figby.com https://www.figby.com A weblog by Michael Moncur Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:44:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? « blog maverick https://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/23/is-facebook-the-new-internet-and-how-soon-before-microsoft-tries-to-buy-it-%c2%ab-blog-maverick/ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:44:19 +0000 http://www.figby.com/?p=3728 Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? « blog maverick — apparently, if you’re completely obsessed with Facebook, it looks like “the new internet”. Remember when MSN was going to be the new internet? How did that work out?

]]> FOXNews.com – 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls https://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/19/foxnews-com-7500-online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-their-souls/ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:41:25 +0000 http://www.figby.com/?p=3726 FOXNews.com – 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls – This is why we don’t update SlashNot anymore. Reality has become sillier than satire.

]]> How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful https://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/13/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online-information-is-beautiful/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:53:32 +0000 http://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/13/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online-information-is-beautiful/ How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? | Information Is Beautiful Aha! An infographic that actually illustrates something. Something depressing.

]]> Please Stand By. https://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/12/please-stand-by/ Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:57:30 +0000 http://www.figby.com/?p=3723 Well, it looks like I let this site go a year without a real post. Again.

I’m going to bring it back, and in a tradition I’ve carried on since 1998, the first post in a year will be one with no useful content at all. You’re soaking in it.

I’m currently debating what to do with this site. I might write more about what I do in my businesses (running web sites and, lately, iPhone development). Or I might just turn it into a list of links to things I write elsewhere. At any rate, something will happen here soon. I’ll at least update the categories. I just noticed “PalmOS” is still there. How embarrassing.

I’m currently in San Jose for the excellent 360iDev conference. Working on an iPhone app, which will hopefully be published soon. Playing with my new iPad, which is either The Future of Computing or The Death of Creativity as We Know It depending on who you believe. I’m pretty sure I don’t agree with either side.

I will post a full report on 360iDev soon, if nothing else. Stay tuned. In the meantime I’m occasionally on Twitter.

]]> “Infographic” https://www.figby.com/archives/2010/04/12/infographic/ Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:46:06 +0000 http://www.figby.com/?p=3721 “Infographic” – Heh. Finally something to link to when I see stuff like this.

]]> List of animals with fraudulent diplomas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://www.figby.com/archives/2009/12/27/list-of-animals-with-fraudulent-diplomas-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia/ Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:28:29 +0000 http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/12/27/list-of-animals-with-fraudulent-diplomas-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia/ List of animals with fraudulent diplomas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – This is why traditional encyclopedias will never be as good as Wikipedia.

]]> Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7 – Microsoft – Gawker https://www.figby.com/archives/2009/09/23/host-your-own-awful-party-for-windows-7-microsoft-gawker/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:35:35 +0000 http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/09/23/host-your-own-awful-party-for-windows-7-microsoft-gawker/ Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7 – Microsoft – Gawker – This video is the best evidence yet that Microsoft’s marketing department exists on an entirely different planet than ours.

]]> Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com https://www.figby.com/archives/2009/07/18/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others-pogue%e2%80%99s-posts-blog-nytimescom/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:33:43 +0000 http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/07/18/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others-pogue%e2%80%99s-posts-blog-nytimescom/ Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com – Wow, Amazon has taken a page from Microsoft’s Playbook for getting colossally bad PR.

]]> Amazon.com: Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store https://www.figby.com/archives/2009/05/06/amazoncom-kindle-dx-amazons-97-wireless-reading-device-latest-generation-kindle-store/ Wed, 06 May 2009 19:17:05 +0000 http://www.figby.com/archives/2009/05/06/amazoncom-kindle-dx-amazons-97-wireless-reading-device-latest-generation-kindle-store/ Amazon.com: Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7″ Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store – Apple? Are you listening? Please release an ebook reader that looks absolutely nothing like this.

]]> Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs https://www.figby.com/archives/2009/04/30/flickr-hit-hard-by-yahoo-layoffs/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:39:30 +0000 http://www.figby.com/?p=3715 Flickr Hit Hard By Yahoo Layoffs – Dear Yahoo: Please put someone different in charge before there are more boneheaded decisions like this.

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