What I’m reading and finding for October 24th 2011 through October 27th 2011: the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support – theunderstatement.com The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 21st 2011 through October 24th 2011: Apple – Apple Events – Celebrating Steve – events.apple.com.edgesuite.net Steve’s Final “One More Thing…” | TechCrunch – techcrunch.com – MG Siegler Steve Jobs was the ultimate showman. As such, it should be no surprise that he realized the power of following up [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 17th 2011 through October 20th 2011: Official Google Reader Blog: Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up – googlereader.blogspot.com – Unknown Posted by Alan Green, Software Engineer In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 15th 2011 through October 17th 2011: Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal – nytimes.com – By DAVID STREITFELD Amazon.com, the online retailer, has long competed with bookstores; now it is starting to make deals with authors, bypassing the traditional publisher. From Twitter – http://t.co/hjMicwZT Windows [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 12th 2011 through October 14th 2011: Official Google Blog: A fall sweep – googleblog.blogspot.com – A Googler We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 9th 2011 through October 12th 2011: http://gawker.com/5848754 – gawker.com Box.net | Online file sharing, content management, collaboration – box.net Box provides a secure, easy way for businesses to manage content, share large files and collaborate online from anywhere. Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer’s Gmail Data to U.S. Government – [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 6th 2011 through October 8th 2011: The Man Who Inspired Jobs – nytimes.com – By CHRISTOPHER BONANOS In many ways, Apple’s co-founder emulated Polaroid’s Edwin Land, the inventor of instant photography. Here’s To The Crazy One | TechCrunch – techcrunch.com – MG Siegler When I wrote my piece [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 4th 2011 through October 6th 2011: Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) | The Wirecutter- thewirecutter.com I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked him back. [...]
What I’m reading and finding for October 1st 2011 through October 4th 2011: Welcome To CrunchFund, MG Siegler « UNCRUNCHED – uncrunched.com – Michael Arrington I want to welcome MG Siegler as our newest general partner at CrunchFund. MG, who I worked with for several years at TechCrunch, will join me and Patrick Gallagher in [...]
Recently I posted an article about a great extension for Google Chrome to share to Google+ from Google Reader. Of course the downside here is not everyone uses Chrome. I’ve figured out a way to work around that and let people share from any browser using the Chrome send to feature and a hack of [...]