The Omni Group released two updates for its OmniFocus app for iPhone and iPad today, adding several bug fixes and improvements, iOS 5 compatibility, and a new Location Reminders feature that leverages iOS 5′s geo-fencing APIs to send you a reminder when you’re in the right area to complete an action. The same technology is used by Apple in Reminders, a new native app in iOS 5.
I’ve been playing with Reminders for this very purpose. Silly me — I knew the Omni Group would keep me from straying.
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
This means no change: one website, one account, one password… in other words, no Qwikster.
Decisions like this really should have been made behind close doors. Disagreement and mid-changing is fine, just not in public postings to the company blog.
If you’re one of our customers, this announcement means things will only get better. Typekit will remain a standalone product, as well as become a vital part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Our team will stay together, and we’re excited to start working on even easier ways to integrate web fonts into your workflow.
From the start, our vision has been to make the web more beautiful, readable, and fast. Joining Adobe will give us the opportunity to do that at an even larger scale. This news doesn’t mean we’ve crossed the finish line. Actually, we’ve really only just completed the first lap. The race to improve the web will only get faster. I hope you’re enjoying the ride.
Ryan Dalton at Operation Broken Silence:
Human trafficking is a crime that is changing with the increased connectivity of our world through the internet. While trafficking once was confined to brothels, strip clubs, and massage parlors, modern traffickers are increasingly relying on the anonymity and connectivity provided by the internet to sell victims.
To help fight this, Operation Broken Silence has released two reports this year on Backpage, a website that makes finding sex for sale easier than ever before.
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger:
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data.
Tech stuff aside, those numbers are staggering to me. (If SQL and UUIDs get your juices flowing, read the whole post.)
Verizon on Friday appealed the FCC’s net neutrality order, formally getting the ball rolling on the expected court battle over the controversial Internet rules.
Verizon was a vocal critic of the rules when the FCC adopted them in December, saying that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over broadband and therefore cannot regulate how Internet service providers manage the traffic that flows over their networks.
“We are deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority to impose potentially sweeping and unneeded regulations on broadband networks and services and on the Internet itself,” said Verizon Senior Vice President Michael Glover.
The Kindle will let me have a cheap device that won’t heat up in the blistering summer sun, is light enough to hold and read one handed, won’t be affected by glare from the sun, and I won’t mind reading while standing in the pool because for 80 bucks it’s relatively replaceable.
I pre-ordered the Kindle Touch yesterday, but today, canceled that order and got the basic Kindle.
I think Amazon just built a giant web scraping service. I’m curious to see how this will work in the real world.
Jamie Hyneman, in an interview with USA Today:
Why is our show successful? It’s not like you’re going to get a Ph.D. by watching us, but if you’re sitting on a couch with a beer, you might as well learn something.
I can’t wait for the ninth season to start tomorrow.