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Reuters iOS app

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Very well done update to their app. I especially like the transitions.

Google Maps chief steps down

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continues to shuffle its executive ranks, announcing Senior Vice President of Geo and Commerce Jeff Huber will step down to pursue new projects within the company. The move follows just one day after longtime head of Android Andy Rubin also resigned his post.

This happened almost a week ago, but I missed it at the time.

The end of Android

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Dan Frommer:

But even from the outside, it’s easy to see that the Android situation isn’t ideal. Yes, it is the world’s “most popular” mobile phone platform, if you sort by the number of people using it, and that’s an impressive achievement. But it certainly isn’t making the sort of impact — on the world and on Google itself — that it perhaps could or should.

Interesting thoughts.

Job titles

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It’s amazing how much people respond to your job title. Michael Lopp has a great article on the subject.

Amplified: New Overlords

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Jim and Dan talk about Kevin Lynch, the iOS update, Google Reader’s demise, leaving Feedburner, Google’s priorities, privacy, Dropbox, BlackBerry’s claim that the iPhone is “old”, learning guitar chords, the Line 6 amp, and more.

Governments enter the “patent troll” business

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Patent competition in the United States is usually a fierce arena for private companies, but now the South Korean and French governments are suiting up.

Both countries have launched patent-acquisition companies, with the goal of helping domestic technology firms and possibly making some money in the process. China and Japan are making moves into the business too.

Great, just what we need.

“Why I left Google”

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James Whittaker:

The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.

This article is a year old, but I think it says a lot about the changes Google has been, and still is, going through. Worth a read for sure.

March Madness apps

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NCAA March Madness Live:

Watch every game with NCAA® March Madness LIVE on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad Mini! Download to follow the tournament bracket, check schedule and scores, fill out your bracket, set game alerts, listen to live game radio, and track social activity around all the games. Log in with your TV provider to enjoy unlimited access to live streaming video of all 67 games of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, across TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV. A 4 hour live video pass will be available prior to logging in.

ESPN Bracket Bound 2013:

The ESPN Bracket Bound App is the ultimate college basketball companion. Follow the nation’s top teams with the latest scores, news, Bracketology and highlights. Personalize your experience for unprecedented coverage of your favorite teams. Create up to 10 brackets in ESPN Tournament Challenge and compete against your family, friends, co-workers as well as ESPN celebrities.

Adobe CTO Lynch joins Apple

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CNBC reporter Jon Fortt posted the message on his Twitter account. Lynch will be the VP of Technology.

Leaving Feedburner, please change your RSS link

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Google is shutting down most of its good services for publishers like Feedburner and Google Reader, so I need to make a change at The Loop. If you are using The Loop’s Feedburner link in your RSS reeder, could you please change it to this one ASAP.

https://www.loopinsight.com/feed/

I will be shutting off the Feedburner link in the near future. Thanks for understanding.

If you are a member of The Loop, keep using your existing link, I’ll be in touch with more info on that later.

This is what pisses me off about Google Reader

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Khoi Vinh:

It’s a decision that has infuriated many, partly because when the company launched Google Reader in 2005, its free price tag undercut and then virtually destroyed the market for competitive products.

Soon enough, Google Reader had become a de facto industry standard, even as it became more and more apparent over the years that the company cared little for the market that it had come to own.

Assholes.

Squarespace [Sponsor]

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Samsung is working on a watch

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“We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said during an interview in Seoul. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.”

In other words, ever since they heard Apple may be working on one.

Fake projects at Apple

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Don Melton sets the record straight on whether Apple actually assigns employees to work on fake projects.

Grape Zit Pop and Grassturbation

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Clorox’s ads for its Clorox 2 detergent show us that there’s some ad folks there that have really sick senses of humor. Or maybe we’re the perverts.

Home organization app BrightNest

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BrightNest will help you tackle important home tasks with easy-to-follow instructions, a personal schedule and helpful reminders. From basic maintenance to cleaning tricks to home design ideas, we deliver everything you need to shape up your home and simplify your life.

This could be a very helpful app.

Samsung now has three CEOs

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They appointed two co-CEOs after the Galaxy S 4 event. Apparently they must think that nightmare was a success. The two new co-CEOs will join the existing CEO.

Taking a page from RIM’s playbook (You see what I did there?).