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Originally found on Google plus, posted by Eric Tecayehuatl. I can’t find the original in the Joy Of Tech archives, though.
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My favorite is the Microsoft one. You could almost just copy and paste for Sony.
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The Fallacy of Mobile App vs Web.:
The problem I have is that the entire argument is stupid. Most of the apps I use on a regular basis are just front-faces for the web anyway. Use Facebook app, a Twitter client, maps or weather? They are all just front ends to web apps. Even email clients are just a front face on data and information from the web. So where do you draw the line?
(A hint: there isn’t one. This is just another fabricated argument to give us tech nerds something to argue about.)
I will disagree, but only slightly.
My most-used apps are those that do more than just front the web for me, they also give me access to data even when the web is not available. Developers have been lax in creating really useful caching abilities in many apps because there’s this idea that people are only using their devices at home on the couch or maybe at work. Well, yes, because they’re not terribly useful on the go.
Unless you have mobile connectivity, but even then that won’t help you on a plane, in a subway, or out where the 3G don’t shine. Plus, given that Wi-Fi only tablets are much less expensive than their 3G/4G counterparts and don’t come with an expensive data plan (which you may be locked into for 2 years), a huge chunk of the audience isn’t going to be always connected.
I think mobile App vs. Web is a good discussion to have when you think about the advantages mobile apps have int hat they can serve up data even when there’s no connection. How to convince developers that this is something they need to think about? That I can’t answer.
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Browser Wars by shoze
Seriously, I cant fault anybody for using Firefox in lieu of Chrome, even though it is the clearly superior product but if you’re using Internet Explorer still…. really? I question how you’re capable of dressing yourself in the morning.
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Chrome would maybe be superior if it had the extensions Firefox has. I can’t do my work with Chrome’s skimpy extensions and tons of useless apps.
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“Nuts for Nintendo”, an ABC News 20/20 special from 1988
John Stossel and his mustache take an in depth look at this “Nintendo” craze that all the kids were about in the 1980s.
You know, there really should be a word for that stupid, condescending tone that reporters and newscasters like to use whenever talking about anything newfangled or related to science, technology, video games or whatever teenagers are into. That tone that tells their old people viewers that “We don’t really get it and don’t really care to”.
There has to be a word for that tone. If there isn’t, we need to create it.
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ELEMENTS OF EXISTENCE (by Nick Gentry)Nice!
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The publishers of all-volunteer local news blog Rockville Central made an unusual leap in March: They bagged their traditional Web site and instead moved their operation entirely to Facebook. The Post’s Ian Shapira chronicled their decision and what it could mean to the media industry. Though the blog has a relatively small reach, their gambit poses a question for the broader media industry. Are journalism outlets taking best advantage of Facebook? Will the role of social networking sites continue to grow when it comes to content aggregation and distribution?
Shapira’s account of the decision is here. And below, Rockville Central’s publishers explain how the maintenance and mechanics of their work has changed since they went all Facebook, all the time.
“Rockville Central: Day to day maintenance”
By Cindy Cotte Griffiths and Brad Rourke
Since we shifted from being a standalone Web site to being all-Facebook, we still have many of the same basic chores to perform to keep content running, but we go about them in a slightly different way.
One change with using Facebook is that things we used to schedule ahead of time now need to be done at publishing time. So, instead of Brad scheduling the week’s “POTD’s” (Picture Of The Day) and letting them publish on their own, on Sunday afternoon Brad will gather the week’s photos and write a Note for each one, saving it as a draft. Then, around 6 each morning, Brad will take that day’s POTD Note and publish it. (Our rules for POTD: The photos must be taken fairly recently, within the Rockville city limits.)
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