were the cat’s meow and the latest and greatest in online help technology. Well, this week Mindtouch is prepared to help you convert them over into a more social setting and bring those...

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Mick Jagger Has Been Recording New Tracks On Paul Allen’s Megayacht

September 30, 2011
Mick Jagger Has Been Recording New Tracks On Paul Allen’s Megayacht

Image: via James Spotting Jared Paul Stern Mick Jagger’s New Supergroup Takes Over Paul Allen’s Superyacht Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Eight Days Perpetual 40 Watch Rare M1 Procar in Bonhams’ BMW Sale The recording session for the first album from Mick Jagger’s new supergroup SuperHeavy had to be top secret to foil music pirates and such,...

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Didn’t IBM Pass Microsoft In Market Cap Back In May? (IBM, MSFT)

September 30, 2011
Didn’t IBM Pass Microsoft In Market Cap Back In May? (IBM, MSFT)

Have you heard the news? — IBM is now worth more than Microsoft for the first time since 1996. If you’re experiencing deja vu from all those reports in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and elsewhere, that’s because you may have seen our chart from the market close back on May 20: Those numbers...

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: From Poland to Argentina

September 30, 2011

Home Swappers Club Then Marie-Janine Saris from Buenos Aires, Argentina, discussed Home Swappers Club, a concept inspired by Airbnb, where people who love to travel swap their homes using the site as a trusted place to meet other validated home owners and renters. It’s a decent concept, and we discussed nuances of how the...

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iSuppli: Amazon Kindle Fire costs $209.63 to make, sells for $199

September 30, 2011
iSuppli: Amazon Kindle Fire costs $209.63 to make, sells for $199

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been estimated to cost $209.63 to make according to component analysts IHS iSuppli. This would mean that Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire at a hardware loss of $9.63 per unit as it is currently selling them for $199 USD. This cost includes some manufacturing expenses as well, with...

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