Standalone apps were all the rage at the beginning of the year. Now they’re suddenly dying. Virtual reality seems poised to be all the rage next year. Will they also experience a quick death (like the hoverboard), or will they be around for the long-haul?
77a: Apparently reticulating splines doesn’t require an Internet connection
Also, congrats to the Mailbox team for selling out to Dropbox for $100 million.
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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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72c: Mailbox seeks to fix todo lists… err… email on the iPhone
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72: The Slight Edge of Tech
Sudden breakthroughs are the results on small regular actions over time which slowly compound into something amazing. Save $10 per day and you’ll be able to retire a millionaire 40 years later. Start with a phone, improve upon it slowly every day and you’ll have breakthrough smart phones. That’s what we talk about today – the result of those simple actions compounded over time.
Today’s focus is on Google glass and bone vibration, Zillow’s home improvement app, Dell going private, Mailbox for iPhone, iWatch for Apple, Vine for adults, House of Cards on Netflix, EA’s Origin coming to Mac, and Apple’s iPhone India sales.
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- Google Glasses to use bone vibration for sound
- Dell officially a private company
- Microsoft’s 2 billion dollar tether
- Vine officially for NC-17
- Zillow moves into the next most logical market – home improvement
- The future of TV: Netflix and House of Cards
- Thanks EA, Now Mac users get subjected to the horror of Origin too!
- More Hangouts love for different bandwidth environments
- Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone
- The Apple iWatch
- Steve Job’s ghost returns to India… with the iPhone
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