February 2012
25 posts
Minimal Mac: Microsoft's Biggest Miss →
minimalmac:
One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities.
“The stress of no stress is the worst stress of them all.”
– Me.
“If something’s free, you’re not the customer - you’re the product”
– The internet (via mountstnobody)
Happy 80th Birthday, John Williams
When most kids my age were buying their first Oasis CDs, I found a half-busted boom box outside my apartment in Queens, New York in early 1997 and ran to the shop to buy my first CD, the soundtrack to Jurassic Park. Ever the unwitting contrarian, John Williams’ soundtracks were the, er, soundtrack to my youth.
Every Spielberg film you can think of, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July,...
Notes from the Wonderground: 2012 Predictions →
notesfromthewonderground:
Predictions are fun! Here are mine, fired from the hip:
1. NFC mobile payments will not happen in 2012, and mobile wallet usage will be around low single digits of potential users, meaning, zero.
2. No one will introduce a successful competitor to the iPad. And no, the Kindle Fire doesn’t count.
The Best Picture On The Internet →
“If only multiple brands realised that if they all licensed Star Wars content for...”
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Majority Report: Looking through the digital hype →
Spot on. From Ed Booty, Strategy Director, BBH London
We have bought our own hype. So desirable is the digital dream that we have mistaken its potential for reality. This delusion has been driven by an unprecedented bubble of hype, driven by the media, digital advocates and technology brands. They have created, believe and propagate the myth that life has changed irrevocably.
Got $26.4 million spare change? →
WatchFirst video of the far side of the Moon from the GRAIL Lunar Spacecraft.
Behavioural Pricing - a consumer's worst nightmare →
What if when you bought a new Macbook, the price was higher because your tweets constantly referenced your love and devotion for Apple? What if Orbitz used the fact that your Facebook Likes include “Party Rocking in Miami” to charge you more for a flight to Miami?
Fucking hell.
The Justice Coin →
This is real. Click through to see the television advert. Again, this is real.
The best time to buy flights is 6 weeks before →
Very thorough research here, analysing $80 billion worth of ticket sales, spread across almost 144 million transactions, but they were for flights with a U.S. origin and destination.
World needs 600 million new jobs in next decade:... →
HANG ON EVERYONE, I’VE FOUND THE LOST DECADE UNDER THE SOFA CUSHION
Something old, something new: A brief history of... →
State capitalism has been around for almost as long as capitalism itself. Anglo-Saxons like to think of themselves as the perennial defenders of free-market orthodoxy against continental European and Asian heresy. In reality every rising power has relied on the state to kickstart growth or at least to protect fragile industries. Even Britain, the crucible of free-trade thinking, created a giant...
OmniPlan for iPad →
I don’t have an iPad and a I’ve never used OmniAnything, but as someone increasingly finding spreadsheets that take 4 minutes to load on a Dell Vostro at work and disparate PowerPoint documents (with varying degrees of the word FINAL appended to their filenames) not up to the job of planning a year’s worth of marketing activity, this made me do a little management drool. Please...
“Contact” by Dan Beames. Beautiful...
The Coming Tech-led Boom (Wall St Journal) →
“Three breakthroughs are poised to transform this century as much as telephony and electricity did the last.”
Completely agree with the premise that the potential of “big data”, “smart manufacturing” and “the wireless revolution” are all capable of revolutionising life as we know it.
But then it gets all AMERICA FUCK YEAH! on the international...
January 2012
12 posts
“The first is a southerner, perhaps from Carolina or Louisiana. The sun has given...”
– From “Eca’s English Letters (From the Portuguese)”. Eça de Queiros was a young Portuguese consul to Great Britain in the 1880s. This extract is from a letter entitled, “Three Americans”.
““[Lord Beaconsfield’s/Benjamin Disraeli’s] astounding...”
– From “Eca’s English Letters (From the Portuguese)”. Eça de Queiros was a young Portuguese consul to Great Britain in the 1880s. This extract is from a note about the passing of Lord Beaconsfield, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in 1881.
A quick thing about the @carrozo Twitter account.
NB: This the most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever written. Apart from the tens of thousands of tweets I’ve written this about. Read at your own hazard.
“Why don’t you write a post about how your feelings of Twitter have changed of late so I can scroll right past it?”
OK then, I will.
I used to enjoy Twitter a great deal, and I suppose some of you reading this...
"From the fedora to the Afro, styles have changed...
Brilliant piece of writing that articulates something we’ve all felt.
Part of the explanation, as I’ve said, is that, in this thrilling but disconcerting time of technological and other disruptions, people are comforted by a world that at least still looks the way it did in the past. But the other part of the explanation is economic: like any lucrative capitalist sector, our massively...
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
Links from @carrozo 1st - 6th November 2011 →
I post a lot of stuff on Twitter and I thought I’d start curating them on a weekly basis. Here’s the first go.
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
4 posts
