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Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:34:06 +0000

Amid all the chatter about Apple’s fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future.

Are Facebook Ads Going to Zero? Lookery Lowers Its Guarantee to 7.5-Cent CPMs

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:37:10 +0000

How worthless are these ads? Lookery, an ad network for social apps on Facebook and elsewhere, is renewing a promotion, guaranteeing 15 cents per thousand page impressions to app developers who sign up. With two ads per page, that comes to 7.5 cents per thousand ad impressions (CPMs). Back in January, Lookery was offering 12.5 cents per ad impression. So that means Lookery has cut its ad rates nearly in half.

'Dark Knight' sets weekend record with $155.34M

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:15:27 +0000

"The Dark Knight" took in a record $155.34 million in its first weekend, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for "Spider-Man 3" in May 2007 and pacing Hollywood to its biggest weekend ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.

One Hard Mario Stage

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:32:06 +0000

If you don't have timing, you don't have game.

The Ten Worst Movies Ever Made

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:39:25 +0000

After being forced to watch The Love Guru recently, I was appalled at the dreadful depths to which onscreen entertainment has fallen. The trashiness that saturates the programs offered for our viewing makes me feel physically ill—and secretly intrigued. I dug deep into the dark, hairy underbelly of Hollywood to uncover some of the other most tasteless, atrocious, and unprofitable films ever made.

10 Things You Don’t Know About Women: Kim Cattrall

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:40:05 +0000

The Sex and the City actress wants you to know it’s about an inch from where you think it is. And nine other things you don’t know about women.

iPhone 3G now all but sold out in 38 states

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:40:34 +0000

With the iPhone 3G not even ten days old, virtually all of the Apple retail store stores open within the United States are without any examples of the device to sell on July 21st.

Social Engineering 101: Mitnick and other hackers show how it's done

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:23 +0000

As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering--manipulating people into doing what you want, such as giving out passwords and other information that unlocks sensitive information on networks.

80 Graphic Design Links You Can’t Live Without

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:45:09 +0000

Doesn't get more comprehensive than this.

Cosmo's Most Creative Sex Positions Ever

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:45:50 +0000

Chances are, when you and your guy are about to get it on, you make a beeline for the bed. Now we're not knocking between-the-sheets sex, but you can make your intimate encounters even more intoxicating by moving them beyond the boudoir.

15 Dazzling Multi Monitor Setups You Wish You Were Viewing This With

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:47:40 +0000

If you have ever used a computer that had more than one monitor or a computer with a very big monitor attached to it, it’s hard to go back to using just one little monitor.

Now imagine using one of the huge gigantic multi monitor setups below. Going back to even two or three monitors would feel extremely small in comparison.

NBC gives Fallon webisodes to hone his late-night chops

Scrivs — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:10:50 +0000

Jimmy Fallon, the American "comic" perhaps best known for thinking himself so funny on Saturday Night Live that he routinely cracked up at his own lines, isn't content with just profaning remakes of films like Fever Pitch; he's also slated to get his own late-night slot on NBC next year when Conan O'Brien takes over Jay Leno's Tonight Show spot. But NBC isn't tossing him out into the living rooms of America without some time spent first in the minor leagues—in this case, the web.

Free is only good if someone else is paying for it

Xiarria — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:37:55 +0000

Everyone wants to give everything away for free. Thats the way the internet should work, right ? Wrong. Let me change the conventional wisdom a little bit with this:

Free is only good if someone else is paying for it.

10 Ways to Inspire Trust as a Leader

Xiarria — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:42:09 +0000

Most leaders would like to see themselves as basically trustworthy. To find out that people don’t trust us or question our integrity can be devastating and difficult to accept. If you’ve gotten this feedback, or suspect people do not trust you, here are some relatively simple things you can do to inspire trust.

Atari Creator Says Games Fertile Ground for Marketers

Xiarria — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:42:58 +0000

Nolan Bushnell, who as the father of Atari is considered by many to be the godfather of video games, believes every advertiser should have a significant amount of money targeted at the casual video-gaming space. Mr. Bushnell now serves as chairman of the board for NeoEdge, which created the NeoArm ad-enabling technology and the NeoAds advertising network.

Should you fire the voice mail guy?

Tyme — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:13:02 +0000

The CEO would notice the angry crowds in front of the store, she'd notice the police being called and the riot out front if the person in charge of the front doors was such a jester. But voice mail trees are invisible and the CEO doesn't notice them. She should.

Which comes first (why stories matter)

Tyme — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:14:36 +0000

Most of the time we do the work. The work is our initiative and our reactions and our responses and our output. The work is the decisions we make and the people we hire.

The work is what people talk about, because it's what we experience. In other words, the work tells a story.

But what if you haven't figured out a story yet?

OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:19:55 +0000

The service resolves about 7 billion DNS queries per day and serves about 2 million search pages per day. Revenue from search pages brings in as much as $20,000 per day. They currently work exclusively with Yahoo, Ulevitch says.

Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:21:51 +0000

Motorola is suing a former executive now employed by Apple's iPhone sales division, charging him with the theft of trade secrets.

The New Flextime: Summers Off?

Tyme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:57:15 +0000

In reporting this little ditty, I learned that more women at consulting shops like Deloitte and Touche and Ernst and Young were slicing and dicing their schedules so as to take the summers off to spend with their kids.

Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains

Tyme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:16:45 +0000

A class-action lawsuit alleges that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions.

53 Year Old Norman leads British Open

liza — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:47:24 +0000

Maybe golf can be exciting without Tiger. At least Norman has made it interesting.

There's something about GINA

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:11:39 +0000

GINA is about being remarkable. And being remarkable, whether it be in the domains of design, engineering or marketing, takes guts... It's about guts, in other words, and GINA is an tangible expression of those held by the brave folks from Munich.

Japan's automakers focus on weight loss, one ounce at a time

Menthos — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:30:21 +0000

Automakers across the globe are in a frenzy to produce highly efficient, fuel saving vehicles that remain relatively inexpensive, yet still offering the modern conveniences and safety features consumers have grown to expect. While development on advanced drivetrains is going strong at almost every automaker, Japan's big four (Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda) realize that performance and efficiency gains aren't the exclusive purview of what's under the hood.

How to organize posts into two side-by-side columns in Wordpress

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:33:13 +0000

I recently received an email asking for some Wordpress advice on making posts show up in columns just like on 9antivirus.com and thought I’d share one way of doing this.

I’ve set up a demo blog showing how it looks after the code is implemented.

Apple's walled garden

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:09:49 +0000

Nik over at TechCrunch wrote a post yesterday where he wondered why people who love open systems and open source are willing to wait in line for an iPhone 3G which is one of the most closed systems ever. And why they're willing to use software from the Apple store, a store you can't get into if Apple doesn't want you there. These are good questions.

AT&T offers iPhone owners free access to 17,000 WiFi hotspots

Xiarria — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:20:33 +0000

After months of confusion and a couple of false starts, AT&T formally announced Friday that iPhone owners in the United States can now access free of charge its nation-leading Wi-Fi network comprised of more than 17,000 hotspots.

Github - (social) code hosting with Git

hthth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:37:20 +0000

Github is a code host based around the Git version control system. There is a free 100mb option and then paid services up to 10GB. Wiki n' stuff included in all plans.

Comcast customers: are your emails going missing?

Tyme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:59:39 +0000

It turns out that the IP address of my Comcast cable modem-- which had been the same for several months-- is in a range of addresses that is listed on several major email blacklists. That is, some email services regard email from many (or most?) Comcast customers as more likely to be spam. This may be old news to many of you, but as I said, I found it very surprising, and I bet a lot of other Comcast customers aren't aware of it.

Apple filing takes Podcasts to the next level

Tyme — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:10:59 +0000

A recently published filing discovered by AppleInsider reveals work by Apple's chief software architect to advance the Podcast beyond its static form and into a live interactive presentation medium suitable for use by educational institutes and businesses for their daily presentations.

Yeah of course it's about the oil and that's all it's about

Tyme — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:39 +0000

Imagine Obama looking into the camera saying "Fuck it, we all know why Bush and McCain want to stay in Iraq. All this talk about waiting for this or that to happen -- it's all bullshit, they know it, I know it, the press knows it, and if you think about it you know it too."

Apple sues clone maker Psystar

Tyme — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:36:58 +0000

Apple has sued Psystar, the company that for months has been selling the Open Computer, a Mac clone.

Should You Rent or Buy Social Real Estate?

Tyme — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:18:40 +0000

Investing time on Twitter, on the other hand, truly is starting to feel like renting. When the landlord is doing a good job, everyone is happy. When the landlord is negligent, the tenants get testy and threaten to move. I now view Twitter like a summer rental that you hope doesn't get hit by a hurricane while my blog is casa de Steve.

Watchmen teaser trailer! (!!!11!!11)

hthth — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:20:25 +0000

The first Watchmen teaser trailer is out — now we'll just have to contain our geeking out until March 2009. What's your verdict?

AI, Game AI and apparent intelligences

hthth — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:44:26 +0000

Game AI does not equal AI. That's why we add the game prefix.