Earlier today Flickr released the new version of its site (take a look at that link, it’s really well done). It has a potential to be a real game changer. Free accounts will now receive 1TB of storage, replacing the previous 200 photo limit. If you pay enough ($499) you can double it. This reminds me of [...]
By now everyone’s aware of Yahoo!’s $1.1 Billion (with a “b”) deal to buy Tumblr. I wrote about another Yahoo! acquisition, upcoming.org a little while ago: At this stage, when Yahoo! comes knocking on a start up’s door they have to be looking at their track record. And then it comes down to whether you [...]
I have very little interest in Google Glass, other than wanting to avoid anyone who’s actually wearing them, but what applications and use cases would actually get me excited to use them?
At the moment, there’s no official, Apple-supported way for getting Siri to turn the WiFi (or bluetooth, or the ringer) on or off on your iPhone. This has baffled some, as it seems like a no-brainer. The reason you can’t do it is not technical, but rather conceptual. The concept of Siri, what it’s meant [...]
Did you know that new Baz Luhrmann movie The Great Gatsby is based on a book? The problems with this movie are too numerous to list, so I’ll stick to the ones that have stuck with me, two days after catching the movie, based on a book, on opening night. By far the biggest flaw [...]
Trey Ratcliff, the photographer who’s done more than any other to popularise HDR (or, more accurately tone mapped) photos, put up an interesting post regarding what Google will do for photographers: So, along comes this exciting new announcement from Google – that they are using their massive server farms to intelligently organize and post-process photos [...]
Autoblog: North Carolina is the latest state to line up against Tesla Motors by proposing a bill that would bar direct automaker-to-customer sales within the state According to Slate, a bill pushed by the state’s Senate Commerce Committee – and backed, of course, by the North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association (NCADA) – would not only [...]
From The Inquirer because the Sunday Times’ business model doesn’t want links: According to the Sunday Times’ front page story, Ipsos Mori has been shopping the records around and bragging that the data can be used to track people and their location in real time to within 100 metres. The data is coming from Everything [...]
Microsoft enlisted former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Rob Schneider and disgraced baseball star Pete Rose to denigrate Google Docs in two new videos that posted to the Web Friday. via Pete Rose, Rob Schneider mock Google for Microsoft Office | Microsoft – CNET News. Watch the videos, and try not to cringe. Then shower [...]
There’s been a boring amount written about Adobe’s move to the cloud this week, but there are two aspects I think could do with a little more focus. The first is piracy. TechCrunch had a very brief mention of it in their interview with Adobe’s David Wadhwani: One aspect of Creative Cloud that Adobe hasn’t [...]