New.Myspace, New.Problems
Those of you who have been following me for a while (or know me personally) know that Myspace is one of my favorite things to talk about. I have said before that I would drop everything to be the CEO of that company, and I’m only half kidding when I say that.
When Myspace released a video of their redesigned site I was elated. Watching (fictional person) David create an account and then scroll through pictures and friends, share music, connect with musicians… It seemed to echo many of the thoughts I had for the service; take the template for Myspace Music, and grow it. Make Myspace a place for artists. The New Myspace brings us closer to a social network for artists than any other site has before. And it does it with style. Myspace is damn pretty.
I have been using New Myspace almost two months. I think it’s pretty good. The site just opened to the public so I thought it would be worth putting some thoughts on down on text
As far as the gist of the site, the flow and basic day to day use, New Myspace makes more sense to me than Facebook. I would go as far as saying that New Myspace actually makes Facebook feel a little outdated, especially when you consider that we we live in a world of Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
Sergey Brin rides the NYC subway like a Google boss
Sergey Brin probably doesn’t ride the New York City subway that often, but when he does, he does it in style. The Google co-founder was recently spotted on the downtown 3 train, dressed in full ninja regalia and sporting his company’s Project Glass augmented reality eyewear. Brooklyn resident and AR enthusiast Noah Zerkin captured the moment late Sunday night, and apparently had a brief conversation with Brin, as well.
95% legally blind, easily able to “drive” one of these cars.
Being able to do whatever you want in the car, rather than having to focus on the road.
Less road fatalities.
The envy for the current generation that may never experience the wondrous joys of losing your car in a carpark, or being stuck in a traffic jam.
They’re also going to need to change DUI laws, I suspect.
yahoo wants to buy tumblr so i’m making an early prediction as to what would happen if this were to take place
am i the only one who would just quit if that happened just no
if yahoo actually buys tumblr and redesigns it im definitely leaving
does anybody even use yahoo anymore
Yes! Marissa, I have mad respect for you but if you buy Tumblr, I will quit.
yahoo’s buyin’ shit cos nobody uses them anymore
A lot of people still use Y! Mail, Flickr, and Y! Finance. I don’t want them to buy Tumblr though because we’ve seen how well they’ve handled Flickr.
Can you imagine the poop storm when deep purple slaps “By Yahoo!” on the tumblr logo?
Paper Tablet
This new innovation looks like a piece of paper, however, the ultra thin device is a prototype for a high-res display that has many possible uses. “The team behind the invention said their goal as to emulate the feel of paper – creating a robust, lightweight product that could bend and even be dropped on a desk”.
Peter Firth said that “with PaperTab, the whole idea is that screens should not be breakable,’ said Firth. ‘They should essentially be like pieces of paper. You can drop them on the floor, they can float down, you can move them around and bend them. I would say that in two years we will be able to buy flexible interfaces”.
Find out more at: https://www.lsnglobal.com/seed/view/7115
I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates
The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build; her eyes are bright, inquisitive. She leans in to shake my hand and at that moment I become acutely aware of the device she’s wearing in the place you would expect eyeglasses: a thin strip of aluminum and plastic with a strange, prismatic lens just below her brow. Google Glass.
What was a total oddity a year ago, and little more than an experiment just 18 months ago is now starting to look like a real product. One that could be in the hands (or on the heads, rather) of consumers by the end of this year. A completely new kind of computing device; wearable, designed to reduce distraction, created to allow you to capture and communicate in a way that is supposed to feel completely natural to the wearer. It’s the anti-smartphone, explicitly fashioned to blow apart our notions of how we interact with technology.
But as I release from that handshake and study the bizarre device resting on my greeter’s brow, my mind begins to fixate on a single question: who would want to wear this thing in public?
