iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I’m Still Connected.

There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apple’s new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes, that Apple decided against connecting; while other reports say they think it was at one point integrated, but that it wasn’t working and has since been removed

Pinger’s Textfree Is Massive, Now Over 3.5 Billion Messages Sent

It’s a promise sounds too good to be true: free, unlimited texting to and from your iPhone. And even if a service did manage to offer it, it certainly couldn’t be sustainable, could it?

Old School Steve Jobs On Changing The World

It looks like that Xerox IP isn’t the only thing Steve Jobs appropriated for Apple. Here he is in all his chubby 1997 glory, introducing the TBWA/Chiat Day produced “Think Different” campaign with an unattributed quote from poet Jack Kerouac, “People who think they are crazy enough to change the world, are the ones who actually do.” What’s most jarring about this video is the chasm between what Jobs holds as Apple’s core values in 1997 and those of the patent hungry – monopoly that is the Apple of today

Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?)

When it comes to trademarks, Facebook is proving to be a bully. It is going after Teachbook in court for using a similar name, and already forced Placebook to change its name. But that is only half the story.

Simperium Launches A Simple Data Syncing Platform

With more and more consumers using desktop, laptop and mobile devices in their everyday lives, there’s a pressing need for syncing data across applications and devices. Y Combinator -backed Simperium is launching its platform for app-level syncing in the cloud. The best use case of Simperium’s platform is in its recently launched note taking application Simplenote.

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