Daily Archives: August 25, 2012

The great challenge—and opportunity—of cloud: interoperability

August 25, 2012
The great challenge—and opportunity—of cloud: interoperability

Interoperability, and the challenge of maintaining control of operations in the face of it, is a central issue for those that operate distributed applications on the internet — or “in the cloud.” In this case, however, I’m not talking simply about creating and controlling interoperability from the developer level. Tools and services like Dell’s...

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Here’s to the death of negativity: Why predicting industry death has to stop

August 25, 2012

People on the Internet like to make big, disruptive announcements. It makes people take notice and it creates debate. Recently it seems fashionable to predict that something is going to die. Facebook. World of Warcraft. Twitter. Silicon Valley. The printed word. Superhero films. “It’s over,” people say. “They’ve had their day, but it’s over.”...

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Facebook’s New Retargeted Ads Performing “Very Well”, Adds Partners To Run Them

August 25, 2012
Facebook’s New Retargeted Ads Performing “Very Well”, Adds Partners To Run Them

Facebook Exchange could pull in a wealth of new advertising dollars by letting businesses retarget ads at Facebook users who’ve visited their websites. Now I’ve learned and confirmed that the first Exchange ads are running, and Facebook has nearly doubled the companies with access to the program. Plus one source close to Exchange tells...

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Email Tricks Of The Super Successful

August 25, 2012
Email Tricks Of The Super Successful

Over the past month, the most successful people I know have taught me a very important lesson: be a great emailer. Nearly all of them have a few simple tricks up their super-efficient sleeves: be ridiculously fast (responding in 30 minutes and no more than 24 hours), keep messages short, delegate responsibility through CC,...

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Indian ISP blocks WordPress.com and 25 million hosted blogs

August 25, 2012
Indian ISP blocks WordPress.com and 25 million hosted blogs

Indian Internet service provider Tata Photon blocked its users from accessing WordPress.com and an estimated 25 million hosted blogs after it took a blanket approach to the government’s request to censor a number of websites. India has been cracking down on Internet content this week, in the wake of claims that false information had been...

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How to create an awesome Tron inspired app icon

August 25, 2012
How to create an awesome Tron inspired app icon

Here’s a fun tutorial to get you started with app icon design (and perspective) inspired by Andrew Reifman’s “Bodyboss Icon 1“. If you’re new to designing app icons, this should give you a few tips on how and where to start. App icons can range from the simplistic (Facebook, Yammer iTunes) to highly detailed...

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In an age of instant recommendations, a case for taste

August 25, 2012

If I’m looking for music recommendations, I can check out Apple and Pandora. For books, there’s Amazon or Goodreads.  For clothing, home goods, restaurants and other products, I can turn to services like Best Decision, Wantering, Wikets, Ness and others (or Amazon again), depending on what I’m looking for. Across increasing verticals, it’s never...

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iPAD MINI TO LAUNCH IN OCTOBER (AAPL)

August 25, 2012
iPAD MINI TO LAUNCH IN OCTOBER (AAPL)

Email More Federico Ciccarese, Ciccarese Design Apple will launch the long-rumored “iPad Mini” in October, reports All Things D. Apple will first introduce its next-generation iPhone at an event on September 12, and the iPad Mini will get its own event sometime the following month. Previous speculation was that the two devices would be unveiled...

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Report: iPad Mini to get its own launch event in October

August 25, 2012

While the tech world prepares for a rumored Sept. 12 Apple event, at which the company will reportedly debut the latest iPhone as well as a new iPad Mini, a new report states that the iPad Mini will get its own launch event in October. AllThingsD is quoting sources who say that Apple will...

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How close were these old predictions about the Internet? (Spoiler: they all miss the porn)

August 25, 2012

Wikipedia informs us that there was a time before the Internet. Sadly, I have spent so long online that my memories only go back as far as my first tagged Facebook photo in 2007. Here are some videos of people talking about and predicting the Internet, which are now on the Internet (mind, blown). Some...

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