“Consumers flock to convenience and right now, Google and Amazon’s music offerings just don’t have that. Apple has messed up cloud offerings in the past (remember the great MobileMe catastrophe?) but this time I’m willing to bet it nails it.”

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Via: Electricpig

A good friend asked me what I thought about Amazon’s ‘Cloud Player’ and ‘Google Music’. I think I gave a good response but this quote sums up my thoughts even better… I missed the most interesting point, that first-mover advantage means little… the iPod certainly wasn’t the first MP3 player… and who remembers the Rio?

“If AR had broken loose in the dotcom days when cash flew around like soap bubbles, man, that would have been psychedelic.”

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Bruce Sterling on the biggest disappointment about Augmented Reality, it hit during a depression.

Via UgoTrade | Augmented Realities at the Edge of the Network

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Glocalness

ˈglōˈkəlˈnes

Neologism of the day

Noun. Global reach and connectivity in your hand, especially augmented reality overlays in local settings.

As in “What flavors of glocalness do you hope/expect to see at Augmented Reality Event this year.”

—via | Augmented Realities at the Edge of the Network

Why do I need this?

So I can crush everyone at Speedball 2 on my Mac!

Inception re-told via the medium of desktop folders

(via curiosity counts - Inception told through folders. Pure gold.)

“Jemima Khan… in a series of “intimate photos” with Jeremy Clarkson, a set of images that categorically have never existed in the real world, yet are now being published, enhanced and reprinted inside our own rich imaginations. I see a new one each time I blink. Often they move. Many are in 3D. All are unforgivably graphic. In the vast majority of them, Clarkson’s wearing a look of tense concentration mixed with bewildered amazement. Occasionally he’s weeping.”

—Charlie Brooker on Winning a superinjunction