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Joe Hewitt - On Middle Men - http://joehewitt.com/post...
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"We're at a critical juncture in the evolution of software. The web is still here and it is still strong. Anyone can still put any information or applications on a web server without asking for permission, and anyone in the world can still access it just by typing a URL. I don't think I appreciated how important that is until recently. Nobody designs new systems like that anymore, or at least few of them succeed. What an incredible stroke of luck the web was, and what a shame it would be to let that freedom slip away. I do not wish to fight any mobile device makers who want to create a software ecosystem and act as the gatekeepers for that ecosystem. What I do want to fight for is the viability of the mobile web. Developers are rushing to create native apps, meanwhile letting their mobile web apps atrophy (I have certainly been guilty of that myself). Web technology is still relatively weak, and improving slowly. At this pace, what will the mobile web look like in 10 years? Will we...
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- Paul Buchheit
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But will Facebook stop working on iPhone apps just because of this? No. Neither will Google. Unfortunately, the big companies that have the clout to do something will not stand up for developer's rights, as long as the consumer insists on buying the iPhone and other such locked down devices.
- Piaw Na
In fairness to Google they are fighting for openness in the one conduit they control which is Android. Its asking a lot to expect them to completely boycott iPhone which would be their only other leverage with Apple.
- Ed Millard
Well, then I should expect Facebook to support Android, as well as all the other companies that have the resources to do so. :-)
- Piaw Na
Piaw, are you saying that facebook isn't supporting android? last i checked there was a facebook android app -- plus, this is just one guy's opinions, he does not speak for facebook (as far as i can tell)
- Chris Heath
Piaw, I'd imagine that Apple's non-approval of several Google apps has prompted Google to devote more resources to making superb Android apps (and yes, apps for the Pre and Blackberry) than iPhone. Where it really hurts is apps that have a hardware component. I don't know many/any developers willing to make consumer apps for the iPhone that require a hardware component because the rist...
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- Kevin Fox
I imagine Facebook is putting their resources in the ports their user base is demanding. The number of users they have on iPhone demands attention, and shorting it for reasons that are somewhat political probably isn't wise. With the growing popularity of Android it will probably warrant increased resources. Kind of sounds like Joe would rather make the web app work better and that would be more platform agnostic though its pretty hard to do a really exceptional mobile experience through a browser.
- Ed Millard
Is there a FB ad on Android? I switched from Android back to Blackberry earlier this year, but I definitely remember that there was no Android app before I switched.
- Piaw Na
I've never seen a major-label game be blocked from publication on a major platform for ambiguous and arbitrary reasons. Imagine if Modern Warfare 2 requires a patch to fix a hack and Microsoft decided to disallow it because they've decided that they don't want warfare scenes that take place within the United States? That's a fairer comparison.
- Kevin Fox
I have heard a few horror stories of games being rejected, or at least delayed, because the console manufacturer in question had its own strategic reasons for doing so (because they had a similar in-house game coming out, or because they thought there were too many similar games coming out at once). Not quite the same thing, but still a pretty dangerous situation if you're the developer.
- Joel Webber
Console platforms have a limited life (try playing the PS games on the PS3). Phone OS, however, look like they'll be around for the long term.
- Piaw Na
Joel, those reasons aren't ambiguous nor are they arbitrary.
- Chris Heath
They may not be literally arbitrary, but they are still opaque to the developer, and not in the developer's best interest. Not precisely the same thing (and probably less common), but close enough to bear mentioning.
- Joel Webber
Piaw, dude, you switched from Android to Blackberry? You are a man who loves outdated tools :)
- j1m
The switch was entirely based on my need for international roaming data plans at $20/month flat fee (this is on top of the standard fee, but the only time I *really need* data is when I'm roaming!). If any other smart phone came with that feature, I'd switch.
- Piaw Na
Joel, when an app is rejected at the time of a bugfix for reasons that existed in the released product for months, or when an app is rejected for an issue which exists in dozens of other apps that have been approved and a developer is shunned when bringing up this inconstant application of rules, then yes, I would call it arbitrary.
- Kevin Fox
Sorry, Kevin, wasn't being clear -- I was just responding to the assertion that console approval processes weren't as arbitrary as Apple's. I agree.-- Aplle's is even worse, and that's saying something!
- Joel Webber
"Pigasus was a pig and was a satiric candidate for President of the United States for the Youth International Party (Yippies)." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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"Led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Pigasus was purchased by Phil Ochs and the candidacy was announced during the massive protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Yippies demanded that Pigasus be treated as a legitimate candidate, with secret service protection and foreign policy briefings."
- Philipp Lenssen
Quizipedia - http://quizipedia.appspot.com/
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simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries
- Andy Baio
My friend and I created something similar in 2005 (http://www.wikitrivia.net/), nice to see them use multiple choice answers (we use freeform input with the first letter already solved).
- Philipp Lenssen
Support for Same-Sex Marriage by Age and State » Sociological Images - http://contexts.org/socimag...
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"The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it’s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones at the bottom of the table), there is still a significant age difference: 18-29 year-olds in Alabama, for example, are more supportive of gay marriage than people 65 and older in Massachusetts. So, while we like to think about states as “liberal” or “conservative,” spreading out the data by age tells a much more complicated story."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
It'd be interesting to find out if preferences for the *same set* of people change as they age. If no, then all we have to do to improve same-sex rights is wait for a generation or two to snuff it. If yes, then it's a little harder.
- Aaron D'Souza
Would like to see a graph with "has internet" (do younger people more frequently use/ more regularly access the internet?)
- Philipp Lenssen
Where's the graph for polygamist marriage?
- Gus
Waiting a "generation or two" isn't going to do a whole lot for the gay community now. This is particularly true for elderly gay and lesbian individuals who are facing mortality and unable to secure inheritances etc for their partners.
- Soup
My guess is that open-mindedness comes with actually knowing people who are gay/lesbian/etc. and realizing that it's an inescapable part of who they are and just a different manifestation of the same powerful feelings of love and commitment that everyone feels. It also probably has to do with marriage being defined as a romantic notion these days rather than a more economic and social framework in the past. As evidence for this, I have nothing.
- Jim Norris
And I may not be the strongest gay-marriage supporter out there by any means... I mean, I'm ok with it and think it should be allowed, but only as long as I don't have to get gay married myself.
- Jim Norris
Nice, Jim, nice.
- Kelly
I concur, Jim Norris. :)
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
Ah, so Jim, you support "weak" gay marriage, not "strong" gay marriage.
- Stephen Mack
Interesting. So even if attitudes by age remain constant, in 20 years, the 18 states from Pennsylvania up will be strongly pro gay-marriage, but the 22 states from Wyoming on down will remain opposed, even 40 years hence.
- j1m
And of course, the prediction is that attitudes by age will be far from remaining constant. Indeed attitudes toward gays seem to have made almost all of their progress in the last 15 years, afaict.
- j1m
"Cantieri", capite? - Paolo's Italian Weblog - http://paolo.evectors.it/italian...
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Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World - http://gizmodo.com/5397215...
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L'espresso | Piovono rane » Blog Archive » Spergiuri di Alessandro Gilioli - http://gilioli.blogautore.espr...
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Cookie Monster Sang About Google 27 Years Ago [Image Cache] - http://gizmodo.com/5397485...
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What would happen if we repeat the Stanford Prison Experiment with much younger people?
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Kids would be carried to a closed place where they would be forced to sit still all day. Another group of adults would be determined to be the guards. Kids would not be allowed to do what they feel like doing, even if it were a very useful thing (e.g. reading a book of their own choosing), but they'd be forced to do what the guards tell them. There would be a pressure punishment system, publicly assigning symbols representing a kid's well-doing, per the rules laid out by the guards. This would go on day after day, for many years. Just imagine, what would happen?
- Philipp Lenssen
I participated in that for 13 years. It was pretty awful.
- Paul Buchheit
What do you mean Paul?
- Itachi
I'm guessing he was talking about schools, like Philipp was.
- Ed Millard
For only 13 years though? (er, silly me, forgot that the fact you graduate at 18 doesn't mean you spent your entire life till then in it....although it may feel like it sometimes)
- Itachi
In the U.S. 12 grades plus kindergarten is common. I assume he considered it a jail break to make it to university
- Ed Millard
I don't :( It's significantly better, yes, but still sucks if you're a minor
- Itachi
I mostly didn't show up to class in college, so it wasn't much of a prison, and I actually liked it to some extent.
- Paul Buchheit
I thought the point of the Stanford prison experiment was what it turned the "guards" into. Not sure what that says about teachers.
- Nick Lothian
For some reason teachers and parents don't become as cruel as prison guards. I think it has to do with external inputs. The Stanford experiment was essentially a closed system, while the outside world is open and might not have the same feedback loops.
- Gabe
Case wasn't that bad... we had fiber!
- Eric Borisch
The Reversible Man, an earlier short story by Alan Moore. I won't give away too much... just read it. - http://againwiththecomics.blog...
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U.S. FarmVille players outnumber actual farmers 60 to 1. - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
milivella, Brian Johns, rowlikeagirl and 25 other people liked this
I want FarmVille to pay me subsidy credits for letting my fields like fallow.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
My wife is obsessed with this. The sooner we get an allotment, the better.
- Tony Ruscoe
I had no idea Pincus was involved with this. *misses Tribe*. Tony, I know how she feels, I'm losing my garden and this might make some kind of security blanket substitute for me... (EDIT: after reading that article there's no way I'd start doing it. I have enough online addictions already. Just say no for me.)
- Spidra Webster
'Some academics have gone so far as to suggest that their collective popularity points to a widespread yearning for the pastoral life. “The whole concept of ‘I’m sick of this modern, urban lifestyle, I wish I could just grow plants and vegetables and watch them grow,’ there is something very therapeutic about that,” said Philip Tan, director of the Singapore-M.I.T. Gambit Game Lab, a...
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- Ruchira S. Datta
I'm totally obsessed with Farmville. Well, I live in the city but was born in a very rural area with lots of farms. Now if only the crops were real and I could plant real things. *lol*
- Molly, Time Traveller
Isn't Mafia Wars about "I'm sick of having to obey laws"? ;-)
- Spidra Webster
Yeah, and they're all my relatives dumping crap on my facebook page all the time. God I hate those game updates (that goes for Mafia Wars, too).
- Joel Webber
I wonder if they will pass the laws prohibiting the development of farm land as well to prevent the housing creep
- Matt Ellsworth
I see where this is leading. All they need to do now is deploy the IP-addressable ag robots.
- Victor Ganata
Interesting thought, Victor... As for FarmVille, I just opened it up to have a look earlier this week, but, like Restaurant City, it's not really grabbing my attention... I think I have some crops rotting already =/ Haven't felt interested enough to go check...
- Kamilah Gill
This looks similar to the apparently super-popular-in-China Happy Farms.
- Philipp Lenssen
Doesn't Google have an interest to make the web better? Why don't they offer a simple Spam Check JSON API -- you submit a text as URL parameter, they return a number representing the likeliness this bit of text is spam?
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Good idea. Algorithm: search for the text and determine whether it is oft-repeated boilerplate or near links to the same page scattered across many blogs.
- Daniel Dulitz
from iPhone
I'd be concerned about spammers using this as a way to gauge how well they are bypassing Google's detection. A well-written machine learning algorithm that optimizes spam phrases based on the return value from Google's JSON API could theoretically improve to the point of not looking like spam.
- Bill Strathearn
Using the text alone is likely to bring a lot of false positives. Just think of all the "Great post, thank you" comment spammers -- some people may actually be posting that legitimately while others just want a link.
- John μller
What Bill said. You'd have to train up a different, non-production classifier. Then you face the question of whether you want to support that API/feature forever, esp. given that the bad guys might end up getting lots of mileage out of such an API.
- Matt Cutts
John, I would probably *manually* delete a comment that reads "Great post, thank you" (believing it's spam). But you could also simply show a captcha when the API says it might be spam -- which would then be harmless to those low-confidence returns (and I would think "Great post, thank you" would receive a low confidence rating due to being so short). I.e. those who really want to post such "spamlike" congratulations would merely need to complete the captcha.
- Philipp Lenssen
Bill and Matt, interesting and unfortunate problem, though is there any way to resolve that issue? And how do programs like Akismet solve that problem?
- Philipp Lenssen
Bill's and Matt's issues are surmountable, but at what cost? Philipp, turning the question around, why would you want this? It would be more accurate/useful to perform the spam check within a higher level service, which could have an API.
- Daniel Dulitz
Isn't essentially what the DCC does : http://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/
- Soren Riise
What would also be interesting would be a service that separates legitimate people names from product / service names. I think I would totally install that as a plugin on my blog, Mr. "discount plane tickets" & Ms. "best data recovery" can go post their comments elsewhere :-)
- John μller
John — I get that kind of comment spam from names like Tanwa, Philip, Jay, Vector, Youku, and Lance. :-(
- Amit Patel
The Science of Retweets on Twitter - http://www.briansolis.com/2009...
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"You don’t spread ideas just because they are 'good;' you spread them because of some other trigger or set of triggers has been pulled in your brain. We can now compare millions of viral ideas to uncover the building blocks of contagiousness."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
You know you've made it when every song of your album gets its own Wikipedia page. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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The new taxis in this Chinese town have a Like and Dislike button in reach from the front passenger seat (green/ smiley = approve, and gray/ frown = disapprove... well, that's what I made of it).
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Pressed the green button today, but somehow can't imagine many contexts in which I'd press the gray button... seems so rude.
- Philipp Lenssen
What happens when you press the buttons?
- Daniel Dulitz
When you like, does the taxi get jumped to the front of the queue? :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
I'm imagining our AR retinas in 50 years: when a taxi you liked is driving by, you actually see it. And the gray button causes the taxi to disappear for you unless it's about to run you over.
- Daniel Dulitz
Giavasan » Che cos’è il genio? - http://giavasan.diludovico.it/archivi...
Meraviglioso: "Going Rogue" / "Going Rouge" , fotoscioppata / nature, cielo sereno / cielo tempestoso, an american life / an american nightmare. Da antologia.
- Gilgamesh
L'espresso | Piovono rane » Blog Archive » Gruppi su Facebook, più inchieste per tutti di Alessandro Gilioli - http://gilioli.blogautore.espr...
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Future Designer laptop - ROLLTOP //Diploma Thesis// - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Dear customer support evaluation survey: I like everything about your company's customer support, except for the constant emails pointing to your customer support evaluation surveys.
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10 citazioni sulla fotografia - http://www.slideshare.net/rycolem...
"A round pizza with radius ‘z’ and thickness ‘a’ has the volume pi*z*z*a." - http://www.phonkmeister.com/post...
In the country I was born in there are two accepted rituals of entering adulthood. One is carrying around a set of poison sticks to burn throughout the day. The other is learning to operate a fairly large, fairly complicated CO2 emission machine.
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