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  1. It's all going according to plan by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 1 · on The Fate of The Free Newspaper

    See this: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

  2. Epic just got closer to truth by the_argent · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Google Adds News Personalization

    Epic 2014

  3. A Google goodwill or is it just smart business by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Google & Firefox's Relationship
    As Gmail and Google Suggest has shown, client-side javascript is a VERY powerful and flexible tool (CGI::IRC takes my pick for the best javascript app). It truly shows why Microsoft had to kill off Netscape by seeding the internet with incompatible standards - essentially wasting man hours which could have gone into true innovation.

    Google is our friend right now because favouring firefox would benifit their own shareholders by keeping Microsoft from introducing more divergent tandards. Whenever I think about Google as the Good Company, I am instantly reminded of a flash intro called EPIC 2014.

    Google is good for FireFox now - and probably will remain good. The only question is about what we will have to pay (ie Free Software == open market for services). You see IBM playing the same card trying to commoditize software to knock Microsoft off the software market.
  4. Oh no, it's EPIC ! by tibike77 · · Score: 1 · on Google Planning Web Browser?

    [joke mode]
    That's the start of Google Grid, and next thing you know, it's E.P.I.C. before you know it ! [/joke mode]

  5. EPIC 2014 by patdabiker · · Score: 1 · on Future of Internet News?

    This article made me think of Epic 2014, as previously discussed on Slashdot. Rather sensationalistic, but interesting to think about.

  6. Re:a test... by teslar · · Score: 4, Funny · on iTunes User Sues Apple Over Lock-In
    if (vendor == apple) { slash.bots =: defendDeity } else if (vendor = microsoft) { slash.bots =: postFlamebait }

    "And thus, in AD2005, because of one line of unchecked code, Slashdot began flaming all vendors apart from Apple. What seemed irrelevant at first had huge implications for mankind as it paved the way for Apple's domination of all things electronic, with all major non-Apple vendors being virtually extinct by the second decade of the 21st century. As we saw in the introduction, it was Apple who first introduced self-regulating computers in an effort to relieve the user from the chores of setting up and configuring his machine. It is because of Apple's "you don't need to know how it works" policy and its success at making the machines do exactly what the user wanted, without any requirement for the user to have any knowledge whatsoever about the machine's working, that we today do not understand how Our Masters operate.
    But before we review this in more detail, we will be concentrating on the Google Grid in the next chapter"
    -Excerpt of Chapter 5 of 'From Internet to World-Ruling Self-Conscious Network of Computing Machines: The History of Our Overlords. Volume 1: Towards Automation: The Beginnings.'
    Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2037
  7. EPIC 2014 by noamt · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Privacy Resolutions for the New Year

    I wonder if EPIC has anything to do with this scary-yet-insightful video-flash movie.

  8. Re:EPIC by victor_the_cleaner · · Score: 1 · on Are Blogs the Future of Journalism?
    Link to the listing of mirrors:

    http://robinsloan.com/epic/ so the traffic gets spread around. I was hosting one of the mirrors, but after I transferred 42GB over the weekend, I had to take it down.

    This thing is spreading like wildfire among the media. I checked out my stats and what happens is one reporter at a paper see's it and then blasts out the URL to all the other staff, who then all come running...sound familiar :-)

  9. Googlezon: Media Circa 2014 by victor_the_cleaner · · Score: 3, Informative · on Are Blogs the Future of Journalism?
    I think this ties in nicely...what do journalists think is the future of news?

    Check out EPIC. http://robinsloan.com/epic/

    EPIC is a presentation by the Poynter Institutue on the future of news. It's presented as a documentary from the year 2014. Google buys Amazon, and forms Googlezon...the New York Times goes offline....

    It's an interesting view.