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| Jul 22, 2009 | On the apparent Apple suicide | Every once in a while you get a story so strange and horrible that it takes a while to sink in. I’m talking about the suicide of a Foxconn employee who was caught doing something with an “iPhone prototype” and jumped out of the window.
Matt... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Why we need to chill about ChromeOS | We’ve been sitting things out today as our brothers at TC pant over ChromeOS, the latest OS based on Linux to impress, however lightly, upon the synapses of our country’s journalistic elite. ChromeOS can’t beat anything. In fact suggesting ... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Roundup: GPS receivers threatened by smartphones, Chrome overcoverage continues | GPS receivers threatened by smartphones — Remember the PDA? The New York Times says the GPS may be next to be absorbed by the ever-smarter smartphone. The popular TomTom line shipped 29 percent fewer units in the first quarter of 2009 compa... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Does Anyone Use Chrome? | The news that Google is turning its Chrome browser into a full blown linux-based operating system for netbooks has the tech industry buzzing. There's so much to like about this story; Google vs Microsoft, Google vs Apple, the rise of netboo... |
| Jul 8, 2009 | Does anyone use Chrome? | In three years, Chrome could easily be the leading browser in certain communities
The news that Google is turning its Chrome browser into a full blown linux-based operating system for netbooks has the tech industry buzzing. There's so much ... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | WordPress resists Canon attempt to take down Fake Canon blog | Oh, we recognize.
Fake Chuck Westfall blog reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating
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Ever since the birth (and subsequent euthanization of) Fake Steve Jobs, there have... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left) | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Fans of the parody blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs have hope. Dan Lyons may not be finished with with everyone's favorite i... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Whither Fake Steve Jobs | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Steve Jobs is the archetype of the guy who thinks of the obvious and gets rich from it. From the Mac to the iPhone, the great p... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Microsoft creates its own Fake Steve for “i’m Initiative” | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Fake Steve Jobs, also known as Daniel Lyons (see our interview with him), created a fake blog that quickly became a popular hit... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | Jerry Yang, Yahoo's Pinata | So what's that water cooler conversation going to sound like at the Yahoo executive suite today? Probably something like this:
Sue Decker: So Jerry how was your weekend?
Jerry Yang: Not too bad. I didn't have to talk to Steve (Ballmer) so h... |
| Jun 13, 2008 | Friday afternoon Apple links, pre-Father’s Day edition | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Happy Friday! I'm glad to be home from WWDC and, shockingly, I am not even sick this time around. Here are a few links from thr... |
| Jun 4, 2008 | Charlene Li: turning "Groundswell" blog into a book | Apart from notable exceptions like Fake Steve Jobs Diary and Stuff White People Like, not all blogs are readily turned into book form.
That's because just stringing together a bunch of posts doesn't necessarily make for an interesting read ... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Apple files omnipotent iPhone patent | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining
Commands by Applying Heuristics
Readers of The Secret... |
| May 16, 2008 | Friday afternoon Apple links, Obama on iPhone edition | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Happy Friday! Hope you're ready for a rather large smattering of links from the last several days. It has apparently been quite... |
| Mar 7, 2008 | News of the World: The iPhone SDK | Remember this?
Salon: Why Apple’s SDK finally justifies iPhone hype
SvN: iPhone SDK, Apple’s Touch Platform, and The Next Two Decades
Infoworld: iPhone SDK exceeds developer expectations
Kleiner Perkins Announces $100 million iFund for iPho... |
| Feb 23, 2008 | Will There Be A (Successful) iPhone-Only Social Network? | iPhone owners, like users of most Apple products, are a fairly passionate, elitist group of people.
I think an iPhone -only social network, if it had the right features, would be a huge hit with these users. Actually, I think any mobile soc... |
| Jan 30, 2008 | Apple to launch little UMPC? Ehh, maybe? | Ceci n’est pas une Apple UMPC
David Sieger is positing that Apple may or may not be working on a ultramobile-like mini-PC running Intel’s Silverthorne processor, a low-power processor that has discrete Mac SDK support. He’s also dug up some... |
| Jan 18, 2008 | (Fake) Steve Jobs Accepts The Best Gadget Award At The Crunchies | Apple was unable to attend the Crunchies tonight to pick up their Crunchie, however a special guest accepted the award on Apple’s behalf. Please note the language in the following video may offend some viewers. |
| Nov 5, 2007 | An interview with Fake Steve Jobs and review of “Options” | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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| Oct 25, 2007 | When Did A Fake Blogger Become a Reliable Source? | There are not one, but two stories on Techmeme this morning broken by Fake Steve Jobs, a.k.a. Forbes’ Daniel Lyons. Both were repeated on a number of blogs. Yes, we know who Fake Steve is now, and yes he’s a credible reporter working for a ... |
| Oct 24, 2007 | PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? | Fake Steve Jobs aka Daniel Lyons has written that he’s heard that PodTech will be closing up shop with an announcement imminent.
We can’t confirm the rumor although I have pinged Robert Scoble asking him to comment. If we get a response we’... |
| Oct 23, 2007 | Video: Apple genius doesn't buy kid's "my iPhone broke" story | Fake Steve Jobs is the man. He completely calls out this tool who brought his non-functioning iPhone to an Apple Store to get it checked out. Judging by the comments found on blogs left, right and center, the guy was just hamming it up for ... |
| Oct 19, 2007 | UMass to students: don't be a pirate arrrrrr else | They say early detection is the best form of prevention, so best, um, detect your hard drive for ILLEGAL MUSIC FILES because, you know, with every illicit MP3 you download, you endanger Western Civilization. Looks like UMass is being proact... |
| Sep 17, 2007 | Complaint Department: Why Hating On $100 iPhone Rebate Won't Win You Friends | Thank you, Critical Section
People, please don’t complain about the $100 rebate that Apple is giving you because you purchased the iPhone before its price drop. No one feels your pain, no one thinks that you’re suffering a great injustice. ... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | Ummm… Some Weird Comic-like Thing Explaining That NBC Screwed Up By Snubbing iTunes | Maybe you can help us here. Take a minute and read the linked story.
OK?
Now, I’m pretty sure that this is supposed to be a dig at NBC for telling Apple and iTunes to go jump in a lake. (I hope my harsh language didn’t trip any WebSense fil... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | OMG, The Zune Logo Flipped Around Looks Like A Naughty Word | Too funny. Look what happens when you flip the Zune logo around. It looks like anus! Man, the Internet is filled with jokesters.
Too funny!
Happy Monday [The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs via Cult of Mac] |
| Aug 24, 2007 | Attack Of The Fake Bloggers | Whilst Fake Steve Jobs has gained the most attention in the fake personal blog scene, a number of other fake blogs have been launched this year. Here’s a quick run down of a few that might be worthy of adding to your feed reader…or maybe no... |
| Aug 6, 2007 | Fake Steve Jobs unmasked | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has been outed, and let's hope the world of personal technology satire is not the ... |
| Aug 6, 2007 | Identity of 'Fake Steve Jobs' Revealed | The identity of Fake Steve Jobs is a secret no more. The author of the popular Web log that for the past year has taken a candid look at the world of CEO blogs -- and even has the real Steve Jobs reading it -- has finally revealed himself.
... |
| Aug 5, 2007 | Fake Steve Jobs = Daniel Lyons | The New York Times have spoiled the fun: Fake Steve Jobs has been outed as Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes.
Since August 2006 Fake Steve Jobs has become a must read in the Valley and beyond. Lyon’s acerbic wit coupled with continuin... |
| Aug 5, 2007 | Fake Steve Jobs unmasked | For 14 months, no one could figure out who was writing the blog “the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” a blog written by someone who assumed the character of Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, only to lampoon him.
He became known as Fake Steve... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | The $100 (Well, $175) Laptop Goes Into Mass Production | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When the One Laptop Per Child foundation won’t even let a reporter in the front door, you know they’re busy.
I stopped by One Cambridge Center in Kendall Square yesterday afte... |
| Jun 19, 2007 | Fake Fred Wilson Dot Com | I just bought fakefredwilson.com. It’s pointing to this blog although it may take a few hours for the DNS records to update.
I think this fakeperson.com thing has legs. I love reading fake steve jobs and this Alexa chart shows that Fake Ste... |
| May 10, 2007 | iPods Could Kill: Study | If the world wasn’t already worried enough about electromagnetic radiation from cell phones, Apple now provides us with another source from which to fuel our anxieties, particularly if we’re old.
According to a study presented by a 17-year-... |
| Apr 9, 2007 | X Questions for Fake Steve Jobs | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Every established journalist and guy sitting on his couch and blogging in his underwear about Apple dreams of an interview with... |
| Mar 15, 2007 | Hippies Take a Moment Away from Hackysack and Joints to Break DRM | Hey, hippies. Stick to protesting logging and the war and stop going on camera to describe ways to disable Apple DRM. It seems the folks at the MIT Media Lab “held a party” to install RockBox on lots of iPods and recorded it. The result, as... |
| Oct 31, 2006 | Why can’t Apple blog? | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The recent publicity centering around the "masked blogger" at Apple Computer has brought up the question of informal ... |