Tech News – September 7th 2012
Tech news – September 7th 2012
- http://stream.wsj.com/story/campaign-2012-continuous-coverage/SS… –
- Obama: ‘Help Us Destroy Jesus And Start A New Age Of Liberal Darkness’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source –
CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention Thursday night, commanding the ultraprogressive minions in… - How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic –
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the data that you're drawing from when you ask Google to navigate you from point A to point B — and last week, Google showed me the internal map and… show all text
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- President Obama’s DNC Speech Brings In Record 52,757 Tweets Per Minute –
US President Barack Obama hit a new record for political moments on Twitter by inspiring 52,757 tweets per minute during his DNC speech. - Zynga –
- Peter Leyden | Tim O’Reilly: a model “reinventor” –
I went to the Long Now lecture last night in San Francisco on “The Birth of the Global Mind,” by Tim O’Reilly, the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, which publishes technical books on programming and puts on innovative conferences like FOO camps and the Maker Faires.
The talk itself was terrific and put a twist on a topic of increasing interest to many people: what happens as computers continue to get increasingly powerful and connected up. Much speculation has gone into artificial intellige… show all text - The First Third-Party Games Go Live On Zynga.com | TechCrunch –
Zynga first announced its Zynga Platform for social games back in March. Since then, Zynga’s own games have gone live at Zynga.com, and the company has been revealing more details and partners. What seems to have been missing until now, however, were actual games, built by companies other than Zynga and live on the platform,.
So today, at a press event highlighting Zynga’s partners, the company said the first third-party games have launched at Zynga.com — four games, specifically. The titles ar… show all text - Apple May Build Web Radio Service Like Pandora – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD –
Apple is talking to the music labels about a streaming music service along the lines of Pandora, says The Wall Street Journal. Industry sources I’ve talked to say that’s correct.
And unlike Apple’s long-running but unsuccessful negotiations with the TV Industrial Complex, this one is easy to imagine getting off the ground.
The gist:
Apple could launch a Pandora clone tomorrow without the labels’ permission, because if it wanted to do a straightforward “Web radio” service, it could use the same … show all text - GottaRegister | Voter Registration – How to Register to Vote –
Voter registration: Learn how and where you can register to vote. Find the information you need to register to vote in your state - Two men, four surnames | MetaFilter –
- Best Email Ever: How One Soldier Stationed In Afghanistan Got His Amazon News Today | TechCrunch –
It’s only my third official day on the job at TechCrunch, but it’s been a pretty awesome time thus far. For example, we saw an email come through the wires that stopped us in our tracks during our Amazon coverage today. It was technology-related…but not.
We have some great readers, but this particular reader has an interesting story. He’s not in Silicon Valley, he’s in Afghanistan, protecting the United States of America. That’s pretty brave and makes you wonder about all of the things you comp… show all text - Obama Makes Case for 2nd Term: ‘Harder’ Path to ‘Better Place’ –
Accepting the Democratic nomination for a second term, President Obama argued, “it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.” - Are you looking for the new App.net –
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BarackObama.com is the official re-election campaign website of President Barack Obama. Visit the site for the latest updates from the Obama campaign, including news, videos, and information on how to volunteer and donate to the campaign. - Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival – WSJ.com –
Apple is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music. - Can You Make It Through This Post Without Crying? –
Here is a challenge: Make it all the way through this post without crying. You have to read the whole post!First, look at this amazing photo of chimps at a rescue center grieving for their friend Dorothy, who died of old age.
Via: dailymail.co.ukNow look at this photo of a dog standing vigil over his master's grave.
This was taken in 1920, so the dog will have passed on by now as well.
Via: boston_public_libraryAnd this one.
A dog named "Leao" sits for a second consecutive day at the g… show all text - Meet Apple’s Favorite Blogger – Businessweek –
On a cold day in February, John Gruber traveled from his home in Philadelphia to New York City for a meeting. At a posh hotel near Central Park, the 39-year-old tech blogger was greeted by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide marketing. For the next hour, Schiller performed one - App Store – LockerGnome! –
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about LockerGnome! on the App Store. Download LockerGnome! and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. - Kickstarting a literary studio for serialized fiction – Boing Boing –
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Plympton is a new literary studio dedicated to producing serialized fiction for the digital age. They've just launched with their first three titles through the newly created Kindle Serials program, and have several more titles in the works. Plympton has one aim: to bring back the incredibly fun tradition of the serialized novel, improving the lives of readers and writers everywhere. Serials provide a steady stream of great content at a competitive price. They also bring rea… show all text - @sddialedinhard at work –
- Twitter / moth: Obama just whipped Romney around … –
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- FBI vs. Google: The Legal Fight to Unlock Phones – WSJ.com –
A legal battle is brewing between technology companies and the U.S. government over whether law-enforcement agents have the right to obtain passwords to crack into smartphones of suspects. - Mormons for Obama | We are voting for Obama, and we are Mormons. –
- 360-Degree Convention Live Stream – CBS News –
- App.net Has 20,000 Users; 250 Account For Half The Posts –
App.net, the subscription-based, ad-free Twitter alternative that is now fully funded and ready for extensive testing (you can find TNW's profile here), is off to a relatively sluggish … - Barack Obama’s Record-Setting Speech: 52,757 Tweets Per Minute, 9M Total DNC Tweets | TechCrunch –
The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight and broke some Twitter records (for politics) while he was at it, according to the company.
Extra points to Twitter, the site didn’t go down or falter once during the entire speech.
A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobamadrives 52,757 Tweets per minute. Over 9 million Tweets sent about #DNC2012.
— Twitter Government (@gov) September 7, 2012
The people listened…and twe… show all text - Kindle Fire HD: How Amazon’s new tablet will revolutionize books, movies, and games. – Slate Magazine –
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he said, “and people… - quirky blog | What Raising Money Means To Me –
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