Bill Nguyen, Color founder, via Business Insider:
Color is not about photo sharing. It’s a new way to build spontaneous social networks — and collect massive amounts of data about what people are doing and where they’re doing it — without collecting any personally identifiable information like last names, addresses, or even passwords.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball:
So it’s a data mining trojan horse. Well, that changes everything. Who wouldn’t love that? And it’s a good thing personal photos have no “personally identifiable information” — you know, other than images of you, your friends, and your family.
Color seems to be an app that engenders the building of online communities by using information gleaned from location-based activities such as how much time you spend at a particular place, what photos you take, etc.
Mike Elgan at Cult of Mac:
Whatever you do, don’t dismiss Color. The idea of spontaneous location-based networks that use increasingly intelligent algorithms to connect content streams is going to be absolutely huge.
Color sounds like an interesting app, but what’s the big deal? Color raised US$41 million in funding from Sequoia and Bain. Forty one million.
Optometrist Dr. Justin Bazan via CrunchGear:
Moderation is beneficial. Some people will feel sick or nauseous and in some cases the 3D could point to an underlying binocular vision disorder.
Sick or nauseous? Nothing to worry about? No thanks, I’ll pass. And that means all three of my kids pass, too. According to Bazan, to see 3D images the left and right eyes need to see the image clearly. If one of your eyes can’t see clearly you won’t be able to see 3D. In that case Bazen recommends:
If there’s a problem, go in for an eye exam, don’t just take the game away.
Yes, please do get your annual eye exam, but also take the game way and return it. And on the way back stop at a park and have fun looking at and interacting with real 3D.
BMW is currently developing an unibody aluminum car in Plant 0 that should hit the market “in a few years.”
iFixyouri via 9to5 Mac:
It turns out that the iPad 2 glass is just as strong as the original iPad’s glass and because it is is a bit more flexible has more bending tolerances.
The cover glass on the iPad 2 is about 27% thinner than the one found on the original iPad, and is just as strong.
Blackb13 at Slick Deals:
Posting from my mobile so bare with me. Verizon stores in the midwest area (chicago) have the first generation ipads on sale. No need for contract. Prices start at $299.99 for the 16GB.
This has been later confirmed. All corporate owned Verizon stores are offering the original WiFi-only iPads at steep discounts: the 16GB WiFi-only iPad 1 is $299. This is a fantastic deal and is better than the refurbished price from Apple by $50.
Brian Chen at Wired:
Indeed, it turns out that a tablet needn’t do everything that a more powerful PC can, according to multiple research studies on iPad usage. Rather, the tablet’s main appeal lies in the approachable touchscreen interface that just about anybody at any age can pick up and figure out.
I think there have been many smart people who have already written much about what I am about to say, but I will say it again since large organizations like Wired still don’t seem to get it. It is not just the approachable touchscreen interface. It is the hardware, the UI, the software, the App Store, and every little detail that no one else thinks about but Apple all combined that makes the iPad an iPad. Forget research studies. Just give an iPad to a two-year old, and watch.
Katherine Noyes at PC World via Daring Fireball:
Yet strong sales are backing up the hype–at least for now–suggesting something about the devices has caught on with consumers.
What is that mysterious “something”? Purely marketing, I believe. Apple is nothing if not master of the glitzy sales pitch, and there’s never been better proof of that than the iPad’s current success.
Mark my words: The device–and all the others of its ilk that have sprung up for a piece of the action–are nothing more than a passing fad, at least in the mainstream.
Today’s mainstream iPad users are nothing but lemmings who have succumbed to the all-powerful marketing geniuses at Apple. All 15 million. Yeah, right.
It’s not just a Powermat killer. It could potentially kill all chargers for mobile gadgets. Tonight we had a chance to get a demo of Wysips breakthrough technology, which layers a thin, transparent photovoltaic film on top of a phone’s display. This film captures solar energy–or even energy from a nearby light source–so you don’t have to hunt for an outlet by the middle of the day. Maybe not ever again.
According to Wysips it will take six hours of sunlight to completely charge a typical mobile phone battery. Larger batteries in power-hungry smartphones will most likely take longer. I wonder if size can be scaled. I’d like to see Wysip solar films on notebook PCs, too. So when? In about 12 months.
Bertrand Serlet on Microsoft’s Vista:
If you can’t innovate I guess you just imitate but it is never quite as good as the original.
Unless you’re Apple. Apple ripped off Xerox PARC’s original GUI concept, innovated, and commercialized a GUI-based operating system for the masses. For round two, Apple bought Steve Jobs’ NeXTSTEP operating system (actually the entire NeXT company), made it prettier, and renamed it OS X. Apple then, all by itself, birthed iOS.
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