Dave Caolo

New York Yankees ban Apple iPads at stadium. “America’s Team” my ass.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

Google announces Google TV. At today’s Google I/O event, the company’s Senior Product Manager Rishi Chandra described Google’s plan “to bring the entire Web to the television set…to take the best of what TV offers these days and the best of what the Web offers and combine them.” The goal is to bring search — a feature of the web that Google dominates — to television. Additionally, Google TV’s software is built on Android 2.1, which means Android smartphones can be used as remotes. I’m very interested to see where this goes, though I can’t get the image of WebTV out of my head.

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An epic collection of posts about Twitterrific’s future. The Iconfactory’s Ged Maheux, David Lanham and Craig Hockenberry detail the lessons learned from developing their popular Twitter client, Twitterrific, while offering sneak peaks at its next incarnation. From Ged:

“Somewhere during Twitterrific’s evolution from the desktop to the iPhone, we forgot how to say no. We said yes to too many of the latest features, 3rd party services and user requests. Eventually this “leap before you look” approach increased the complexity of the user interface and made the app’s settings too confusing for even us to figure out. A growing chorus of users told us the app was too hard to understand. We had lost our way.”

It’s an honest exploration that will appeal to business owners, developers, designers and anyone who’s had to learn from experience.

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iPads are outselling Macs in the US. About 200,000 iPads are being sold per day (vs. approximately 110,00 Macs). Just wait until international iPad sales begin on the 28th. Still doubt that these things are going to be huge?

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Apple changes policy, now accepts cash for iPads. I still think it’s strange that they didn’t until now.

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Tweet you and the horse that you rode in on. Perspective:

“The speed record for the nearly two thousand mile Pony Express route was set at seven days, 17 hours with the delivery of Lincoln’s inaugural address. Can you imagine if the recipients of that letter opened the dust-covered envelope to find a message that only included one line: ‘Abraham just checked-in at the U.S. Capitol.’”

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Bart’s wall. Every single line ever written on the Springfield Elementary School blackboard. 288 lines and 7,697 characters.

Previous installments here.

What if “The Empire Strikes Back” were made in 1950?

The 2012 London Olympics mascots defy logic

Mac mini.

A complete Buddhist Sutra collection.

Every weekday, I post the best of what I find online for you to read. Here’s today’s installment.

A shopping list for re-living your childhood. As long as you were a kid in 1950′s Maine.

The 4G iPhone may have an option to be white on the front and back. Is there anything we don’t know about this thing? Talk about killing the magic.

Tweetie 3 for iPhone officially re-released as the official Twitter app for iPhone. A huge coup for Tweetie’s developers and an eagerly anticipated app. One nice feature lets you browse tweets without being logged in. Of course, the “swipe down to refresh” feature is so intuitive it should be implemented in many more apps. Call me juvenile, but I’m kinda bummed that the silly options like the flashlight are gone.

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis’s identity has been stolen 13 times. Remember those ads in which Davis parades his social security number about, boasting that his company, LifeLock, can protect you and him from identity theft? Turns out they’ve got more in common with Old Glory Insurance. LifeLock has recently been penalized $12 million by the feds. This article is a well-written cautionary tale.

War on tap: America’s obsession with bottled water. “Water fountains have become an anachronism, or even a liability, a symbol of the days when homes didn’t have taps and bottled water wasn’t available from every convenience store and corner concession stand. In our health-conscious society, we’re afraid that public fountains, and our tap water in general, are sources of contamination and contagion.” A great exploration from NPR.

Previous installments here.

MSNBC:

“The national bakery and restaurant chain launched a new nonprofit store here this week that has the same menu as its other 1,400 locations. But the prices are a little different — there aren’t any. Customers are told to donate what they want for a meal, whether it’s the full suggested price, a penny or $100.”

Essentially, this location will become a non-profit restaurant. If it can sustain itself, Panera will open more. Honestly, I can’t figure out the reasoning behind the move.

As of April, there is a new Facebook privacy setting called “Instant Personalization” that shares your data with non-Facebook websites. It’s enabled by default. To disable it, go to account > privacy settings > apps. Click websites > instant personalization and de-select allow.

Additionally, here’s an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings.

Preston Gralla:

“iPads will top the publicity charts this week when they launch, but netbooks will still top the sales charts, and far outsell iPads into the foreseeable future. The iPad will remain an expensive, niche device compared to all-purpose netbooks.”

Philip Elmer-DeWitt for Fortune:

“…a Morgan Stanley/Alphawise survey conducted in March that found that 44% of U.S. consumers who were planning to buy an iPad said that they were buying it instead of a netbook or notebook computer.”

Oh, PC World.