jgroome

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by jgroome 14y ago
Woah, let them actually make the thing and bring it to market before you write them off. It's grossly unfair to compare their fundraising efforts to the total sales of established console games... At this point, anyway.
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by jgroome 14y ago
Not quite sure what they're suggesting. A wishlist system, whereby I have a bunch of products in which I've expressed an interest? Some kind of digital gifting system where people pay money to buy virtual "presents"? In the case of the form
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by jgroome 14y ago
Good point. I also know for a fact that a lot of underground (and not-so-underground) musicians use a standard Profile for their Facebook presence instead of a Page, as well as a Profile for their real identity. Is this using the system wro
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by jgroome 14y ago
Been using Facebook every day since 2007. Recently though I've noticed my visits to the site drop to maybe once or twice per day, whereas at its peak I was checking it multiple times per hour. I think in their desire to work out what exactl
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by jgroome 14y ago
...And therefore not like either Pinterest or 9gag.
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by jgroome 14y ago
I'm just having fun! And dealing with my own PANIC in my own way. Seriously though, think how dependent a lot of people are on Twitter. I'm not just talking about us nerds who like tweeting links about CSS hacks, or the people who like to t
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by jgroome 14y ago
I swear, the way people panic when it drops off, Twitter is way more like a protocol than a website. It's like someone saying "Email is broken... Everywhere".
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by jgroome 14y ago
Essential ? Really? > es·sen·tial [uh-sen-shuhl] > 1. absolutely necessary; indispensable: Discipline is essential in an army. > 2. pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing. I think the phrase the author is
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by jgroome 14y ago
> The News.me team will take Digg back to its essence: the best place to find, read and share the stories the internet is talking about. Right now. With my cynicism hat on nice and tight, it seems a bit late for that. Digg WAS, in its h
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by jgroome 14y ago
I love how this is a story about Yahoo, reported on Mashable, then cross-posted to Yahoo News.
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by jgroome 14y ago
A couple of friends of mine were planning on going to Bloc on the Saturday night. They didn't even get near the venue, and I was online immediately trying to piece together the story of what happened. Some reactions from people on Facebook:
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by jgroome 14y ago
Absolutely. When I first got mine my friend was shocked that I could be so enthusiastic about a device that doesn't have social apps and integration or notifications. Like what you'd want when you're concentrating on a book is constant remi
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by jgroome 14y ago
I've been reading as many Nexus 7 reviews as I can in a vain effort to sedate my excitement for its arrival later this month. I know this is going to sound ungrateful, but this review seems a bit thin. The idea of using the Nexus 7 as an er
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by jgroome 14y ago
UK here. I'm expecting mine in a couple of weeks.
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by jgroome 14y ago
They've been using spy glasses for years though, haven't they? I, er, would have thought.
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by jgroome 14y ago
I keep hearing that, but honestly, 16gb is quite a lot of space IMO. Obviously if you feel the need to carry around 64gb of videos at all times then you'll scoff, and I'm not saying 16gb is more than you'll ever need, but you'd be surprised
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by jgroome 14y ago
Sure. On paper, as a Google account holder, I'm a G+ user. But I'm not.
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by jgroome 14y ago
Very cool-looking, especially the cover photo for events. Should companies/bands/artists and the like start taking G+ seriously, this will be a big selling point (they love little branding opportunities like that). Calendar integration: Jus
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by jgroome 14y ago
I ran a search for "site:geocities.com/Area51" to see if the old free hosting webpages are still alive. Found this gem: http://www.geocities.com/area51/3253/ It's very easy to look down our collective noses at Geocities, but I really feel
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by jgroome 14y ago
Wow, for a moment there I thought I was on reddit. I don't play games, so don't use either Origin or Steam. But even I can see that branding EA "hypocrites" is exactly the same as accusing a politician of "flip-flopping". They made a call,
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by jgroome 14y ago
> but how does a broken lens lead to 20-minute segmentation? I think a "proper" analogue theatre has two projectors. With the films split into reels, one reel is played through one projector, and then when it's time to switch to the n
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by jgroome 14y ago
We also have these Police CCTV vans: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4520733969_f3cf546624.jp...
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by jgroome 14y ago
I don't like to pick apart articles on a sentence-by-sentence basis, but I have to take issue with this bit: >In Britain, for example, the government has installed millions of public-surveillance cameras in cities and towns, which are
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by jgroome 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to compare the iPhone 4S to legacy Android devices like that.
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by jgroome 14y ago
As far as I know, Android apps can add core functionality to the phone. For example, if I download the Facebook app, I can now share my photos from the Camera app via Facebook, without having to actually open the Facebook app itself. Same w
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"Android ICS already offers more than what is coming in iOS 6"(zdnet.com)
77 points by jgroome 14y ago|148 comments
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by jgroome 14y ago
I wonder why "Google+ stats are not displayed by Google Trends for Websites"?
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by jgroome 14y ago
There's no way in hell that would work. But this is Microsoft, so they may be arrogant enough to think it will.
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by jgroome 14y ago
Or as an IE6-8 only "feature" ;)
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by jgroome 14y ago
> So, Facebook definitely needs a browser. Why?

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