I’m not going to dig too deeply into this, but at best it shows how far off we are from truly personalized and scary ad targeting, and at worst it gives a pretty sad indication of how technology is still clearly defined as a “male” activity.
Hey ladies, does Google think you’re a guy? — Tech News and Analysis
Google thinks I’m a dude. What about you?
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Same here.
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Blood lamp: When designer Mike Thomspon asked himself, “What if power came at a cost to the individual?” he ended up creating the blood lamp as a statement on energy conservation. This single-use lamp requires a drop of blood to be activated — a personal sacrifice that will really make you think twice before turning on the lights. The lamp’s secret ingredient is luminol, the chemical forensic scientists use to check for blood, which glows blue when it reacts with the iron in red blood cells.
Someone needs to write me THIS dystopian like, right now. I need it to be, like 25% Atwood. Preferably not YA. Volunteers?
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Surely there’s an Apple ad in here somewhere.
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The anachronism this image puts my mind through is overwhelming.
In which @mathewi comes to understand why I did NOT just toss my novel up on CreateSpace after ABNA, and my face looks sort of like this:
Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won’t direct you to the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she’ll suggest you pay a visit to the 1st Choice Women’s Health Center, an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you’ll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.
Ask in New York City, and Siri will tell you: ‘I didn’t find any abortion clinics.’
10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon, who have hidden agendas, policies or biases we don’t know about.
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Reblogging for quote and commentary.
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Here’s another, more detailed post that illustrates the failures of this program using actual screencaps. Apparently it has no problem directing you to pharmacies when you need Viagra but it’ll get really snarky if you try to search for female birth control options. Or try to seek help after sexual assault.
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I figured this was crap, but I tried it anyway. Dead on. Siri “finds nothing.” Yet if I tell Siri to search Google for abortion clinics, six are plotted right on the Google Map in Rochester, NY.
W.T.F.
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A few things:
1) Barnes & Noble makes fun of the Kindle Fire, noting that it looks like a BlackBerry PlayBook — completely fair and true. The Nook Tablet clearly looks nicer.
2) But… the Kindle Fire is still at the magical $199 price point, while the Nook Tablet is at $249.
3) That may not seem like a huge difference but… the Nook Tablet doesn’t have a little thing called Amazon.com and all its related properties.
4) The Nook Tablet specs sound great, but again, it’s $50 more and doesn’t have Amazon.com. Further, at $249, the tablet clearly isn’t going to be good enough to match the iPad. So Barnes & Noble may feel a bit squeezed. They’re not the cheapest and they’re not the best.
Yes, but for $50 more, I can have a fully-functioning Android tablet in a few minutes, and with so may publishers moving to the agency model for pricing e-books, what is content difference? Add on B&N’s brick-and-mortar experience and the numerous money-back programs it participates in even for e-books (like Upromise) and I’d be looking a lot harder at the Nook if I was looking at an e-reader only device.
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