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> Twitter is the de facto messaging platform

In what world?

This is the BBC's Newsbeat - it's the news program for Radio 1, the beeb's pop music station. So it's (i) dumbed down and (ii) better if it has some kind of music connection.

If you were paranoid, it wouldn't take much to conclude that "worked with" and "allowed" could mean that this doesn't imply that there weren't or aren't backdoors or access that occurred without Apple's knowledge or approval.

I've often linked Chris Poole's approach to this with Matt Haughey at Metafilter. I can remember being amazed at how well mathowie moderated metafilter with a remarkably light touch and yet still set the tne of the site. Moot was less keeping the users in line than keeping the rest of the world out but their ability to not interfere at times when I think most of us would want to say or do something is an incredible skill.

Read up on AKB48. Japanese girl "group" with more than a hundred members split into teams. Often the record company will let fans vote on which members will become part of the next single. To vote? You have to buy the latest CD (and physical CDs remain huge in Japan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48

This might be better: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/the-earliest-use-of-t...

> GPS and motion sensors. Why could they want this? Maybe they will switch up your play list when you go for that run. Seems plausible.

They introduced a running feature a few months ago that does, indeed, attempt to match the bpm of a playlist to your running cadence.

> Contacts. Ok, everything is social, so maybe they want to send your current track to other spotify users in your contacts. Seems plausible.

Share a playlist with a contact. Share a track with a contact. Etc etc. I'm surprised this wasn't already in there if it's really a new addition.

> Photos. Not sure about this one.

Might be related to running. Strava, fr'instance, lets you add photos taken on your run. Or might just be to let you adorn a playlist with your chosen photo.

> Sharing your information with partners.

Doesn't everyone? Isn't this standard boilerplate? Spotify are attempting brand tie-ups in many areas so I can't see this as something out of the ordinary.

What surprises me more than anything about this is that ntlworld.com still exists and still resolves.

Cool. Look forward to hearing more.

What I want with such charting solutions is something to export or copy and paste data from excel and put it into a chart. Just that. No need to manually edit a javascript file or html code beyond customising the appearance once the data is in there. Is this available somewhere?

You may have reached what you thought was a statistically significant size but unless you were selecting perfectly randomly - which I doubt you could in such an exercise - then it could not be called truly significant.

Or the music quality. Same as the iPhone (which is pretty good, admittedly)? Or better?

It's /r/subredditdrama played out in real life. It has to promote the strangest company culture when your just-departed CEO has been suing another firm for gender discrimination in a wildly high profile and contentious court case (quite apart from the fact that it would take her gaze from reddit); when your previous CEO left in a huff after he wasn't allowed to move the office closer to his home; and when the founders hover in obscure and unclear board positions. And then talk trash about each other on the site that they all controlled at different points.

So many levels of meta oddness.

> She didn't do a good job of it, but at least she tried to stand up against some of the worst of Reddit.

These are two separate things. The fact that she tried to stand up against some of the idiots that inhabit the site doesn't mitigate against the fact that she did not do a good job. She should have resigned or been fired for not doing a good job regardless of how well she coped with the jerks en masse.

Not a word about it on United's web site. Flight status page doesn't load correctly. "Today's Operations" gives an error message. United's Twitter is silent.

Meanwhile news articles and twitter complaints abound. http://mashable.com/2015/07/08/united-computer-problems-flig...

Ha. First thing I compared it to as well. It's a micro-storm in a very large tea-cup. Reddit will survive and the tiny and temporary (and already abandoned) actions of a few mods might shoot a few people off to Voat or another site but it won't do anything for the vast majority.

I think you're mistaken if you think that the majors would voluntarily relinquish three months of royalties from trials of Apple Music just to hurt Spotify, when they could simply pull their content from Spotify a la Taylor Swift to hurt it much more. This is Apple trying to push costs wherever they can and ignoring the indies during negotiation. It wouldn't be the first time that indies get the raw deal from a large corporate making decisions with the majors in mind.

"Flocking" = we don't have any real numbers but here are a couple of people who went to the US and then came back, and look! we use that unicorn word that no current startup article is complete without so you can trust us.

I highly recommend the book this is taken from: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music by Bob Stanley.

Bob Stanley was a music journalist who founded the beautiful group St Etienne. There is no one I can think of better qualified to talk about pop and dance music and their effect on the soul and society.

Yes. Yes I did.

10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UK

Liveblogs on the usual Mac sites, Ars, etc. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/liveblog-apples-wwdc-ke...

Edit: EST mindfart

CAPITAL IDEA CHAPS!

NO USAGE CAPS, I HOPE?

Wow. The pods are 70c a go in the US? Amazing to find a product that is substantially cheaper in the UK. It's 30p a go here - 45c or thereabouts.

I'm with you on this. There's some great coffee in London - some wonderful nutty and bitter tastes in places around Soho that Nespresso doesn't seem able to replicate - but I'm perfectly happy with a pod or two in the morning at the cost of 30p instead of the £3 I'd pay at Soho Grind or the interminable wait for the laid-back bearded chaps at Carpo to stop chatting up the black-clad chocolate servers and make my damn drink.

Well that's not on when I pay good money to Vodafone for the same service.

No, the record companies own about 20% of Spotify. The rest is VC and founder owned.

Less interesting to hear about the call from Twitter (hardly unexpected in the context) than about plans for the future. Given Twitter's dislike of external applications, giving Meerkat a decent API and dev platform could make a difference in usage compared to Periscope which may end up too tied to Twitter.

Depends how you define it. O'Sullivan hasn't been consistent enough and simply attending enough Championships to win that many titles. But in terms of talent, no one really competes. O'Sullivan in his prime would have beaten Hendry two times out of three.

Quite. There's nothing quantifiable in what gaben said but a statement like this is more than enough to have that million dollar figure quoted and re-quoted in discussions about poor gaming company decisions, how to cut losses, the right way to respond, etc.

Terrible website. Explains very few of the core questions people will have.

Size of a default square?

Where is the square I buy going to be on the billboard?

Where in each city will the billboard be placed?

Who are you people?

Why should I trust you are going to do it?

How much do you think will be left over to donate to charity?