No business model

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Jenny Blumberg:

We’ve been asked before what our business model is, and honestly there isn’t one in place yet. We’re looking into a freemium model. I posted an answer on Quora that goes into more detail here. A business model that relies on targeted advertising doesn’t jive with our culture at Sepia Labs. We’d rather add amazing new features that people would be willing to pay us for, because they enjoy Glassboard so much.With that in mind, we’d love for you to use Glassboard, and with a tear in your eye, trembling lips… utter the words “You complete me.”

Sepia Labs is Brent Simmons new company. Love these guys and their honesty.

Update: The original headline of this story was “No business plan,” when in fact, it should have read “No business model.” Sepia Labs clearly has a business plan.

Apple announces dividend, share repurchase

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Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors, the Company plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012, which begins on July 1, 2012.Additionally, the Company’s Board of Directors has authorized a $10 billion share repurchase program commencing in the Company’s fiscal 2013, which begins on September 30, 2012. The repurchase program is expected to be executed over three years, with the primary objective of neutralizing the impact of dilution from future employee equity grants and employee stock purchase programs.

Foxconn will not sue ‘This American Life’

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Foxconn said on Monday it had no plans to take legal action although the programme had hurt its reputation.“Our corporate image has been totally ruined. The point is whatever media that cited the programme should not have reported it without confirming (with us),” said Simon Hsing, Foxconn’s spokesman.

Google’s missing developer payments

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BBC:

Europe-based software writers have posted hundreds of comments on the company’s forums, saying their February fees had not been received on 7 March as scheduled.

Oops.

Goldman Sachs leaked info about Apple

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A person at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, who has not been identified or charged in a broad U.S. insider-trading probe, was caught on a wiretap leaking secrets about Intel Corp and Apple Inc, a lawyer for accused former Goldman board member Rajat Gupta said in court on Friday.

Sidekick 4.0

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Many thanks to Oomph Software with Sidekick for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed on The Loop.

Sidekick is a stealth little Mac app that automatically updates laptop settings based on where you are. It takes care of annoying tasks so you can focus on what you need to do.

By controlling a huge variety of settings, Sidekick makes your laptop more secure, efficient, portable, and personalized. It can automatically change your default printer, connect to a server, run a command in Terminal, lock the keychain, change the system location…the list goes on. Visit the Sidekick website to learn more.

Try Sidekick 4.0 for free. It’s super powerful and very easy to use.

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Dell wants to challenge Apple in the tablet market

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Reuters:

As Apple’s third-generation iPad went on sale on Friday, accompanied by the now traditional scenes of fans queuing round the block , Dell’s chief commercial officer Steve Felice said the tablet market was still wide open.

I kid you not, I actually laughed out loud reading this. How many times does Apple have to lay the smackdown on Dell before they finally go away.

Ass clowns

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Colin Crawford talking about IDC’s predictions for iPad and Android tablet growth:

While I’ve a lot of respect for IDC’s ability to identify key market trends, especially in the Enterprise IT market…

Wait for it…

…but I’m not convinced they have their finger on the pulse of the Apple iPad market nor Apple’s iOS strategy.

Translation: Ass clowns.

Pushing the limits of CSS3

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Web Designer Depot: Don’t be mistaken though, CSS3 and CSS can’t do everything but, ironically enough, I doubt most of us are aware of its limitations or what pushes the very edges of its possibilities. Well, today we are here … Continued

Web design trends

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I still like Letterpress. I can’t help myself, I think I’ll always like it.

Blend your own Whiskey

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Based in bonny Scotland, with a team of whisky enthusiasts, we wanted to create something to allow people a simple way for them to own a unique bottle of blended Scotch whisky (or blended malt Scotch whisky) One which they’ve not only had a say into how it tastes and what it’s called but also to have a little bit of fun in the process.

You blend your own Whiskey and they ship it to you. You gotta love the Scots.

[Via Harry Marks]

Can the iPad do to gaming what the iPhone did to the point-and-shoot camera

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Wade Meredith:

Like smart phones and point and shoots, iPads can com­pete or best the con­soles on hard­ware specs while absolutely whip­ping them on plat­form flex­i­bil­ity and porta­bil­ity. I don’t know the con­sole equiv­a­lent of on-device photo edit­ing  — but between app, acces­sory and periph­eral sup­port for iPad, the con­soles have their work cut out for them (Kinect was a good start, Playstation Move was not).

I don’t know if it will ever happen, but this was a good read.

Congress asks for privacy briefing with Apple

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AppleInsider:

In a letter to Tim Cook on Wednesday, members of a U.S. Congress subcommittee requested that Apple send a representative to Washington to brief government officials on what the company is doing to protect the personal information stored on iOS devices.

iPad is about the experience

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It seems that every time a new tablet comes on the market, people compare the hardware to Apple’s market leading iPad and wonder if this is the one that will dethrone it. The problem with this thinking is that the iPad isn’t just about the hardware and specs, it’s the experience.

This is my first bi-weekly column for Techpinions. I’m joining Ben Bajarin, Tim Bajarin and Steve Wildstrom on the site where I’ll write opinion articles on the world of Apple.

Apple shares hit $600

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Jordan Golson for Mac Rumors:

Apple’s share price touched the $600 mark as trading opened this morning, just a month after reaching $500/share for the first time.

Wow.

John Legend working with Samsung

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Speaking of Om, he noticed this little nugget: All five winners will be honored in a special Washington, D.C. ceremony in April with John Legend, the Grammy Award-winning recording artist and education advocate. Is he crazy? Legend working with Samsung? … Continued

Name dropping

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Om Malik:

When did we stop talking about ideas, technology and instead started focusing on you know… names and investing.

It’s been my experience that those that can name drop don’t.