Plus Bing's bad return, mobiles not guilty on tumours, tools to build Google+, and xkcd on those tumour findings
A burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
This is what Twitter does not want to happen, part four >> Mike Cane's xBlog
"It is even worse than it appears for Twitter. The Google+ APIs are coming. When that happens, third-party Twitter clients will start baking in Google+ integration, especially because Twitter has been kicking their developers all year. "What does Twitter do in response? "Do nothing? The bleeding increases. Backbone users, after all, are big fans of third-party clients. "Kick developers who dare to integrate with Google+? That sounds like it would generate a devastating backlash. "Buy more clients / pay developers to favor Twitter? That doesn't sound sustainable. "Alternatives?"
The difference, though, is that an app for Google+ will need to be able to show the huge amounts of verbiage and comments that people add to it. Tolerable on a smartphone, but not so easy - oddly enough - on the desktop.
Make a bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion installer from a USB flash drive >> OSX Daily
People thinking of upgrading may find this useful.
Research In Motion: Needham wonders If It could disappear >> Forbes
Analyst Charles Wolf at Needham has an existential concern: ""To say RIM's first quarter results and second quarter guidance were ugly is an understatement," he writes. "Notwithstanding management's enthusiastic endorsement of BlackBerry OS 7 devices that should arrive by September, it's unlikely they will have any material impact on RIM's downward trajectory." He adds that it is an "open question" is adopting QNX as the OS for future devices can save the day, noting that it "does not address RIM's inability to design a user interface int he class of iPhone and Android." "RIM isn't dead, but it looks more and more like the walking dead – a zombie company. Writes Wolf: 'Unless the company cracks the code in the consumer market, RIM's likely to become a shadow of its former self.'"
But surely RIM has got a good handle on consumers - it's just not able to charge premium prices?
This Is what Microsoft Is getting for Its big Bing investment >> Business Insider Chart of the Day
"After spending billions of dollars over the last two years fighting Google with Bing, what does Microsoft have to show for it? "Not much from a marketshare perspective. The latest comScore data shows Bing's share is at 14.4%, and it's not exactly growing like a weed."
More like a stick, really.
US ISP flip-flops: why do they now support "six strikes" plan? >> Ars Technica
"White House arm-twisting had something to do with it. As we reported on Thursday, the White House has been credited with "brokering" the deal. It's not clear what that means, but perhaps administration officials hinted that if ISPs didn't agree to a voluntary graduated response system, the administration would throw its weight behind a legislative solution. "McFadden wouldn't comment on whether White House inducements were a factor in Verizon's decision. But those meetings at the White House sound a lot like the "multi-stakeholder process" envisioned in an international report signed in Paris last month. That document explicitly contemplates using the threat of intermediary liability as a stick to get ISPs to "voluntarily" sign up for the role of copyright cop."
Just like in the UK, in fact. Except that the UK progressed to law, and even then ISPs don't like it.
Oops: Microsoft accidentally reveals secret social project >> VentureBeat
"Microsoft is working on a social/design project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. "As of Thursday, Microsoft has taken down the splash page and replaced it with a message acknowledging the project. "'Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest,' the message states."
Can the world bear another giant company building a social network? However, the suggestion is that it would tie into Facebook and Twitter - and the interface looks like the "tiles" of the forthcoming Windows 8. It could just be misdirection.
New tumor trial rules mobiles 'not guilty' >> The Register
"The verdict from latest "Do mobile phones fry your brain?" study is in, and the answer is a resounding "Nope". "This new study was a monster: based on data from 2.8 million Danes, it studied the comparative likelihood of long-term users, newer users, and non-users of mobiles coming down with a non-cancerous form of brain tumor."
Will this satisfy the tin hat brigade?
Google+ built using tools you can use too: Closure, Java Servlets, JavaScript, BigTable, Colossusc>> High Scalability blog
"Our stack is pretty standard fare for Google apps these days: we use Java servlets for our server code and JavaScript for the browser-side of the UI, largely built with the (open-source) Closure framework, including Closure's JavaScript compiler and template system....we use the HTML5 History API to maintain pretty-looking URLs even though it's an AJAX app (falling back on hash-fragments for older browsers); and we often render our Closure templates server-side so the page renders before any JavaScript is loaded, then the JavaScript finds the right DOM nodes and hooks up event handlers, etc. to make it responsive (as a result, if you're on a slow connection and you click on stuff really fast, you may notice a lag before it does anything, but luckily most people don't run into this in practice). "Our backends are built mostly on top of BigTable and Colossus/GFS, and we use a lot of other common Google technologies such as MapReduce (again, like many other Google apps do)."
Cell Phones >> xkcd
As ever, check the alt text.
3D Printers and unintended consequences >> xkcd
You didn't think of this. Now you will.
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