Apple plots course for middle of mobile (CNET News)

For years, the PC industry has longed to make a compelling device that's bigger than a phone but smaller than a notebook. They have failed. Can Apple pull it off? Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on Apple.

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Facebook plans to give developers more access: source (Reuters)

Internet social media company Facebook plans to allow outside developers access to core parts of the website so they can build new services, a person familiar with the situation said.

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Slideshow: 10 Gadgets With Too Many Stupid Features (Gizmodo: TGIF)

There is nothing wrong with offering a feature-packed product, but it is possible to take things a little too far. The following gadgets definitely illustrate convergence at its worst.

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The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500 (Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ)

The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F” – the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather than as is currently the case, a mid-20th-century Weberian bureaucracy.

If your company hopes to attract the most creative and energetic members of Gen F, it will need to understand these Internet-derived expectations, and then reinvent its management practices accordingly.

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F-Script: Command-line Cocoa shell goes beta (Ars Technica)

Fun Script, also known as F-Script, is a command-line based interactive Cocoa shell. The open source system offers a new way to create and interact with Cocoa objects using a simple scripting language and a Smalltalk-like development environment. Recently, the F-Script shell went beta, providing a new way to interactively build Cocoa. Ars Technica takes a look.

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Slideshow: 11 Geek Archetypes in Film and Television (Baseline)

Geeks have had a central role in popular culture since Homer rapped about Odysseus. Modern media is not always so kind. Who are these people, and what does it mean? Baseline explores.

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