Google+ で実名にこだわり大量のアカウントを削除したグーグル

Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers | ZDNet

Jay Freeman | Google+

Robert Scoble | Google+

Google+ and the loss of online anonymity | GigaOM

Google revises Google+ real name management policy | ZDNet

Why Google cares if you use your real name | Scripting News

グーグル、「Google+」名前ポリシーは「不快」と認める–改善点を明らかに | CNET Japan

「Google+」、大量のアカウントを削除–本名使用に関するポリシー違反が理由か | CNET Japan

「Google+」とアイデンティティ問題–実名登録にこだわるグーグル | CNET Japan

Google+には問題がある。でもご心配なく、私に方法がある。 | TechCrunch Japan

Google+、一流ブランドのプロフィールを削除: 大御所から不満が続出 | ブログヘラルド

アマゾンタブレットはアップルよりむしろグーグルにとって大きな脅威だ

［Amazon Tablet］

Amazon’s Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It’s A Huge Threat To Google | TechCrunch

That’s why Google should be scared shitless of this Amazon tablet. Thanks to the “openness” of Android, Google has handed Amazon the keys to the Android kingdom. Amazon is going to launch a tablet that runs Android, but it will be fully Amazon’d. It will use Amazon’s Appstore, it will use Amazon movies, it will use Amazon books, it will use Amazon music, etc. Google will have no control over this, even though it will be the seminal Android tablet. That would be terrifying for any brand.

Amazon Plans iPad Rival | WSJ.com

シンプルでクリーンになるハズだったのに、これじゃ Lion って Vista みたいじゃないか

［If it weren’t for its solid core, Lion would be Apple’s very own Vista.：Gizmodo］

Mac OS X Lion: This Is Not the Future We Were Hoping For | Gizmodo

Mac OS X Lion：これは僕らが期待した未来じゃない | ギズモード・ジャパン

It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion’s interface feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn’t happen.

こんなこと書くのは胸が張り裂けそうだけどMac OSX Lionのインターフェイス、ダメっぽいですよ。OSをシンプルにして、iOSのクリーンなエクスペリエンスと統一するというミッションはどこへやら。［satomi 訳］

If it weren’t for the fast, rock-solid Unix, graphics and networking cores, Lion would be Apple’s very own Vista.

グラフィックスとネットワーキングの基幹が高速で磐石なUnixじゃなかったらLionはアップルのVistaになるところですよ。［satomi 訳］

Lion is the wrong step into that future. By trying to please everyone, the OS X team has produced an incongruent user interface pastiche that won’t satisfy the consumers seeking simplicity nor the professional users in search of OCD control. Apple hasn’t really targeted a specific population. Or provided varying levels of user control—a super-simple modal interface for normal people and pro-level classic window interface for nerds. That’s what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows 8. Ironically, if Apple had taken a page out of Microsoft’s book in this case, it would have been a step in the right direction.

でもLionはその未来に横から割り込んできたような違和感があるんですね。八方美人が仇に出て、OS X開発チームが作ったのはシンプルを求める消費者も、OCDの制御を求めるプロフェッショナルも満足させられない、なんとも調和に欠ける模造品のごときUIなのです。

アップルは特定の層をターゲットにしているわけでもないんですね。普通の人には超シンプルな（全画面表示切り替えの）モーダルなインターフェイスを用意して、ナードな人には昔ながらのウィンドウが開くプロレベルのインターフェイスを用意する…といった具合に、ユーザー判断で使い分けできるようにもしていません。そちらはむしろマイクロソフトがこれからWindows 8でやろうとしていることです。これに関しては皮肉にもマイクロソフトを見習うと、アップルも正しい方向に一歩前進ということになりますね。［satomi 訳］

グーグルのビジネスモデル

［Google is everywhere：image］

Google’s Business Model: YOU Are the Product | Datamation

There’s only one way to understand Google’s business model, which is to understand that Google’s services are not products. In fact, Google has only one product. And that product is you. Or, rather, us — all of us. That sounds like an extreme position, but I mean it literally.

Google makes billions of dollars in revenue each fiscal quarter. That money comes about by the same process that all companies use: They sell a product to their customers. Their customers pay money for that product.

Who’s Google’s customer? You? Really? When’s the last time you paid Google for anything?

Advertisers are Google’s customer. What do they sell to advertisers? They sell you. Or, at least, they rent you out, or provide access to you.

Google’s Product | Daring Fireball

Mike Elgan, back in February 2009:

He wrote this in the context of the then-new Google Latitude. It seems more apt than ever today.

リクビダートル‬（‪事故処理作業者‬）‪の知られざる現実

‪犠牲者ー事故処理作業者（リクビダートル）の知られざる現実 1/2‬‏ | YouTube

The Sacrifice
Emanuela Andreoli、Wladimir Tchertkoff 監督
Feldat Film (Switzerland) 制作（2003 年）
［サクリファイス：犠牲者‪ー事故処理作業者の知られざる現実‬］

1986年4月に旧ソ連で起きた史上最悪のチェルノブイリ原子力発電所事故。百万人の労働者がその事故処理に狩り出された。放射性物質、放射線の危険性を全く知らされずに 作業したため、強い放射線を浴び、放射性物質を体の中に取り込んでしまった作業者達。健康を害し、亡くなってゆく彼らに医療は為すすべを知らない。 地震大国日本で同様、あるいはこれ以上の事故が起きないと誰が言えるだろうか？

‪犠牲者ー事故処理作業者（リクビダートル）の知られざる現実 2/2 | YouTube

アップルがデータセンターで使っている技術は自前のものではない？

iCloud Mystery: Is Apple Using Azure & Amazon? | Data Center Knowledge

Early users of Apple’s iCloud technology have uncovered a bit of a mystery: evidence that Apple may be using Windows Azure and/or Amazon Web Services in its early implementation of the iCloud. The reports are based on user analyses of HTTP traffic, and have prompted debate about what the data reveal and whether or not Apple is using other cloud services to supplement its North Carolina data center.

Is iCloud utilizing Microsoft Azure and Amazon’s cloud services? | InfiniteApple

Is Apple tapping Amazon and Microsoft to boost iCloud? | GigaOM

Apple iCloud Azure use tested, confirmed | InfiniteApple

Is Apple really using Windows Azure to power iCloud? | ZDNet

Windows Azure Content Distribution Network (CDN) | Windows Azure [Microsoft]

What Could Apple’s iCloud Service Be Worth To Akamai? Here’s Some Numbers | The Business Of Online Video

I Would Not Build Underground | Hypercritical #22

What Datacenter Equipment Is Apple Using? | Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon’s scale-out storage solution | Ars Technica

原発より汚染除去に注意を向けるべきだ

［武田邦彦氏］

110630「武田邦彦×岩上安身」 | Ustream.tv［iwakamiyasumi2］
〈目からウロコが続々・・・〉

HP TouchPad が注目の的

HP: TouchPad’s WebOS Threatens Android, Apple iOS [Austin Carr] | Fast Company

Ironically, in order to compete with Apple, HP is taking a page from Apple’s playbook. Steve Jobs’s strategy has always been to control both the hardware and the software it runs on. While other PC makers, including HP, have relied on Windows, Apple’s Macs have always come with Mac OS, an operating system designed specifically for its hardware. Apple has followed the same approach when expanding to the iPhone and iPad with iOS. “Everyone is figuring out that if you want to survive, you really want to control the experience end to end,” McKinney says. “The ability to control both the hardware platform and OS is absolutely critical.”

HP Gets It | Daring Fireball

Music to my ears. Here’s what I wrote about HP back in October 2009:

“Operating systems aren’t mere components like RAM or CPUs; they’re the single most important part of the computing experience. Other than Apple, there’s not a single PC maker that controls the most important aspect of its computers. Imagine how much better the industry would be if there were more than one computer maker trying to move the state of the art forward.”

Hands on with the HP TouchPad [Jason Snell] | Macworld

Jason Snell Reviews the HP TouchPad | Daring Fireball

Best review of it I’ve seen. If you’re only going to read one, make it Snell’s. He covers it all: the great UI design, WebOS’s excellent card-based switching interface, the solid hardware, the shortcomings, what seems unfinished, WebOS’s seemingly endemic lagginess, and the miserable performance of Flash Player.

Teardown of HP TouchPad: Made like a PC and straightforward to repair | TechRepublic

The HP TouchPad has a case that’s easy to open and replaceable components. This tablet is built more like a PC than an iPad.

H-P TouchPad Tablet Review [Walt Mossberg] | AllThingsD

H-P stresses that webOS is a platform and that the TouchPad is just one iteration of it. The company plans to add the operating system to numerous devices, including laptops, and hopes that this scale will attract many more apps. And it pledges continuous updates to fix the current shortcomings.

But, at least for now, I can’t recommend the TouchPad over the iPad 2.

H.P.’s New Tablet Enters Market Late, but Looks Marvelous [David Pogue] | NYTimes.com

First of all, the TouchPad is beautiful. It’s iPad beautiful. The case is glossy black plastic — a magnet for fingerprints, unfortunately, but it looks wicked great in the first five minutes.

The WebOS is beautiful, too. It’s graphically coherent, elegant, fluid and satisfying. That, apparently, is the payoff when a single company designs both the hardware and the software. (Android gadgets, by contrast, are a mishmash of different versions and looks.)

It supposedly has a blazing-fast chip inside, but you wouldn’t know it. When you rotate the screen, it takes the screen two seconds to match — an eternity in tablet time. Apps can take a long time to open; the built-in chat app, for example, takes seven seconds to appear. Animations are sometimes jerky, reactions to your finger swipes sometimes uncertain.

Pogue on the TouchPad | Daring Fireball

Very strong consensus among all the reviews I’ve read.

After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 Tablets | Fast Company

“I’m limited to what I can talk about with Windows 8,” McKinney says. “We’re working very closely with [Microsoft], and I’m going to leave it at that or I’m going to start getting myself into trouble.”

Any chance of a Windows 8 tablet, though? “We currently have a product shipping today called the Slate 500, and to be quite honest that product has been doing quite well,” he says. “So that’s a Windows 7 version, and then we’ll have the TouchPad coming out [with WebOS].”

So is it safe to assume there will also be a Windows 8 tablet? A long pause.

HP’s Uncomfortable Relationship With Microsoft | Daring Fireball

HP is the number-one seller of Windows PCs in the world, but they’re charting their own course in mobile with WebOS. They might even license WebOS to other hardware makers — whatever you think of the merits of that idea, there can be no argument that doing so would put HP in direct competition with Microsoft.

Interview: HP says Apple is not TouchPad’s target | The Loop

HP acknowledged Apple’s dominance in the tablet market, but said Apple wasn’t its target with the TouchPad.

“We think there’s a better opportunity for us to go after the enterprise space and those consumers that use PCs,” said Kerris. “This market is in its infancy and there is plenty of room for both of us to grow.”

HP Says Apple Is Not TouchPad’s Target | Daring Fireball

Smart. Reminds me of that Steve Jobs mantra from the late ’90s: “We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We have to embrace the notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job.”

Restated for today, mobile OS competitors need to let go of the notion for them to succeed, Apple has to lose. Compare and contrast HP’s attitude with RIM’s.

HP in Discussions to License WebOS Software, CEO Apotheker Says | Bloomberg