New and notable for August 25th 2011 through August 28th 2011

What I’m reading and finding for August 25th 2011 through August 28th 2011:

  • When @IreneMet Hurricane Irene – Digits – WSJ-
    blogs.wsj.com
    - Pui-Wing Tam
    By Vauhini Vara
    When Hurricane Irene started moving up the eastern seaboard, Irene Tien, a 28-year-old New Yorker, provided a punch line for her coworkers.
    “I’m very, very calm and pretty relaxed and laid-back—pretty much the opposite of a hurricane,” says Ms. Tien. “I guess that’s funny.”
    It became less funny when people started mistaking Ms. Tien for the hurricane on Twitter. On the social-messaging service where people post 140-character messages that anyone can read, Ms. Tien has since 2006…  show all text
  • 031 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!-
  • Twitter, faster than earthquakes-
  • City Orders Evacuation of Coastal Areas-
    nytimes.com
    - By JAMES BARRON
    With Hurricane Irene pushing toward the East Coast, officials made plans to shut down the city’s mass transit system on Saturday, and the mayor ordered a mandatory evacuation of certain coastal areas.
  • Bloody Thursday: Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One | TechCrunch-
    techcrunch.com
    - MG Siegler
    Because we needed more big tech news this week. Yes, it’s true that Google has just brought the hammer down on Slide, as Liz Gannes of AllThingsD first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it’s also true that Max Levchin is leaving. Now we also know the fate of all of the Slide products. And it’s not pretty.
    All of them are being discontinued — except one, we’ve learned. This means both the Slide products before Google’s acquisition of the company a year ago, and the newer ones that the Slide te…  show all text
  • New Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m Thinking Printers’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source-
    SAN FRANCISCO—Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company’s future.
  • Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes – Digits – WSJ-
    blogs.wsj.com
    - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
    Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, the company he founded and turned into the largest technology company in the world. Although his tenure as CEO will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology, he has also been known for his salesmanship, his ability to turn a phrase – and a knack for taking complicated ideas and making them easy to understand. Below, a compendium of some of the best Steve Jobs quotes.
    On Technology
    “It takes these ve…  show all text

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