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22 Jul 2010 11:30

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Tech: Flipboard proves that early success can really suck sometimes

  • Some of our engineers have slept only 3 hours in the last 48. We want to make Flipboard awesome for everyone
  • A tweet from @flipboard • Regarding the just-launched iPad news app which has proven so popular that you can’t even use it properly. As of this morning, you can’t connect your Facebook or Twitter accounts, and for a while, even the news in the app wasn’t loading. A victim of its own success? Possibly. The free iPad app is better than Pulse, which costs $2.99, and is currently the top free app in the app store. Our suggestion to Flipboard? Start charging for it. You’ll weed out the hangers-on. source
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22 Jul 2010 11:24

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Tech: Rumor of the day: Apparently, T-Mobile might get the iPhone

  • 80% chance of Apple moving beyond AT&T (eh) source
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22 Jul 2010 11:05

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Tech: Etsy win: Utter genius iPhone antenna stickers a huge hit

  • friday A couple of clever bastards put iPhone 4 antenna stickers up on Etsy and sell them for $5.
  • thursday They’re so popular that they claim to be “getting a new order every minute.” Ha. Ha. Ha. source
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21 Jul 2010 21:26

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Tech: Mark Zuckerberg: My lawyer isn’t “unsure” about anything

  • If we said that we were unsure, I think that was likely taken out of context. Because I think we were quite sure that we did not sign a contract that says that they have any right to ownership over Facebook.
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg • Responding to the widely-reported claim that Zuck’s lawyer is unsure that Zuckerberg signed a contract with Paul Ceglia. Despite this, he did reportedly have a contract with the wood fuel salesman. Just not one that gave the sketchy dude the right to 84 percent of Facebook. On a funny side note, Facebook has a lawyer named Lisa Simpson. Which is what we expected her to be all along. Right? source
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21 Jul 2010 20:53

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Tech: Flipboard: The iPad gets a well-designed (AND FAST) news aggregator

  • The thing we noticed with Pulse News Reader after using it for a month was that it got very slow eventually. Not so with Flipboard. This app, a social-media-focused iPad app, literally blazes on the iPad, making it feel like the most natural iPad news app out there. We seriously think they knocked this one out of the park. It’s currently the most popular free iPad app, and is so popular that they’re having trouble signing everybody up. That’s right, they have the digital version of a limited supply – they have API limitations. A good problem to have. source
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20 Jul 2010 20:39

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Tech: Does Facebook’s lawyer know if Paul Ceglia owns 84% of Facebook?

  • NO well that’s just great; do you even do your job, dude? source
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19 Jul 2010 21:58

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Tech: Based on the numbers alone, Tumblr is becoming the new Twitter

  • 6.25million visitors tumbling their logs each month
  • 4.5Mnumber of posts getting tumbled each day
  • 650,000 number of posts getting tumbled daily a year ago
  • 255M number of pageviews the tumblelogging site got in July 2009
  • 420M number of pageviews Tumblr had leaped to by November 2009
  • 1.5B number of pageviews they had in June; thanks John Mayer source
  • » Should we switch to Tumblr? Obviously, with its quickly-growing community, focus on functionality and expansion, dead-simple API and genius “reblog” function, this awesome platform appears to be where it’s at. Nothing against you, WordPress, but this whole fracas with the maker of the popular Thesis theme suggests that you should take a step back.
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19 Jul 2010 21:36

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Tech: iPad users willing to wait six weeks for an immaculate DODOcase

  • They’ve started a successful business, but they’ve also started to save an industry — traditional bookbinding — in San Francisco that was on the brink of total extinction.
  • Shopify chief executive Tobias Lütke • Regarding the founders of DODOcase, a company that won the site’s competition (and a $100,000 prize) for having the largest sales of any retailer. The case, sculpted to look like a classy Moleskine notebook case and hand-designed by traditional bookbinders, costs $60, is designed with ultra-high-quality materials and doubles as a stand. They sold 10,000 in just a couple of months, despite a lengthy wait between sale and delivery. And it can count the founder of Twitter amongst its fans. You do the math. source
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19 Jul 2010 11:30

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Tech: Posted without comment: iPhone 4 Antenn-aids for sale on Etsy

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18 Jul 2010 10:15

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Tech: Facebook doesn’t know what to do if your friend dies

  • It kind of freaked me out a bit. It was like he was coming back from the dead.
  • Courtney Purvin • Regarding how weird she found it that Facebook was telling her to get back in touch with a family friend who recently died. Think ghosts in the machine. It’s a problem that Facebook is aware of, but admits that even it doesn’t know how to handle. “It’s a very sensitive topic, and, of course, seeing deceased friends pop up can be painful,” said company spokeswoman Meredith Chin. It was also a problem they rarely faced when their users were young and fresh-faced, but now even your grandpa’s on the site. source
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