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For those saying the Watch is a failure I give you this:

Source: Apple Named Worlds Largest Wearables Vendor With an Estimated 3.5M Apple Watch Shipments in Q1 2017 – Mac Rumors

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Source: Apples Echo-Like Smart Speaker With Siri and AirPlay Could Debut as Early as WWDC – Mac Rumors

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The only one that thinks Mr. Wonderful is Wonderful is himself. I said day one he would be one of the most unpopular and unliked candidates ever. And I was probably right.

There is a big difference between this guy and Trump. This guy is not liked by anyone!!

The Conservative Party revealed late Tuesday that 259,010 party members will be eligible to vote — far more than the 180,000 or so most campaigns initially estimated.

O’Leary said he was surprised by the number and quickly realized that the 35,335 people he claims joined the party to support his cause would not be enough to put him over the top.

Rarely in the history of Canadian politics has so much been said by so many about a candidate who fizzled quite so spectacularly

Source: John Ivison: Kevin O’Leary is out? Mr. Wonderful was barely in

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I have a feeling this will be pretty huge:

Source: Facebook Launches Social VR App ‘Facebook Spaces’ in Beta for Rift – Road to VR

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Demo exploit is inexpensive, remote, scalable—and opens door to more advanced hacks.

Source: Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal—no access required | Ars Technica

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This might actually be something new in the online publishing business that looks interesting. Although not along the lines of news, it does remind me somewhat of how Breaking News app worked when you followed a story. Breaking News was amazing for this but it died so I wonder if this will die in time just the same. Hopefully not.

Series are mobile stories that can be added to over time and unfold card by card with the tap of your finger

Source: Welcome to Series, a new type of story on Medium

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This sums up exactly why AWS (Amazon Web Services) has been so successful:

“First, they said no one will use it, then maybe only startups will use it — but they won’t use it for anything real. Then it was enterprises will never use it, then enterprises will never use it for anything mission critical. Companies and developers voted with their workloads and now [competitors] are in this spot of trying to spin something up and you know, it’s six or seven years late,” Jassy said.

Source: Why AWS has such a big lead in the cloud | TechCrunch

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I can see that YouTube has been testing some changes to what it presents on one’s Home page. This seems to be across all platforms I’ve tried (iPad, AppleTV, web browser). The new changes come in now and then and then it reverts to the old format. My guess is they are testing this by making it available to a subset of users for a period of time.

I hope that during this testing they discover that these changes are HORRIBLE.

They are certainly horrible for me. What used to be a very good feature on the Homepage has all but disappeared. It was a Recommended section. It constantly provided some pretty decent recommended video’s based on my watch history. It actually worked pretty well. And even allowed me to discover new channels for me to subscribe to. I don’t know how I would find things otherwise cause I’m not one to just browse for anything on YouTube. I’m not watching trending video’s or anything else that they might splash in my face. I only watch for things I am subscribed to or searched for based on my interest at the time. Plus the recommendations would help to discover new stuff along the lines of my interests.

So what have they done? They got rid of this Recommended section and replaced it with all sorts of shit like:

• Top Tracks: I’m not on Youtube to watch music videos and I couldn’t care less about this.
• Top Stories: I’m not on Youtube for news so why force it on me.
• Latest Videos: I couldn’t care less what the most recent video’s posted are.
• Trailers: I don’t like to watch movie trailers. Stop trying to force them on me.
• Watch Later: Finally one of the old useful sections. I might want to watch something I marked to watch later.
• Music: More music? WTF is this?
• Trending: And again I couldn’t care less. I’m not into trending videos. I get enough of that shit posted on Facebook (ok, some are good but I’m not hear on Youtube for that).

Now, one time I did find the Recommended section buried way down here somewhere but today its completely gone.

Guess what else is gone? My viewing.

So if YouTube wants to keep viewership up the way to do it is go back to showing me stuff I might actually want to watch rather than shoving stuff in front of me that you think is going to keep my interest. Because guess what, its not going to.

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A big misstep by the startup’s billionaire founder has angered some people and hurt his credibility.

Source: Inside Medium’s meltdown: Evan Williams’ startup – Business Insider

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Given the recent NSA revelations it seems appropriate to now discuss the end of the Internet as we know it and talk about building the new Internet. Calling it Internet 3.0 or something like that doesn’t sound right. We just need a new name. Perhaps UltraNet, MeshNet or OurNet.

Everything on this new OurNet will / should be controlled by end users. We can’t trust governments or corporations to do the right thing.

Net Neutrality is basically dead given the recent ruling in the US. Here is an article on why you need to care about Net Neutrality (or NOT). There is likely no fixing it so lets just forget about it as it will become irrelevant on the new OurNet.

The new OurNet will NOT be accessed through the ISP’s of today or likely any ISP’s at all. Likely it will be based on some sort of wireless mesh network. Likely everything will be encrypted on the new OurNet perhaps something like the TOR network. Currently we are seeing a flood of products and services coming out with encryption for the current Internet. But on this new network this will likely not be necessary as the network itself will be fully secure and encrypted. Although I guess we will see how it develops.

I’m not sure what DNS and Domain registration will look like on the new OurNet. I think they will probably look entirely different than they are now or just be completely different or not required. Again, I’ll be interested to see what develops in this area.

Update Mar 23, 2013: Little did I know that Apple has such a framework for this type of network in iOS7. See this Cult Of Mac article.

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