Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the āphoneā concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile data, miniaturisation and social networks. Before long, most people will have
Hawkingās Israel boycott, Tweet by Tweet [http://matthewkalman.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/this-otherwise-utterly-failed-and.html] : Articles like this show the labour of good journalism.
Quadropus Rampage ā From the creators of Towelfight 2 ā Upcoming Android Games ā DroidGamers Forums [http://www.droidgamers.com/forums/topic/838-quadropus-rampage-from-the-creators-of-towelfight-2/?p=4428] : > As it turned out, lots of people wanted to play it, but very few people wanted to pay for it. We made a free game ā we just
The Gruber Conundrum [http://daringfireball.net/2013/05/google_versus]: > Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook I donāt think anyone understands Apple and has finger on
Google Glass: the worldās worst surveillance device. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/google_glass_privacy_it_s_actually_the_world_s_worst_surveillance_device.html] : > Starner has worked with Google on the Glass project since early in the design process. He told me
Why Iron Man 3āĀĀs Director Ruled Hollywood [http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/why-iron-man-3s-director-ruled-hollywood.html]: > In his screenplays, populated with broken men who rouse themselves from hangovers and beatdowns to defeat the bad guy, itās Black himself who emerges as the movieās most charismatic antihero. He
āAināt No Reasonā ā The Magazine [http://the-magazine.org/12/aint-no-reason]: > Speakers of it use the same unspoken rules whenever they use the language, and different speakers apply the same rules consistently. If such speakers were just poor at using standard English, you wouldnāt see most AAVE speakers
A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy [http://abovethecrowd.com/2013/04/18/a-rake-too-far-optimal-platformpricing-strategy/] : > iOS could have been both the definitive Facebook mobile device, AND the definitive Amazon shopping device. They could have been integrated from the beginning at a deep level: your social network in contacts; your
Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft) [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110273]: Kind of neat: a draft of the Toey manifesto with Thatcherās hand written tweaks. Docs like this make me realise how close PR and politics are as disciplines. But thereās nothing like seeing the work in
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After years of working with journalists and writing myself, the challenge of composing emails that stand out in the right way has become something of an obsession. But I wonder, could you design an email client for journalists that did smart things with the messages to make their life easier
A Managerās Manifesto [https://medium.com/on-management/be5f6b118084]: Management is still far and away the biggest most fascinating challenge Iāve faced in my career so far. Thereās a strange serene wisdom to the people who naturally pull it off ā never fail to be impressed by those who
āNow Is The Best Timeā: A Critique Of BioShock Infinite [http://kotaku.com/now-is-the-best-time-a-critique-of-bioshock-infinite-472517493] : Kotaku: > This is a game that lives in its own alternate universe, is in love with its own cleverness, instead of being genuinely clever. This sentence is as true of the article as the game