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Thinking About the Next Big Social Network
The next great social platform can’t be yet another centralized system. It has to be more distributed and more open even than App.net. It has to focus on writing and bloggers and embrace what is good about the web. Ello doesn’t do any of these things.
- via Manton Reece
I love Manton,
music
Apple Changes Course on Paying Artists During Free Trial
Apple has decided to change course and pay labels for the rights to stream their music during a 90-day free trial. The moves come after Taylor Swift penned an open letter to the hardware giant, writing that she found the company's insistence "disappointing" and "shocking."
- via The Hollywood
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Reddit, the Place Where Nobody Wins
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For
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You Should be Watching FilmmakerIQ
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John Hess has an awesome video series going called FilmmakerIQ which covers all manner of things related to film. These videos are always fun and informative, and they’re a great way to geek out over movies for 15-20 minutes
music
Taylor Swift Rightfully Takes Apple to Task on Free Music
[embed height="315" width="560"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk[/embed]
Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing. I say this with love, reverence, and admiration for everything else Apple has done. I hope that soon
Game
What is EA Doing with Rory McIlroy PGA Tour?
[embed height="315" width="560"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tRr1QcQpUA[/embed]
I was excited for the long-overdue next game in EA’s golf series, but this new trailer tries its hardest to kill my enthusiasm.
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Inside Out Had a Massive Opening Weekend
What is startling about Inside Out's weekend is that it is the highest opening weekend ever for an original property (that is to say one that is not a sequel or a non-sourced work), passing Avatar, which made $77M on its December 18-20, 2009 bow.
- via www.boxofficemojo.com
Inside Out
Android
How Does a $60 Phone’s Camera Stand Up?
One of the major things that you pay for when you buy a fancy, high-end smartphone. The iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6, and LG G4 all sport insanely impressive cameras that are way better than something that small has any right to be. They also come with zippy processors, amazing screens, and a bunch
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Reintroducing Myself to Android
I bought myself a Moto E to use as my reference Android device. It’s a pretty solid phone for the sub-$100 price point. It’s also running a near-stock version of Android Lollipop, and will get updates in a fairly timely manner when Android M rolls out this fall.
I sometimes badmouth
My Last Day at Target
Today is my last day of work at Target. I have spent the last 5 years and change working there. I started as just another entry-level team member doing this thing part time, but as time went on I came to really like the company, and want to grow with it. I worked hard,
Game
Fear of a Female Protagonist
[embed height="315" width="560"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg5UVTsKCE[/embed]
There was a third reason that Yoshida was nervous to see how people would react to the game: Horizon's protagonist is a young woman.
"She's a female lead character," he said. "
Who Do You Trust With Your Data?
For Google, Android—the operating system it built, which now powers a majority of the world’s mobile phones—is a means to an end. It’s a way to push Google’s various services deeper into our lives, collect as much data as possible, and then build intelligent and automatic experiences.
- via The New
podcast
Bite Size Tech #7: The One With the Bird
A bird sits outside my window and forcibly becomes my first guest on Bite Size Tech. I also talk about the games of E3, women in games, Twitter’s CEO shakeup, and Adobe’s Creative Cloud 2015 update.
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* The games of E3 2015
* VIDEO - Fallout 4 gameplay demo
* VIDEO - Metal Gear Solid 5 E3
goodies
Goodies: June 16
The Piano Guys are a talented bunch of guys, but they’re not my style. I’ll give this one a pass though, as it’s a gorgeous rendition of John Williams’ beautiful Jurassic Park score.
New Music
* Grand Romantic by Nate Ruess (of Fun. and The Format)
* No Place in Heaven by MIKA
* Dreams
Game
E3 2015: Bethesda
I’m going to try and write one of these for each major press conference this week at E3. First up was Bethesda, who hosted their first ever E3 press conference. How’d they do?
Doom
[embed height="315" width="560"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7g6BfvU6A8[/embed]
The game
Apple Loves Fonts
Apple devoted an entire session of last week’s WWDC to Antonio Cavedoni to explain how and why Apple designed their new system font, San Francisco. The presentation is a little dry, especially if you don’t care about typography, but it was very interesting to see someone really take the time to cover all
mac
So You Want to Be a Dummy and Install the OS X El Capitan Beta
The new version of OS X is called El Capitan and is coming out this fall for every Mac that can run OS X Yosemite. If you’re a paid Apple developer (or a clever kid who knows their way around a good torrent site) you can install the beta version of the operating system
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What's Innovative From Apple Lately?
The above video has been circulating and has roused the “Apple doesn’t innovate anymore” trope. When we get past the fact that people have been making this assertion for over a decade, I have to wonder what people are asking for.
So what company is innovating these days? Google, of course! Let’s look