February 2012
“What’s perhaps even more striking is that the greatest arch rival of a billion...”
– Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB | TorrentFreak
“The other question that has to come up is this: Why hasn’t Apple set the flag...”
– Path’s Address Book Mistake Shows an Apple Problem
“But Path is far from alone in its transgressions. We’ve heard from developers,...”
– Path’s Address Book Mistake Shows an Apple Problem
“The other obvious misstep here is on Apple’s part. Flame me if you will, but...”
– Path’s Address Book Mistake Shows an Apple Problem
“PEOPLE DON’T WANT ANSWERS, THEY WANT REPORTS”
– Wolfram Alpha Pro democratizes data analysis: an in-depth look at the $4.99 a month service | The Verge
DEPRESSION, POT AND HOW HE GOT THROUGH IT
While Pitt’s star ascended with 1992’s A River Runs Through It, 1994’s Legends of the Fall and 1995’s Seven, his personal life declined.“I got really sick of myself at the end of the 1990s: I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut; and I really got irritated with myself,” he says. “I got to: ‘What’s the point? I know better than this.’ ” Pitt wrestled with dark thoughts: “I used to deal with depression, but I don’t now, not this decade — maybe last decade. But that’s also figuring out who you are. I see it as a great education, as one of the seasons or a semester: ‘This semester I was majoring in depression.’ I was doing the same thing every night and numbing myself to sleep — the same routine: Couldn’t wait to get home and hide out. But that feeling of unease was growing and one night I just said, ‘This is a waste.’
“When we first investigated this phenomenon in 2009, we discovered that photos...”
– Over 3 years later, “deleted” Facebook photos are still online
“They don’t improve rankings in any meaningful way, and to the extent that...”
– Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine
“Not once during those years did I get to a Google results page and lament that I...”
– Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine
“But I’ve got a better idea altogether: How about not including stuff from my...”
– Google social search: The tech giant’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results. - Slate Magazine
“And, on top of that, that the company behind the site would make a grand profit...”
– Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? - Slate Magazine
“Indeed, you don’t have to think back too far—probably to 2005 or so—to get to a...”
– Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? - Slate Magazine
“Facebook, is made out of people!”
– Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? - Slate Magazine
“By contrast, Facebook’s all-encompassing mission to “make the world more open...”
– Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? - Slate Magazine
“Facebook is the strangest Internet company ever to make it big.”
– Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? - Slate Magazine
“Always double down on 11. Always.”
– For Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches - NYTimes.com
January 2012
“For years, it’s been easy to praise Google for being a friend to open source,...”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“There is no greater power in the world than an idea whose time has come”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“With Azure, we make money from compute and storage and bandwidth”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“In the past, businesses paid companies like Microsoft for software and loaded it...”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“For Ramji — who would spend more than three and a half years as the company’s...”
– Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
“Don’t read my book at the exclusion of Walter Isaacson’s biography about Steve...”
– Adam Lashinsky on peeling back Apple’s skin - Ideas@Innovations - The Washington Post
“According to an unredacted court filing made public in the civil litigation on...”
– Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers | Reuters
“This agreement may have major consequences on the lives of our citizens, and yet...”
– 22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA
“And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
“You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
“If they committed to building a conflict-free iPhone, it would transform...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
“There is a genuine, companywide commitment to the code of conduct. But taking it...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
“If it were terribly difficult to deal with aluminum dust, I would understand....”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com