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3 months ago
in iTunes Music: Now Up To 30 Percent More Expensive on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Damn...quit the anti profit rhetoric. They're in business to make money. Plus, like James alluded to, it beats paying the $12 per album that we used to pay.
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Smarmy
Quit the pro profit rhetoric. It doesn't beat the $12 per album if you do the math, and Amazon now undercuts them across the board.
Ben Parr
I agree, they're in it to make money, but if users defect or go to pirating to fulfill their music downloading needs, it ends up being a loss for Apple. Companies like eMusic will push hard for users to switchover with this news.
5 months ago
in Is There Nothing More To Write About? on SheGeeks
I feel you. The last 6 months especially have been kinda slow in tech. Twitter this and Friendfeed that....with a little apple and yahoo mixed in there as well. But at the same time, history tells us that something new and exciting is just on the other side of this recession.
Personally, I think that enterprise web apps will define the latter half of this year much like individual/social apps define the last few years. That's certainly where the money will be made at least. Hopefully the creativity lies there as well. Plus I'm a fan. Here's hoping to your inspiration.
Personally, I think that enterprise web apps will define the latter half of this year much like individual/social apps define the last few years. That's certainly where the money will be made at least. Hopefully the creativity lies there as well. Plus I'm a fan. Here's hoping to your inspiration.
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Corvida
Thank you Chris!
I think that you may be right about this year being that of enterprise web apps. As much as I'd love to test them, I don't have a use for them to be honest. However, money is becoming an issue and that could cause a shift of focus on certain services.
Good point!
I think that you may be right about this year being that of enterprise web apps. As much as I'd love to test them, I don't have a use for them to be honest. However, money is becoming an issue and that could cause a shift of focus on certain services.
Good point!
7 months ago
in 2008/11/18/consequences-of-social-media/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
We're all full of sh%!. 5 years ago personal privacy on the net was a HUGE issue. Now, we're looking for MORE ways to relinquish that. It cracks me up when I read about these kids that pasted crap all over facebook and myspace and youtube, only to discover that other people well see that and make judgements based on it.
What the hell happened here?
What the hell happened here?
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alexknowshtml
What's the unwritten punchline for Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four?
Society didn't take away the privacy of individuals. We gave it away.
Society didn't take away the privacy of individuals. We gave it away.
Ben Parr
You have control still. I choose to make my life an open book on the net. Anything I don't want out, I keep in my head. You just have to find the balance you're comfortable with, or use the tools that protect your privacy enough.
But like I said in #5, it'll start another ethics war.
But like I said in #5, it'll start another ethics war.
8 months ago
in 2008/10/29/google-openid/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Google? Hypocrisy?? Naawww.
The day will come when we hold Google in the same regard that many of us hold MS. They're strangling all their competitors because the have the muscle and capital, and the Justice Department has been unable to catch up with them.
But hey, they're giving us free sh**, so who cares, right?
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The day will come when we hold Google in the same regard that many of us hold MS. They're strangling all their competitors because the have the muscle and capital, and the Justice Department has been unable to catch up with them.
But hey, they're giving us free sh**, so who cares, right?
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Adam Ostrow
at least the DOJ is looking into the Yahoo search ads deal, but yea, for the most part, they still enjoy the same free pass usually only afforded to Apple :)
Graham Perrin
Flug wrote:
> on the one hand google is just an almost monopolist,
> on the other hand it enriched our lives so much with their products.
Off-topic from OpenID:
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/bro... observes an information architecture muddle, a less than sterling introduction to Chromium developer community. Marks: 9/10 to the Chromium developers :) but to Google:
* only 4/10, for not best supporting the big picture for something as high-profile as Chrome
* only 3/10, for assuming that everyone starts from the same point; for an inappropriately island-like (in this case hierarchical) approach to newcomers.
Whilst I do greatly appreciate much of what Google produces/serves, it's not the first time that I have been unexpectedly, extensively frustrated on Google Island.
The Google Code UI leaves much to be desired and it is (to me) significant that the use of Google Code for issue tracking, in as presigious a project as MacFUSE, has been quietly deprecated after closing 401 of 402 issues: .
(In another project to which I contribute, we chose to move from Google Code to Trac.)
Finally, relating this to OpenID:
I suspect that encouraging Google, in its broadest senses, to pay _greatest_ and _soonest_ attention to OpenID (and to related standards) may have the knock-on effects of:
a) encouraging Google to maintain the broadest possible overview
b) discouraging Google Island approaches.
Best,
Graham
> on the one hand google is just an almost monopolist,
> on the other hand it enriched our lives so much with their products.
Off-topic from OpenID:
http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/bro... observes an information architecture muddle, a less than sterling introduction to Chromium developer community. Marks: 9/10 to the Chromium developers :) but to Google:
* only 4/10, for not best supporting the big picture for something as high-profile as Chrome
* only 3/10, for assuming that everyone starts from the same point; for an inappropriately island-like (in this case hierarchical) approach to newcomers.
Whilst I do greatly appreciate much of what Google produces/serves, it's not the first time that I have been unexpectedly, extensively frustrated on Google Island.
The Google Code UI leaves much to be desired and it is (to me) significant that the use of Google Code for issue tracking, in as presigious a project as MacFUSE, has been quietly deprecated after closing 401 of 402 issues: .
(In another project to which I contribute, we chose to move from Google Code to Trac.)
Finally, relating this to OpenID:
I suspect that encouraging Google, in its broadest senses, to pay _greatest_ and _soonest_ attention to OpenID (and to related standards) may have the knock-on effects of:
a) encouraging Google to maintain the broadest possible overview
b) discouraging Google Island approaches.
Best,
Graham
