Love this.

"Beware of sweeping political generalizations in the wake of these riots. We don't know whether we have just witnessed a "new" phenomenon, or a more mobile and technically adept version of a very old one."

Some have reacted to Apple's WWDC announcements as a threat to smaller services like Dropbox, Things, Instapaper, and others. Instead, I think the announcements could be great news for them.

Apple's decision to put tasks, read-later and cloud services, among others, directly into iOS acknowledges and validates that these are no longer niche services. Though these services will now face some serious competition directly from Apple, they'll also benefit from Apple's decision to bring these classes of services — cloud storage, tasks, and read-it-later — to the mass market. With Apple's weight (i.e. marketing dollars spent educating consumers) behind them, these services ought to all benefit from a higher adoption rate. They may lose market share, but as long as they continue to make great products, they'll have many new customers.

For that, I think Marco is right to be "tentatively optimistic."

The picture is not one of mine, but the memory is.

Goodbye Matheson Road.

Banksy:

Google recently purchased the former Port Authority building in Chelsea. It is a massive place, with over 1 million square feet of space more than the Empire State Building. It also is rumored to have good internet access.