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Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store
Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day.
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Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle
Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.
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Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
Get Satisfaction, a third-party customer service app/community, allows customers to offer feedback, make suggestions, get their questions answered, and generally get help with a product or service. A good idea Building support/community infrastructure is a pain point for a lot of companies. The…
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The Apple Tablet
If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or *just* anything, I say you’re thinking too small.
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Aaron Swartz shows his FBI file
I got my FBI file today. ( Request yours! ) As I hoped, it’s truly delightful. It has only minor redactions for reasons of personal privacy (basically, they deleted agents’ names and so on). It all started when the—actually, I’ll let the file tell the story:
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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My Life Offline
Everyone wants to know how my month offline was. They ask it casually, like “How’s work going?” or “What’d you do this weekend?” But it’s not a casual question. It was a huge, incredible, transformative experience. Those 30 days felt like six months. My habits changed, my relationships changed, my identity changed, my…
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
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"Hello John. It's Gordon Brown"
Last night the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a long statement about my Alan Turing petition that included a clear apology for...
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JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
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JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps
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