Watching Steve Jobs presentation at Macworld 2001 is an interesting reflection on how technology has changed over the past decade. The third age of the digital lifestyle. The Mac as a digital hub is interesting, many are now discounting it – instead thinking that devices will all link to the cloud, but the argument that [...]
Schmidt: Listing Google’s 200 Ranking Factors Would Reveal Business Secrets – I agree with Schmidt on this one Are We Less Than 5 Years Away From Quantum Computing? – that would give computing the speed bump it currently needs, hopefully we can then move processor fabs to dropping the price of solid state drives Getting [...]
Sweary factor ten you have been warned. It was 1997, the clubbing culture that evolved from house music had a become big international business – with private equity firms eventually buying into both Cream and the Ministry of Sound. The Liverpool dockers and their two-year industrial dispute had become a cause celeb with the fashionable [...]
Bob Cringely wrote in his book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date how he kept bumping into the same 48 people doing all the important stuff in Silicon Valley. That statement kind of reminds me of Fujiwara-san: the right place at [...]
This video is where Steve Jobs introduced the ‘Think Different‘ campaign (presumably to employees at Apple?). His outfit was is in transition (sandals, shorts and the black turtleneck). What I like however is the 101 on marketing that where he explains the importance and nature of good marketing to technology marketers. The point is, most [...]
Like most of the great-and-the-good of London’s digital community I stayed up and logged into Robert Scoble’s live feed of an important announcement from Twitter – too good apparently for a mere blog post. After the press conference I felt deflated by the news. So I wanted to leave it a little while in case [...]
[Interview] Intel Discusses ‘Light Peak’ Interface — Tech-On! – interesting stuff about optical interconnects from semiconductor giant Intel Groklaw – What is Dalvik? by Mark Murphy – the heart of the Google, Oracle court case over Java on mobile devices Risku: 13 Executives The New Nokia CEO Should Sack Today [Updated] | Mobile Industry Review [...]
I spoke at an event in Hyde Park London on July 7, 2010 regarding the digital economy act and noticed that a video of my contribution had managed to make it online. The event was hosted by The Digital Marketing Group and the audience is drawn from across the digital, marketing and media sectors. The [...]
Vint Cerf is a living legend great stuff here, he is not just a snake-oil salesman for Google. Information on the go [PARC Forum]View more videos from PARC, a Xerox company. Key takeouts is the amount of areas on the ‘net that still needs a good deal of research.
Update: not sure what went wrong with the i09 video, but here is another William Gibson one from Dangerous Minds A Discussion with William Gibson from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. Great interview by io9 with William Gibson
Stratfor is a subscription-based information service which provides analysis of international current affairs events throughout the world. How to Look for Trouble is an analysis of terrorism, why it happens and how it is prevented with analytical and rational approach. Wonder why mineproof trucks still get attacked or the kind of challenges that the west [...]
The slow death of Dopplr | guardian.co.uk – interesting timing of this article by The Guardian put out this evisceration of Nokia’s web service ambitions. I’m not saying that Jemima Kiss got it wrong, but the timing was interesting: published last Friday – right on the eve of Nokia World Inflation in China Is Rising [...]
Straight out of Russia a wicked cool Transformer influenced film. Give this guy a contract in Hollywood. Transformers from repey815 on Vimeo.
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