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Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 – review by Sean O'Hagan

Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 – review | Europe's high-profile photography festival is a disjointed affair this year, but it's worth making the trip to see the stunning showcase of Mexican work | Sean O'Hagan | The Observer | Sunday 10 July 2011
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Apple iCloud: How vs What

"The demos look good, the iCloud technical sessions at the WWDC went well. But the full-scale implementation remains to be field-tested. For the document editing example, Apple used an iPad to iPhone and back example, and merely mentioned the Mac as a participant later in the presentation. Annoying details such as iWork file format incompatibilities between Macs and iDevices need closer inspection as they might make reality a little less pristine than the theory.

For developers, the new APIs just released will enable more applications to offer the seamless multi-device updates just demonstrated.

If iCloud works as represented, it will be very competitive – and the price is right: free for the first 5Gb of documents. (Content such as music or video and apps don't count in those 5Gb.)"

via guardian.co.uk · Cloud computing

Jean-Louis Gassée (mondaynote.com: What I want for my Mac):

"I thought that’s why we have Apple, the non-IT company that caters to The Rest of Us, but, unfortunately, its Cloud services are messy, unpredictable, and filled with rigid silos. The Apple Cloud is supposed to smooth the seams of synchronization but fails to do so because information isn’t properly shared between its various functions."

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Facebook growth slows for second month

Facebook growth slows for second month in a row. User numbers fall in US, UK, Canada, Norway and Russia – although total is still climbing towards 700 million.

"In the US the site lost about 6 million users, from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at its end, according to data gathered from Facebook's advertising tool by the site Inside Facebook.

Canada fell by 1.52 million to 16.6 million and the UK, Norway and Russia all saw falls of more than 100,000 users, the site said.

The slowing growth in user numbers may indicate that Facebook has hit the limits of expansion in the countries where it was first successful – and perhaps even that some early adopters from those countries have stopped using it. (...)"

via guardian.co.uk

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