Monthly Archives: November 2009

Daring Fireball’s wishful thinking

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

I totally understand where John Gruber is coming from with his post on “The OS Opportunity“. The problem is that there’s a whole lot of wishful thinking in there. First of all, go read John’s post. Rather than try and … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-11-19

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Evan Williams | evhead: Why Retweet works the way it does (tags: twitter) Backgrounder on Local Loop Unbundling in the UK : Digital-Lifestyles (tags: comms broadband LLU UK telecoms) Your Twitter Karma (tags: twitter tools social web2.0 tool statistics socialnetworking … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-11-14

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

How to upgrade your PlayStation 3 hard drive – Features at GameSpot (tags: upgrade hardware drive hd ps3)

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Joe Hewitt gets it totally wrong on the demise of Internet middle men

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Joe Hewitt: “The Internet has been incredibly empowering to creators, and just as destructive to middle men” Tell that to Amazon, which is the ultimate middle-man for books. Or Apple, the biggest middle man for music. Or Google, the information … Continue reading →

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Is the App Store heading for legal trouble?

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Fraser Speirs thinks yes, and I think he might be right. Last year I posed a simple question: “But what happens if Apple’s market share grows to the point where it has a monopoly – 70-, 80- or even 90% … Continue reading →

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Mark Cuban sums up why Rupert Murdoch doesn’t care about Google

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

In the comments to his points on why ““Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all“, Mark Cuban gives the best summary about why all the traffic that Google brings to News Corp isn’t worth … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-11-08

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Google unveils protocol for an interplanetary internet I fucking love things like this – real forward thinking about the problems of tomorrow, today. (tags: space internet vintcerf google)

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Daring Fireball Linked List: Dan Frommer on the Lack of Consistency Between Android Phones

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Daring Fireball Linked List: Dan Frommer on the Lack of Consistency Between Android Phones: “The Droid has multi-touch support in the OS, but doesn’t use it in the UI. “ Why is it that in every post about Android, John … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-11-05

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Rogers Wireless Launch LG Eve (GW620 / Etna) Android Phone Looking forward to seeing this one in the flesh. LG make good hardware, but have always been let down for me by mediocre software. The combination of LG hardware plus … Continue reading →

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Twitter scam, or… what?

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Does anyone know what the point of this is? It looks like lots of Twitter accounts (bots?) reposting exactly the same message. There’s no links to anything. If you go to their pages, there’s no dodgy links either. So what’s … Continue reading →

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