The Oligarchy Of The Internet

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t.” – Tyler Durden

On that happy note, we talked about everything this week. The Giants are playing well, Matthew completed another Tough Mudder, IO is an app for finding good restaurants, Samsung got on the CSFC list for a little while, Apple Pay is causing problems for CurrentC, the Internet is ruled by an Oligarchy, the Avi-on Switch makes turning on lights easy, iPad sales are just fine, Google decides to remake emails Inbox again, Facebook clones Room Inc, Air New Zealand makes an epic flight safety video, Microsoft ditches the Nokia name, Procter & Gamble don’t see much growth from Duracell, AT&T remans predictably mean, Amazon sneaks in the Android app store on their their Fire devices, and the Hoverboard is real.

• IO Feels Like A Human Friend Who Gives Great Restaurant Recommendations
• A Dude Built A Legit Hoverboard
• Stick this battery-powered Bluetooth light switch anywhere you want
• Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future
• Inbox is a total reinvention of email from Google
• Facebook Goes Private
• Creators of ‘Room’ say Facebook copied their chatroom app, threaten legal action
• Ouch: Amazon takes $170M write-down on Fire Phone
• Air New Zealand Releases a New ‘Hobbit’-Themed Safety Video Featuring Sir Peter Jackson and Elijah Wood
• Microsoft Finally Drops Nokia
• Procter & Gamble To Spin Off Duracell
• That Carrier Free SIM by Apple? Yeah, AT&T Broke It And Locked It Down
• James’s Pebble Can Control His Nest!
• Approved For Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) Program Component List…Then Promptly Shown To Be Fundamentally Flawed
• Amazon Hid A Full App Store In Their Android App
• How We Get What We Deserve And The Death Of The Internet
• Rite Aid and CVS Have Stopped Apple Pay From Working, Shining Light On Walmart’s Payment Plans

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