This isn’t something I would usually write (or tweet) about, but it’s interesting. Full article and explanation here at NYT.
Month: May 2013
And check out the whole site while you’re there.
“I feel like we are on the cusp of a similarly fundamental shift in business software. Once again, the change is about rethinking business applications, but this time it is with a mobile lens. When talking with companies that don’t have a specific mobile strategy, I keep hearing about how mobile is just a feature of cloud-based applications. Yet when we meet with entrepreneurs who are building “mobile-first” business apps, we can see a completely different way of thinking: Leveraging the unique capabilities of mobile devices is at the core of every decision they make.”
Impressive. Someone stayed away from the Internet for a year. When she comes back she can’t stay away. Fun to read on The Verge.
“Whew! What a week.
First came Monday, and then Tuesday, and then there was the internet. You know how in Star Trek when they engage the warp engines and the Enterprise kind of stalls for a moment while its projection blurs toward the future, toward the stars, and then it’s gone? I’m in the blur phase.
I feel severely disoriented, totally overwhelmed, and kind of… happy about it?
At 12:00AM on Wednesday, May 1st, I rejoined the internet. I guess I thought I’d just start using the internet again, see some funny cat videos, and that would be that. Instead, I almost had a panic attack as I attempted to pull off basic 21st-century maneuvers like managing multiple tabs in a single browser window.”
This might be the best app in ages. It’s seamless. Works on iPhone and iPad.
“Just to recap, Write for Dropbox is a text editor and note-taking app that offers an incredibly quick and elegant way to jot down notes and share them on the fly.
By default, all your messages are saved to Dropbox and, whenever you want to start a new note, you simply hit the plus symbol at the top of the screen and your current message will be saved automatically. If you need to quickly return to it, a swipe right reveals a list of all your synchronized notes, and you can also long-press any message to view a preview of its contents, which is particularly useful.”
“If you look at the companies Betaworks is currently developing or has large stakes in, you’ll notice a suite of media consumption products, like Digg and Instapaper, as well as the recently launched Tapestry, which aims to create a better reading experience for short stories, and the soon-to-launch Google Reader alternative, not to mention other products in the pipeline.”
Interesting look at the future of media – at Mashable here.
““Our long-term vision is that this becomes an acceptable alternative to college,” says Kane Sarhan, one of Enstitute’s founders. “Our big recruitment effort is at high schools and universities. We are targeting people who are not interested in going to school, school is not the right fit for them, or they can’t afford school.””
I don’t think there is a particular time when someone needs to go to college, but I do think there comes a time when someone regrets that they didn’t.
“When Twitter cofounders Evan Williams and Biz Stone launched Medium last year, their goal was for it to be a collaborative publishing tool that connected writers to a larger network. But that vision also hinges on quality, curation and, in some ways, a higher barrier to entry than platforms like Twitter.
“We’re going to be a great place for professional writers to write,” Williams toldWired senior writer Steven Levy at the Wired Business Conference in New York on Tuesday. “The magazine is the analog for what we’re doing.””
Read the whole article in Paid Content here.
“The main problem was that what Samsung, LG big TV makers delivered was a mishmash of applications that had nothing to do with watching TV — the main reason people gather around the big box in the first place. Unsurprisingly, very few consumers wanted to spend more for supposed next-generation television sets that included a bunch of features they didn’t want in the first place.
Today, the TV is evolving much differently. Internet video now comes to the set via other devices such as the Apple TV, Roku and Boxee Box. Nearly six in 10 consumers who own an Internet-connected high-definition TV use such services to supplement pay TV subscriptions, NPD says.” Full article here, on Read Write Web.
Workplace Learning in the Digital Age 