A video demonstration of the saturation of our world with designs, visuals, and advertisements.
(via Phil Coffman)
Facebook "Frictionless" Sharing →
It's information, certainly. Your friend listened to this song, read this article. Who, what, when. But why and how are equally interesting and important, yet completely missing.
Communication without context. Noise, not signal.
The Age of Insight →
Whereas the last century was about making goods - food, clothing, cars, toys - cheap and plentiful, the twenty-first century will be about making insights into what will truly make us better off.
This is a phenomenal piece that resonates so well with the entrepreneurial spirit I'm surrounded by right now and the beliefs, training, and education I was raised with. The assumptions of the last century about jobs, productivity, and economies are dying and the age of the industrial revolution and the age of mass production are being replaced by the age of insight.
China's state broadcaster isn't saying why the station ran the music to "America the Beautiful" during the gala live broadcast of the country's latest space launch.(via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Twitter Can't Keep a Straight Face About Siri →
See also: http://twitter.com/#!/AshleyEsqueda/status/121296944869023744 http://twitter.com/#!/ncroal/status/121288356016558080 http://twitter.com/#!/webby2001/status/121347446495395840 http://twitter.com/#!/davezatz/status/121289499866169344 http://twitter.com/#!/cschweitz/status/121416149358485504
Apple Introduces Siri, Web Freaks Out a Little →
When Apple introduced Siri, the talking, voice-activated "personal assistant" that will come with its new iPhone 4S, the Web leaped to the obvious, rational conclusion: That it's a sinister, potentially alien artificial intelligence that's bound to kill us all.
Just a "a humble personal assistant", huh? Isn't that what they all say?
Facebook Re-Enables Controversial Tracking Cookie →
Kinda sorta. From a Facebook engineer in the comments:
We have been made aware of 2 instances in the past 2 weeks related to cookies which needed to be addressed. What you describe in this post is not a re-enabling of anything, but a separate issue involving a limited number of sites, including CBSSports.
It's starting to sound like either Facebook doesn't know where their cookies go and how they'e used, or their whole cookie management system is riddled with bugs. Both ignorance and incompetence are confidence-inspiring.
Xbox 360 Teams Up With Entertainment Leaders to Transform TV →
Today, Microsoft Corp. announced plans to roll out the next generation of TV entertainment on Xbox LIVE, the online entertainment service for Xbox 360. Nearly 40 world-leading TV and entertainment providers, including Bravo, Comcast, HBO GO, Verizon FiOS and Syfy in the U.S.; BBC in the U.K., Telefónica in Spain; Rogers On Demand in Canada; Televisa in Mexico; ZDF in Germany; and MediaSet in Italy, will begin rolling out entertainment services to the console this holiday, in more than 20 countries.
What a coup for XBox. They might have just ended the living room set-top box wars before they began. I don't see Apple or Google announcing this level of partnership any time soon. This really solidifies the opinion I wrote here:
Microsoft has shown that its entertainment business has a cohesive strategy, supported by broad and diverse efforts within the company and partners without.
The fall release just keeps getting more and more interesting. Hopefully it's coming to my beta soon...
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— "Think Different" ad, Apple Computer, Inc., 1997
Always worth a re-posting. Thanks for thinking differently, Steve.
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
(via WhiteHouse.gov, Apple, Inc.)