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MS would not be proscecuted for anti-trust today. It’s a very different environment.

about 17 hours ago on Mozilla delays blocking advertisers' cookies in Firefox

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Once firefox, safari, and IE (IE does it already too, to a lesser extent) block third party cookies from sites you haven’t visited, Google will be “forced” to do the same with Chrome to remain competitive.

What anti-trust? Google isn’t a monopoly. There are other web browsers, search engines, online maps, and mail providers. Google is even a member of the DAA!

about 21 hours ago on Mozilla delays blocking advertisers' cookies in Firefox 1 reply

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This is inevitably where the web is going. Google and Facebook are ECSTATIC about that.

Everybody purposefully visits Google sites. They can set cookies and track your behavior across the internet. Google runs their own ads, obviously.

Most people purposefully visit facebook. Facebook runs its own ads too, and is its own little enclave within the internet, but it’s a critically important one— many people exclusively use the internet through facebook.

Then you’ve got the third party ad agencies in the Digital Advertising Alliance. All these poor bastards:

http://www.aboutads.info/participating

They’re going to get creamed. When’s the last time you visited 247media.com?

That’s the true story here. It isn’t about public privacy versus the evil advertisers. It’s Google and facebook versus all those other smaller advertisers. They will be destroyed by this.

You just watch— once Firefox turns this on, Chrome will have it too, soon enough. Safari already does it, because Apple has no skin in the game.

about 22 hours ago on Mozilla delays blocking advertisers' cookies in Firefox 1 reply

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This is absolutely incorrect. My home connection is 50 megabits, and I have no problems streaming 1080p video from vimeo, and HD from amazon and netflix. Youtube, on the other hand, is unable to stream HD from 6PM-midnight every single day. It’s a youtube problem.

And as long as it’s free, I shrug and move on, to watch the video later. But if I’m paying, I expect it to work every single time.

12 days ago on Google reportedly launching paid YouTube subscriptions this week

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Yep, needs the Google Reader API.

18 days ago on Digg's Google Reader replacement to launch as beta in June

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I disagree. I certainly haven’t. I’m waiting for a clear winner to shake out of all the google reader diaspora, and that has not happened yet.

I have no data on this, but my guess is that most people will procrastinate and stick with google reader until it stops working, then flail around looking for a replacement.

18 days ago on Digg's Google Reader replacement to launch as beta in June 1 reply

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Google Reader is much more than the website. That’s only half the story.

None of these feed aggregators support the Google Reader API yet. Some of them (notably Feedly and Digg) promise to do this, but none of them do it yet.

Until all these RSS aggregators standardize upon the Google Reader API, the market will remain fragmented. Every RSS app will need to implement separate APIs for each service, like Reeder has already done for Feedbin. That’s not a good option.

They all need to implement the Google Reader API, right now. Then they can compete on an even footing.

18 days ago on Digg's Google Reader replacement to launch as beta in June

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No API that I can see, so you’re missing the point. The google reader website is only part of the problem. We want to keep using our favorite mobile apps.

Implement the google reader API and we’re cool.

20 days ago on Reeder for iPhone now supports standalone RSS and Feedbin, Google Reader no longer required

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Feedly does NOT implement the google reader API… yet. They say they plan to, and that’s awesome. But it’s not ready yet.

20 days ago on Reeder for iPhone now supports standalone RSS and Feedbin, Google Reader no longer required

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Feedbin has its own custom API, and while I have no doubt it’s far cleaner and more feature-rich than the google reader API (which isn’t really an API at all, technically), it’s not standard. We need standard. We need feedly, digg, feedbin, good old reader, tinyrss, and all the others to implement the old google reader API, straight-up. That way every RSS reader app can work with them with minor effort.

If they want to collaborate on a standards-based feed aggregator API afterwards, that would be cool, and make a lot of sense, and make the world a better place. But right now we’ve got all these various services and none of them support the only thing that makes sense!

21 days ago on Reeder for iPhone now supports standalone RSS and Feedbin, Google Reader no longer required 1 reply 1 recommend

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This is a smart strategy, assuming Yahoo! can deliver high-quality, beautiful apps. The weather app qualifies; I haven’t tried the email yet as my iPad is at home.

Imagine if Yahoo! created a messaging app similar to Trillian, Beejive, etc, and integrated yahoo, google talk, jabber, twitter, AIM, ICQ, MSN, google+, facebook, and SMS messages. Now imagine it was GOOD, supported push, and free, with a little yahoo ad at the top of the screen.

Other niches? What if Yahoo invested in purchasing Pocket, or Simplenote, or built a google reader-like RSS service and released an associated high quality mobile app. The possibilities are huge, for a leader with vision.

about 1 month ago on Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort 1 recommend