We Gave Her a Nice Honeymoon

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This week’s episode of The Talk Show, recorded earlier today:

Filmmaker and Timothy Dalton-lookalike Adam Lisagor joins the showto discuss Apple?s tumultuous introduction of Final Cut Pro Xand License to Kill.

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But Not All Walks of Life, I Guess

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Nick Bilton on the growing secrecy in Silicon Valley:

At Google, a company that prides itself on openness, somebuildings were on ?lockdown? to ensure that upcoming productsdon?t leak. Later, a Google employee, who of course asked notto be named for fear of repercussions from their employer, toldme the heightened secrecy was something new for the company.
?It?s a very delicate time in technology right now. Google iscompeting with everyone: Facebook and Twitter on a social level,Apple with mobile, Microsoft with search,? explained the Googleemployee. ?Google has started to realize that they have toprotect upcoming products and adopting secrecy has becomenecessary within the organization.?

Google senior vice president Jonathan Rosenberg in December 2009, on “The Meaning of Open”:

Open will win. It will win on the Internet and will then cascadeacross many walks of life: The future of government istransparency. The future of commerce is information symmetry. Thefuture of culture is freedom. The future of science and medicineis collaboration. The future of entertainment is participation.Each of these futures depends on an open Internet.

(For what it’s worth, though, Larry Page showed Rosenberg the door when he took the CEO helm.)

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XKCD on Google+

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Does anyone not agree that it’s Google’s version of Facebook?

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Xkcd on Google+

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It’s Google’s version of Facebook.

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Tech Industry Organizational Charts

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Brilliant.

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Sandwich on Final Cut Pro X

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Adam Lisagor:

Final Cut Pro is like a soap opera and Apple is the network.You?ve had a character, let?s say Luke and Laura, who?vebeen around, developing their storyline and their romance for adecade. The show?s viewers are heavily invested in Luke andLaura. But the network decides that Luke and Laura represent anold, outmoded character type, and that the new way is young,hip, lean?

Adam is our very special guest star on this week’s The Talk Show, recording this afternoon.

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Joke

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Robert X. Cringely on Apple’s massive North Carolina data center:

But before leaving town I was determined to scope out that $1billion Apple data center in Maiden, NC. So I drove over, tooksome pictures, and talked to folks at the convenience store downthe road. My conclusions from this unscientific research is thatthe giant Apple facility is mainly empty. It?s a huge buildingfilled more or less with nothing and why Apple built it that wayfrankly escapes me. Maybe it?s just a shot across the bow ofGoogle and its $650 million data center in South Carolina.

Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, disputing Cringely’s analysis:

Wow. Did a well-known tech columnist just allege that Apple builtan enormous fake data center? And, in essence, accuse Steve Jobsof modeling data center vaporware when he showed off pictures ofserver rooms filled with gear at the recent WWDC?

Yes.

Cringely’s been half-nuts for years. Now I think he’s full-nuts.

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