Pwning a cop car @ the Yankees parade (at Ann and Broadway)
New York City! Fuck Yeah!
Hi… Bi?
Bye… Hye?
Something seems wrong here.
The only company that was able to build an iPod killer was Apple… when they released the iPhone.
When put in those terms it’s so brilliantly obvious.
Apple switches from their Windows CE mobile terminals to a souped up iPod Touch, complete with a bar code scanner, card reader, and battery pack.
I’m still surprised more retail establishments haven’t adopted the mobile terminal idea. It’s dangerously easy to buy something from anywhere in the store at Apple. (Via Gizmodo)
I worked at an Apple Store for quite some time and the Windows CE mobile terminal was absolutely the worst part about my job. I hated it with a passion for being slow, unreliable, and having one of the worst typing interfaces ever - not to mention you had to use a pen.
So glad to see that Apple flipped the purpose of their own products around to provide this to their specialists. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they’ve already received a few calls from other retailers to provide them with this as well.
An interesting perspective on what the new Google Music Search really means. (For those that missed the news, “Now, when you enter a music-related query — like the name of a song, artist or album — your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners MySpace (which just acquired iLike) or Lala.”) Anyway, back to the interesting perspective:
Why should a song file from an “online retailer” come up first in search results instead of the band’s own web site? How fair is that? What is this going to do to online strategies for bands? I thought the Internet was supposed to create a level playing field? And, surely Google is going to be serving up ads on these pages. How will the ads appear in the search results and how does that money get split up?Google continues to run into this “evil” problem as they need to make tough decisions about what to prioritize, where. They’re treading a very fine line as a company that uses data we create and serves it back to us, increasingly rearranging not in their original vision (ranked in order of what we think is most relevant), but rather in order of what makes them the most money.
I agree, and do think that an artist’s homepage must be seen as the most authoritative page (even if not the most robust or informative) on the web and therefore at the top of Google’s search result.
This also made me think that Google’s approach to music is very similar to Microsoft Bing’s approach to other verticals, in that it promotes features powered by partners with a revenue opportunity on the back end.
If you agree, then Google is copying Microsoft which is often seen as evil and therefore Google truly is breaking their mission of “Do No Evil.
Currently watching this but I really like the term “Declasse Consumption”. Essentially saying that the display of wealth and possessions is seen as showy and over-the-top. More importantly this becomes UN-fashionable.
If discipline is the route to success then distractions and complaints are the scenic roads and outlet malls calling out your name.
