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return home »Android devices made up just 0.2% of the operating systems that powered browsers Net Applications tracked last month. "Whatever the sales are, we're seeing iOS totally dominate the market on the Web," Vizzaccaro said. "iOS has nearly a 6:1 advantage over Android."
From an examination (via Kottke) of the image-based bulletin board 4chan.org comes a comment on its lack of required registration and abundant anonymity:
... the closer a community gets to 'failure for free,' the better its chances of generating success.This is a topic I've been putting quite a bit of thought toward and one that was recently addressed by Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO:
... every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.Somewhat of a drastic suggestion. It's also a topic that was not so recently addressed by Marshall McLuhan in 1967's "The Medium is the Massage"
The older, traditional ideas of private, isolated thoughts and actions--the patterns of mechanistic technologies--are very seriously threatened by new methods of instantaneous electric information retrieval, by the electrically computerized dossier bank--that one big gossip column that is unforgiving, unforgetful and from which there is no redemption, no erasure of early 'mistakes.'Failure is absolutely critical to success - not only in the act of growing up but in the creative process at any age. Allowing and allotting grace for failure in the midst of the persistent memory of the global village will be one of the great new challenges faced by society. Maybe the current generation will be the last with gaps in the recordings of their failures. Maybe the web will be so full of failure that the failure of an individual will cease to be noteworthy. Maybe we'll all finally realize that our shit stinks equally.
Today Google announced that they're now offering search over SSL via the url https://www.google.com - great news for those looking for a bit more privacy as far as the transfer layer is concerned. If you'd like to take advantage of Google SSL as your default search engine in Chrome, it's relatively trivial to add it by navigating to the following menu: Chrome > Preferences > Manage (Default search) > + (click the plus sign at the bottom of the window). Enter these settings in the resulting prompt, displayed in the image above:
Name: Google SSL
Keyword: ssl.google.com
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Click OK to confirm the new search engine. Select the newly created "Google SSL" entry in the list of engines and click Make Default to finish the process. Now any search queried through the address bar in Chrome should default to Google SSL.
Name: Google SSL
Keyword: ssl.google.com
URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Click OK to confirm the new search engine. Select the newly created "Google SSL" entry in the list of engines and click Make Default to finish the process. Now any search queried through the address bar in Chrome should default to Google SSL.
In a piece entitled "Curated hypocrisy: How Google camouflages its attacks on Apple" (via DF), Kontra goes to great lengths to expound on the idea of "curated computing", a term Sarah Rotman Epps used to describe Apple's oversight of it's mobile application platform. But curated computing is nothing new, it's been with us for years, reaching somewhat of a fever pitch immediately following the "user generated content" boom (remember that buzz-phrase?). In fact, a non-trivial sum of websites and applications are dedicated to this very concept, as Jason Kottke so aptly put it in his piece on FFFFOUND!:
Among the many things that the internet has democratized is curating, a task once more or less exclusive to editors (magazine, book, and newspaper), art gallery owners, media executives (music, TV, and film), and museum curators. ...The pace is faster, you don't need a physical gallery or museum, and you don't need to worry about crossing arbitrary boundaries of style or media. Nor do you need to concern yourself with questions like "is this person an artist or an outsider artist?" If a particular piece is good or compelling or noteworthy, in it goes.As the debate swells regarding Apple's platform decisions, let's not pretend it's an argument with curation on one side and complete anarchy on the other. Instead, this is about Apple forcing their continued curation upon products that they began curating, from a design perspective, well before they met the hands of consumers. It's about the other side fighting to allow the masses, aided by tools equivalent to FFFFOUND!, to curate the content themselves. And at the end of the day, it's about deciding how far you're willing to let Apple's arms extend into your life in the name of their product vision - a vision that's shifting from a "design and release" strategy to something more persistent and evolutionary. Are you sick of curation yet?