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Amazon announced the released of a new web service today that aims to facilitate easier access to open, public data sets. Public Data Sets on Amazon’s Web Services will attempt to make a wide range of public data available for free use by anyone. Users can interact with data sets via an Amazon EC2 machine image and only pay for their compute time — they won’t have to worry about storing, downloading, or cleaning the actual data. According to Amazon business development manager Deepak Singh, the new program “significantly lowers the barrier for researchers and data analysts to access and...
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ANNOUNCING: The 2009 Greener Gadgets Design Competition! Calling all designers, inventors, and green gadget geeks! The 2009 Greener Gadgets Conference is shaping up to be an incredible event, and we’re excited to announce the details of next year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition! Hosted by Core77 and Inhabitat, the Greener Gadgets Design Competition will award $5000 of cash prizes to extraordinary designs for green gadgets that offer innovative solutions to the issues of energy, materials, product lifecycle, recycling, and social development. Designers are encouraged to consider their design’s product ecosystem, and may focus upon a particular context, material, device, or area of human enterprise. Want to enter?...
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Amazon released its previously announced Public Data Sets web service this evening. The project encourages developers, researchers, universities and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon - things like census data, genomes, etc. - and then let others integrated that data into their own AWS applications. Previously, Amazon says, large data sets like the Human Genome or U.S. Census data required “many hours to located, download and customize,” but that developers can now access and start computing on this data within minutes. Data is hosted for free. Data sets available today include an Annotated Human Genome, a public...
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Top of the AppsSince its July debut some 10,000 iPhone applications have been released to Apple’s App Store and 9,887 of them are still available for purchase. 10,000 apps. An impressively broad ecosystem for just under five months of development. Apple’s (AAPL) year-end list of Top App Store Downloads for 2008, then, is both handy and timely (Click on the image below to see the top 10 paid and free apps). It’s largely what you’d expect, with the Games and Entertainment categories proving most popular, Facebook and Pandora dominating the Paid App category, and Texas Hold ‘Em and Moto Chaser topping the Free...
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Forgive me Steve, for I once had sinned, and I come to you in confession to admit I had wronged you. For more than a year after iPhone was available to the public, I held off on buying one. I made all these excuses - that my BlackBerry was "good enough", that work was paying my monthly bills, that I was concerned about lackluster Exchange support, or switching to AT&T. I now know that I was naive, for my time as an iPhone owner has convinced me that there is no need for any other phones to be on this...
This post made me laugh, but is so true. - Justin Korn
bah... there are better phones out there than the iphone. show me the iphone mk 3 or 4.... - Terry O'Fee
There are two phones in this world : ones with good cameras and ones with 2 mega pixel camera? - Alastair Montgomery
@Alastair, almost all the photos on my SmugMug were with the iPhone. http://friendfeed.com/louisgray?service=smugmug Look great to me! - Louis Gray
I dont call something a phone unless it is used 50% or more as a phone. - Joelle Nebbe
@Louis, true they aren't bad but when most other cell phones passed the 2MP barrier a while back seems a bit of a lapse to me. One thing we can thank the iPhone for is raising the design bar for other cell phones. - Alastair Montgomery
The appeal of the iphone camera is not in quality but in immediacy. A proper camera takes proper pictures. An iphone shares pictures on the internets, location and all - without hassle. Companies would stop marketing specs and features to us if only people would stop being guided by them. If only "users" would take a moment to observe their own actual use of those feature ridden devices. - Alexander Kohlhofer
@Alexander, I thought you couldn't send pictures over MMS with the iPhone, doesn't sound like easy sharing to me? - Alastair Montgomery
It's about software. S60 reminds me of Windows 3.1. Add a fat processor and graphics card, you're still using a clunky interface. - Rodfather
Am I the only one who actually likes using S60? - Tyson Key
The new lineup of phones from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony devices can do all iPhone does and in some area's with better specs.. and Android is not a phone, it's a platform ;) ..only thing Apple does better then the others is marketing and creating a hype around thin air. - Pascal
How many people use there 'real' 6-8 MP cameras on full quality? I would venture that most drop the 'quality' to save memory and drop the resolution to somewhere equivalent to a 2-3 MP camera anyway (not all you tech bloggers of course). The main issue with the iPhone is the lack of video, which is becoming more apparent with the uptake of services like qik - Alistair
Once you have used an iPhone or an iPod Touch, Symbian looks so 10 years ago. (I have an E61i) - Zio Bonino
Like Bud guys' said, "True, true..." Same confessions we all had i guess http://tinyurl.com/5o3j3h - Olcayto
Are developers excited to write apps for anything other than the iPhone or Android? I don't see anything like Ocarina on other phones. OSX on the iPhone is the most exciting platform I've seen in a long time. - Rodfather
Jobs does not care about developers. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. - scott anderson
True dat. The attention to detail And User Experience are light years ahead of the rest of the pack. - vijayakrishnan / dffrnt
Apple fanboys. They're always good for a giggle.. - Terry O'Fee
@Terry heh - somehow I am managing just fine without one and will continue to do so. I would like an iPod Touch, however. :) - Mattb4rd
I am an Apple fanboy but bought an Nokia N82 recently. Why? Because an iPhone sold by, in my case, T-mobile is not an iPhone yet. I wait till Apple finalises the iPhone and sells the finished product in the Apple store. - Henk de Kruyff
smacks of kool-aid to me; love the iphone, love it but a closed/controlled environment is no way to win if you're confident you're the best; the bulk of people will stick with whatever nokia / the carriers are incentivised to push and first and foremost they want a phone, for now - Bob Robot
Well written argument on how not to be a doofnutt and own a Blackberry( which I do). So I'm a doofnutt, now what happens? Hahah - Terence Washington
I have to admire a man who dares confess his love of the iPhone to those who just can't get past the apple juice. Integration, ease of use, sheer elegance and panache are not appreciated by those with other priorities. Intangibles to personalities not in tune with subtleties. It's the software, stupid. - Phil Boiarski
I'm 28 years old, I have never owned a cell before the iPhone. It us now closer to me than my right hand LoL. - Kevin Etter
Hmm. I think 99% of people I know love the iPhone for the features also found in the Touch. They just don't prefer to carry around a separate phone. They also mostly hate AT&T. Lots of iPhone love, but it's almost entirely for the non-phone-related features they can get with a Touch. Lots of frustration, too, though, mostly phone-related. - abacab
We have an iPod Touch (shared with the wife), and I do like it a lot. We also have cellphones with AT&T. It would be nice to have one less gadget to carry around, so the next time we replace the cellphones it will probably be for two iPhones. - Denton Gentry
Meh. I love my Android G1. It does everything I need and then some. And it has a better camera than the iPhone (at least we can do macro photography without having to buy a special case with a lens enhancement), we can type more easily on the full keyboard, and we have a nice trackball to make fat-fingering a lot harder to do. You can keep the iPhone and AT&T (AT&T is the main reason I didn't get one before the G1 came out). I'm happy with my Android. - Lindsay Donaghe
I am loving my iPhone - my new office phone (plugged in of course)... awesome! - Susan Beebe
Flash News: The World != The US. That said, I'd not take any phone which won't let me develop for it without paying someone else. - Yuvi
I ditto everything Lindsay just said, especially the part about AT&T =P - Stupid Blogger
With all of the things my iPhone does not have such as a high quality still and video camera, digital compass, background notifications for all my apps (especially Facebook and Google Talk) and maybe a digital TV and radio tuner, I still don't care for any other phone. I show it to friends and family and they are instantly sold. The latest update by Google Maps for public transit is just killer. - Rolf Schewe
I loved the post, and totally understand...for me it's more important to get quality out of what I could create with an N97, than the quality of the phone itself when I demonstrate it to people...but that's a fairly unusual perspective by the looks of things...I like the iPhone, but would love N97 functionality with it! - Badger Gravling
Others may not agree with my conclusion, but every time I see a "non-iPhone" now, I know people are selling themselves short. And every time there are new applications developed for the platform, Apple's lead gets bigger. - Louis Gray
I stopped in to a Verizon store to try out the Storm. I walked out about 30 seconds later thinking the exact same thing... there's 2 phones. iPhone and not iPhone. - Fraser
@Fraser: I haven't had a chance to try out the Storm yet. What did you not like about it? - Jay
@Jay - they removed the things that used to make the BlackBerry a BlackBerry (and a good alternative to the iPhone in some people's eyes) and tried to make a phone that could compete head-on with the iPhone. The touch screen felt like a toy, clicking to select a key was odd, the UI was not intuitive nor natural for a touch screen, etc. By going down this path they open a direct 1:1 comparison with the iPhone. Which is a brutal mistake. - Fraser
Having purchased my iPhone just a short 3 days ago, you are preaching to the choir of the converted Louis. Now lets see how long it takes me to migrate my computer from PC to Mac :) - Mark Krynsky
There Are Two Phones In this World: iPhone and Not iPhone (a LG post) http://twurl.nl/fk61db - pixites
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Adobe Leverages Ecosystem for RIA DominanceIf Adobe is going to maintain its lead in the rich Internet application (RIA) space, the company is going to have to get a little help from its friends. - As Adobe enters into a new round of competition with Microsoft for the hearts and minds of developers and designers, the design tools leader knows it must rely on the help of its partner ecosystem to help spread the word about Adobe's new technologies and wizardry. For instance, at the recent Adob......
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Apple's Mini DisplayPort Might Not Be BS Proprietary Port After All [Apple]We hated Apple's tiny DVI ports because even though they used an industry standard, they were de facto proprietary connections. We were ready to hate Mini DisplayPort too, but we might not have to. That's because Apple will be licensing the Mini DisplayPort specification for free, meaning Apple might not be the singular assholes to use it (which is why their shrunken variations on DVI, while not technically proprietary, practically were). At the very least, even if vendors like Dell—an early supporter of DisplayPort—don't pick it up, it should mean a decent-sized ecosystem of Mini DisplayPort accessories, not just a...
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Environmental Graffiti Partners with Sony World Photography Awards Arup Ghosh ©courtesy of Sony World Photography Awards 2009 Amateur Winner Portraiture 2008 Environmental Graffiti wouldn’t be what it is today without the wonderful images provided by our readers and the public. It’s no secret there are some amazingly talented snappers out there, a lot of them highly worthy of having their work recognised by the big boys. So you might be interested in finding out more about our collaboration with the Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA). This year, Environmental Graffiti is proud to announce a partnership with the Sony World Photography Awards, in association with the Prince’s Rainforests...
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Green Gifts: EcoSphere Pod Developed by NASA, the EcoSphere is complete eco-system that has been sealed in hand blown glass. The pod contains all the basic necessities of life – water, air and earth. Algae and other microbes sustain each other with nutrients. All the pod needs to sustain is indirect sunlight. Perfect for gifting to someone who wants to start his/her green life, the EcoSphere Pod can be purchased for $59.99 from Target....
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Gear Guide, Part Two: Gear for Your IPod — They call it "the iPod ecosystem"-that's the expanding universe of speakers, headphones, cases, and other player-related......
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Could Garbage Be America's #1 Resource?Garbage is America's #1 export and possibly the biggest raw material source we have. But what is waste? And why do we make it? In nature, waste does not exist - if it did we would not be here today since the creation of a material that another life form cannot use is not sustainable and would lead to the destruction of our eco-system. One way to look at waste is that it is a commodity with negative value. That is, it's a commodity that we are willing to pay to get rid of. It is a liability that has...
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Zune phone anyone? Windows Mobile partners look awayLast February when Microsoft announced it had purchased Danger, makers of T-Mobile’s consumer friendly smartphone the Sidekick, I suggested that rumors of a Zune-branded phone would quickly resurface. Today, CNBC’s Jim Goldman claims that a new device from Microsoft, codenamed ‘pink’, is indeed in the works and that it will combine the company’s Zune with technology from Danger, with an end goal to develop a viable competitor to Apple’s iPhone. All of which seems perfectly plausible. Both the Zune and Danger teams fall under the company’s Entertainment and Devices Division, which also overseas the XBox 360 — Microsoft’s most successful...
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Fred Wilson on Making Twitter Smarter, And More ValuableFred Wilson mentioned a real breakthrough in the use of Twitter -- and by extension, other microstreaming applications. The guys at Stocktwits (see Twitter Is The New Bloomberg) have created a Firefox extension that makes 'tickers' -- the acronyms associated with stocks -- active links pointing to the corresponding pages at Stocktwits. As Fred puts it, this makes Twitter smarter: [from Making Twitter Smarter] This gets me excited. Because someone could do so much more with this idea. We have a few companies that are trying to extract meaning out of content on the web. [...] What if they and...
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I’m a big fan of Google services - search, blog search, finance, news and images. But until recently, I was only a quasi-GMail user, mostly because I didn’t want to commit all my e-mail to a third-party service supplier. As a result, I was using Thunderbird. It was an unorthodox decision because it’s not like Thunderbird plays as nice as other e-mail clients such as Outlook and Entourage. But as an ardent Firefox user, it seemed to make sense to support Mozilla’s e-mail efforts. Unfortunately, my faith in Thunderbird has gone unrewarded. As much as Firefox has become a...
Goodbye Thunderbird, Hello GMail - Mark Evans
Goodbye Thunderbird, Hello GMail - (jeff)isageek
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Twitter Grows 343% According to NielsenWe all have heard the buzz about twitter growing rapidly. Nielsen is reporting today the the year over year growth is at 343%. This makes twitter the fastest growing socail network online. What is really interesting about this statistic is that I am quite candidly surprised that they have pegged the growth at this level. I was anticipating the number would be closer to 500%. Twitter does not make its traffic or member statistics public. This leaves a lot of guessing for the measurement and analytic companies. What most of these companies fail to accurately report is the number of...
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Smut Wallpaper Universe removed from AppStoreApple removed another program from the AppStore over the weekend: Wallpaper Universe is the latest for the chop. And so the 'net embarsk on yet another round of the exact same hand-wringing over Apple's policies. Why do people not understand that you are working for Apple when you develop for the iPhone? It's not even trying to trick people into thinking the ecosystem is open, or that devs aren't unpaid work-made-for-hire: Apple's right to make arbitrary and inscrutable decisions is right there in the contract you sign! This is not an argument for Apple's shiny golden godhood, but for "If...
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A great Google article, the difference between 'easy' and 'simple,' and why this is a problem for Windows 7The New York Times' David Carr wrote something that made me really sit up and take notice this morning, and for so many reasons that it's actually kind of hard to explain. First, the basic premise of his article, which I agree with totally, is that Google's Web applications have taken hold with a certain audience because they're so simple: Not long ago, someone invited me out to the Googleplex, the nickname for Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The fact is, I already live there. And it’s starting to worry me. My increasingly exclusive relationship with Google started with...
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Introducing Ask PuneTech - Ask us anything and we’ll get you the answerQuick Summary for those too lazy to read the whole page: Ask PuneTech is a One-Stop Shop for all the information needed by infotech professionals and infotech startups in Pune. Ask us a question, or for a referral, or for some information and we find it for you, or we will put you in touch with person who has previous experience in that area to guide you. Just send an email to ask@punetech.com. Details: PuneTech has been running for 8 months now, and it has been very successful in filling the information gap that existed in the tech ecosystem in...
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Eco Arts: WEEE man speaks volumes about our electronic waste Eco Factor: A structure made from electronic items we discard during our lifetime aims to educate the benefits of recycling. Statistics show that an average citizen of the United Kingdom produces about 3.3 tons of electronic waste in their lifetime. The waste includes everything from an old cellphone to a couple of washing machines one might buy in an effort to keep pace with technology. In an effort to make people think about their behavior when it comes to disposing electric equipment they no longer want, WEEE man was created by British Royal Society of Arts. The structure weighs...
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$500 million in advertising??? Did I use the Jump the Shark joke already?Let’s recap. Apple has spent the last 2+ years mocking Windows Vista in advertising. God knows what they’ve spent on these ads over this time, but whatever. Microsoft, to their detriment, failed to respond to these ads for almost two years. They did, however, spend this time improving Vista, most notably with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the many other updates that shipped before and since. It’s worth noting, too, that the biggest problems with Vista were caused by third parties in the Windows ecosystem, but whatever. This year, finally, Microsoft decided to respond to Apple’s ads—many of which made...
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