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Archive for November 28th, 2009

So I finally tried Wave… (Paul Buchheit)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Paul Buchheit:
So I finally tried Wave…  Last week, TechCrunch published a story about me not yet trying Google Wave (”Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever.  And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave”).  The is apparently unacceptable, or as one commenter put it, “Paul may have been trying to be cool and ironic …

Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo  —  Over the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare, a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball.  Some of them will literally pull out their phones …

ARM Aka Apple Rejected Me Is The New ‘fmylife’ For iPhone Developers (Alexander Vaughn/App Advice)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
ARM Aka Apple Rejected Me Is The New ‘fmylife’ For iPhone Developers  —  AppleRejectedMe is to iPhone developers what fmylife.com is to frustrated teenagers.  Basically the idea is to: … The website is still new and doesn’t have much funny stories yet.  Nonetheless it’s an interesting concept …

Xbox 360 iPlayer launch delayed indefinitely (Emma Barnett/Telegraph)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Xbox 360 iPlayer launch delayed indefinitely  —  Xbox 360 owners will have to keep waiting for the iPlayer to launch on the platform as talks between parent companies, Microsoft and the BBC, hit a “stumbling block”.  —  According to sources close to the BBC’s Future Media and Technology department …

Apple Starts Field Testing Next Generation iPhone (3,1) (Arn/MacRumors)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Starts Field Testing Next Generation iPhone (3,1)  —  iPhone developer Pandav has informed MacRumors that they have spotted usage records for an unreleased iPhone in their app’s analytics.  The app used was iBART [Free / Paid], a public transportation guide for the San Francisco train system.

Winner’s Curse: Why Losing A B-School Biz Plan Competition Is Better Than Winning (Vivek Wadhwa/TechCrunch)

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Winner’s Curse: Why Losing A B-School Biz Plan Competition Is Better Than Winning  —  One of the best things about being an academic is being able to mold young minds and guide them to success.  When one of my students, Andrew Leblanc told me he was entering the Duke Startup Challenge […]