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Oh Facebook. Your success is becoming a monument to irrelevance technical inferiority.
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Cosmo Catalano
This is childish nonsense. Healthy dose of salt req'd. Click for Serious Cosmo.
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And privately, they don’t think Facebook’s staff has the brainpower to succeed where they have failed. “If they found a way to monetize all of a sudden, sure, that would be a problem,” says one highly placed Google executive. “But they’re not going to.
— Fred Vogelstein, “Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet—and Keep Google Out”, Wired.
The Google Buzz presenter right now is trying so hard to be Steve Jobs, but is lacking both the iconic black turtleneck as well as the excessive superlatives.
And yet, the product delivers infinitely more utility at a better pricepoint. Correlation?
Reblog of Unpopped Collar
Wait, wait—the company trying to build a web-based operating system thinks the Internet needs to be faster?
Get. Out.
Maybe this is the real reason desktop OS producer Apple keeps their mobile devices chained to the slowest provider they can find.
Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China
Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there.
As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether.
Frickin’ mayhem.
- Haiti
- Conan
- Internet war
Going to bed. Things better be normal by the time I wake up.
Reblog of Soup
Faceberg recently ran his yap about privacy.
When you’re between “get out of debt” and “get out of debt fast” on the escape-seekers’ list, it’s safe to say that the people are against you.
Not Using Gmail is Like a Time Machine to Nowhere
My work addresses (yes, I get mail at two accounts at my office—don’t ask) aren’t set up through Gmail. So to search, read through discussion threads, forward, reply, filter, and otherwise manage, I’m stuck with the default mail client (not great) or the default web interface (worse).
How did anyone get anything done on the Internet before 2004?
It’s true.
Google Chrome is now available for Mac.
Hey Cosmo, should I get this?
Absolutely! I’ve been rocking the developer alpha builds for months now. Very fast, and pretty stable since September or so.
Reblog of Life Aquatic
google wave will destroy us all
“OMG i don’t like this”
“honestly i don’t understand how this is supposed to be helpful”
“how the hell does this work? i feel like i’m in the mainframe of the internet.”
“so this is basically a chatroom?”
“seems like a terrible, useless version of gchat”
“this place is dead this fucking sucks”
“GET ME OUT OF HERE”
This is too linear. You’d have to have simultaneously live-updating indented responses coming in hot all up and down the page. The five minutes I spent “waving” were the most terrifying five minutes I’ve ever spent on the Internet, and I hung out in IRC chat rooms as a twelve year old.
For a longer-term discussion among a small, quick-thinking, tech-savvy group, prone to massive, sudden jumps in scope and topic, on a complicated project possibly involving several distinct multimedia elements, Google Wave is a fantastic timesaver.
If you don’t find yourself in work environments like this, the best Wave will do is avoid some convoluted email threads and CC/BCC/Reply/Reply-All usage errors. But you’re still going to need coworkers whose default reaction to new technology is curiosity, rather than terror.
But for most people, Wave isn’t going to be useful. If you were likely to need it, you would have gotten an invite back when it was a trending topic on twitter. Now that they’re handing out accounts like UNICEF dimes, you’re better off trying to snag a flavors.me invite instead.
Reblog of Ramble on Rose
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