Occupy Boston: “At 1:30 this morning hundreds of police in full riot gear brutally attacked Occupy Boston, which had peacefully gathered on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The Boston Police Department made no distinction between protesters, medics, or legal observers, arresting legal observer Ursula Levelt, who serves on the steering committee for the National Lawyers Guild, as well as four medics attempting to care for the injured.”
Apple: “CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siriâ„¢, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking.”
What a day. One million iPhone 4S orders in a single day.
I guess people like them.
In 2002 I did a little experiment. With a little help from Dave Winer I generated a Visio VDX file from OPML. It was pretty straight forward. The idea at the time was to create a web service that could create a pretty picture of your connections to other weblogs and crawl those connections to create, you guessed it, a graph representing all your connections. Obviously I never finished it.
The reason I mention it is Facebook has done it, but it’s behind closed doors. It’s a Facebook thing. This is something the entire web could benefit from. What would it take for someone to create Open Graph as an open standard for showing relationships between sites? Facebook has an Open Graph spec. How can that be opened up?
Good morning! Rise and shine sleepy heads!
Our big winner was long time player, Mr. Prasenjeet Dutta. Congratulations Prasenjeet!
The correct answer was…
ESPN: “While the Yankees were eliminated in the postseason with a one-run loss at home for the first time since the 1926 World Series against St. Louis, Detroit won an all-or-nothing postseason game for the first time since beating the Cardinals in Game 7 of the 1968 World Series.”
Ahhhhh, music to my ears. I hate, hate, hate, the Jankees. It’s always a great day when they lose.
So, now it’s Tigers vs. Rangers for all the marbles in the AL. Looks like the AL East was full of pretenders.
Good morning! Are you ready for a movie line? Sure you are!
Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.
Apple: “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”
Rest in peace.
ReadWriteWeb: “Not only is Facebook becoming too central to our online discourse – it’s becoming too crapified to even be useful. We have a social media problem, and the time to turn back is now. And the answer isn’t regulating Facebook.”
Some folks will never understand the importance of their brand. Using Facebook as your primary platform is a huge mistake. You need to drive people to your website, and your branding, not to Facebook’s pre-selected blue and their crowded layout and takes the attention.
If your brand is important to you invest the time and money to create your own presence on the web. It’s every bit as important as any activity you’ll do to build a successful business.
Use Facebook and Twitter as connectors, nothing more.
Don’t mind this post, I’m testing integration of my Weblog with my URL shortener.
Nothing to see here, move along.
If this worked you should see a tweet with an f67.us link. That is all.
Mike Ash: “That, in essence, is what ARC is. The memory management rules are baked into the compiler, but instead of using them to help the programmer find mistakes, it simply inserts the necessary calls on its own.”
Reference counting is a pain in the keister, until you understand the rules. ARC is going to become an important tool in the quest to creating error free code. If you’ve ever written ref counted code you know how careful you need to be so you don’t leak memory or double-release something and cause a crash. It can be frustrating if you don’t pay attention.
This is a welcome change and one I’m looking forward to.
I think it’s time for an RxCalc refresh anyway. Plus some other nifty things I’ve been working on, that will definitely be ARC’d and Mac OS X Lion / iOS 5 only.