DISQUS

How is the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property "closely connected to the prosecutors in the case; i.e. the entertainment industry"?

Do you know what Industrial Property is?

How about an example showing that it's actually better than Google? I put the exact same query into Google -- "How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?" -- and it didn't merely "return documents that might contain the answer," it gave the answer to the question and provided its source.

As far as Reader goes: It might cost less than YouTube, but that goes for everything killed last night as well. I'm sure it costs a lot more than Notebook.

I'm not too confident of its future. RSS/Atom just never caught on with people, and I don't think it ever will. People will continue to consume feeds using other products, like Facebook updates, but I don't see the public ever caring about feed aggregators as a standalone product. Hell, I haven't touched Reader in months, I'm more likely to check out Twinkle or Twitter Search or Techmeme.

Sucks about Mashup Editor, I was just about to start digging into it, 'cause I built a service on top of Yahoo Pipes and was worried about *Yahoo* orphaning it because of their turmoil. Guess I'll have to check out Microsoft's Popfly as well and see if it can do the stuff I need.

I'd like to know the whole truth with Apple, but isn't that a violation of Jobs's privacy and the doctor-patient confidentiality for his or your friend's doctor to be telling non-doctors about Jobs's condition?

Best wishes to your friend and to Jobs, though.

I hope, but doubt, that part of Goldman's comments included an apology to Gizmodo.

More lies from Apple. Tried to tell you, but some of you guys can't help yourselves.

No reports from Jim Goldman or Scoble's fucking yogurt vendor today?

Whatever. You thought tablet PCs and Second Life were going to take over the world.

My only question is if you're in the tank for Apple because you own stock in the company, or if you're just one of the kool-ade brigade. 'Cause you sure seem desperate lately to pump Apple stock up.

I mean, it's pretty clear that your whole tale of Steve Jobs's yogurt vendor saying that he looks to be in perfect health was a steaming load of bullcrap, right?

I lol'd. :D

This news is totally worthy of taking up a quarter of the page at Techmeme today.

The new logo looks like pants, btw, hope the designer is one of the people they let go recently.

Zzzzzzz....zzzzz....zzz... So fascinating, I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to find out how many iTunes accounts with credit cards there were. Thanks, Apple.

Holy shit that show was a dud.

Goldman was misled by his Apple sources because he wanted to be misled by them. He exhibits exactly zero critical thinking about the information that he's being spoonfed -- which would include wondering why they chose him to be the gateway for their misinformation in the first place. Clearly it's because they know he'll swallow it up while attacking those who actually look at the situation logically and realistically, all under the high and mighty imprimatur of the CNBC brand.

As for Gizmodo vs. Goldman, I'd say Gizmodo was closer to the truth. They didn't say he was on his deathbed, they said "Steve's health is declining rapidly." I'm guessing that looking at him, it was a reasonable assumption to make. From Jobs's release, he says that he's been losing weight *throughout 2008*. Have we even seen him since June? He looked sickly then, and in his own words has been losing weight ever since then.

He says that it was only a few weeks ago that finding a solution became his top priority and he underwent further tests. Obviously a solution wasn't found right away, so more time has passed before a diagnosis was made and treatment begun. So it's pretty doubtful that there has yet been any significant improvement in his appearance, even if he is indeed on the road to recovery.

What of Scoble's yogurt vendor? It's pretty obvious that all that mess was bogus, too. Does that just drop off into the memory hole along with all the other obfuscations, and we take Apple at its word whenever they next deign to talk or leak to the media?

So now we know Apple lied to everyone AGAIN.

Dean, don't you feel somewhat gullible in that you seem to be taking Apple's new talking points as 100% truth? I might've missed it, but I didn't see even the slightest skepticism in your article.

C'mon guys, I'm not saying this as a slam -- I honestly do expect more from you and MG in your reporting on this matter. (Happy _Opening the Xbox_ owner here!) While Jim Goldman natters on as if he still had any credibility left, don't be like that guy.

Do people actually still try to use Voice Search in the Google app? My friends and I gave up on it over Thanksgiving, it was complete pants and gave us zero useful hits after about 15-20 minutes of trying.

A possible excuse was that it was confused because we were trying to look up stuff about "The Who", but whatever the reason, it was annoying.

Jim Goldman and his "source" have no more credibility than anybody else's source. I'd say he has even less because of the way he tries to mislead his readers.

First Jobs's pullout was simply about "politics". No explanation for this, just "politics." If Apple itself is pulling out next year, but still sending someone this year, there's no reason for it not to be Jobs.

He tries to fool his readers with this "If Apple is lying about Jobs being fine, a lot of people could go to jail" load of bollocks. Well Jim, why do you think nobody from Apple will go on the record to say that nothing's wrong? If it turns out Jobs is sick, do you think Goldman will reveal his sources?

We all saw how Jobs looked. Apple's history of lying about this *on the record* has already been established -- think they'd have any qualms about doing it again when they don't even need to go on the record? There is no good political reason for Apple to pull Jobs from the show: You want to send the organizers a message? What for, this is your last one.

What does your brain tell you is more "iffy"? That Apple-worshipping Gizmondo is trying to drive Apple's stock down, or that Apple is obfuscating?

Thanks, Richard! I know that I always come to VentureBeat in hopes of learning new magic tricks! Hugs right back atcha.

Damn, been too busy for much gaming, been wanting to play Gears 2, Fallout 3, and Left 4 Dead, closest I've come has been the L4D demo, which was a blast online with some friends.

Ryan, maybe he's like me and doesn't consider LittleBigPlanet to actually be a game? ;)

Nice to see that there's not a pick like "You Have to Burn the Rope" on the list. Thanks for not being *that guy*.

Okay, this is the precise moment where the review falls apart:

"Everyone loves slideshows."

Dude. Now, in fairness, I liked yours, but I thought there was something hilarious about the upbeat rocking out and snazzy effects used for the display of a bunch of iPhone screenshots.

I do notice that iPhone advocates seem to be redefining the meaning of "video" lately. Screenshots + music are NOT video. I actually shot some real video -- with my iPhone -- of my dog running around the backyard just about 10 minutes before I saw these Animoto articles. Of course, I was able to because my iPhone is jailbroken, Lord Steve Jobs hasn't deigned to let you iPhone-owning peons record real video.

Is Arrington an investor in this company, 'cause I'm honestly surprised that someone could act so amazed at this crude app.

Dear God, please no coverflow. Worst. Interface. Ever.

"Categories" does exactly what you're talking about folderwise. Just create however many you want and store all your crap in them. Available for jailbroken phones.

I rarely actually go into the folders, however, because it's so much quicker to navigate the iPhone with the previously mentioned QuickGold. It's quite fantastic.

I personally don't know how iPhone owners can get by without jailbreaking their phones, the built-in functionality is pants because of Apple's stupid, arbitrary limitations. At least the available functionality available via jailbreaking allows me to keep some shred of dignity whenever my phone geek friends see I have an iPhone. :)

What kind of explanation is "it's more about politics"? Sounds like more lies from Apple.

"For whatever reason that Financial Times have decided to use the color pink [...]"

Dude, have you never read The Financial Times before??

Gore's remarks weren't taken out of context, MG, he was just caught in a lie.

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

It's simply a blatant lie. Just because it was later framed for comedic purposes in snappier language doesn't suddenly make his original statement truthful. People should stop doing damage control for this guy, he's not even running for anything, and nobody sensible is going to pay for his self-serving, wasteful green ideas in this economy anyway.

Hope your pictures look better than the thing I just saw at Engadget, 'cause it looked like absolute pants. No mouse button. :|

What does your friend do? Is he a developer at Microsoft, or in the ad biz there or elsewhere?