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Facebook Home lingo

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Christina Bonnington gives us a rundown on all the new terms you’ll need to know in order to understand Facebook Home. My favorite is “Chat Heads.” And by “favorite” I mean I don’t really give a shit.

Facebook redesigns home screen for Android devices

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Jordan Golson for MacRumors:

Facebook claims users turn on their phone 100 times per day, and, among other things, is redoing the lock screen on the Android phone to give users a slideshow of photos and updates from their Facebook News Feeds.

This isn’t a bad idea for Facebook and it’s users. Facebook is making itself the center of the user experience and that could work very well for them.

Google numbers

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Google is just crazy, but they’ll get away with it and it will look better for Jelly Bean adoption.

Çingleton 3

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I just noticed the dates for the Mac Developer get together have been announced for October 2013. You can sign-up on the Web site to be kept up-to-date.

A “Cuts of Beef” cheat sheet

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BeefCuts Visual.ly:

An easy-to-use guide to cuts of beef. The chart shows where each cut of meat comes from on the cow, how much it costs and how to best cook it.

Mmmm. Ribs. Skirt steak. Sirloin. Pot roast. Ever wonder where on a cow all those cuts of meat come from? Visual.ly has a really interesting infographic about one of our most useful (and delicious!) animals.

Pebble smart watch review

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Stephen Hackett got his Pebble and posted his review. With everything I’ve heard about this watch, I was a little surprised with the conclusion.

Rating Apple analysts

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Ernie Varitimos:

Ask yourself, how many times have you tried to make sense of an analyst’s statement, where they’ve demonstrated a complete misunderstanding of Apple culture, the ecosystem, or the fan base. This isn’t universal of course, some analysts are very knowledgeable and huge Apple fans, but even a respected Apple bull like Gene Munster ranks only in the middle of the pack, well behind several amateur analysts. Some of the most influential analysts rank near the bottom of the pack, like Charlie Wolf and Kathy Huberty.

I have little to no respect for financial analysts.

Doxie – A Better Way To Go Paperless [Sponsor]

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Doxie IRS Loop

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Fools of the Year

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Much respect to The Macalope for a great list. I might have given Eric Schmidt two or three spots though.

The view from on top of the Great Pyramid

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Cheops raskalov_vit:

I want to tell you a little story about how we climbed to the top of one of the seven wonders of the world.We had to hide from the guards at the Tomb near the foot of Cheops. Climb the stone slabs on the most ancient structure of humanity to the sounds of prayers. It was one of the most intense nights of my life. Many thanks to good friends who accompanied and supported the idea.

While I can’t condone the climbing of these beautiful and ancient structures, the view from the top must be magnificent. I’ve been to the Great Pyramids at Cheops and some things are striking – how massive they are and how close the city of Cairo actually is, for example.

EZ-PR

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Thanks to EZ-PR for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week.

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Facebook phone

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It seems clear by the invite that their entering the mobile space in one way or another.

Lazaridis leaves Blackberry

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Mike Lazaridis is leaving Blackberry to focus his efforts on an investment fund focusing on “quantum information science.”