Adobe is shutting down two of its app stores dedicated to mobile and desktop application distribution, Adobe InMarket and the Adobe AIR Marketplace
I didn’t even know it had an app store let alone two to shut down
Adobe shuts down two application stores
Andy Rutledge rethinks how news sites should be designed with the NY Times as an example.
Digital media is simply digital media; if you do it right you publish once and it works anywhere. If you’re using an app to deliver content, you’re doing it wrong.
The second time today TechCrunch broke the news. This time it’s the beleaguered Research In Motion whose smartphone business is under serious threat from Apple and Google. The Canadian company is letting 2000 of its employees go, that’s just over 10 percent of its workforce. It also pushes out one COO, and shuffles the others. Balsillie and Lazaridis remain.
RIM streamlines the company, consolidates executive positions
TechCrunch reported that Facebook actually already has an iPad app hidden within its iPhone app, presumably waiting for a roll out in the near future but an enterprising hacker figured out a way to activate the app and posted a couple of pictures and where to find the app. Shortly after TechCrunch posted more photos of the app which looks quite polished and ready to go.
Facebook previously had downplayed the importance of the iPad with Mark Zuckerberg himself saying that the iPad is not mobile, possibly implying that the company may not be considering writing an app specifically for the Apple tablet.
With this revelation, Facebook obviously had written an app for the iPad, it’s just a matter of time before it is made available publicly, instead of through a hack.
Madeon – Pop Culture (Music Video) (by levmyshkin)
Organized cables (by Erdinen)
Having a mess of cables is always frustrating.
I got this idea when my mom was going to throw away an old bike tube. I thought that i could use it as a rubber band.
The good thing using the rubber tube it is really durable and you can cut it in any width you want.
I found that for long thin cables like headphones is easier to keep it organised in the pocket with a broader rubber band. And its easy to take it out if you would need the headphones for music or a long call. And it is just as easy to put it back after use.
And the best of all its almost free (well you need to sacrifice a new bike tube if you don’t have one or find an old one) and its a bit better for our environment if you use an old one.
Smart re-use solution.
Turntable.fm’s co-founder Billy Chasen has his business on lock, literally. You don’t use keys to enter Turntable.fm’s HQ, you send a text message from a white-listed phone number and voila, it opens. This is a much smarter, safer and cheaper option than handing out a ton of keys.
UPDATE: This won a Twilio prize and he explains how to build one yourself.
Say What Now of the Day: Fox News host/commentator Eric Bolling can’t remember a single terrorist attack that occurred on American soil during George Bush’s presidency, says “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008.”
Bolling reacted to criticism of his questionable comment on today’s The Five, saying he “misspoke,” and calling out the “radical liberal left” for “pounc[ing] on us and me.”
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