Category: Quick Posts
Ars Technica – iPhone 4s out October 14, beefier specs, same body
Nice bump to an awesome phone.
Ars Technica – Report: iTunes beta suggests app rentals may be in iOS’s future
A rental system would be nice, I hate buying apps that I try out and then get rid of.
FeeFighters – FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post
I’ve always felt the Better Business Bureau was a little scammy, nice to know they can’t take criticism as well.
NYTimes.com – Corporations Getting New Tools for Calculating Emissions
I would be skeptical of any tool able to reasonably estimate this in a meaningful way, just too many differences across the whole ecosystem of every product from the original ore being mined to manufacturing to shipping to use by the end user.
Macworld – The App Culture
This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alleviates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.
NYTimes.com – Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants
Oh yeah, right now is starting to look like a bad deal.
Ars Technica – Verizon sues to halt FCC’s net neutrality rules
How about the uncertainty for businesses to know if next month they’ll have to pay fees to not have their sites arbitrarily slowed down?
ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The second (maybe even third) great migration from Delicious is in effect only this time since exporting is broken, people are even more upset.
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
Computerworld – Chrome poised to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
Can’t say I’m that shocked Google has been doing really awesome work with Chrome.