In the twinkling of an eye

World Cup Prediction Failures

The answer is no.

World Cup Prediction Failures: “pdcull writes ‘We all read on Slashdot about the investiment banks using their massive computer power and clever modelling techniques to predict the FIFA World Cup outcome. Now that Goldman Sachs’s, UBS’s and Danske Bank’s favorite, Brazil, has been eliminated, and with JP Morgan’s England long gone, the question that begs to be asked is: can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?’

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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(Via Slashdot.)

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Apple Considering Rebranding Mac OS X Under New ‘iOS’ Umbrella?

An increasing number of people are concerned that Mac OS X as a computer OS may be on the way out. That would not be a good thing.

Apple Considering Rebranding Mac OS X Under New ‘iOS’ Umbrella?: “

Hardmac reports that it has heard that Apple is considering rebranding Mac OS X under the new ‘iOS’ name recently rolled out as a replacement for ‘iPhone OS’. The change would serve as a means for uniting…”

(Via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors.)

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A VC: I’ve Changed My Mind About The iPad

This mirrors a lot of my experience with the iPad:

A VC: I’ve Changed My Mind About The iPad: ”
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2010
I’ve Changed My Mind About The iPad
I got an iPad for our home when the wifi version first came out. I used it for a day and then wrote a post about the iPad on the iPad. I was not very enthusiastic about the device. At the end of the review I said:

Over time it may turn into a mainstream computing platform but I don’t think it is there yet and I don’t think Apple has the kind of hit on its hands that it had with the iPhone.

Over the past week, I have fallen in love with the thing. And so I am telling you why.
It may be the best email device I have ever owned. It took me a while to warm up the way Gmail is rendered on the iPad and I really miss my Google Labs hacks, but I prefer doing email on the iPad to my two phones and my laptop right now.

Part of it is the fact that I can go out on my terrace with a cup of coffee, a glass of lemonade, or a glass of wine and do email in a relaxed mood. If my wife “

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Google Calendar and iPad – Two Way Sync

Here is how it is setup.

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Froyo and NPR

An app I use everyday is NPR. I noticed that with the upgrade to Froyo, this app can play individual stories but streams see to be nonfunctional. Looks like I’m not the only one experiencing this. Hopefully an upgrade to the app will be forthcoming once the “official” version of Froyo is released.

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You can learn something everyday.

If you hold down the Home key on the Nexus One it brings up the last 6 used apps.

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Dr. Xinyue Ye

One of the fine rituals in academic life is graduation. How often do you get to dress up in Harry Potter like costumes and see well deserved honors bestowed upon great friends and new scholars? Yesterday brought such a day my way and I had the great honor and pleasure of hooding Dr. Xinye Ye:

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Google Calendar and Nexus One

For some unknown reason, calendars that I had deleted on the web were still showing up on my phone. This seemed odd to me, and perhaps there is some strange thing I did that interrupted the usual failsafe syncing between the N1 and my web calendar, but there is a solution.

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But will it work at the beach?

From everything I’ve read, it seems the one killer advantage of the Kindle over the iPad is that it can be read in the great outdoors while the iPad cannot. I’m wondering how this might be factored into any new kindle that seems to be in the works.

From The New York Times:

With a Kindle Hiring Spree, Amazon Gears Up for Battle With Apple
A new wave of job listings on Amazon’s Kindle job board shows the company hard at work on its newest version of the Kindle.

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The truly social web

A nice explication of the silo that Facebook represents. Beyond the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, I think the more troubling issue is the Balkanization that could result as it continues to attract unsuspecting users. While their local social graph strengthens this would come at a cost of a thinner global social graph out on the larger net.

DIGITAL DOMAIN: World’s Largest Social Network: The Open Web

Facebook’s hybrid of public and private access runs contrary to the Web’s openness and connectedness.

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