December 2009
23 posts
“If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the...”
– John Gruber
The decade in news photographs - The Big Picture -... →
An unreal look at the past decade.
Top Mobile Phones, Sites and Brands for 2009 |... →
iPhone: 4% market share. Blackberry: 3.7%.
“I really hope for Google’s sake that this horseshit artist Rosenberg is not...”
– Way to throw that last jab in there, John. via Daring Fireball
Tiger Wods, Person of the Year →
A good read and unfortunately accurate. Summized by this quote: “A decade that began with the “reality” television craze exemplified by “American Idol” and “Survivor” — both blissfully devoid of any reality whatsoever — spiraled into a wholesale flight from truth.”
The Top 10 Everything of 2009 - TIME →
I particularly like the Editorial Cartoons, Pictures, and Underreported Stories.
Pepsi pulls out of Super Bowl advertising, ending... →
“Pepsi’s Super Bowl streak is over after a 23-year run.
Ads for the drinks won’t appear in next year’s Super Bowl on CBS. Instead, the company plans to shift ad dollars to a new marketing effort that’s mostly online.”
5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year –... →
If you’ve ever used the expression “a picture is worth a thousand words,” you should enjoy good data visualization. Some people just presume ‘data’ is a geek thing. Data is what amounts to knowledge, eventually, aided in large part by good translation and representation to give meaning - thus the importance of visualization. Take a look at these.
The Best and the Worst Tech of the Decade -... →
I agree, for the most part. These are based on some informal polling of “O’Reilly editors, authors, Friends, and a number of industry movers and shakers.”
Google URL Shortener →
Wonder when Google will make this public. I can see them toting security and analytics as benefits to usage.
WatchOh. My. God. I had never heard of this (‘cash gifting’). I can’t believe this exists and is real. What a ridiculous scam. “YouTube’s Shadiest Money Makers (Viral Video Film School)” via urlesque.
The Do-It-Yourself Economy →
“Strange times: The Great Recession and Great Inflection are making our companies ultralean, innovative and productive. But with credit still constricted, we’re like a superfit track star with a weak heart. We’ve got to get credit pumping to our industrial muscles again.”
Wind Mobile Ruling Will Rattle Industry →
“It does open a pandora’s box,” said Michael Hennessy, senior VP for regulatory and government affairs at Telus. “By approving Globalive, without any changes at all to its ownership structure, they have set – perhaps unintentionally – a precedent that impacts telecom, broadcasting, and I suspect banking and airlines in this country. It’s actually huge. They said...
Who Is Getting Rich Off the iPhone? | GigaOM →
Take a guess….
Google Building Augmented Reality Search for... →
Point and click access to knowledge about your surroundings.
Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label? - NYTimes.com →
Valérie Boyer, a member of Frances parliament, has proposed that all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched. I think it’s a great idea - why not face the truth?
Getting a Tiger out of the Woods | com.motion →
A look at the volume of discussion and the sentiment online around Tiger Woods and his recent issues.