Conde Nast ready for the mythical Apple Tablet - Holy Kaw!
So maybe it doesn’t exist. But maybe it does. Either way, Conde Nast is geared up for the rumored Apple Tablet. The magazine giant says it will have a digital verson of Wired ready by mid-2010, the first of 18 more magazine titles Conde Nast designs to digitize.
It's clear that the company has to deal with its dual identity as a social-news pioneer struggling to compete with Facebook and Twitter, and a Slashdot-like fanboy hub. .
Finally, a step-by-step guide to solve that age-old mystery, the Rubik’s cube. You Can Do the Cube shows the strategy of making those panels match in just six stages. If you get good at it, it’s a pretty cool party trick, too.
CatPaint for iPhone Single-Pawedly Justifies the Existence of the App Store - Catpaint - Gizmodo
Within seconds of installing CatPaint, I felt like the Matisse of adding cats to photos. Within minutes, I was Leonardo da goddamn Vinci. Sometimes the best apps are the simplest, and CatPaint is nothing if not simple. Cats can be added to preexisting photos or cat-scarce shots from the iPhone's camera, and either saved to your camera roll or sent via email.
So long suggested users! Don’t let the Fail Whale whack you on the way out!
Caving to pressure, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced this week that the micro-blogging site will do away with the controversial list. Speaking at a conference in Malaysia, Stone said, “That list will be going away, in its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that ac...
Who will people follow now that the Twitter Suggest User list is biting the dust? Here are three sources that are helpful. Twitter Grader
Twitalyzer
TweetLevel
If you have nothing better to do and want to see something interesting, try comparing who are the most followed people and who’s on these lists.
Scientific American has announced the ten winners of the bioscapes photo content. The contest theme was light microscopy, as the technology is nearing its millenial anniversary. It was in 1011 that Arab scientist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) began writing the Book of Optics, which described the properties of a magnifying glass, principles that later led to the invention of the microscope.
Jolicloud Steps Up Its Game As Pre-Launch Excitement For Chrome OS Builds
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets.
Techmeme: The OS Opportunity — A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled … (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
John Gruber / Daring Fireball :
The OS Opportunity — A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled “Herd Mentality”, I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes: … Hardware and software both matter, and Apple's history shows that there's a good argument to be made for developing integrated hardware and software.
[. . . ] broken the social contract by over promoting ourselves and our companies to such an extent that no one really trusts what we have to say about ourselves anymore. So they look to who we are friends with, who we promote, and what we say and do toward [.
While I just read this over at All Things Digital I am still scratching my head (which means I am typing with just one hand, so if this reads slow you’ll know why). AOL tends to be in the news in the past year or so more about whether the business will survive and how will it look when it is pushed out of the Time Warner nest officially in December.
Demand Satisfaction! » Get Satisfaction Salesforce App Ready for Download
Do you use Salesforce? A lot of companies do. Now, you can use it in conjunction with Get Satisfaction. That’s right, it’s announcement time. We’ve been working with CustomWare , a company that integrates collaborative technologies, to develop a Salesforce app, and we’re happy to report that it’s now done.
Last month here on ProBlogger we ran a community review on a reader’s blog. I posted a link to a blog with some comments from the blogger and then opened it up for readers of ProBlogger to review it.
VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: A Friendly Suggestion to Our Competitor
I'm all about getting new business, but we've tried to steer clear of
going after our competitor's customers because we think there are
enough businesses out there that need email marketing services. I will also say I don't think it's wrong to go after a
competitor's customer either.
Looking to take it to the hoop in management? How about taking a look at the NFL instead? The Business Insider has identified six tranferrable lessons from the world of football to management. I especially appreciated:
- Figure out what motivates each employeee.
How to have a tasty vegetarian Thankgiving - Holy Kaw!
Put that tofurky down! Vegetarian Thanksgiving doesn't have to a poulty-shaped piece of beancurd to be interesting. In fact, it can be vibrant and tasty, and NPR shows you how. Last year, the radio station's web site published four scrumptious vegetarian recipes for the upcoming holidays:
- Mushroom and spinach galette
- Baked pumpkin with root vegetable stew
- Stuffed acorn squash
- Ve...
While Google made the announce of their new inclusion of site hierarchy to help searchers understand the context of a search result more clearly on Tuesday, it also stated that this will be seen globally over the next few days.