Month: September 2016
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The Yahoo Data Breach Post
2014 brought us a Yahoo data breach only disclosed now; it formally declared the breach to consumers on September 22. This isn’t the first large data breach breach that Yahoo! has had over the past few years just the largest. In 2012, there was a breach of 450,000+ identities back in 2012. Millions of identity…
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The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest is the second book in Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem trilogy. I reviewed the first book here. In the second book the tone changes from being a hard bitten conspiracy story to a fully-blown space opera. The Dark Forest of the title is a metaphor for a philosophical thought experiment. The universe…
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Jet set + more things
Jet set A great documentary on the transient lives of the jet set. A lot of perceptions about the jet set come from the golden age of air travel. The jet set reality is all the glamour of being a truck driver. </p> Culture The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien | New Republic – great review…
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Apple fixes email
Apple fixes email – despite millennials and social networks email is still the killer app of the web. But all is not good with email. I look at friends home screens and see thousands of unread emails in their inbox. They use search to find what they need. It gives me heart palpitations just looking…
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VisiCalc of today + more news
VisiCalc The Internet of Things is looking for its VisiCalc – Beep Networks Blog – VisCalc was a spreadsheet and the first useful application for personal computers, people bought them to take into work because of VisiCalc – VisiCalc what my university lecturer would have called a ‘killer application’. VisiCalc was the app that drove the…
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The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton
In The South China Sea; Hayton sets an ambitious goal for himself to try and unpick the claims and counter claims on territory in the area. It is a massive convoluted story that encompasses colonial powers, oil companies and a plethora of Asian countries. In the end no one comes out of it with glowing colours.…
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Montblanc + more things
Montblanc Montblanc launches connected pen and paper | Luxury Daily – interesting move by Montblanc. The technology for connected pens similar to what Montblanc is doing has been around for a while. However it is interesting seeing a luxury brand like Montblanc enter the field. Montblanc has also done interesting things in wearables as well. Business…
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September 11
15 years ago on September 11, 2001 I worked agency side in Haymarket in London’s west end for Edelman. It was a normal day. Well as normal is it gets when you are in the middle of the dot com bust fallout. It was a mix of mobile businesses trying to ride the mobile internet…
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2016 Apple event
In a now annual ritual its 2016 Apple event held on September 7 left me a lot to reflect on. Style The presentation was telling a hard story to an audience that were likely to be underwhelmed. Phil Schiller rather than Tim Cook carried the most difficult parts of the keynote. The piano finish device…