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		<title>Mailbox: Still Beautiful, Still Clever, Now on the iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of nifty new iPhone apps are instantly greeted by enthusiastic throngs of users, but when an e-mail app called Mailbox debuted in February, being excited over its arrival became a particular obsession in iPhone nation. Its creators put prospective users into a reservation queue that grew enormous, helping to reduce the strain on its servers while also stoking demand even further. I wasn&#8217;t startled by the rapturous reception: Mailbox is a beautifully-designed piece of software with clever tools intended to help you grind your inbox down to zero. But I didn&#8217;t use it all that much myself: I do 95% of my e-mail on my iPad, not my iPhone. And now I can, without forgoing Mailbox. The app, which was acquired by cloud-storage superstar Dropbox in March, is arriving on the App Store today in a version that brings all the iPhone edition&#8217;s goodness to the iPad&#8217;s larger screen. I was briefed on the news by Mailbox cofounder Gentry Underwood and have been living with the new version for a few days. As before, Mailbox works only with Gmail (for now), supports multiple accounts and lets you see them all combined into one inbox. Four gestures let you wrangle messages right from the inbox list with a quick flick of your finger: Swipe a message a little to the right, and it gets archived; Swipe it further to the right, and it&#8217;s deleted; Swipe it a little to the left, and you can postpone dealing with it by telling Mailbox to put it back at the top of your inbox at a certain point in the future, such as Later Today, Tomorrow, Next Week or a date you specify; Swipe it further to the right, you can add it to a list &#8212; Mailbox&#8217;s version of standard e-mail folders. And other than standard stuff like the ability to compose new messages and reply to incoming ones, that&#8217;s almost all the features Mailbox has. But the ones it does have work great and look great; this is one of the most<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163325&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of &#8216;The Mystery of Minecraft&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time, my job involves me telling my TIME overlords what I want to write about, and then writing it. It is, as I&#8217;m quick to tell anyone who asks, a sweet gig. Every so often, however, said overlords come to me with an idea. Oftentimes, those assignments turn out to be among the most enjoyable ones to tackle. And never more so than in the case of &#8220;The Mystery of Minecraft,&#8221; a story on the phenomenally popular block-building video game in our new print issue, arriving this Friday. Our managing editor, Rick Stengel, is one of countless parents who live in homes with Minecraft-crazy kids; he threw the pitch my way and I got to explore it for several rewarding weeks. TIME subscribers can read the article right now. But if you stubbornly insist on living your life outside the boundary of our paywall, don&#8217;t be too put out. My compatriots cooked up a bunch of other Minecraft-related items, all of which are yours to peruse, including the following: Surviving Minecraft: 9 Easy Steps to Get Started The 15 Best Minecraft Creations (and Wildest Destinations) 4 Ways Minecraft Hasn&#8217;t Actually Changed Gaming Minecraft for N00bs: A Fanboy Explains Game of Blocks: The Man Who Built Westeros in Minecraft How the TIME/Life Building was Recreated in Minecraft Survival of the Blockiest Minecraft may be a game about designing, constructing and exploring virtual worlds, but the most fascinating thing about it is the meaningful impact it&#8217;s having on multiple aspects of the real world, from education to how cities are planned. My research turned out to be as as far-flung as any I&#8217;ve undertook for one piece. For starters, I visited the Stockholm headquarters of Mojang, the 30-person startup behind Minecraft. I formally interviewed the game&#8217;s masterminds, Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten &#8212; better known to Minecraft fans everywhere as Notch and Jeb. But I also got to hang out and observe the Mojang team at work, and that was at least as interesting. (At one point, Jeb conducted<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163312&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survival of the Blockiest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read editor-at-large Harry McCracken&#8217;s full magazine story on The Mystery of Minecraft — including an in-depth trip to the developer&#8217;s headquarters in Sweden — available exclusively for TIME subscribers. In Minecraft’s aptly named Survival Mode, players must find shelter, feed themselves and fend off monsters. But they start by mining blocks, the basic building elements that can be assembled into tools, weapons, structures, crops and even livestock. Illustrations by Ole Ostring for TIME; Steve’s World: Mojang Click here to read editor-at-large Harry McCracken&#8217;s full magazine story on The Mystery of Minecraft — including an in-depth trip to the developer&#8217;s headquarters in Sweden — available exclusively for TIME subscribers. Not a subscriber? Subscribe now or purchase a digital access pass.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163220&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Xbox One Is All-New &#8212; But Familiar, Too</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-all-new-but-familiar-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New game consoles don&#8217;t exactly come along every week. Microsoft unveiled its current one, the Xbox 360, back on May 12, 2005 &#8212; an era when the newest version of Windows was XP, almost all forms of gadget input involved clacky little buttons and the fastest way to get Netflix into your living room involved a red envelope and the U.S. postal system. In the eight years since that announcement, the Xbox 360 has evolved &#8212; a lot. Microsoft has reworked its user interface repeatedly and added scads of features. Using Kinect, which arrived as an optional add-on in 2010, you can control the 360 with your entire body and your voice. And thanks to Netflix and other streaming services, Xbox owners spend more total time watching video than they do playing games. But at its heart, the 360 has remained a piece of hardware from another era &#8212; an old dog that works really hard to perform new tricks, and does them well. But it&#8217;s still an old dog. Microsoft On Tuesday, in a tent at its Redmond, Wash. campus, Microsoft introduced its new console, the Xbox One. Its specs reflect eight years of dramatic technological advancement since the 360&#8242;s debut: It sports a vastly more powerful eight-core processor, sixteen times the RAM of the original 360, a much more capable version of Kinect that now lets you make Skype video calls in HD, advanced Wi-Fi, a Blu-ray drive, HDMI input and output, and three &#8212; count &#8216;em: three &#8212; operating systems. (As Microsoft explained, the box has an Xbox OS, a special version of Windows and a bridging OS which melds the two into one experience.) But while the Xbox One is all-new from a technology standpoint &#8212; it won&#8217;t even play Xbox 360 games &#8212; it also feels like a continuance of the ideas that Microsoft has been adding to the Xbox 360 since 2005. There&#8217;s no radically new concept akin to the two-screen interface that Nintendo gave the Wii U. It&#8217;s just that all of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163237&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo-Tumblr: It&#8217;s Not What You Buy, It&#8217;s What You Do With It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/19/yahoo-tumblr-its-not-what-you-buy-but-what-you-do-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. The things that were important to us were: being open, building innovative stuff and kicking ass. Were these people our people? Yes. See the stuff Yahoo&#8217;s announced recently [including, of course, this]? They&#8217;re evolving in really interesting ways — and from our look inside, we know that there&#8217;s a lot more coming. Yahoo won&#8217;t be the Yahoo you&#8217;ve come to take for granted. Nope, that isn&#8217;t David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, talking about Yahoo&#8217;s $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging service he co-founded. Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that the deal is done and that her sources say it&#8217;ll be announced on Monday. We&#8217;ll hear from Karp then, presumably. Flickr in 2004, before it was a Yahoo property But the sound bite above is from March 2005, and the start-up founder who&#8217;s explaining a Yahoo buyout is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr. At the time, the photo-sharing start-up was as cool as any site on the Web; just as buying Tumblr is allegedly a gambit to make Yahoo cool again, buying Flickr was supposed to help reboot Yahoo, a company that was feeling a tad shopworn even eight years ago. The Flickr acquisition came at a time when Yahoo was snapping up interesting small companies by the carload — among the other ones it purchased in 2004–05 were Dialpad, del.icio.us, Konfabulator, Musicmatch, Stata Labs and Upcoming.org. All came with cool reputations, innovative services and smart people. Some of the acquisitions instantly stopped mattering under Yahoo ownership; others did O.K., at least for a while. (Flickr continued to boom at first, but eventually became staid and backward-looking; it was only in December that it released a really first-rate iPhone app.) None of them had a transformative effect on Yahoo, which is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe the Point of Chromebooks Isn&#8217;t Chromebooks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/maybe-the-point-of-chromebooks-isnt-chromebooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Google&#8217;s I/O conference, it&#8217;s safe to say that many attendees entered yesterday morning&#8217;s keynote expecting that it would involve the announcement of at least one or two major new gadgets. It didn&#8217;t, unless you count the pure-Android version of Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S 4 that Google will begin selling on June 26. And the one gadget which was doled out to attendees, the Chromebook Pixel, wasn&#8217;t an I/O debutante: it was announced back in February. Some of the folks I chatted with after the keynote were disappointed by its lack of gadgetry. I wasn&#8217;t. As my colleague Jared Newman explains, this year&#8217;s keynote was mostly devoted to building out existing Google services and software &#8212; search, Android, Google Maps, Google+ and more &#8212; in ways which aim to make them more useful and appealing. The stuff the company has in store looks meaty and ambitious; add it all up, and it matters more than a new tablet or phone would have. And even though Google didn&#8217;t announce any new Chromebooks, I think I left the keynote with a better understanding of why Google thinks Chromebooks matter. Almost four years after Google unveiled Chrome OS, it&#8217;s had, at most, a modest impact. Chromebooks are hits on Amazon.com and have gained at least some traction at brick-and-mortar stores. There&#8217;s a market for these things, but they&#8217;re not going to drum conventional PCs out of business anytime soon. I wonder if Google might be perfectly fine with the possibility that Chromebooks will wind up occupying a niche rather than changing the world. When the company announced at the keynote that conference attendees were getting Chromebook Pixels, it said that the idea was to encourage development of great apps. But there really aren&#8217;t such things as Chromebook apps &#8212; that&#8217;s the whole point of a Chromebook, which offers a browser as its user interface and the Internet as its back end. If a developer uses a Chromebook to create something cool, it&#8217;ll be a web app &#8212; one which will also work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162924&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic Beauty of Google+</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/the-tragic-beauty-of-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google likes to use the word &#8220;beautiful&#8221; a lot when describing its own products. That would be grating if it weren&#8217;t for one fact: more and more, the company is building beautiful stuff. And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s ever built anything more beautiful than the new version of its Google+ social network which debuted on Wednesday during the Google I/O keynote. The service, which was already pretty darn slick, is now among the most attractive and engaging web apps I&#8217;ve ever seen. Streams of activity are now laid out as one, two or three columns of tiles, depending on available screen real estate, with some oversized photos spanning the whole width. (Judging from my stream, some Google+ aficionados like the old format better &#8212; they can switch back to one column &#8212; but I find the new one less claustrophobic.) The left-hand toolbar which used to hog space now disappears until you need it; throughout, the level of visual polish is high, with pixel-perfect design and subtle little animations as you click on different controls. Google+ can now auto-hashtag your items, a feature which is useful because you can click on any hashtag and then flip through related items shared by other people, without leaving the page you&#8217;re on. When it figures out a hashtag based on words in your post, it&#8217;s neat. But in some cases, it can also analyze a photo to determine a relevant hashtag, a feat which can be downright dazzling. I uploaded a shot from Disneyland and a drawing of Superman; it correctly identified both and linked appropriately. The photo features, already practically a service unto themselves, get a thorough makeover. In a feature which reminds me a bit of Everpix, Google+ gives you a page of &#8220;highlights&#8221; which it chooses algorithmically: shots with family members, shots with smiling people, shots which it just deems to be aesthetically pleasing. There&#8217;s an auto-enhancement feature, which would be nice, but no big whoop except that you can tell Google+ to apply it to all your photos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162860&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Google Search Is Coming Sooner Than I Expected</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-future-of-google-search-coming-sooner-than-i-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I got to visit Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters and chat with Amit Singhal, the company&#8217;s search honcho, and other employees about their vision for the future of search. (I wrote about that experience here.) Singhal in particular waxed enthusiastic about the possibility of building something as smart, helpful and effortless as Star Trek&#8217;s computer. The whole thing might have sounded pie-in-sky and unrealistic if it weren&#8217;t for the fact that the current versions of Google&#8217;s search app for Android and iOS have already taken meaningful steps in that direction. Today, at the keynote for Google&#8217;s I/O conference, Singhal got a meaningful amount of stage time &#8212; and he talked about a bunch of new features he&#8217;d hinted at during my visit. In aggregate, they amount to additional meaningful progress towards the Star Trek computer: In Chrome, Google&#8217;s classic desktop version of search will get the same conversational spoken search which is already available in the mobile apps. On all platforms, that search will get smarter about interpreting queries and sequences of queries &#8212; such as &#8220;Show me things to do in Santa Cruz,&#8221; &#8220;Show me pictures of the Santa Cruz Boardwalk&#8221; and &#8220;How far is it from here?&#8221; You&#8217;ll be able to go into spoken conversational mode by saying &#8220;OK, Google&#8221; rather than having to press a button to go into a special mode. The Knowledge Graph, which gives Google a better understanding of facts about all sorts of entities, will try to anticipate your follow-up questions and answer them based upon what other people search for. Ask for the population of Canada, for instance, and it&#8217;ll tell you &#8212; but it will also graph how that population has changed over time. Google Now&#8217;s Cards &#8212; which present you with summaries of info based all kinds of stuff Google knows about you &#8212; are adding additional types of content, such as notifications about TV shows and albums you might like. In a feature which sounds similar to something Apple&#8217;s Siri already has, you&#8217;ll also be able to create reminders<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162837&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Square&#8217;s Second Hardware Product: A Decidedly Square-esque Cash Register</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/square-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, innovative payment-processing startup Square introduced Business in a Box, a bundle which turned an iPad into a cash register. It included a third-party stand and a third-party cash drawer; it looked really useful, but I was a bit surprised that a company as interested in controlling its user experience was willing to outsource so much of it to existing products designed by other companies. Turns out that Business in a Box was a stopgap. At an event at San Francisco&#8216;s Blue Bottle Coffee this morning, the company introduced Square Stand, a $299 iPad-as-cash-register device which it designed itself. It&#8217;s Square&#8217;s second hardware product, after its tiny headphone-jack card Square Reader swiper, and will replace Business in a Box in July. (The first version is for the iPad 2 and third-generation iPad; a version for the current iPad, with Lightning connector, is due later this year.) Square Stand exudes style: it&#8217;s white, sleek and gorgeous. With the iPad installed, it&#8217;s tough to tell where the tablet ends and the stand begins. And as with Apple products, even the packaging is an artistic statement. But Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said that how it looks is less important than how it works. Speaking of existing cash register systems for small merchants, he said that &#8220;nothing works together, nothing is seamless, nothing fits. We thought we could do better.&#8221; The overall goal, he said, was to help merchants ring up more transactions in less time, thereby making larger quantities of old and new customers happy. As with other Square variants, merchants pay a flat 2.75% transaction fee for sales made through Square Stand. Square Unlike Business in a Box, it doesn&#8217;t use Square&#8217;s headphone-jack swiper &#8212; instead, there&#8217;s an oversized, two-way swiper designed for easy, fast swiping in busy environments. &#8220;You don&#8217;t even have to look &#8212; you can look at your customer,&#8221; Dorsey said. The headphone jack is used to secure the iPad, like an improvised Kensington spot, and the whole thing swivels. It&#8217;s designed, of course, to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162745&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gmail at Nine: The Evolution of an Essential Web Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/gmail-at-nine-the-evolution-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, when Google introduced Gmail, it wasn&#8217;t instantly obvious to everyone why the search engine phenom would want to get into the e-mail business. Actually, given that the company made its announcement on April 1, some people wondered, momentarily, whether the news was a hoax. Even once it was clear that Gmail was the real deal, Google felt the need, in the Gmail FAQ, to answer the burning question &#8220;Why is Google offering email? I thought you were a search company.&#8221; The era of people being confused by Gmail was so brief that it&#8217;s easy to forget such an era ever existed. Gmail quickly became not just one of Google&#8217;s core services but one of the web&#8217;s core services &#8212; the webmail client that came to define webmail clients even though it was far from the first one. Like most things Google does, Gmail hasn&#8217;t been without its controversies, but it&#8217;s still one of the company&#8217;s great success stories. I recently chatted with Alex Gawley, the service&#8217;s product manager, about Gmail&#8217;s first nine years &#8212; and a little bit about where it might be going. First, to refresh your memory, here&#8217;s an infographic-based history of Gmail that Google distributed last month, complete with major milestones such as 2010&#8242;s Priority Inbox, probably Gmail&#8217;s biggest innovation since the ones that got it started: Google One of the reasons Gmail took the web by surprise was that it wasn&#8217;t necessarily obvious that web-based mail was ripe for reinvention. Nine years ago, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail were good, popular and deeply entrenched; they seemed to have the market as it existed all sewn up. Gmail shattered that assumption because it was the first major web-based e-mail that aspired to be good enough to be someone&#8217;s primary inbox. &#8220;From the very start, [Gmail] was about pushing the boundaries of what an e-mail product might be for people,&#8221; Gawley says. &#8220;Back in 2004, most webmail providers were giving people a few megabytes of storage. They were thought of as this interesting quirk. A gigabyte of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162701&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zact: Build Your Own Wireless Plan, Down to the Last Detail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/zact-build-your-own-wireless-plan-down-to-the-last-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to wireless service, every individual and family has different needs &#8212; and oftentimes, those needs vary from month to month. But you wouldn&#8217;t know that from the plans offered by the big U.S. carriers. Even at their most flexible, they just don&#8217;t offer enough options, and they generally encourage you to pay for more service than you actually need for fear of overages. And then there&#8217;s Zact. It&#8217;s a new wireless provider which, judging from a demo I recently received, comes as close as any I&#8217;ve ever seen to providing absolutely custom service plans. Rather than making you choose from one of a few offerings, it lets you choose from lots of them &#8212; and then allows you to refine those options further until you&#8217;re paying for exactly the service you use. It&#8217;s like a purveyor of beautifully custom-tailored suits in a world of S, M, L and XL. Zact&#8217;s service, which will be available next month, runs on Sprint&#8217;s network. But if you sign up, you&#8217;re a customer of a startup named ItsOn. Zact is ItsOn&#8217;s own consumer brand, but the company has built a software-and-service platform designed to let other companies provide similar offerings; if it&#8217;s a success, there could be many Zact-like services around the world. Zact offers contract-free service, which means you pay full price for phones but can leave whenever you like without paying an early termination fee. In some broad respects, it&#8217;s reminiscent of other price-conscious alternative wireless providers which don&#8217;t own their own networks, such as Ting and Republic Wireless. But it&#8217;s doing multiple things which are genuinely new. For instance, it gives you so much control over the services you pay for that you can choose to use a particular app without splurging on a full-blown data plan. $5 a month will get you access to Facebook &#8212; and nothing else. $1 a month lets you play Candy Crush with friends. And so on. More general-purpose options &#8212; voice, data and text &#8212; are available in multiple quantities, starting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162651&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue: Undoing a Mistake Is Never a Mistake</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/windows-blue-undoing-a-mistake-is-never-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was confused by Microsoft&#8217;s decision to remove the Start button from Windows 8, and make it impossible to boot directly to the classic Windows desktop. But I&#8217;m equally confused by the notion that there&#8217;s any downside to Microsoft&#8217;s upcoming Windows Blue undoing those bold-but-bad decisions, as it now seems likely it may. So I&#8217;m glad to see that at least one smart Windows watcher &#8212; ZDnet&#8217;s Mary Jo Foley &#8212; has the same take: Windows Blue, from all leaks and tips I&#8217;ve received, is not a do-over. (If it were, it would take Microsoft a lot longer than nine or ten months to deliver it.) And ignoring customer confusion isn&#8217;t a virtue; it&#8217;s stupidity. This armchair pundit finds it refreshing to hear Windows honchos admit that Windows 8 isn&#8217;t selling as well as they hoped and that they want to make its successor more comfortable, familiar and usable for the Windows installed base.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162626&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next-Generation PC: A Modest Proposal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/the-next-generation-pc-a-modest-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 03:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep linking to posts by Michael Mace of Mobile Opportunity for one simple reason: they&#8217;re all great. In his newest piece, Mace comes up with some specific suggestions for how the traditional PC can make a giant leap forward in the years to come, without merely mimicking the tablet: Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, I think there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing. (By personal computing, I mean the use of purpose-built computers for productivity tasks including the creation and management of information.) I’m not saying there will be a renaissance, because someone has to invest in making it happen. But there could be a renaissance, and I think it would be insanely great for everyone who depends on a computer for productivity. In this post I’ll describe the next-generation personal computing opportunity, and what could make it happen. I don&#8217;t instantly buy all of Mace&#8217;s ideas &#8212; for one thing, I&#8217;ve never seen a 3D display, at any price, with or without glasses, that doesn&#8217;t feel like an unsuccessful party trick &#8212; but they all make for excellent reading.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162614&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least for Me)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/facebook-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike some folks, I&#8217;m not reflexively opposed to major Facebook changes. Oftentimes, when the service switches things around — which it does more or less continuously — I find the new version to be an improvement. Or at least I understand what it&#8217;s trying to do. But a few weeks ago, Facebook switched things up in a way that briefly left me wondering if I was going prematurely senile. Now that I more or less understand what&#8217;s going on, I&#8217;m an unhappy camper. For the first time, the company has instituted a change that meaningfully lessens my enjoyment of Facebook — and there&#8217;s no way for me to undo it. It gets weirder: it turns out that the change I can&#8217;t stand is something I was initially happy to hear was arriving. It&#8217;s called Replies, and it lets folks respond to specific comments that other members leave on an update, thereby creating individual threads rather than one master list of comments on an item. That change is long overdue. Here&#8217;s the thing, though. The feature doesn&#8217;t simply permit threaded comments. It also attempts to rearrange comments to put the best ones at the top. That&#8217;s the part that&#8217;s driving me bonkers. To quote from Facebook&#8217;s blog post about the Replies feature: Conversation threads are reordered by relevance to viewers, and may appear differently to each person based on their connections, specifically: Positive Feedback: the amount of positive feedback based on the total number of Likes and Replies in a conversation thread, which includes Likes or Replies by the Page owner. Connections: connections to participants in a thread may move the conversation higher. For example, conversations with Comments left by friends may appear at the top. Negative Feedback: the total number of spam reports in a thread, as well as marks-as-spam made by the Page owner. We also may down-rank comments made by frequent spammers. Got it? Threads with Likes and Replies are likely to bubble up; everyone may see different orders based on whom they&#8217;re friends with; spammers will be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162436&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hangtime: a Better Way to Find Facebook Events</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/hangtime-a-better-way-to-find-facebook-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With details on millions of events of all sorts all over the world, Facebook is &#8212; among many other things &#8212; the closest thing the world has to a universal repository of things to do, such as concerts, parties, book readings and a whole lot more. But Facebook Events doesn&#8217;t seem to be all that high up on Facebook&#8217;s list of priorities. The feature hasn&#8217;t changed much over the years, and isn&#8217;t radically different on a phone than it is on a PC browser. Enter Hangtime. The product of a startup of the same name, founded by veteran entrepreneur Karl Jacob, it&#8217;s an iPhone app &#8212; and web-based service &#8212; which aims to make it much easier to find stuff you&#8217;ll like to do among all the options in Facebook Events and other sources. The app debuted for the SXSW conference in March; version 2.0, a substantial upgrade, arrived on the App Store this week. Overall, Hangtime has a nicely done interface: with a few swipes of your thumb, you can view the events in your vicinity on a given day, pull up specific information on a particular activity, see which of your friends are attending or considering doing so and RSVP. Using a map, you can also pinch-and-zoom to specify how big (or small) a geographic area you want to cover. In all cases, the Facebook events you&#8217;re seeing are ones with settings that make them visible to you. But you&#8217;ll probably see plenty of events you wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise encountered &#8212; they&#8217;re a lot more browsable on Hangtime than they are on Facebook. The app is aimed especially at young people with active social lives, but even not-so-young types should find activities of interest. The new version of the app pulls in the billboard-like artwork associated with an event from Facebook. It also includes events listed on Eventbrite, although with less detail than for Facebook events. You can now specify interests &#8212; such as Rock, Comedy, Dance and Books &#8212; so other topics you don&#8217;t care about are winnowed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162575&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on MoviePass</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/more-on-moviepass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, I wrote about MoviePass, a service which lets you pay a flat fee and go to dozens of movies a month, at almost any theater in America. Its creators aren&#8217;t partnering with theaters; instead, they&#8217;ve come up with a clever system involving a location-aware smartphone app and a Discover debit card configured so that you can only use it to pay for movies, and only after you&#8217;ve checked in using the app. The company ends up paying full price for tickets, but hopes to turn a profit by selling related items such as DVDs, providing data to marketers and maybe, eventually, striking deals with theaters. Brent Lang of The Wrap has a good story on the service and how the movie-theater business is reacting; it was unhappy about an earlier incarnation but isn&#8217;t actively fighting this new version, at least for now: A previous test of the service in San Francisco came undone when theaters refused to accept vouchers that MoviePass gave its customers. The concern at the time was that MoviePass would try to influence ticket prices. AMC Theaters publicly decried the service, while Landmark Theatres CEO Ted Mundorff told TheWrap, &#8220;We are not interested in outside entities setting ticket prices for us.&#8221; The debit card under the new plan works independent of exhibitors. Users will pay $25 to $40 a month, based on geography, for which they can see one 2D movie a day at 93 percent of theaters nationwide. All they need to do to set up the card is download an iPhone or Android app. Using a card provided by MoviePass, I&#8217;ve gone to a couple of movies in the San Francisco area in the past few weeks: the whole process worked without any hiccups and was no more complicated than buying tickets from a service such as Fandango. You have to be an avid filmgoer for this to make sense &#8212; if you go three or more times a month, you should save money &#8212; but if the startup manages to make<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162563&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home: More Stuff on the Way</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/facebook-home-more-stuff-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, when Facebook released Facebook Home, its Facebook-centric home screen for Android phones, the company said it planned to update it every month. And, good to its word, it plans to release an update later today. The update is actually a new version of the Facebook app for Android, and don&#8217;t get too excited: it swats bugs and improves performance rather than introducing new features. But at a press event at Facebook headquarters today, the company provided quick peeks at meatier additions it plans to add in the coming months. They include folders for apps (which preserve any organizing you did before installing Home), a dock that lets you place four favorite apps at the bottom of the launcher, and the ability to easily launch chat sessions in Chat Head mode as well as respond when a friend messages you. There&#8217;s also a new tutorial in the works to help new Home users figure everything out. Folders and the dock might help Home&#8217;s user rating on Google Play, which is currently a dismal two stars overall. Facebook says that&#8217;s an average of very high reviews and very low ones, and that many of the unhappy campers are nonplussed because installing Home hasn&#8217;t provided robust features for organizing apps. Right now, it just dumps all the contents of any folders you&#8217;ve created into one pile of apps. The company is also working on other stuff it didn&#8217;t show at the event, including support for widgets and compatibility with additional Android phones. It also says it plans to offer a version optimized for Android tablets. How&#8217;s Facebook Home doing so far? Well, HTC&#8217;s First, the first phone with Home preinstalled, is now 99 cents with an AT&#38;T contract, which suggests that it hasn&#8217;t been a blockbuster. But at today&#8217;s event, Facebook revealed that Home has been downloaded for other phones a million times so far, and that folks who use it spend 25% more time on the service &#8212; which adds up to a lot of time given that Facebook is already<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Google Search Is Going</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/google-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998, a new search engine from an obscure startup launched. It featured a logo, a text field and buttons for search and &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; &#8212; and not much else. Its name, as I don&#8217;t actually have to tell you, was Google, and it changed the way that the world interacted with information. It&#8217;s tempting to think of Google search as something that hasn&#8217;t evolved radically over the years, in part because the Google.com homepage hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8212; the logo, search field and dual buttons are all still there. Even the results, which now weave in images, videos, Knowledge Graph summaries and other elements, are still dominated by straightforward text results of the sort that many a would-be Google rival has derided as &#8220;ten blue links.&#8221; Under the surface, however, Google has changed plenty, in increasingly profound ways. The way we interact with it has also evolved. And if the company&#8217;s ambitious plans pay off, the Google of just a few years from now could be a new kind of search engine. In a recent visit to Google&#8217;s Silicon Valley headquarters, I discussed the future of Google search with Amit Singhal, a 22-year veteran of the search field and the company&#8217;s senior vice president in charge of search, and some of his colleagues. They didn&#8217;t clue me in on any top-secret projects. (I didn&#8217;t even get to try on Google Glass.) But I did leave with a greater understanding of where Google thinks search should go, and the steps it&#8217;s taking to get there. Google Amit Singhal As Singhal stresses, all Google is doing is continuing a journey it&#8217;s already on. &#8220;Over the 12 years I&#8217;ve been here, we have changed Google every two to four years,&#8221; he says. &#8220;There have been four or five huge milestones &#8230; Google&#8217;s beauty is what hides behind that simple interface: incredibly complex mathematics.&#8221; For search research, Singhal says, &#8220;these are supremely interesting times.&#8221; But when he describes his ideal version of Google, it doesn&#8217;t sound all that much like Google as we&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162339&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Where Google Search is Going</media:title>
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