Blog Profile / Daring Fireball
| URL : | http://daringfireball.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Internet | |
| Posts on Regator: | 10967 | |
| Posts / Week: | 41 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Paris Time Capsule Apartment
Messy Nessy: The owner of this apartment, Mrs. De Florian left Paris just before the rumblings of World War II broke out in Europe. She closed up her shutters and left for the South of France, never to return to the city again. Seven decades later she passed away at he age of 91. Show More Summary
Android and Security
Chris Nerney, CITEworld: So security is the main reason why Android trails Apple’s iOS in he enterprise mobile market, even as it dominates in the consumer space, and clearly Google bears the greatest responsibility for Android’s vulnerabilities. Zero evidence of this assertion in the article. Show More Summary
SpaceX Grasshopper 250-Meter Test Flight
Amazing video; so good and so cool it almost looks fake. ?
19-Year-Old Entrepreneur Who Claimed to Have Sold 10 Percent Stake in Her Future Salary Looks Like a Hoax
Taylor Soper, GeekWire: But soon after publishing, we became suspicious. Pretty sure that’s the wrong order. ?
Identity Crisis, Indeed
Jessica Lessin, writing for the WSJ. Headline and sub-head: “Apple Has an Identity Crisis: Is It a Hardware Company or a Software Firm?” It’s not Apple that is confused. It’s investors. They could have run this headline/subhead at any point in the last 37 years. ?
Unbiased Source, Right There
Third paragraph from Jungah Lee’s report for Bloomberg, “LG Display Profit Misses Estimates on Stalling Apple Sales”: “Apple is losing dominance and will likely delay launching a successor to the iPhone 5 until at least September,” Harrison Cho, an analyst for Seoul-based Samsung Securities Co., said before the earnings release. Show More Summary
Ads on iPhone Worth More Than Ads on Android, Film at Duh O’Clock
MarketWatch: The iPhone monthly ad share grew 12 percent in the first quarter of this year and now accounts for more than 50 percent of mobile ad spending, according to the report released Thursday by MoPub, a mobile ad exchange that allows app publishers and advertisers to engage in bidding for advertisements. Show More Summary
It Can’t All Be True
Min-Jeong Lee, reporting for the WSJ: LG Display Co. swung to a net profit in the first quarter as ablet screen sales to Apple Inc. increased, and analysts said the South Korean display maker’s fortunes this year will be closely ied to demand for the U.S. Show More Summary
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ExitJunction: Scumbags Who Hijack Your Back Button History
Real shocker that TG Daily, the site that publishes Rob Enderle’s jackassery, would embed JavaScript in their pages from a company that hijacks your Back button. Reminds me of Tynt, the copy/paste jerks. A solution for Safari users: Drew Thaler’s JavaScript Blacklist extension. Show More Summary
New Yahoo Weather App for iPhone
Yet another really nice weather app, and a clever use of Flickr. I’d say synergy if the word hadn’t been co-opted by dumb people trying to sound important. ?
Jackassapalooza
Philip Elmer-DeWitt on the “Apple should fire Tim Cook” nonsense being floated: Make no mistake, the people who want Tim Cook’s head on a spike are not friends of Apple. As far as I know, he still has the deep respect of the analysts...Show More Summary
Iconic Bites
Susan Kare, still at the top of the pixel-art game. ?
Chum, All Right
Dan Lyons: I’ve also spent the past few years writing “articles” that were less and less interesting — they were basically just SEO chum hrown out onto the internet in hopes of catching traffic. No shit. ?
Philly Turns Skyscraper Into Video Game Screen for Tech Week
Frank Seward, writing for NPR’s All Tech Considered: Frank Lee is the man behind this gigantic version of Pong. He’s a professor at Drexel University and the co-founder of the school’s Game Design Program. Spectators gathered about a half-mile away to watch from the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Show More Summary
Jackass or Genius?
Do me a favor. Read Rob Enderle’s latest column. Think about it. Serious question: Is he really this much of an idiot, or, is he a sublimely masterful troll? I honestly can’t tell. ?
Bono on Jony Ive
Writing for the Time 100: What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money. Jony is Obi-Wan. His team are Jedi whose nobility depends on the pursuit of greatness overShow More Summary
More Facebook Home Ads
Josh Elman, writing on Medium: Facebook is celebrating all the wrong things. It advocates tuning out the people around you to see what else is happening that must be more interesting elsewhere. It foments FOMO. And it makes Facebook Home look like the best possible way to be the least present. ?
Pretty Sure Twitter Didn’t ‘Forget’ Anything
“Kellex”, writing for Droid Life, “Twitter Launches Music Service, Continues to Forget That Android Exists”: Twitter made their new music service official this morning with an announcement and then release on…iOS. As you can tell, and...Show More Summary