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by jkincaid 17y ago
They've edited the post so that it no longer includes anything about 5 million users. Apparently it was premature (still love Dropbox though).
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by jkincaid 17y ago
"“Poke” is the dumbest and worst feature ever invented for a social network. " Really? Because I think plenty of people (primarily teens) would disagree. Imagine you're 16 and there's a cute girl that you're too nervous to talk to but maybe
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by jkincaid 17y ago
There are many, many more iPhones and iPod Touches out there than there are Nexus Ones. Google wants as many people as possible to be using this, so they're showing these people that it will work with their devices. They'll save the 'superi
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Try accessing it from Android/iPhone (buzz.google.com). I can access it on my phone even though it isn't popping up in Gmail yet.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I'm all for scrutinizing the recent intern situation at TechCrunch (unfortunately I can't really talk about it, other than to say it makes me feel sick to my stomach). However, given the fact that a good chunk of the post seems to be a rant
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I asked a Google spokesperson about this and the response was pretty vague, but the gist seems to be that it will come to other phones once the manufacturers/carriers roll out this Android update. Obviously that could be a while for some de
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I don't really get why everyone is talking about Flash and its relation to porn. If the the number of non-Flash playing devices grows, couldn't these porn sites just go to HTML5?(this applies to all other video sites, actually)
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I believe this has to do with the privacy changes last month, which made it so that Friends Lists can no longer be hidden. After an initial backlash, Facebook made it relatively easy to remove your friends list from public search results, b
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I can run whatever I want on my Mac. Can't on my iPhone. I think the latter is more closed.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Totally agreed. However, I think the iPad should come with a more robust photo app — something that lets you import and manage photos (all through fun drag and drop, of course). In my experience, many light computer users still take digit
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Agreed on textbook/student note taking angle. But I really think you're in the minority as far as not minding touchtyping on a glass screen — I think that would get old fast for writing anything longer than a paragraph. I'm eager to see ho
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by jkincaid 17y ago
You say that the entire world wants an iPad. I disagree. I think this will appeal to a specific (but fairly common) kind of computer user. Namely, the sort of person who really doesn't know what they're doing on a computer, and only uses t
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Other "display photos in a digital box" hardware has a sub $100 pricetag, which means you can leave them around your house doing nothing but display photos without feeling guilty (or stupid).
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by jkincaid 17y ago
That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Read this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/21/the-simple-truth-whats-... We also wrote quite a few other stories about the situation that you should be able to pull up using the Google query below. For more on applications that are simi
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Go back and read Apple's response to the FCC. It may not have any outright lies, but there's plenty of stuff in there that is questionable. They say some things that are factually incorrect about the way Google Voice works, and they try to
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Neither Apple nor Google will ever comment about this on the record. You have to look at what has happened and read between the lines.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I think Google is "striking back" in the sense that it's planting the Google Voice 'seed' while Apple probably wants to keep it off the iPhone entirely. If each company had an internal monologue, I think it would go something like this: App
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by jkincaid 17y ago
This is awesome. Also, I can't help but wonder if this could be used in some sort of bar trick to impress members of the opposite sex.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Spot on. A story can present totally objective facts, but it will still be biased because the reporter decided which facts to include and which to omit. Likewise, reporters choose which experts they want to quote in their stories.
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Wow, you're trying to find something controversial on TechCrunch and this is the best you can do? Come on. This wasn't astroturfing. First off, I don't think he ever says anything about Quora being "on the same level" as Wikipedia and Aardv
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Crystal Tower may be great, but it's a total eyesore for everyone else in the area. Anyone know why it was allowed to be 2-3x taller than the other buildings in the vicinity?
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be fairly trivial to create a phishing iPhone application (even one that got accepted to the App Store?) My understanding is that nobody is combing through your code line by line, so you coul
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by jkincaid 17y ago
The Nexus One leaks are deliberate. No, Google may not have actually sent the photos to blogs themselves, but giving the device to that many people just before the holidays? It was basically guaranteed. They knew it would happen. As far as
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I suspect that these reviews are a little premature and that Google has a few tricks up their sleeve for today's Nexus One event. Google distributed this phone to thousands of people weeks before its launch, including some non-employees, kn
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Cheer up. There's a good chance that many of the big tech blogs didn't see your site at all, or your text pitch wasn't all that compelling (but maybe your site is), or any of a hundred other reasons. The sad fact of the matter is that us te
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Lying is actually against Facebook's ToS. Just called them out on it here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/15/facebook-lie-terms-of-s... I think they're making a lot of mistakes and are going to hurt a lot of users. But ultimately they
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by jkincaid 17y ago
I don't know if unethical is the right word. Maybe "shady" would be better? If Facebook wanted to stay on the safe side of things, they'd have kept the default as the more private setting and then show some kind of prompt saying "Hey, this
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by jkincaid 17y ago
That stat does not convince me that users actually know what they're doing. Maybe you're privy to more research about this, but I suspect the majority of users who select something besides the default change everything to 'old setting' bec
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by jkincaid 17y ago
Yep, I actually wrote a post about that a few weeks ago http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/15/android-market-app-stor... About 2/3 way through the post I talk about a model they could use where they push apps to you OTA, which could be coo

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