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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Apps With Everything, Everything With Apps
9 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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News coming out of the Le Web conference in Paris this week has prompted me to look at Apps and App Stores in a new light: In the future we can expect pretty much everything to have apps, and apps that'll do almost anything.
Twitter's 50,000 App Spawning-Fest
Twitter is very simple, but it's having complex and subtle impacts on the social Webosphere and Net technology in general. Witness: it's resulted in some 50,000 third-party apps being written to access its stream of socially-relevant real time data.
That rather surprisingly big figure came from the company's Director of Platform Ryan Sarver, speaking at Le Web. Twitter can count how many apps it's spawned because the third-party developers have to register to link up to Twitter's Api, and the list will include apps on smartphones, desktop PCs, and inside other services like Facebook. In one stroke that figure of 50,000 proves just how popular Twitter is.
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- Kit Eaton
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AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST
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"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand!
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On The Red Carpet With Jude Law And The Cast Of 'Hamlet'
7 October 2009 7:32 AM, PDT
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I was probably the nerdiest person on the press line at the "Hamlet" red carpet last night in New York City. After seeing the play on Sunday, I was able to spot all of the play's actors just hanging around outside before the curtain went up. I was all like, "Hey, there's Laertes! That's Rosencrantz. And Guildenstern. Hey, there's Horatio."
As it turns out, I didn't have the chance to point out the delightful Jude Law. He was probably too busy getting into character. Hamlet is a strenuous role, so I can forgive him for that.
And although we got some great updates from "Daily Show" correspondent and "The Last Airbender" star Aasif Mandvi and "True Blood" star Rutina Wesley, other notables like Barbara Walters, "Gossip Girl" star Ed Westwick and former Jude Law co-star Natalie Portman didn’t have the time to chat with reporters. Just who do they think they are?
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- Jocelyn Vena
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Army Wives: Back to the 1940s!
16 September 2009 8:55 AM, PDT
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Attention, Army Wives viewers: Are you ready to go retro?
On this Sunday night's episode of the Lifetime hit, the character travel back to the 1940s.
The flashbacks kick off when Lois Smith (who played Sookie's gran on True Blood) regales Roxy and Pamela with stories from her life as an army wife during World War II. All the main characters play parts in the re-telling of this tale.
Watch below, as the series goes back to a segregated South Carolina in 1943. This is a preview for "As Time Goes By."
In the 40s
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- matt@iscribelimited.com (M.L. House)
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'We Live In Public': Yesterday's Future Revisited, By Kurt Loder
27 August 2009 10:51 PM, PDT
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Josh Harris: Internet prophet or fascist dream merchant?
Josh Harris living the "Quiet" life in 1999
Photo: Interloper Films
Josh Harris was an emotionally stunted early computer nerd who came to New York City in 1984 with $900 in his pocket. He got into high-tech market research and made a bunch of money. He pioneered chat rooms and then Web TV before it was really feasible (dial-up was a stumbling block). He surfed the big Internet wave, became a name player and by the end of the '90s was worth $80 million. How did he do this? And what ever happened to him?
He did it by inventing the future. Well, by inventing the way people would live in the future. Or so he thought. But would they? Do they?
"We Live in Public," Ondi Timoner's new documentary about Harris, prompts a number of questions — about the future of privacy, the decay of intimacy,
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Photo Flash: Andrea Marcovicci's 60th Birthday Gala
21 May 2009 9:38 PM, PDT
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Andrea Marcovicci ? popularly dubbed "The Queen of Cabaret" ?
celebrated her 60th birthday gala concert this past Saturday, May 16th at 8Pm at New York?s The Town Hall. The event coincided with the release of her first-ever "greatest hits" collection, As Time Goes By: The Best of Andrea Marcovicci on Andreasong, her own label. BroadwayWorld brings you exclusive photos of the after party at Saju Bistro with Andrea and her special guests for the concert.
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Darth Vader Line Tops List of Most Famous Movie Misquotes
12 May 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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“Luke, I am your father” is a famous line from The Empire Strikes Back, one of the best Sci-Fi films of all time, right? Wrong. The line, which tops a list from the site I love film and is highlighted over at The Guardian, is actually “No, I am your father.” Its a line Vader says in response to Luke who told him Obi-Wan Kenobi said Vader killed his father. Oh well, it was pretty close.
Some of the other famous misquotes include a classic from Casablanca where Ingrid Bergman’s character supposedly utters the line “Play it again Sam.” Like the line from The Empire Strikes Back, this one isn’t in the movie either. What’s actually said is “Play it Sam. Play As Time Goes By”, which is close, but not correct. Also not correct is Dirty Harry’s famous “Do you feel lucky punk?” line form
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- Chris Ullrich
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