Saturday, July 31, 2010

Great quote by @NatashaFatah in @Torontoist about "the best city in the country, maybe the best city in the world."

but let's face it—it's Toronto, it's the best city in the country, maybe the best city in the world. It's a very open society here in Toronto, you can be who you are, it's very accepting; you have huge networks of communities already built in here. And it's the economic hub of the country, too. If you're coming here with very little money in your pocket and you need to catch a break, you're going to come to a big city like Toronto. And it's just easier. People do feel isolated. As much as you're grateful for being here, no one speaks your language, no one looks like you, no one talks like you out in, like, rural Saskatchewan or in Nova Scotia. But if you come here you'll find your community and you'll build more communities by becoming a Canadian.

Pretty much capture my thoughts about Toronto exactly.

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Another great, but flawed article by @tomiahonen -- Smartphone war is a war over platform, not brand

Whatever Google does on Android, Nokia can rather easily copy onto Symbian/MeeGo.

Tomi is a great read. But he has gotta take those Nokia blinders off. Maybe when he used to work there, it was a great company. Now, they just plain suck at executing.

No, Nokia will not rather easily copy into Symbian/MeeGo of whatever Google may potentially do in ten years to make ten billion. Because Nokia can start today. Right now. By using Android instead of starting from scratch with MeeGo.

(Not making any implications about Symbian; S60 is not even in the same class of device as Android. They are like featurephones+. Nothing wrong with that, btw.)

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Facebook Roach Hotel

Facebook is like a black hole, sucking up our mobile, social online lives. And no one leaves Facebook. That is like going off-grid. It doesn't happen, with the exception of a few people looking for very temporary publicity.

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Kafkatrapping

Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.” I’ve been presented with enough instances of this recently that I’ve decided that it needs a name. I call this general style of argument “kafkatrapping

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

#Android users probably don't wear tight hipster pants.

Right now, Android Nation is obsessed with phones that have almost 50% of the iPad’s screen size (think about that for a second). Gigantic 4.3” glass and bezel tablets. Phones that need kickstands

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Friday, July 16, 2010

loot from Dealextreme is here. Saving this bad boy for my iphone 4.

What Matters When Choosing A Mobile « Mobile Ministry Magazine (mobileminmag)

So then, what matters the most? This all depends on several factors:

  • What do you plan to do
  • What are your cost constraints
  • Do you have travel concerns
  • What kind of media (audio, video, etc.) will you be using with the device
  • Are you purchasing for yourself, for a family, for an organization? Who managages the governance around that use

I love reading about how church and religious groups handle IT/New/Social Media.

They face the same problems and opportunities that every other organization in the world has. But, they often have to work with constraints and requirements that are limiting and unique.

They are also less fanboi-ish about tech stuff: none of this fetishist diatribe for one platform or one company.

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Breaking up is hard: Lines of poetry a tough fit in e-form - The Globe and Mail

Poetry was an oral medium. It adapted to the point where we have most poetry today that isn't meant to be read aloud.

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Great quote about user-acceptance as the key to successful software from @mobileactive.

One of our primary motivations is the common observation that any solution must be embraced by its users and beneficiaries in order to be successful, and our belief that this is vastly more likely to happen when the ideas come from the community as well.

People who build 2.0-ish webapps are obsessed with this point.

Why aren't other sectors of the software industry following the same metric for software success?

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New #Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta for #S60 is amazing!!

It's FAST. So fast on my E71.

The normal beta download link won't seem to let me download it yet on the E71, so you can either download from the link above or use the Opera Mobile alt. versions page:

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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

On sustaining gains -- Lonnie Wilson

I know of several firms that are adequate at sustaining the gains, and they have one major item in commom: a culture that holds on to top management for an average of 16 years, supervisors an average of 12 years, and hands-on workers an average of seven years.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Promising Young People --

one of those eternally promising young men of the inter-war era who left nothing behind them but their legend

I wonder if that is how my contemp will be remembered as well.

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@Posterous - Your tool import is kind of lame.

So.

Just tried out the Posterous's new import tool for Blogger and Flickr. They both grabbed about 13 posts and shunted into a separate blog. 13 posts.

Guys, do better.

Love your service.

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If this be the post,

Nokia’s N8 Prepares For A Niche Market | eWEEK Europe UK

This is a niche product. And phones shouldn’t be niche products.

As with the N97 before it, Nokia has shoved in a ton of features. There’s a 12 Mpixel camera, HD video, and HDMI output. But how many people actually want to cable a monitor to their phone to watch a movie? The USB can act as a host as well as a client - but how many people want to find an obscure cable to hook up a storage device to it?

I never understood Nokia's obsession with TV outs.

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Blocking USB Ports Isn’t the Right Answer

security theatre” – security controls that look like you are doing something when in reality, the risk hasn’t really changed

Totally.

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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Mike Cane - The Tyrannical Bullshit Of Objects - @mikecane #ebooks #writing #fucktheman

Raymond Chandler’s books were ignored during his lifetime. All the so-called “serious” novels of his day got the gold-star reviewers and big press. Yet Chandler’s work remains in print, is now recognized as the art it always was, and all the “important” crap from then is out of print or entirely forgotten.

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Saturday, July 03, 2010

Fake Steve Job's quick jab back against Gizmondo and other tech blogs.

So take that, blog commenters. You can debate and argue 24-7 on this external antenna and the Anandtech investigation and how many dBs of attenuation you can get when you wrap an iPhone 4 in latex and shove it halfway up your butts. Have fun! Go wild! Knock yourselves out. But by Tuesday, when all the regular folks come back from the long weekend of cookouts and hanging out on the beach, this non-issue will have been eliminated by our non-repair, just wait and see.

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Friday, July 02, 2010

Lara Logan, You Suck -- RollingStone.com

They don't need your help, and you're giving it to them anyway, because you just want to be part of the club so so badly. Disgustingly, that's really what it comes down to. Most of these reporters just want to be inside the ropeline so badly, they want to be able to say they had that beer with Hillary Clinton in a bowling alley in Scranton or whatever, that it colors their whole worldview. God forbid some important person think you're not playing for the right team!

I didn't know about this story until this morning. Sooo... there are people out there attacking this because it may embarrass the troops? What is this? 2005?

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