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Fanboy

A definition of an Apple fanboy and commentary on those who prefer to use the term (from Jim Dalrymple, via Marco Arment).


“  Every business built on gatekeepers eventually fails. At some point some technology comes around, making the entire old school industry obsolete.” — Jeff Price

“  A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors-in all likelihood, a couple of dozen-and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh.” — Waldo Jaquith on the impracticality of a cheeseburger via Kottke

Cloud Burst, Localized

Via Jim Ray:

Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to provide an easy way to export your Passport data, your Stamp and Pin data (along with your legacy Item data), and your photos as well. Facebook is not acquiring Gowalla’s user data.

(Source: gowalla)


“  For Siri to be really effective, it has to learn a great deal about the user. If it knows where you work, where you live and what kind of places you like to go, it can really start to tailor itself as it becomes an expert on you individually. This requires a great deal of trust in the institution collecting this data. Siri didn’t have this, but Apple has earned their street cred.” — Jon Pielak, former Siri-iPhone developer

“  Decentralization, in tech as in politics, is how we prevent one entity from having too much power. Power corrupts.” —  Brent Simmons

“  As a service grows in popularity, alpha users outlive their usefulness. The core users that helped build a service by word-of-mouth often find themselves dwarfed in numbers by people with very different needs.” — Andy Baio

Computing Zen

Marco Arment achieves computing zen:

You should use whatever works for you. And I no longer have the patience or hubris to convince you what that should be. All I can offer is one data point: what I use, and how it works for me.

I’m not there yet. Maybe it’s something to work towards?


“  ‘The cloud’ is effectively an augmentation of our brains’ memories.” — John Gruber on the next wave in technology

Hermetically Sealed Penguin

I finally checked out Andy Ihnatko and Dan Benjamin’s not-so-new-anymore podcast, The Ihnatko Almanac. I started with Episode #3: Hermetically Sealed Penguin and it was really good. It’s mostly about Andy’s adventures through the MIT Flea Market which really sounds like a kind of geek mecca. I think my favorite part of the show is the many voices of geek that Andy adopts in telling his stories. It’s more like radio theater than most podcasts. Highly recommended.