Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too) - Roger Ebert in Newsweek
Ebert outlines the heretic's case, saying: "I'm not opposed to 3-D as an option. I'm opposed to it as a way of life."
Antisocial Networking? - The New York Times
Social media sites like Facebook promote interaction, but are teens being diminished by a corresponding lack of real face-to-face interactions?
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook - rocket.ly
Dan Yoder says he's deleting his Facebook account for a variety of reasons such as privacy and it "doesn't (really) support the Open Web".
A Lost iPhone Shows Apple's Churlish Side - The New York Times
Apple normally gets an adoring press, but its recent actions over the lost iPhone, its "capricious" banning of iPad content, its "churlishness about Flash" etc etc "may lead us to think, um, differently about Apple's growing cultural dominance," warns David Carr.
10 Ways to track what people are saying about you on Twitter - 10,000 Words
Some you will know, if you tweet, but a few may be new...
Palm products through the years (photos) - CNET News
A simple gallery that might bring back a few happy memories. Or not.
More Apple controversies…
Steve Jobs's email about going after Theora and other "open source" codecs
Apple boss Steve Jobs has responded to an open letter to say that "A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other 'open source' codecs now." At least Jobs knows the difference between "open source" and "open standards".
Lead OGG Dev Responds to Jobs' Jabs - I' Been to Ubuntu
Quotes the views of "Xiph's Gregory Maxwell, the designer and lead dev of the OGG container and the Vorbis audio and Theora video codecs," and in passing explains why video patents are even worse than you thought.
Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs' letter on Flash - Ars Technica
John Sullivan, operations manager for the Free Software Foundation, agrees with Steve Jobs about the problems of being at the mercy of third parties, and thinks it would be better if users weren't at Apple's mercy because of it use of patents and proprietary technologies.
Steve Jobs HTML5 web experience on the iPad - YouTube
iBrent says: "Here I showcase a number of HTML5 websites on the iPad. This is the web experience Steve Jobs wants us to have. Awesome!" I can't tell if he's being sarcastic or not, but can Flash apps written for the iPad be any worse than this?
Platform Control - Mark Bernstein
"This is the key to modern Apple. It's a big company, and it's now wildly successful. It assumes that it can write a successful software product in any niche. It's very talented and very confident. But always, at the back of its collective mind, is fear — the fear of depending on the kindness and competence of others.."
'Let's give Steve a blog' - ex-Appler Chuq von Rospach on his brilliant idea
"I was sitting in a conference room with a bunch of people — PR, marketing, legal, the usual suspects. We were hashing out ideas for creating new channels for marketing and how to get our message out into the public eye and seen. At one point I spoke up and I said I knew how to create a marketing system that the entire universe would read. The room shut up, of course. 'Let's give Steve a blog.'"
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