MIcrosoft will be coming out—end of year, for business partners only—with Surface which looks to be like a fantastic platform. You’ll forgive me if I’m highly sceptical of when it ships and of how much of the demos will be shipped at that time but still, looks awesome. The next move is yours Steve, table/touch iMac at $2500 later this year? ;)
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So, I submit for your review, editing and clarification, a new draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web.—The Data Bill of Rights
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I did not expect this one: despite ongoing rumors that Viacom would snap up the music site for a massive $450 million, CBS will announce today the acquisition of Last.fm for $280 million, according to an unverified source. The aim is to attract young people to the CBS brand.—WOW: CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million
Wikis in Plain English
From the people who brought us the excellent RSS in plain english comes Wikis in plain english. Very well made and worth a look. However, I think their tools are getting a bit too mixed and matched, the RSS was superb with all the “throwing” of pages but this one, although still very smart, seems to use too many elements. I wish they’d covered CamelCase too. Still, nice overview.
Google Street Level View
Consider me floored. This is mad. Google now has street level “3D” photography for some cities, I played around San Francisco. Looking down the street from here you can almost see the apartment we stayed at last March, 3-4 houses after the first trees. You can even use the arrows to turn around.
- Here’s the cafe I went to a couple of times, to the right is the parc I had my last lunch at.
- Citizen Space is here,
- Here’s Adaptive Path where I went to the 6th anniversary party, the taco truck was just on the left edge there.
- Frog Design is in that building
- Here’s the Apple Store on Market.
- First breakfast of the trip was here
Impressive.
(via cfd)
