Planned Parenthood Action Center

post from Daring Fireball on 02 February 2012 09:04:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

If you’re as disappointed with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation’s decision to drop funding for breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood, do what I did: donate to Planned Parenthood.

(Cupertino-area readers, take note: Planned Parenthood is a registered 501(3)c, and thus eligible for a matching donation from Apple.)

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iTunes Store Credit 20 Percent Off

post from Daring Fireball on 02 February 2012 08:05:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

The good news: Best Buy is selling iTunes gift cards at 80 cents on the dollar.

The bad news: you have to shop at Best Buy.

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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=10
50088168467408812&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=iTunes+(Digital+Delivery)&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&AID=10597222&PID=5527868&URL=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=1050088168467408812&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=iTunes+%28Digital+Delivery26sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&ref=39&CJPID=5527868&loc=01

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Microsoft Pushes for Plugin-Free Web

post from Daring Fireball on 02 February 2012 08:05:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

John Hrvatin from the Internet Explorer team:

The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Anysite that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customersexperience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsingtoday happens on devices that simply don?t support plug-ins.Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to runplug-in free.
Metro style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as wellas security, reliability, and privacy for consumers.

How long until Google joins the party?

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/01/31/web-sites-and-a-plug-in-free-web.as
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Zuckerbergs Share

post from Daring Fireball on 02 February 2012 06:04:01 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nick Bilton and Evelyn Rusli, reporting for the NYT on who’s profiting from the Facebook IPO:

Mr. Zuckerberg, 27, has 533.8 million shares, worth $28.4 billionbased on a company valuation of $100 billion, or $53 a share. Healso has undisputed control of the company, a remarkableachievement since the company has received financing from some ofthe world?s top business minds. He owns 28.4 percent of thecompany outright and he controls 57 percent of the voting rights. [?]
Bill Gates controlled only 49.2 percent of Microsoft as it wentpublic in 1986. Google?s co-founders, Larry Page and SergeyBrin, each owned about 15 percent of their company when it wentpublic in 2004.

I’m not much interested in and don’t use Facebook, so I seldom write about them. But that Zuckerberg was able to hold onto so much stock and an astounding majority of the voting rights is proof that his success is no fluke. The guy must be a badass at the negotiating table.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/for-founders-to-decorators-facebook-
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Five-Year-Old Analyzes Logos

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Astute and adorable.

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http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/in_brief_5-year-old_analyzes_
logos.php

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Caviar and Champagne

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This week’s episode of America’s second-best podcast features discussion regarding Macworld/iWorld, the evolution and future of cameras and camera makers, and Apple’s Chinese manufacturing partners.

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http://5by5.tv/talkshow/77

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Backpedalling

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Shawn King on Violet Blue’s odd response to having it pointed out that the Macworld/iWorld “booth babe” she wrote about was not a booth babe:

All is not lost. I have a solution for Violet Blue and ZDNet.First, offer a public apology to Piroska Szurmai-Palotai.Secondly, restore the story to its original writing. Yes, both areembarrassing actions but ones that real journalists recognize mustbe done from time to time. Offer a sincere mea culpa to both thedeveloper, the Mac Community and to journalists everywhere.
And finally, offer to pay for the same booth for Ms PiroskaSzurmai-Palotai and her company at next year?s Macworld.

Dangers of Fracking

Clever, informative website by Linda Dong.

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http://www.dangersoffracking.com/

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Having a Wee Bit of Trouble

Siri comes to Scotland.

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http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/02/02/apple-scotland-having-a-wee-bit-of-trouble/

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Comparison of First Seven Quarters: iPod, iPhone,
iPod

Nice little chart from the great Horace Dediu. If you asked me what the most underrated aspect of Apple is today, I’d say it’s the speed at which iPad sales have grown. The iPhone took off fast, but the iPad has taken off way, way faster. I suspect many Apple watchers consider the iPad an iPhone-like success — but it’s far bigger.

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