Daily Archives: November 21, 2012

Facebook No Longer Wants Your Vote (FB)

November 21, 2012
Facebook No Longer Wants Your Vote (FB)

See Also Soon You’ll Be Able To Buy Wine Over Facebook Facebook Needs To Accept That It’s Just A Time Waster Facebook Is Quietly Ramping Up A Product That ‘Kills Us,’ Says Yahoo Source Facebook no longer wants its users to vote on the site’s policies, reports Reuters. In 2009, Facebook attempted to defuse outrage over...

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28 Years Later, We Now See That 1984 New York Times Article About Windows Was Completely Right (AAPL, MSFT)

November 21, 2012
28 Years Later, We Now See That 1984 New York Times Article About Windows Was Completely Right (AAPL, MSFT)

The Verge See Also 1984 New York Times Article Says The Whole ‘Windows’ Fad Is Over Best Buy Is Offering A Crazy iPad Discount Brutal Chart For Microsoft: All The Kids Want iPads, Almost None Want The Surface In 1984, the New York Times ran an article slamming the concept of windows-based operating systems....

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How LinkedIn Chooses What News Stories You See

November 21, 2012
How LinkedIn Chooses What News Stories You See

  Get market insight on digital business models at “IGNITION: Future Of Digital,” Nov.27-28, 2012, in New York. From Apple to Amazon, from tablets to mobile payments, hear from innovative executives at Google, Washington Post, News Corp, LinkedIn, Pepsi, and more. Reserve your ticket now. LinkedIn Today is a social business news product that...

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Now counting 6.2 million daily, Foursquare has crossed the 3 billion check-in mark

November 21, 2012

Foursquare has seen phenomenal growth over usage of its service. This week, it announced that it counted its 3 billionth check-in. Not bad for a service with just over 25 million users worldwide. Two years ago, the location-based check-in service said it had experienced its biggest growth in history which was marked by more than...

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Adobe says Reader flaw can’t be patched since security researchers who found it aren’t cooperating

November 21, 2012

Earlier this month, we wrote about an alleged Adobe Reader 0-day security hole discovered by Group IB security researchers that allows an attacker to jump out of the sandbox and execute shellcode with the help of malformed PDF documents. At the time, the code was apparently already selling on the black market for “approximately...

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Review: A year with the superb Tom Bihn Super Ego and Tri-Star bags

November 21, 2012
Review: A year with the superb Tom Bihn Super Ego and Tri-Star bags

Just over a year ago, bag maker Tom Bihn contacted me to see if I’d like to try out one of their larger SuperEgo bags and the carry-on Tri-Star. I said sure as I’d had experience with their bags before and I knew they built good stuff. At first, I thought I’d use the...

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The Social Media Economy Explained

November 21, 2012
The Social Media Economy Explained

Social Media is the driving force behind the new economy!  Everyone knows that, but what does it mean, exactly? Nobody knows.  And that’s okay because in the ideal future, we’ll all be robots anyway.  These wonderful pearls of wisdom are found in a wise and hilarious new video from The Onion, titled “Using Social...

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Skitch Listens To Users, Revives Old Version After Controversial Redesign

November 21, 2012
Skitch Listens To Users, Revives Old Version After Controversial Redesign

Perhaps the biggest fear for app developers is that when they come out with a new version of their product, the people who already use it don’t like the changes. It does happen – just ask Facebook. Sometimes, people eventually get used to the new design and plow ahead. Sometimes they hate the new...

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Holiday Sanity Survival Guide: Apps Edition

November 21, 2012
Holiday Sanity Survival Guide: Apps Edition

Like it or not, the holidays are here. To the earnest, the holiday season is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the veritable fount of privilege, love and goodness that overfloweth in our proverbial cup-eths. To the disgruntled, dysfunctional or otherwise jaded, this time of year can seem like a gauntlet of horrors. If...

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BitTorrent is looking for webcasters to test P2P live streaming

November 21, 2012

BitTorrent Inc. is reaching out to broadcasters and webcasters, asking them to test its live streaming technology. The company posted an invitation to join the ongoing test program of BitTorrent Live on its blog this week, stating: “We’ve been conducting regular tests with users (props to our intrepid volunteers), and have achieved results at...

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