Marzo 2012
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“Rather than giving you something for nothing, Homeless Hotspots requires an actual transaction. You have to pay something, whatever you wish, to get Wi-Fi access, a real commodity on the streets of Austin. But the marketing gimmick itself requires something else: recognition of another human being, one who is suffering. Whereas plenty of people seemed to think that was dehumanizing, it’s actually kind of the opposite: it’s literally humanizing. Thinking about and looking at the homeless is hard.”
—One thought from Laura June’s piece on the Homeless Hotspots issue. Hit the source to read them all.
“Apple is definitely building their devices as if they care a lot about ‘triple-A’ games. It is quite easy to imagine a world where an iPad is more powerful than a home console, where it wirelessly talks to your TV and wirelessly talks to your controller and becomes your new console.”
—Mike Capps, Epic Games President.
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Does anyone actually buy this? It’d be one thing if Motorola were doing well, or even if they were merely doing OK, but they’re not — they’re doing terribly. They’re losing money and are generating little revenue. What sense does it make for Motorola to stay the course? Larry Page is just going to say, “Welcome to Google, you guys just keep doing what you’ve been doing — losing money and making phones that don’t sell very well”?
I presume Google and Motorola executives are saying these things to assuage the fears of Motorola’s rival Android handset makers. But do any of them believe it?
” — John Gruber on the Motorola/Google conflict of interest.Febrero 2012
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"Daft Punk" now in 8 bit
The real March Maddness. RT @danharmon: What you call 8:00, we call home. #Community returns to Thursday nights on March 15th.
— Joel McHale (@joelmchale)
“To me the web is moving away from the browser for a lot of people. Apps on devices which make the web accessable to people who are afraid of the internet is probably the thing that I’m most excited about. Before apps people who weren’t geeks in my life didn’t talk about websites at all. Now they talk about apps (frontends to websites or not) in an almost giddy fashion. This is probably the coolest thing that has happened to the web. Web apps do not feel like desktop or iOS apps so to speak, but the lines are blurring for a lot of people.”
—Christopher Forsythe (the guy who thought up Growl)
