∞ How much does a Web site design cost?

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Folyo: If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site. The results of this … Continued

∞ QuickBooks 2012 is something less

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Jeffery Battersby, Macworld.com: If you didn’t live in a world where QuickBooks already existed, if there wasn’t another universe that you could look at where there was a program that already does more than QuickBooks for Mac does, if you … Continued

∞ Amazon tablet is a slower version of the PlayBook

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Ryan Block: My sources tell me that RIM originally outsourced much of the hardware design and production of the PlayBook to mega-ODM Quanta. From there, Amazon’s team determined they could build a tablet without the help and experience of Lab … Continued

∞ Follower etiquette

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Rob Pegoraro: I first wrote this post on my public Facebook page in May of 2010 as a response to friend requests from readers, publicists and other people whom I hadn’t actually met. Since then, things have changed: Facebook’s privacy … Continued

∞ J.P. Morgan screws the pooch

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Corey Tamas for Macgasm: Looks like J.P. Morgan’s Gokul Hariharan made a small error in his analysis of Apple’s iPad-based fortunes when he reported a 25% drop in iPad orders among Foxconn factories in Asia. Apple (AAPL) shares took a … Continued

∞ Facebook denies it tracks users

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Emil Protalinski for ZDNet: “Facebook does not track users across the web,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “Instead, we use cookies on social plugins to personalize content (e.g. Show you what your friends liked), to help maintain and … Continued

∞ Couch commerce

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Shoppers are starting the holidays earlier this year. While Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have become the norm in retail today, PayPal’s data indicates that another spike in holiday shopping is emerging. Right after dinner on Thanksgiving Day, shoppers … Continued

∞ I follow people, not companies

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I was having a beer and talking to someone at WWDC (I can’t remember who — probably the beer’s fault) and he pointed out something that is true for me too. I follow people, not companies. That holds true for … Continued

∞ Analyst misses the boat on bearish iPad forecast

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Fortune: Apple (AAPL) shares fell sharply in early trading Monday following a widely reported note to clients from J.P. Morgan’s Gokul Hariharan to the effect that multiple supply chain vendors in Asia have registered a 25% cut in fourth-quarter iPad … Continued

∞ Michael Arrington: Uncrunched

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Michael Arrington: One thing I knew for sure was that I’d never trick readers, or lie to them, or otherwise be shady. It’s not me. And even if it was me, it’s too easy to get caught. The easy path … Continued

∞ meta.DJ for iPad

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meta.DJ is targeted at modern DJ-style performances and lets you blend your iTunes music tracks with drum machine beats, sound fx, synthesized instrument parts, mix effects like delays, stutters, filters and more. I’m not much of a DJ, but this … Continued

∞ Having a voice

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I don’t usually link to articles written about me, but this one is different. Chris Martucci emailed me a few questions on how I choose what to post on The Loop. I looked at his site and like it, so … Continued

∞ Remembering John Bonham

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From Wikipedia: On 24 September 1980, Bonham was picked up by Led Zeppelin assistant Rex King to attend rehearsals at Bray Studios for an upcoming tour of the United States—the band’s first since 1977. During the journey, Bonham asked to … Continued

∞ Apple's hypocritical patent lawsuits

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Joe Wilcox writing for BetaNews: I’ve been fairly critical of Apple’s recent patent bullying — what I call innovation through intimidation/litigation. The Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists defend the company’s patent and other intellectual property claims as protecting its … Continued

∞ Verizon sides with Samsung against Apple

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FOSS Patents: Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless carrier, implores the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to deny Apple’s request for a US-wide preliminary injunction against four Samsung products (the Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G and … Continued

∞ Amazon press event

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Reuters: Amazon.com Inc, which revolutionized reading with its Kindle e-reader, is expected to unveil a tablet computer next week that analysts say will seriously challenge Apple’s market dominating iPad. Okay, they are having a press event, but I doubt it … Continued

∞ Remembering Jim Henson

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Google is paying tribute to Henson on its homepage for the next 36 hours. Truly one of the great talents of our time.

∞ Pixelmator

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed for the past two weeks. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and … Continued

∞ The Business Insider traffic grab

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A thoughtful piece from Reuters Ryan McCarthy on the practice of re-publishing entire portions of articles for the sole purpose of keeping pageviews. So why does Business Insider risk undermining all that highly original, distinctive content for what appear to … Continued

∞ Diablo III moved to 'early 2012'

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Blizzard Entertainment announced Friday that its launch of Diablo III has been pushed to early 2012, quashing gamers’ hopes that they might get the new game in time for the holidays. Diablo III is the latest installment of Blizzard’s action … Continued

∞ Be a publisher, not a republisher

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Matt Gemmell on publishing services like paper.li: Newspapers contain editorial. There’s some kind of journalistic contribution, however brief, in each article. With these online “newspapers”, there’s zero. It’s just a wad of links and extracts, styled to appear something like … Continued