Is Google Going To Buy Apple? | dmiessler.com With no good rumours to go on, no new hardware, no new iLife, the Apple rumour mill goes into overdrive. I think this a fairly unlikely thing. Google needs a hardware and consumer appliance manufacturer like Apple needs to get into the catering business. The Google business [...]
John Battelles Searchblog: Just Asking… Ive found myself more and more wary of doing things that Id like to do with Google applications simply out of some primal, lizard brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source. Its not that I dont trust Google, its not that I dont like [...]
I was reading Marc Andreesen’s new blog and I came across this quote: Virtualization — in the form of software like Parallels and VMWare Fusion — lets you deal with an individual operating system as if it were an application. from blog.pmarca.com: At long last, switching back to Mac and I realized that since Apple [...]
I was around and in fact active in the first web bubble in Seattle. It was a heady time, cocktail parties and pitches. Companies grabbing up every inch of pioneer square loft space and such. Then it all went away and I retreated back into the corporate world so that I could pay the bills. [...]
At this point, I’m just used to the horror show that developing software for the mac is. But as a user, it has always been sweetness and light mostly and with Apple service, it has always been awesome. Now, Apple is crossing the line. My 30 GB iPod photo is busted. It has been lovingly [...]
12 Things To Do In Second Life That Arent Embarrassing If Your Priest Or Rabbi Finds Out – Digital Life Blog – InformationWeek I don’t want to dis Second Life too much. You gotta give it up to the Linden Labs folks for taking on a business that has an absolutely horrific track record with [...]
Ars Technica: Blame for record-breaking credit card data theft laid at the feet of WEP New details have emerged about what has become the largest consumer data theft to date. TJX, parent company of discount retailers T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, disclosed in a regulatory filing in late March that hackers had stolen data covering over [...]
Andrew Keen thinks the user-created-internet is full of crap. A bunch of self-important blowhards talking to no one. I am one of them, and I think he is right. Will I give up this blog to let the “real” journalists restore order, doubtful. I have grown tired of the web 2.0 hype though and I’m [...]
I’m not sure if this was an anthropomorphic moment or a fetishistic moment, but as I put my old iPod in a box today to send it back to Apple to get it’s click-wheel fixed, it turned on, showing my favorite A Silver Mount Zion song paused. It was like saying good bye to an [...]
