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Yummy.

Peter — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:35:00 +0000

The mythological Apple Tablet. I want one real bad.

Microsoft Now Even More Irrelevant.

Peter — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:01:00 +0000

Click the pic to see the full-size render of the Google Wave inbox. Looking at this, it’s easy to see the web app platform really evolving mainstream software interactivity and delivery. John Gage at Sun Microsystems famously said “The Network Is The Computer” back in the day — here’s a wonderful example of what he may have been talking about.

Email Standards Project.

Peter — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:53:00 +0000

The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. The project was formed out of frustration with the inconsistent rendering of HTML emails in major email clients.

UPDATE – Microsoft is listening! Take a look – it sounds as though Outlook may make it into rehab after all!

Facebook’s Flaw: Humans.

Peter — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:52:00 +0000

Great article on the nuances of social networking, titled How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook, by Cory Doctorow (co-author of the Boing Boing blog)…

Facebook is no paragon of virtue. It bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: “So-and-so has sent you a message.” Yeah, what is it? Facebook isn’t telling — you have to visit Facebook to find out, generate a banner impression, and read and write your messages using the halt-and-lame Facebook interface, which lags even end-of-lifed email clients like Eudora for composing, reading, filtering, archiving and searching. Emails from Facebook aren’t helpful messages, they’re eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to discover that Fred wrote “Hi again!” on your “wall.” Like other “social” apps (cough eVite cough), Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know something, I know something, I know something, won’t tell you what it is!”

Best Spam Ever.

Peter — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:35:00 +0000

There are so many things about this one that I love. Click it to see full size. Trouser python? Moons of Saturn? His/her Royal Highness will attend, so I guess it’s all good. Don’t despond, order Megadik today.

- main opposition leader.

Too old for MySpace?

Peter — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:55:00 +0000

Everyone likes to belong, and that is one of the powerful forces of the Internet. Where once your service provider was your identifying online “community,” today’s equivalents are online social networks like Second Life, Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

What’s a career-minded grown-up to do amid such Internet playgrounds? [read more]
from International Herald Tribune

Apple’s $3000 iPhone.

Peter — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:03:00 +0000

By Sinead Carew Tue Jun 26, 4:11 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc. said on Tuesday its hotly anticipated iPhone could cost as much as $3,000 with a required two-year service contract, but a handful of eager fans still lined up early to spend their money.

A small clutch of gadget enthusiasts staked out spots in front of Apple’s store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, days before the iPhone goes on sale on Friday evening 6 p.m. local time.

Plenty of potential iPhone consumers have said they would wait for Apple’s next versions of the device to buy it, hoping for a lower price and faster network connection.

But industry analysts expect the first iPhone to sell quickly, at least in its initial months. Jessica Rodriguez, a 24-year-old student from the Bronx, seems to agree with them.

“I love everything Apple, and this is going to be something that goes down in the history books of cell phones,” she told Reuters. [more]