I forget what it was called, or even who had it (a social media site?, maybe Blogger?), but it was a service that slideshowed images that users were uploading. It was a good way to waste time. It was a site that seemed to have users that would post interesting images, and it was fun to see some of them. You could pause it, I believe.
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#982Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, we are right at the middle of that craze. A group of buzz makers tries to steal the glory from the real titans under disguise of so called disruption. All without delivering the real value, but with tons of religious preaching. The computing industry probably reached the levels of Hollywood in 1930s where every Joe and Mary were going to make it. It clearly is a fad, but at the same time we have to face the fact…
As much as I wish you were correct, but I don't know if this is the "middle". It's all speculation. Hell, maybe tomorrow will be the day that social media will be banned and punishable by death by the Hague. But, I personally don't foresee too much of a slow down until there's a catastrophe due to it. Theranos I think is a good case study as to how the whole cult/religion mindset in tech is stupid and potentially dan…
Great summary of the situation. Also the reason why my reply will not be seen by almost anyone.
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#983last.fm. the best music discovery community. I wish I could afford to buy it back from whoever owns it now and is letting it die slowly.
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#984Miss Google Reader.
Now I have to host a miniflux to have relatively similar experience. Still, GR was much more convenient.
Miss Mr.Reader as a RSS client on iPad. Miss AlienBlue Reddit client.
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#985Sparrow (email client)
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#986All nationally emblematic products that have now be sent to China for production. (I am Swiss, so when I see a pure "Swiss product" actually made in China, I feel uncomfortable about the marketing trying to highlight the Swissness of a Chinese product especially when they are considered luxury: Bally shoes, Sigg bottles, ...)
A US state went so far as to ban sale of US flags not made in the country. It was seen as a xenophobic statement then, but starting to change now.
You have to watch this "Confederate shop supplier from China" (Whole video is amazing): https://youtu.be/RDd10-poMm8?t=900
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#987Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.
Agreed. I'm sure there were many reasons it died, but my theory is that Google strategically wanted to kill it because the User was in control of the data-sources and the algorithm. Google wanted people to migrate to Google+, News, etc. where they control what you see. This is what Facebook and Twitter did. Their feeds used to be a simple chrono sort of sources you determined, but then they slowly took control. In my…
Amen to the above. There are alternatives... But GR was by far the best.
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#988Physical qwerty keyboards on phones. I still miss the Motorola Droid 3 after all these years. photo: https://bit.ly/2yXQWU3
On-screen keyboards are good and all, but there has never been as great a feeling as sliding out a full keyboard and wailing on it. I doubt I'll ever be as fast with an on-screen interface as I was with actually typing on a physical keyboard.
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#990Be and BeOS!
Before they added the POSIX layer and got desperate. Their OO framework the entire OS supported was amazing, but POSIX just meant it was another also-ran:
Oh, look, we can run GIMP too... great Be, bravo... sigh