It looks like a great product that’s only mired by the fact that Facebook created it.
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80: A Timeline On and Of Your Cell Phone
Last week Facebook revealed the new “Facebook Phone” called Facebook Home – an Android launcher that puts your friend’s updates front and center. To commemorate the occasion, we also take a look back at the most important phones in history.
We also do a round-up of April Fools pranks, talk about Tesla’s success, LucasArts’ termination, Google forking Webkit in a Blink, CMA Communications injecting ads into webpages and Michael Dell’s failing plans to take his company private.
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- Tesla Expects first profits this quarter
- April Fools 2013: The Round-up
- LucasArts being shut down
- Play DOTT and Full Throttle
- Google Forks WebKit in a Blink
- CMA communications injecting ads into webpages
- 12 cell phones that changed our world forever
- And why the 12 cell phones article is awful
- HTC First with Facebook Home hands-on
- Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy
- Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about ‘people, not apps’
- The Problem with Facebook Home: Fragmentation
- The best laid plans of mice and Michael Dell
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79d: T-Mobile’s new phone plans get rid of contracts… kinda
You still pay a monthly fee… or something. We explain all.
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79: No Texting While Spamming
Google Glass is getting closer and closer. That means the popular kids are starting to get them and governments are starting to freak out over them. Personally, I can’t wait until I’m cool enough to wear some Glass.
We also talk about the Harlem Shark, China’s war on Apple, the biggest DDoS attack in history, T-Mobile’s new phone plans, Facebook’s new phone, and summly.
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- West Virginia moves to ban Google Glasses while driving
- T-Mobiles new phone plans
- Google picked 8,000 winners who have to pay $1,500 now
- A PhD studied who won. Big surprise! It was mostly famous people on Twitter
- Summly sells for $30 million to Yahoo
- Facebook to have a “Welcome to our new home on Android” event on the 4th
- Could it finally change the landscape of open/closed architecture?… no
- How the Harlem Shake went viral
- China’s war on Apple
- The biggest DDoS in history
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77e: Graphene could be the next silicon-like material miracle
Also, Netflix shows us it can be social too.
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77d: You know what’s cool? NOT Facebook
The young kids are shying away. Could this be doom for Facebook?
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77: Google Will Ruin Everything On July 1st
Google does the unthinkable and plans to shut down Reader. This is a time period that will go down as a massive inflection point for the Internet. At the very least, it’s something we’re going to complain about for REALLY long time.
We also talk about SimCity’s online requirement, Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, Mailbox’s acquisition by Dropbox, Facebook’s maturity, the miracle compound called Graphene and Netflix’s new social integration.
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- Facebook isn’t cool anymore
- Google announces that Reader will be going away
- A second spring of cleaning – Official Blog Post
- Google Reader is being shut down because the Reader team was the only one that succeeded in social at Google
- Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
- Why RSS is important
- Digg announces plan to build an RSS reader with ‘the best of Google Reader’s features,’ including its API
- As Google Reader is killed off, Flipboard, Feedly and others step up with RSS alternatives
- 8 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Ease Your RSS Pain
- Introducing Netflix Social
- SimCity can run indefinitely offline
- Even more about SimCity wonky-ness
- Graphene being used in audio
- Graphene being used to desalinate water
- Facebook to Introduce Hashtags – And That’s a Double-Edged Sword for Twitter
- The Samsung Galaxy S4: Amazing and boring, all at the same time
- GS4 is no game changer
- Samsung Galaxy S IV Hands On: Everything New Is Old Again
- HTC President calls GS4 presentation “embarrassing”
- Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million
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76e: How the Facebook Class became a microcosm of Silicon Valley
This is part of the lean startup movement.
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76d: Facebook’s new news feed puts photos and mobile front and center
There are still a bunch of questions, but the update looks nice.
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76: SimPodcast
In case you missed it, SimCity came out this week. The game is amazing on multiple levels. First, this is the BEST simulation ever by EA. Second, it’s the WORST launch ever by EA. Grab your copy on Origin, wait 20 minutes to play, and then start building!
We also mentioned Samsung’s new Galaxy S IV eye tracking software, Roku’s remote headphones, SimCity, more SimCity, Facebook’s new news feed, Samsung piling onto the Windows 8 blame game, the lean startup app class, and the Onion’s satirical article about a social media startup that shuts down in 45 minutes.
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- New features for the Samsung Galaxy S IV
- THE $99 ROKU 3
- New Social Media Startup Launches, Shuts Down Within 45 Minutes
- Facebook redesigns News Feed with multiple feeds and ‘mobile-inspired’ interface
- My impressions of Facebook’s news feed redesign & what it means
- The Lean Startup
- Amazon suspends sales of SimCity
- IGN Explains Why DRM is THE Major Problem with SimCity
- Samsung exec blaming disappointing PC sales on Windows 8
- The late Windows 8
- Microsoft offering huge price discounts on Windows 8 to OEMs
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