Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
Woof…NeXT cost Apple $429M in 1996 ($622.5M in today dollars).
That’s a huge amount…something like $37 per instagram user.
via iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple opinion and news | The Loop.
Okay, this is a must buy.
If Darth Vader Were The Father He Could’ve Been To Luke… – DesignTAXI.com.
I agree with most of Stracci’s points as well as Gruber’s point about how much info Google could mine from this “helpful” technology.
I have one more observation. Folks spend thousands of dollars for Lasik or hundreds of dollars a year for contacts to avoid wearing glasses. The probability that folks want to pay hundreds of dollars to wear geek headgear strikes me as very low.
Mostly though I was thinking of Aliens, their helmet cams and the Lt. Which the Google team kinda reminds me of. So guys…how many combat drops?
Google has finally “unveiled” Project Glass. I say… – Not Stolen. Permanently Borrowed..
Search, plus Your World · Inside Google Search.
Is it just me or is SPYW an unfortunate acronym for Google latest effort?
Really?
So driving across this hundred-mile stretch would technically necessitate seven clock changes which is insane.
via Daylight Saving Time Explained | Grey’s Blog.
Funny and worth the few minutes to watch.
I think these two are both profound; they’re not things where we run separate P&Ls on, because we don’t do that–we don’t believe in that. We manage the company at the top and just have one P&L and don’t worry about the iCloud team making money and the Siri team making money.
via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech.
You know, if Sony did this they’d be a lot better off…but that’s nothing profound. Still, I wonder how many other companies are run with essentially one or two top level P&L centers…
Here’s for my annual blog post. 
So much for impulsive blogging.
Actually, been doing a lot more coding this past summer and likely to get back into some WorldWind development…probably on Android. I bought a TouchPad on firesale and hope that I can get CM7 on it someday but if not the new $199+ Lenovo tablet looks nice or I can buy a Nook Color and root it.
Seems like I blog about once a year for a flurry and then stop. I did finish that 24 coding project but had to do it inside the firewall where I lot of my worldwind code resides. I just didn’t want to rewrite a huge amount of code that already existed to finish up the project that I wanted to do. The key to being able to throw together a quick project is having a lot of code handy for reuse IMHO.
I’ve been thinking about what to do for the next hobby project. I’ve written a small Android app for work. Perhaps I’ll look to get back to some C# coding and do a small WP7 app or bite the bullet and learn ObjC and do a small iPhone app.
The biggest problem with 24 hour project broken into segments is getting those additional segments in a reasonable amount of time…*sigh*
I have an inside the firewall blog and persona and very little leaks out. While I have a (mostly ignored) LinkedIn page and Plaxo account I didn’t have an external blog, facebook or twitter presence. Well, professional presence anyway and to be honest, a fairly minimal personal one as well unless you like looking at my family photos.
So to rectify that, I’ve brought outside the firewall a few posts from the past year related to Enterprise 2.0 and social media. These aren’t anything more than first impressions of a few Enterprise 2.0 solutions. The (slightly) more insightful musings about social software are predominantly links to external posts by folks like Sam Lawrence, Lawrence Liu and others and how it might apply to our specific environment. Which obviously will stay inside the firewall.
For now, almost all the posts will be about general technology but I will, at some point, start to discuss hopefully more interesting things in the future. I’ve been told that maintaining an internal and external blog is a real pain in the rear. So one will likely go away or see long periods of silence. And then maybe a sudden infusion of posts…
