December 2011
14 posts
Why Buy The Cow For $1.2 Billion When You Can Get... →
This would be great.
parislemon:
VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar reports not only that HP was trying to sell webOS for $1.2 billion (the same price HP paid to get all of Palm just last year), but that Facebook was one suitor they met with.
While Hardawar cites a source saying that this deal “was practically laughed out of the room”, I wouldn’t totally put the idea of webOS and Facebook to...
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A New Model of Empathy: The Rat →
It seems no-longer appropriate to call unconscionable behavior rat-like.
In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater...
10% of this year's Sundance selections raised... →
Flipboard for iPhone →
parislemon:
I think my favorite thing about Flipboard for iPhone is that it’s not a simple port of their iPad app. They definitely could have gotten away with that since their iPad app is brilliant. But the form factor and the use case of the iPhone is different. That’s obvious to say, but it’s surprising how many developers seem to ignore that.
Flipboard for iPhone is a revelation in beauty...
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) →
minimalmac:
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the...