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➶ Engadget reviews the Jawbone Up
Seems fair, and critical given what I’ve seen from others who’ve picked one up. Steph and I were sorely tempted with the Apple Black Friday discount, but until I’ve heard something more concrete on fixes for the bricking issues I’m passing on it.
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➶ Gowalla is Going to Facebook
Officially announced on the Gowalla blog:
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.
Whilst some of the team are heading to Palo Alto, my good friend (and designer extraordinaire) Tim is moving instead to Instagram.
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On page 331 of the printed version (in chapter 25), Isaacson quotes Steve Jobs saying, of Yoko Ono, “I can see why John fell in love with her.” Again, this is may be a very minor detail, but Isaacson quickly moves on in the story. I think this is a blatant example of his incuriosity. When have you ever heard someone take Yoko’s side in the “Yoko broke up the Beatles” argument? The fact that Jobs, as die-hard a Beatles fan as there ever was, could say such a thing is intriguing, to say the least. This, I think, could have been a whole chapter. Steve Jobs was, apparently, the kind of person that, unlike the rest of the Beatles, could see what John saw in Yoko. A little exploration of what that says about Jobs’s and Lennon’s common traits would have been fascinating.
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➶ Facebook acquires Gowalla
Congratulations to the folks at Gowalla on the deal. If you’re also wanting to get your Gowalla data out, this exporter will come in handy.
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➶ CarrierIQ Gets Hit With Senate Investigation
That didn’t take long.
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Dear WIRED: I get it that you need to pay the bills. But ad-driven content-blocking bullshit dick-moves like this are a sure fire way to anger people. Yours truly included.
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➶ The Revolution According to Steve Jobs
Fascinating piece by Stephen Levy at WIRED.
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➶ Little Printer
Interesting idea from BERG, but I’m not at all sold on Little Printer. If there’s two things I loathe it’s receipts and consumables - and Little Printer prints on receipt-sized pieces of paper.
Kudos to BERGLONDON for creating so much hoohah about a printer but please think about how inanely useless this is.
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There’s tonnes of distraction-free writing apps out there for both Mac and iPad, but iA Writer is perhaps the best known and original. There’s a big new update out for both the Mac and iPad versions, to allow end to end iCloud document sync1. I’m really looking forward to digging into this.
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➶ Justin Williams on iPad Magazines
Tonnes of good points in here.
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