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		<title>Please Let MGM Implode This Giant Vegas Hotel [Desired]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>				I&#8217;m sure that there are any number of financial, municipal, even ethical reasons why MGM Resorts International shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to implode the 27-story Harmon Tower, before it&#8217;s hosted a single guest. Counterpoint: BOOOOOOOM. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.				More&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
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		<title>Why Google’s One Pass Could Be a Ticket to Nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has gotten a lot of attention for the launch of One Pass, the all-in-one subscription plan for publishers that the search giant revealed earlier today &#8212; primarily because it made for a nice counterpoint to Apple&#8217;s new in-app subscription system, which launched on Tuesday. While Apple&#8217;s offering is closed and takes a big chunk [...]]]></description>
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<p>Google has gotten a lot of attention for the launch of One Pass, the all-in-one subscription plan for publishers that the search giant revealed earlier today &#8212; primarily because it made for a nice counterpoint to Apple&#8217;s new in-app subscription system, which launched on Tuesday. While Apple&#8217;s offering is closed and takes a big chunk of the revenue from publishers, Google&#8217;s takes a much smaller cut &#8212; and because it is based on the web and not on controlling access to a walled garden, Google&#8217;s system is much more open. That said, however, it&#8217;s not at all clear that publishers are going to get anywhere by signing up for it, open or not.</p>
<p>The main benefits of Google&#8217;s plan are fairly obvious: it doesn&#8217;t force publishers to provide the company with preferential access to their customers, the way Apple does by requiring in-app purchasing for all subscription services, and Google is only taking 10 percent of the revenue that any publishers bring in via its payment system, while Apple takes 30 percent of all subscription fees. On top of that, as MG Siegler notes, the One Pass system provides publishers with access to information about those who sign up &#8212; names, email addresses, zip codes and so on &#8212; which is crucial data that content companies use to market their services to advertisers. Apple turns this option off by default, and users have to opt in.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the good news. And the bad news? The bad news is that Google&#8217;s One Pass is pretty much just a warmed-over content paywall. All it does is collect the money for publishers who want to try and put up a toll-booth around their content. In fact, the thing that it resembles the most &#8212; as Josh Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab notes &#8212; is the Journalism Online Press+ system that entrepreneur Steven Brill and former Wall Street Journal executive Gordon Crovitz have been peddling to newspapers and magazines for the past year or more, without much success.</p>
<p>Like that system, Google&#8217;s service is essentially designed to handle the payment processing for multiple subscription sites, so that users can theoretically sign up for dozens of them and not have to worry about being nickel and dimed by each one. There&#8217;s just one problem: there&#8217;s no sign that users have any interest in doing this &#8212; or at least, not in large enough numbers to make it work for anyone other than perhaps The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. Those who have put up new paywalls, including The Times of London, have seen the vast majority of their readers disappear into the wind.</p>
<p>One of the reasons why users of Apple products like the iPhone and the iPad seem a lot more willing to pay for things like apps is because the experience is so much better and paying is so easy. But despite that, magazine and newspaper publishers have have had little success so far in getting people to pay for their apps. Why would it be any easier with Google&#8217;s One Pass? If anything, it&#8217;s likely to be even harder, because it&#8217;s based on the open web &#8212; and users are likely to notice that all around them is free content, while iPhone and iPad apps do a fairly good job of disguising that fact.</p>
<p>So congratulations to Google for making some hay with its launch, but any publisher who sees One Pass as some kind of golden ticket is dreaming in technicolor.</p>
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		<title>Why Apple Banned Sex Apps: We Were Getting Complaints From Women [Apple]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/wobble26.jpg"><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_wobble26.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" /></a>Over the past few days we've watched <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5475270/apple-removes-an-innocent-boob+jiggling-app-from-the-app-store">app</a> after <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5477659/swimsuit-catalog-banned-while-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-app-remains-in-app-store">app</a> after <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5477545/apple-rejects-a-non+sexual-non+violent-non+alcoholic-app-for-reasons-unknown">app</a> become a <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5477566/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war">casualty</a> in Apple's gradual <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5476484/forbidden-apple-on-the-death-of-iphone-sex-apps">clean up of the App Store</a>&#8212;a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened:</p>
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<p>It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see.</p>
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<p>As those women ignore the existence of parental controls, Schiller continues to explain that Apple "obviously care[s] about developers, but in the end ha[s] to put the needs of the kids and parents first." Somehow that's supposed to help us understand why Sports Illustrated's and FHM's apps remain in the <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #appstore" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/appstore/">App Store</a>:</p>
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<p>When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. "The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format," he said.</p>
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<p>So the lesson is that as long as your parents and grandparents recognize the brand, it's acceptable wanking material? Or is it that if enough mums complain about fart apps then those too will be purged from the App Store?</p>
<p>As <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5476484/forbidden-apple-on-the-death-of-iphone-sex-apps">we've said before</a>:</p>
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<p>What's sad about this is that in Apple's early years, it was somewhat of a counterpoint to corporate computing for suits, by suits. They were supposed to make computers for people, by real humans. Founded by a man who asked potential employees when they lost their virginity as part of an interview. Today we have a company that has baby music in its commercials, like we're all 10 year old idiots who have never heard the word fuck&#8212;let alone have fucked&#8212;and need to be protected from little programs that may have breasts in them.</p>
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<p>Then again, Steve Jobs knows his legacy and it isn't sex apps. It's great hardware and software.</p>
<p>But why the hell can't gadget porn and real porn coexist? [<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/technology/23apps.html?src=twr&#38;pagewanted=all">NYT</a> via <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/schiller-app-store-sex/">Tech Crunch</a>]</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F4%2F2010%2F02%2Fwobble26.jpg&sref=rss"><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_wobble26.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" /></a>Over the past few days we&#8217;ve watched <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5475270%2Fapple-removes-an-innocent-boob%2Bjiggling-app-from-the-app-store&sref=rss">app</a> after <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5477659%2Fswimsuit-catalog-banned-while-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-app-remains-in-app-store&sref=rss">app</a> after <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5477545%2Fapple-rejects-a-non%2Bsexual-non%2Bviolent-non%2Balcoholic-app-for-reasons-unknown&sref=rss">app</a> become a <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5477566%2F5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war&sref=rss">casualty</a> in Apple&#8217;s gradual <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5476484%2Fforbidden-apple-on-the-death-of-iphone-sex-apps&sref=rss">clean up of the App Store</a>&mdash;a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened:</p>
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<p>It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see.</p>
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<p>As those women ignore the existence of parental controls, Schiller continues to explain that Apple &#8220;obviously care[s] about developers, but in the end ha[s] to put the needs of the kids and parents first.&#8221; Somehow that&#8217;s supposed to help us understand why Sports Illustrated&#8217;s and FHM&#8217;s apps remain in the <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #appstore" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fappstore%2F&sref=rss">App Store</a>:</p>
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<p>When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration. &#8220;The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p>So the lesson is that as long as your parents and grandparents recognize the brand, it&#8217;s acceptable wanking material? Or is it that if enough mums complain about fart apps then those too will be purged from the App Store?</p>
<p>As <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5476484%2Fforbidden-apple-on-the-death-of-iphone-sex-apps&sref=rss">we&#8217;ve said before</a>:</p>
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<p>What&#8217;s sad about this is that in Apple&#8217;s early years, it was somewhat of a counterpoint to corporate computing for suits, by suits. They were supposed to make computers for people, by real humans. Founded by a man who asked potential employees when they lost their virginity as part of an interview. Today we have a company that has baby music in its commercials, like we&#8217;re all 10 year old idiots who have never heard the word fuck&mdash;let alone have fucked&mdash;and need to be protected from little programs that may have breasts in them.</p>
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<p>Then again, Steve Jobs knows his legacy and it isn&#8217;t sex apps. It&#8217;s great hardware and software.</p>
<p>But why the hell can&#8217;t gadget porn and real porn coexist? [<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F02%2F23%2Ftechnology%2F23apps.html%3Fsrc%3Dtwr%26%23038%3Bpagewanted%3Dall&sref=rss">NYT</a> via <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2010%2F02%2F22%2Fschiller-app-store-sex%2F&sref=rss">Tech Crunch</a>]</p>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Short version: An excellent backpack for bloggers or the Batman. It has a ton of pockets and compartments, lots of space, a padded laptop section, and a water-resistant exterior. Its main flaws: no good spot for a big camera, and no readily accessible outside pockets.

Features:

Laptop compartment fits up to 17&#8243;
About a gazillion sub-pockets
Water-resistant outside
Wide-mouth cargo [...]]]></description>
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<strong>Short version:</strong> An excellent backpack for bloggers or the Batman. It has a ton of pockets and compartments, lots of space, a padded laptop section, and a water-resistant exterior. Its main flaws: no good spot for a big camera, and no readily accessible outside pockets.<br />
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<strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Laptop compartment fits up to 17&#8243;</li>
<li>About a gazillion sub-pockets</li>
<li>Water-resistant outside</li>
<li>Wide-mouth cargo section for easy access</li>
<li>MSRP: $149.95</li>
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<p><strong>Pros:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Comfortable</li>
<li>Roomy, lots of pockets for thermite, batarangs</li>
<li>Sleek and understated design</li>
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<p><strong>Cons:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>No good place for your DSLR and lenses</li>
<li>Few outside pockets</li>
<li>Expensive!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Full review:</strong></p>
<p>At the end of Bag Week, we had just received the Booq Mamba Shift, and I didn&#8217;t want to give it a rush review. We were about to head to CES, and I thought that&#8217;d be a great place to put the thing through its paces anyway &mdash; so I did, and it performed admirably with some minor caveats. Before anything else, though, here&#8217;s the video tour of the thing that I put together, so you know what I&#8217;m talking about.</p>
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<p>So I won&#8217;t waste your time with descriptions &mdash; you can see for yourself above and in the pictures just how it looks. I want to add the result of some hands-on time with the thing.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/MSHL-BLK12s.jpg" alt="" title="MSHL-BLK12s" width="400" height="266" class="alignright size-full wp-image-137578" />Basically, it&#8217;s great. CES is a madhouse and not only are you trucking around the convention center for miles at a time, but whatever bag you&#8217;ve got is going to be a mess of cables and devices. Luckily, the wealth of smaller, well-laid-out pockets on the interior of the bag made separating my card readers, generic cables, power adapters, 3G modems, and all that stuff easy as pie.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a ton of padding and the straps are comfortable. No complaints there. The backpack itself is very well put together, having very few seams to unravel or edges to catch on things. The counterpoint to that is that there are very few outside pockets, so if you like having a water bottle or point and shoot within reach, you&#8217;re out of luck.</p>
<p>The main trouble I had with it was that it was not at all optimized for camera gear. The bottom of the cargo pocket is quite narrow, and had trouble fitting my Rebel XSi, which anyone can tell you isn&#8217;t a big camera. Furthermore, the pockets are obviously designed for separating small items from one another, not for carrying anything bulky &mdash; so if you want an extra lens around, it too will have to sit in the undefined middle space. Obviously this isn&#8217;t a problem if you&#8217;re not a photographer, but the result for me was that I had to carry my camera separately most of the time.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also the issue of price. $150 is a lot to pay for a backpack, though the Mamba Shift L is both large and high-quality. So it&#8217;s not that you don&#8217;t get what you pay for, but whether you&#8217;re willing to drop the cash in the first place. Personally, I might save $50 and go with the <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crunchgear.com%2F2009%2F12%2F14%2Fbag-week-booq-boa-squeeze%2F&sref=rss">Boa Squeeze.</a></p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>The Booq Mamba Shift L is a terrific backpack for anyone who carts a laptop around a lot, but doesn&#8217;t need room for a camera. The L of course means it&#8217;s the large version, so if you have a smaller laptop it might be worthwhile to wait for an M to come out.</p>
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		<title>Why We All Need to Calm Down About the Google Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_500x_nexussss.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" />If you've <em>seen</em> the internet (or Giz) this weekend, you've heard about it: the "real <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #googlephone" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/googlephone/">Google phone</a>" that "<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5425146/the-real-google-phone-everything-is-different-now">changes everything</a>." But before we get carried away, a counterpoint: Google isn't magic. And the <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #nexusone" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/nexusone/">Nexus One</a> isn't a game-changer. Not yet.</p>

<p>And I don't mean to say that I don't understand what the Nexus One is, or what Google's trying to do. Nor am I saying that Google plan for the Nexus One&#8212;to offer a different type of cellphone buying experience than US customers are accustomed to, and to provide a model for future Android handset&#8212;is a particularly bad one. I'm saying that I don't get the hype: Google's Nexus one is an <em>interesting experiment</em>, not some kind of heroically disruptive Google coup, as many people, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5425146/the-real-google-phone-everything-is-different-now">changes everything"&#62;including us</a>, have implied. Consider the facts:</p>
<p><strong>It's an <em>HTC Android handset</em></strong>. This means that on a material level, it's barely more of a Google phone than the G1&#8212;which Google passively oversaw&#8212;or the Motorola Droid&#8212;which Google actively helped design. And hey, people remember: Google still isn't a hardware company. Not even close.</p>
<p><strong>The hardware isn't revolutionary.</strong> It's the third (<a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/xperia-x10">at</a> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/acer-liquid">least</a>) Snapdragon-powered Android phone we've heard about. It's got a 5-megapixel camera. It's got dual microphones, to help with noise reduction. It's fairly thin. These are nice features for a new phone, but they're more or less exactly what we'd <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5400593/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy">expect</a> HTC to be working on next.</p>
<p><strong>It's pretty much running Android 2.0</strong>. People are talking a lot about how Google had full control over the Nexus One user experience, and how it's going to be unlike any other Android we've ever seen before. But we've seen other builds of 2.1, albiet covered in the Sense UI, leaked <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5415127/leaked-shots-android-21-running-on-htc-hero">for the HTC Hero</a> (spoiler: not that impressive), and combined with the early glimpses we've caught from spy shots, they give the feeling that 2.1 isn't much of a step up from 2.0, which is what the <a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/motorola-droid">Droid</a> ships with, which, mind you, Motorola doesn't seem to have touched almost at all. As far as I can tell, the Nexus One will have some pretty new UI flourishes, and maybe a few UX changes. Again: this is typical, paced progress, not a drastic overhaul.</p>
<p><strong>The new business model isn't really new</strong>. Even the most breathless commentary on the Nexus One admits that what it <em>means</em> is more important than what's on its spec sheet. And yeah, it'll be the first phone marketed as <em>the</em> Google phone, and Google's sales strategy&#8212;to offer the device without contract first, and probably unlocked, with a (<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5425732/google-nexus-one-phone-gets-fcc-detailing">hardware limited</a>&#8212;possibly just to T-Mobile, if you care about 3G) choice of carriers&#8212;is foreign to the US market. But it's far from unheard of&#8212;you can buy unlocked phones at Best Buy, for God's sake. Oh, and Nokia's been handling their US smartphone releases like this for years. It hasn't gone well.</p>
<p><strong>Google doesn't have superpowers.</strong> Using their unmatched internet superpowers, Google can do more to convince the general public that an expensive, unsubsidized phone is a good idea than Nokia, whose marketing efforts have been wimpy and ineffective. But they can't do anything <em>crazy</em>, like give this thing away. They can sell it for cheap by relying on their own advertising network&#8212;or hell, their homepage&#8212;for advertising, as well as the massive press coverage they're already getting, and selling it at little to no profit. To be able to match carriers' prices, though, will be a stretch: A Verizon or a T-Mobile can absorb the cost of a phone in month-to-month fees and overage charges. What does Google have? Theoretical future Adsense revenue?</p>
<p>Even if what we see now is exactly what we're going to get, the Nexus One is something worth paying attention to&#8212;it will be a way for Google to demonstrate what their vision for Android is without carrier interference. They'll control the software experience on the phone; they'll control how it's updated; they'll control what software is and isn't allowed on it. And they <em>could</em> use it to convey an vision for Google Voice, in which Google supplies your number, your nonstandard calling rates and your texting allowance, while carriers simply supply a neutral, dumb and ultimately out-of-sight cellular connection. But even if that is what they're doing&#8212;we don't know!&#8212;the Nexus One is a first step. It'll be an early product to guide the progress of an industry, not the product that'll define it.</p>
<p>Whenever we talk about Google, we need to factor in a little windage. They're buzzy, they're huge, and they've thrown plenty of other industries curveballs before. This phone sits at the hype nexus (for lack of a better word) of Google Voice, Android, Google's online services and HTC. For now, to say that the Nexus One has somehow changed everything is to buy into these company's hype too earnestly, to ascribe to Google mystical qualities, and to take for granted a series of future actions that Google hasn't even hinted at fulfilling yet. Apple isn't the only company tech watchers recklessly project onto.</p>
<p>Or, to <a href="http://twitter.com/mattbuchanan/status/6664097728">compress it to 140 characters or less</a>: "The Google phone matters as much as Google makes it matter." For now, people, <em>calm down</em>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_500x_nexussss.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" />If you&#8217;ve <em>seen</em> the internet (or Giz) this weekend, you&#8217;ve heard about it: the &#8220;real <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #googlephone" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fgooglephone%2F&sref=rss">Google phone</a>&#8221; that &#8220;<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5425146%2Fthe-real-google-phone-everything-is-different-now&sref=rss">changes everything</a>.&#8221; But before we get carried away, a counterpoint: Google isn&#8217;t magic. And the <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #nexusone" href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fnexusone%2F&sref=rss">Nexus One</a> isn&#8217;t a game-changer. Not yet.</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t mean to say that I don&#8217;t understand what the Nexus One is, or what Google&#8217;s trying to do. Nor am I saying that Google plan for the Nexus One&mdash;to offer a different type of cellphone buying experience than US customers are accustomed to, and to provide a model for future Android handset&mdash;is a particularly bad one. I&#8217;m saying that I don&#8217;t get the hype: Google&#8217;s Nexus one is an <em>interesting experiment</em>, not some kind of heroically disruptive Google coup, as many people, <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5425146%2Fthe-real-google-phone-everything-is-different-now&sref=rss">changes everything&#8221;&gt;including us</a>, have implied. Consider the facts:</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s an <em>HTC Android handset</em></strong>. This means that on a material level, it&#8217;s barely more of a Google phone than the G1&mdash;which Google passively oversaw&mdash;or the Motorola Droid&mdash;which Google actively helped design. And hey, people remember: Google still isn&#8217;t a hardware company. Not even close.</p>
<p><strong>The hardware isn&#8217;t revolutionary.</strong> It&#8217;s the third (<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fxperia-x10&sref=rss">at</a> <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Facer-liquid&sref=rss">least</a>) Snapdragon-powered Android phone we&#8217;ve heard about. It&#8217;s got a 5-megapixel camera. It&#8217;s got dual microphones, to help with noise reduction. It&#8217;s fairly thin. These are nice features for a new phone, but they&#8217;re more or less exactly what we&#8217;d <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5400593%2Fhtc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy&sref=rss">expect</a> HTC to be working on next.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s pretty much running Android 2.0</strong>. People are talking a lot about how Google had full control over the Nexus One user experience, and how it&#8217;s going to be unlike any other Android we&#8217;ve ever seen before. But we&#8217;ve seen other builds of 2.1, albiet covered in the Sense UI, leaked <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5415127%2Fleaked-shots-android-21-running-on-htc-hero&sref=rss">for the HTC Hero</a> (spoiler: not that impressive), and combined with the early glimpses we&#8217;ve caught from spy shots, they give the feeling that 2.1 isn&#8217;t much of a step up from 2.0, which is what the <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Ftag%2Fmotorola-droid&sref=rss">Droid</a> ships with, which, mind you, Motorola doesn&#8217;t seem to have touched almost at all. As far as I can tell, the Nexus One will have some pretty new UI flourishes, and maybe a few UX changes. Again: this is typical, paced progress, not a drastic overhaul.</p>
<p><strong>The new business model isn&#8217;t really new</strong>. Even the most breathless commentary on the Nexus One admits that what it <em>means</em> is more important than what&#8217;s on its spec sheet. And yeah, it&#8217;ll be the first phone marketed as <em>the</em> Google phone, and Google&#8217;s sales strategy&mdash;to offer the device without contract first, and probably unlocked, with a (<a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5425732%2Fgoogle-nexus-one-phone-gets-fcc-detailing&sref=rss">hardware limited</a>&mdash;possibly just to T-Mobile, if you care about 3G) choice of carriers&mdash;is foreign to the US market. But it&#8217;s far from unheard of&mdash;you can buy unlocked phones at Best Buy, for God&#8217;s sake. Oh, and Nokia&#8217;s been handling their US smartphone releases like this for years. It hasn&#8217;t gone well.</p>
<p><strong>Google doesn&#8217;t have superpowers.</strong> Using their unmatched internet superpowers, Google can do more to convince the general public that an expensive, unsubsidized phone is a good idea than Nokia, whose marketing efforts have been wimpy and ineffective. But they can&#8217;t do anything <em>crazy</em>, like give this thing away. They can sell it for cheap by relying on their own advertising network&mdash;or hell, their homepage&mdash;for advertising, as well as the massive press coverage they&#8217;re already getting, and selling it at little to no profit. To be able to match carriers&#8217; prices, though, will be a stretch: A Verizon or a T-Mobile can absorb the cost of a phone in month-to-month fees and overage charges. What does Google have? Theoretical future Adsense revenue?</p>
<p>Even if what we see now is exactly what we&#8217;re going to get, the Nexus One is something worth paying attention to&mdash;it will be a way for Google to demonstrate what their vision for Android is without carrier interference. They&#8217;ll control the software experience on the phone; they&#8217;ll control how it&#8217;s updated; they&#8217;ll control what software is and isn&#8217;t allowed on it. And they <em>could</em> use it to convey an vision for Google Voice, in which Google supplies your number, your nonstandard calling rates and your texting allowance, while carriers simply supply a neutral, dumb and ultimately out-of-sight cellular connection. But even if that is what they&#8217;re doing&mdash;we don&#8217;t know!&mdash;the Nexus One is a first step. It&#8217;ll be an early product to guide the progress of an industry, not the product that&#8217;ll define it.</p>
<p>Whenever we talk about Google, we need to factor in a little windage. They&#8217;re buzzy, they&#8217;re huge, and they&#8217;ve thrown plenty of other industries curveballs before. This phone sits at the hype nexus (for lack of a better word) of Google Voice, Android, Google&#8217;s online services and HTC. For now, to say that the Nexus One has somehow changed everything is to buy into these company&#8217;s hype too earnestly, to ascribe to Google mystical qualities, and to take for granted a series of future actions that Google hasn&#8217;t even hinted at fulfilling yet. Apple isn&#8217;t the only company tech watchers recklessly project onto.</p>
<p>Or, to <a href="http://redirectingat.com?id=21261X792902&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmattbuchanan%2Fstatus%2F6664097728&sref=rss">compress it to 140 characters or less</a>: &#8220;The Google phone matters as much as Google makes it matter.&#8221; For now, people, <em>calm down</em>.</p>

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		<title>USB Light Bulb Is Actually A Light Bulb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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By Evan Ackerman
There are any number of potentially useful and/or incredibly stupid light-up USB accessories that owe their glowyness to various flavorings of LEDs. That&#8217;s cool, I&#8217;m down with that, I like the futuristic look as much as the next geek. But retro is rapidly becoming the new futuristic, and this USB light fits the [...]]]></description>
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<p>By Evan Ackerman</p>
<p>There are any number of potentially useful and/or incredibly stupid light-up USB accessories that owe their glowyness to various flavorings of LEDs. That&#8217;s cool, I&#8217;m down with that, I like the futuristic look as much as the next geek. But retro is rapidly becoming the new futuristic, and this USB light fits the bill neatly with a light bulb that is, in fact, a light bulb. You know, the old school vacuum + filament + heat + inefficiency + if it breaks you have to clean up really carefully or you&#8217;ll get shards of glass in your feet kind. Numerous disadvantages aside, the one redeeming factor if incandescent bulbs is present in this USB powered version&#8230; Namely, the ability to cast a warm and pleasing glow, which (I imagine) provides a nice counterpoint to the inevitably harsh and unyielding photons that are being pumped out by whatever device this little lamp is plugged into.</p>
<p>For about $14, you get the lamp plus two spare bulbs, one of them frosted (if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing). Each bulb should last about 300 hours, giving you decades (well, 0.01 decade) of pleasing illumination, and a replacement set of three is only about $6. It all can be yours, from where else but Japan.</p>
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