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I spent some time at the studios of KRON-4 TV here in San Francisco on Friday evening, chatting with Catherine Heenan about that day’s launch of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C and answering reader questions. Thanks to Gabe Slate for inviting me on!… Story continues … “I talked with KRON-4 TV about the iPhone 5S and 5C launch Friday. Here’s the video”
Something seems to be amiss with our budget forecast.
This story, from last week, appeared earlier on VentureBeat and on LinkedIn Today, where it’s generated a ton of commentary. I also did a video on the topic with KRON-4 TV, embedded here.
You can only put so many dents in the universe.… Story continues … “You can only put so many dents in the universe”
I read the Times story on Amplify, Rupert Murdoch’s 650-person startup aimed at reinventing education via tablet games, with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, as I wrote in a piece today on VentureBeat, this is exactly the vision — shared by One Laptop per Child — first outlined in Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age.”… Story continues … “The future of education: Tablets, or hands-on?”
Vineet Jain came to America with just $100 in his pocket — literally.
He laughs as he remembers arriving in the San Francisco airport in 1993.
“I had a single $100 bill, folded up in my shirt pocket,” he says.
Now, he’s running rapidly growing hybrid cloud company Egnyte — his second startup — and living the Silicon Valley dream.… Story continues … “Egnyte founder Vineet Jain is driven to succeed — and share”
Twitter says, starting today, you’ll see “related headlines” appearing underneath tweets that have been embedded on websites.
There’s some confusion about whether these headlines will appear on websites or not. Some people, like Jay Rosen, hate the idea of embedding links to other people’s websites.… Story continues … “Twitter adds ‘related headlines’ to embedded tweets”
KGO’s Jonathan Bloom came by VentureBeat’s office yesterday to interview me about Yahoo’s new logo. Here’s his video!
And here’s Jonathan’s writeup on the new logo, including some great man-on-the-street interviews and a classic reaction from the head of the Academy of Art’s design school.… Story continues … “You don’t get to be a technology company by having a logo”
About a year ago I wrote about Walnut Studiolo, a Portland-based craft shop that makes leather and wood accessories for bicycles.
If you think it’s reasonable to spend $72 for a leather cup holder that’s the perfect size for a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, then you’ll love Walnut’s work.… Story continues … “The lovely leather of Walnut Studiolo”
The effort of some Wikipedia editors to delete the entry for tinywords is bumming me out. It’s clear that the discussion is being led by people with little to no understanding of haiku and short poetry (Sample quote: “let’s face it, they’re not publishing Finnegan’s Wake here, it’s real short stuff”) and votes are being cast by people who have made no effort to understand the journal or its significance in the haiku community.… Story continues … “Saying goodbye to tinywords on Wikipedia”
I spent half an hour in front of some video cameras at Revision3’s SF studio on Friday, with host Patrick Norton and fellow guest Mike Elgan, of ComputerWorld. We talked about Microsoft’s big reorg (and whether Ballmer was killing the company or not), the NSA’s PRISM program, the upcoming Def Con conference, Apple’s recent legal loss in the e-book price-fixing case, Dropbox, and whether Apple would be making a new, cheaper iPhone.… Story continues … “Is Steve Ballmer killing Microsoft? And other burning questions”