Tired of Google+ already? Here are the steps to delete your account:
This is a permeant change, and cannot be undone. If you re-join Google+ in the future, your previously-entered information will not be present.
I got an invite to Google+ tonight, and decided to give it a shot.
On paper, Google+ seems a ton better than Facebook. I think the whole Circles thing is pretty genius. The ability to group people and filter content by those groups is something Facebook has been in need of for quite some time.
All that to say, I’m trying to give this new network a shot. Now, it’s important to disclose that I’m not on Facebook and that I don’t trust Google all that much. I don’t like the idea of my data being used to show me ads. (That’s another post.)
The TouchPad is far from perfect — really, not even close right now. Still, there is DNA here that is amazing, and deserves to be given a second look. What HP has done in just a year with webOS is commendable, and if the fixes for some of these big, ugly bugs come as fast as the company is promising, the TouchPad could be the contender everyone over there thinks it is.
Abdur Chowdhury over on the Twitter blog:
During major events, people use Twitter to share news and thoughts with friends, family and followers around the world. Messages originating in one place are quickly spread across the globe through Retweets, @replies and Direct Messages. We see this behavior during everything from sporting events like the World Cup to widely-televised news events like the royal wedding, and also in the face of major disasters like the March 11 earthquake in Japan, where the volume of Tweets sent per second spiked to more than 5,000 TPS five separate times after the quake and ensuing tsunami.
My buddy Ian Hines, in a post about Molly Zametkin:
Yet as someone who lives and breathes on the internet, I can very closely relate to her concerns about how your Google search results can affect your reputation. ADHD is strongly associated with unreliability and underachievement — two things no budding professional wants to highlight at the top of their resume.
But what I think Molly has realizing — and what I’d emphasize to anyone in a similar situation who may be reading this — is the simple truth that while you may have ADHD, you aren’t ADHD. Your condition does not define who you are, anymore than poor vision or asthma would.
Francis Tan, describing my new favorite infographic:
If your startup is getting ready to expand but you have no idea how to handle your newly hired underlings, take it from those who have navigated galactic asteroid fields, staged rebellions against empires and mastered the art of the Jedi Mind Trick.
While I’m very happy with Typekit, this collection isn’t too shabby.
Former Shake product designer Ron Brinkmann:
And back then the same questions were being asked as now – “Doesn’t Apple care about the professional market?”
In a word, no. Not really. Not enough to focus on it as a primary business.
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So if you’re really a professional you shouldn’t want to be reliant on software from a company like Apple. Because your heart will be broken. Because they’re not reliant on you. Use Apple’s tools to take you as far as they can – they’re an incredible bargain in terms of price-performance. But once you’re ready to move up to the next level, find yourself a software provider whose life-blood flows only as long as they keep their professional customers happy. It only makes sense.
Josh Ong, on the designer of the original Mac and his work at Google:
Hertzfeld admitted to having taken a risk with the design.“It wasn’t a given that anyone would like what I was doing, but they did,” he said.
“I’ve heard in the past that Larry Page he didn’t like animations but that didn’t stop me from putting in a lot of animations in, and Larry told me he loves it,” he continued. “Maybe Apple’s resurgence had a little bit to do with it."
Google still wants to organize the world’s information. But this time, it’s personal.
Yet another social media network I won’t be joining. Except that maybe I can’t ignore it as much as I want to:
Another twist is that people in your circles don’t have to be members of Google’s social net. If Aunt Mary refuses to opt in, you can include her anyway, and she can still get the pictures you post to the circle via e-mail.
For months, I believed that Apple’s next iPhone was going to be a 3GS-type update. That is, an update to the internals of the phone, but with the same external case.
This sort of update just made sense to me for a long time. The iPhone 4 was a huge step forward from the previous models, and I couldn’t see Apple moving away from it after a single generation. The iPhone 4 is simply beautiful.