The first thing I thought when I saw this photo was: “What is the woman yelling?”. This really makes me want to know more. Pietro Masturzo, a great winner of the World Press Photo 2009.
The World According To Carp
Feb 13
Feb 09
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Must-have features for Twitter-killing. (Scripting News)
I just love Internet lingo. BTW the article about the shortcomings of Twitter is a good read as well.
Feb 08
“ The group also have strong family values and aspire to traditional vocations rather than the pursuit of fame, says the poll, despite the preponderance of celebrity coverage in the media. The top five future professions are vet, teacher, footballer, doctor and police officer.
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Disney research unearths Generation XD | News | Marketing Week
One of the findings in a Pan European study by Disney under 8-14 year olds that surprised me. Another take away is that technology is used to strengthen existing social ties rather than to make new ones. This confirms research done by the Pew institute under American youth in 2009.
Feb 06
“ When the default is private, you have to think about making something public. When the default is public, you become very aware of privacy. And thus, I would suspect, people are more conscious of privacy now than ever. Because not everyone wants to share everything to everyone else all the time.
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apophenia: Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms
I often have discussions with family and friends about my behavior of sharing a lot of stuff online. Thoughts, photos, videos, you name it. The usual reaction is that I probably don’t care about privacy. Quite the opposite is true. This excellent post explains how. Via Umair Haque on Twitter (@umairh).
Feb 05
“ The Mac touchpad is great. The best feature is the two finger page scrolling. Dragging two fingers across the touchpad makes browsing web pages sooo much easier. One of my favorite Windows features was “right click”. I used it all the time for everything. Finally someone tipped me off that the Mac does many of the same “right click” function by holding two fingers on the touchpad and clicking. Eureka!! I’m sure there are lots of other tricks and controls I need to learn, but just mastering the touchpad made the experience much more enjoyable.
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Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: From MSFT evangelist to Mac enthusiast - the other side of the road
By far my favorite MacBook feature as well.
Feb 02
“ John Doerr [the venture capitalist] sold me on this idea of O.K.R.’s, which stands for objectives and key results. It was developed at Intel and used at Google, and the idea is that the whole company and every group has one objective and three measurable key results, and if you achieve two of the three, you achieve your overall objective, and if you achieve all three, you’ve really killed it.
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Corner Office - Mark Pincus - Every Worker Should Be C.E.O. of Something - Interview - NYTimes.com
Via Fred Wilson. Lots of interesting management techniques in there, very inspiring. Which one do you already apply? I counted one for myself ;-)
Jan 28
Dedicated digital entertainment devices
Just returned from a week in Morocco with the family. And I learned something about digital content which is probably interesting to share. I wrote the main points of this post in a draft 5 days ago on the pool side using the Tumblr iPhone app. So this was before the launch of the iPad last Wednesday. I just finished the remainder of this post on my phone.
This was our iPhone entertainment week. The little boys were having fun with some recorded TV shows on EyeTV that I prepared for the iPhone which was great to watch. Little hands holding the phone and using the touch screen. It was dead easy for them.
And I call it my Instapaper vacation. No email, no Twitter, just reading a few months of collected, favorite ‘read later’ articles using the Instapaper pro app on my phone. What a brilliant app. Elegant and simple. The pro app stores 200 articles locally in a text only version which makes it possible to read them without an Internet connection. And it remembers where you left of in an article upon exiting. I read more on my phone than in the book I brought.
I was skeptical before our holiday, but our experience makes me bullish on dedicated devices for consuming digital entertainment such as photos, movies and reading. If it’s that entertaining on an iPhone, an Apple tablet with a screen 3 times as big should be even better.
Finally, my Tumblr blog is ranked higher in Google than my old Wordpress blog. Due to my personal domain, probably. Love it.
Jan 12
“ …while streaming music from Last.fm is a great way to listen to music you haven’t discovered yet, there’s no reason to believe that people will lose the urge to collect music.
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Streaming will never stop downloading | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Check out this brilliant article by technology maven Cory Doctorow if you’re into music - and who isn’t? Again, something I can acknowledge from my own experience. I am listening more and more to online streaming music services like Last.fm, Spotify and the Hypemachine lately. And last year I bought more CD’s and went to more concerts than the year before.
Jan 11
“ Shriram also believes that advertising will grow less important: “Users tend to pay on the mobile internet for premium services.
— The Guardian - Interesting article on the future of the Web. I totally agree with this statement from Google’s Shiram. It’s what I am doing right now.
