Techerous

My name is Bill, I am a recent graduate in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and this is a place for me to post or give my 2 cents on the fascinating world of technology. I am now working for a pretty big technology related company whose name I will leave out just to avoid any possible complications, however far-fetched them happening may be. Music gets included from time to time as well.

May 15, 2013 8:33 pm
techfeit: Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video) Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute… View Post I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

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Tech Event: Larry Page Google CEO Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013 (video)

Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance on stage at Google IO today for a 35 minute…

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I’m skeptical on how much of this is really his view vs. the appearance he wishes to project, but overall a very human and open message for the technology sector.

8:22 pm
laughingsquid: Google Play Music All Access, Google’s Newly Announced Subscription Music Service The possible integration with other Google services and the way they display files on your device give it a chance, but overall I don’t think an application without a free tier could be a Spotify killer.  What does everyone else think of All Access?

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Google Play Music All Access, Google’s Newly Announced Subscription Music Service

The possible integration with other Google services and the way they display files on your device give it a chance, but overall I don’t think an application without a free tier could be a Spotify killer.  What does everyone else think of All Access?

7:45 pm
me*dia*or: Google I/O Keynote: 8 Best Moments In Photos | Read/WriteWeb

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Reposted from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/RjlEqyNcHuY/google-i-o-keynote-eight-best-moments-in-photos on May 15, 2013 at 06:14PM

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Google bombarded thousands of attendees at its I/O 2013 Keynote with enough information to force that hi-res photo of Vic Gundotra’s forehead…

7:53 am

Google Expected to Start a Competitor to Spotify | NY Times

mediaor:

Reposted from http://nyti.ms/14m5wOg on May 14, 2013 at 06:05PM

The service is expected to be announced as early as Wednesday, and reflects agreements the company has made with the three major music labels.

    
May 14, 2013 9:41 pm
"We don’t realize that our society and our democracy ultimately rest on the stability of middle-class jobs. When I talk to libertarians and socialists, they have this weird belief that everybody’s this abstract robot that won’t ever get sick or have kids or get old. It’s like everybody’s this eternal freelancer who can afford downtime and can self-fund until they find their magic moment or something. The way society actually works is there’s some mechanism of basic stability so that the majority of people can outspend the elite so we can have a democracy. That’s the thing we’re destroying, and that’s really the thing I’m hoping to preserve. So we can look at musicians and artists and journalists as the canaries in the coal mine, and is this the precedent that we want to follow for our doctors and lawyers and nurses and everybody else? Because technology will get to everybody eventually."

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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com (via infoneer-pulse)

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May 10, 2013 6:36 pm

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May 8, 2013 9:09 pm

stoweboyd:

Adobe’s Mighty and Napoleon - digital drawing devices that are ready-to-hand instead of purely present-to-hand (Heidigger’s terms: see Matt Webb’s discussion).

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May 7, 2013 8:44 pm
"For so many years, as we transitioned from physical modes of digital delivery to digital ones, people seemed to have a surprising attraction to ownership. Of course, it was a legal fiction. Music downloaded was licensed and, indeed, the same was always true for software. And consumers were reminded of this every time they accepted terms and conditions but somehow the fact that you never really had to ask permission to use software gave a sense of ownership. I suspect it is a form of repugnance to non-ownership that kept this model going. A decade ago, Microsoft experimented with subscriptions for Office in Australia and failed miserably despite the very high comparative cost of software ‘purchases.’ That suggests a non-economic constraint to me."

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Digitopoly | Goodbye Software Ownership? (via infoneer-pulse)

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May 6, 2013 11:48 pm
Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only
Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers ‘overwhelmingly’ prefer it. Read this article by Stephen Shankland on CNET News.

9:04 pm
"To win at some games, cooperation is better than competition. Unity that arises through a diversity of opinion is stronger than any solitary competitor."

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Cheating to Learn: How a UCLA professor gamed a game theory midterm (via timoneil)

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