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Jun 29
Rumor has it that the company (Google) is gearing up for another big push in the space, less than five months after the public launch of Buzz. According to Inside Facebook, three days ago, Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted, “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon ‘Google Me,’ very credible source.” That tweet has since disappeared.
Ex-Facebook Exec Backs ‘Google Me’ Social Network Rumors
Finally some possible competition to Facebook.
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Jun 29
Documents recently unsealed in a three-year-old lawsuit against Dell show that the company’s employees were actually aware that the computers were likely to break. Still, the employees tried to play down the problem to customers and allowed customers to rely on trouble-prone machines, putting their businesses at risk. Even the firm defending Dell in the lawsuit was affected when Dell balked at fixing 1,000 suspect computers, according to e-mail messages revealed in the dispute.
In Suit Over Faulty Computers, Window to Dell’s Fall - NYTimes.com
Apple needs some competition, its unfortunate that Dell has stagnated to this. I guess there’s always Lenovo, Sony and HP*.
* As far as I’m concerned HP is the only viable competitor in Dell’s price point, but I’m not a fan yet. Hopefully WebOS changes this.
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Jun 28
“Apple of My Eye” - an iPhone 4 film (by Michael Koerbel)
A short film filmed and edited using the iPhone 4.
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Jun 28
16 million Total subscribers to largest 25 US daily newspapers.
14 Million Total number of Netflix subscribers.
23 million Total number of Xbox Live subscribers.
Microsoft putting their metrics into perspective (with linked sources). The quoted metrics are the ones most interesting to me, but there are more on the linked blog post. Another interesting one showed how Linux’s server market share dropped to 21.2% in Q4 2009.
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Jun 27
Flickr Revamps Photo Pages with Bigger Images, Easier Navigation
http://lifehacker.com/5571630/flickr-revamps-photo-pages-with-bigger-images-e...About time, I don’t understand how such a popular photo sharing site, had such a bad UI for so long.
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