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Shared links for the past week

The most interesting link I’ve read in this week where Google decided to “sunset” Google Reader:

  • Google Has Killed Android (the Brand) – Gizmodo
    The operating system is becoming less and less relevant, desktop computing is becoming less and less relevant while brands and services are becoming more and more relevant. What matters now isn’t iOS, Android or Windows, but Google, Apple or Microsoft, and that’s why Microsoft has a grim future.

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    RIP Google Reader – Mashable
    We saw this coming: RSS is in decline, Google Reader lost its space inside Google (to Google+ or Currents), lost its space to social media (Facebook and Twitter) and lost its space to news aggregators (Flipboard and such). And with the end of Reader comes another problem, the various apps and services build around it, like my favorites: news reader Feedly or Android podcast app BeyondPod. Update: Feedly will be moving seamlessly to their own infrastructure, gotta love that service!

  • How I ended up with Mac – Miguel de Icaza
    While I’m not using Apple (at least until it’s time to upgrade my computers) I can totally relate to this. I’ve chosen Ubuntu some years ago so Linux fragmentation issue is not an issue to me, but some things and have been annoying me: sudden broken support with the latest upgrade of Xorg or the huge mess of the release of Gnome3 or Unity… But one thing is certain: I won’t go back to Windows in the near future.
  • Why do most of the successful startups come out of the USA? – Robert Scoble answer on Quora

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Shared links for the past week

Aaron Schwartz, Lance Armstrong and Facebook’s Big Brother, here are my picks for the previous week from the web:

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Shared links for the past week

In a week where the world was suppose to end and dominated by Instagram’s new Terms of Service, my handpicked links:

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My favorite links for the last week

A roundup of my favorite links in the past week, where Yahoo released a totally revamped iOS app (but forgot Android).

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Links for 2012-05-31

Some of the most interesting links I found for 2012-05-31


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Steve Jobs death and the social media

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Steve Jobs‘ death was another reminder that nothing beats social media for breaking news. I got the news while writing a blog post, having a big and multiple screens allows us to have an always opened window with Twitter stream and at some point news started pouring. Within seconds I was searching, Twitter not Google, for confirmation and reactions from tech pundits and everyone else, was even able to get some kind of live coverage from Robert Scoble’s on “location coverage” via his Google+ at a time when traditional media only had a footnote or a press release of his death..

This isn’t new for me, although in this case the news weren’t unfolding, the event’s weren’t happening as we speak (like the London riots or the Hudson river crash), Twitter has a tremendous reach. Like some time ago when a earthquake struck Lisbon and the South of Portugal. My immediate reaction after the shake was checking Twitter. Within a few minutes I could gather tons of information, feedback from all over the country and all this before it got to one of Portugal’s 24-hour news channels.

The truth is nowadays I trust more the Internet for breaking news than social media.

 

 

 

 

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Avoid social noise in your timeline

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Lately I’ve been growing a “pet hatred” towards applications that automatically post updates to Twitter or Facebook, specially those that do it often, I’m thinking in “I’m in [some place]” kind of posts of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare or the “Just listened to [some song]” updates of media players, just to name a few. The problem with these updates is that there’s no added value, nothing really relevant to share; while sometimes generated updates are useful, posting blog updates is the best example, in most cases a automated tool can’t add content, can’t share what’s so cool about that song or place, can’t share the context for that update. This often means a noisy timeline that people want to avoid and that’s why automated update services should be used sparingly, prefer sharing items explicitly and really sharing something rather that dumping stuff the timeline.