On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future.
Clean your history, simple.
Via Daring Fireball.
Michael Arrington highlights the AppleTV’s reviews as a distinguishing factors in helping him pick out movies to watch.
I’ve learned over time, though, to keep my laptop or phone handy while picking out those movies. Comcast gives a little bit of information about the movies, but nothing from users or professional critics. Since they occasionally push sub par stuff onto their lists, presumably because they’re being paid to promote it, it’s worth it to check it out on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic.
Totally agree, would love to Netflix to add movie trailers to their Roku interface. Rather than having to start a movie and hope for the best, you could watch the trailer, get a feel for it and then decide if you want to plunge into it.
Apple loves it’s developers and just launched a fantastic looking overview on how the app development process works. What are you doing this weekend? Getting started on building your first app?
This the future – it’s here, at your fingertips!
Apple surprised everyone and announced their next operating system OS X Mountain Lion. Lots of new features and changes and what it all means for us Mac users directed in “The Talk Show” with John Gruber, Dan Benjamin and special guest John Siracusa.
Are pages like this: ‘Ad Scrimmage’.
Wish Twitter would promote their special curated content a bit more. I love when they take data and make it accessible, visible and help us connect the dots.
A video in which I talk a lot… like a lot about Pinterest. Are you on it? Do you get it? Are you dizzy yet about all those social media platforms?
I’ll tweet for the ads.
Apple releases free ibook publishing tool “Author”. Now everyone can publish their media-rich books to the iBookstore.
I’m on it!
Code Racer is live now. Brought to you by the great Treehouse team.
Play to learn. Will try it out tonight.
In a decidedly 21st-century twist, team of German hackers bent on fighting the powers that be has chosen a rather ambitious means of taking the power back: building ahacker-owned and -operated space program, complete with a constellation of communications satellites beaming uncensored Internet to users on the ground.
i’ll be obsolete in less than a year… your iPhone!
Ouch.
SwiftRiver is a free and open-source intelligence platform that helps people curate and make sense of large amounts of information in a short amount of time. In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels such asSMS, email, Twitter and RSS feeds.
Yeah, I know the guy who’s working on that project.
Well, I know it’s linkbait and I fell for it, but here is it anyway.
TNW curates the 10 most beautiful online stores. What is ‘most beautiful’. How can you define it, measure it? Of course, none of those sites are revolutionary or show anything exciting. Most are exercises in various shades of white. Not a bad thing, but I think they could’ve done better… oh, and check out the url, what’s up with that bizarre Chevy Volt ad on the top?
Well, yes I linked to it anyway.
Don’t Watch This, Episode #41:
Yeah, those pesky, dumb looking bar codes for smart phone readers that promise the moon and fail to deliver – I hate them.
Brought to you by The Chifferobe.
Finally some research how dumb, and by dumb I mean ineffective, QR codes really are.
Students were shown a picture of a QR code and then asked questions like: Can you identify what this is? Do you know how to use it? How likely are you to engage with these in the future?
Here are just a few of our findings:
- 81% of students owned a smartphone
- 80% of students had previously seen a QR code
- 21% of students successfully scanned our QR code example.
- 75% of students said they are “Not Likely” to scan a QR code in the future.
When I first saw the announcement of the new Nokia Lumia 800 I loved it. I want Apple to make a phone like that.
Reminds me of Swatch watches.
I linked this question to Adobe, because I don’t have the answer. How do you make an ebook? The ePub format, with the rise of the e-readers and tablets, I mean iPads is getting increasingly interesting as an option for publishing for well, publishers, but also authors, and everyone else who wants to express themselves. But no software tool is out there yet, that enables simple creation of eBooks. Someone, Adobe! should do something about that, don’t you think?
Oh my, that Kid is killing me…
Steve Jobs picked the wrong guy to write his biography. Walter Isaacson blew it. That’s what I felt too after reading the first the sample in iBooks.
Mixel lets you make, share and remix collages in a whole new way.
iPad app, will be downloaded tonight right away, looks great!
But hear it from the creator:
Mixel. It’s a collage-making tool and a social network rolled into one. With Mixel, anyone can create and share digital collages using images from the Web, Mixel’s library, or your own personal photos from Facebook or what’s right on your iPad.