chapter four – my 30s
Henry Blodget and Kara Swisher have two great videos on Yahoo!’s Tech Ticker. On the first they’re discussing the mentality of Google’s founders in comparison to other founders. Their DNA and how they’ve moulded the company in their own image. Basically, how they’ve kept it authentic. My take, well duh, authenticity and value people, authenticity [...]
So Amazon’s releasing a ebook reader, calling it Kindle, and hoping that it will get the ebook market going. I don’t – and won’t – buy it.For some people who like the experience and have already started reading ebooks, and after reading Michael Parekh’s blog I was amazing to find that there are people who [...]
I’m pretty sure at some point in time I’ll switch to an iPhone, whether it happens in November – when the first ones come to this side of the Atlantic – or next year, or the year after remains to be seen. In February of this year Steve Jobs wrote a pretty scathing commentary on [...]
So even before the iPhone has left the US shores there’s been a price cut and Apple have released the iPod Touch, which has a safari browser, is wifi enabled and is much cheaper then the iPhone. I don’t know who would be more pissed off AT&T or the collective geekdom that purchased the iPhone [...]
I wasn’t the first of my friends with a mobile phone. But I do have one that some of my friends are jealous of now. Before 2000 a phone booth, a land line and a pager sufficed. Segue; pagers – what were we thinking? Now I carry a couple, text like a maniac, occasionally surf [...]