I’m Reading…This is what some bloggers would call a “throw away” post. I will likely regret it in the morning.
There was some coverage today that Microsoft COO Kevin Turner actually stated that Apple had called Microsoft two weeks ago agitating to pull the “Laptop Hunter” ads. If you haven’t seen these ads, they are somewhat poorly [...]
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Caught this news today – rumors of Apple ordering a large number of ten-inch touchscreens from the same provider of iPhone screens:
Apple Orders Touch Screens for Q3
I hope its true. I’ve realized that my iPhone has really become my preferred portable computing device. I’ve gotten very used to the swipes, the pokes, the pinches. I’ve [...]
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It’s been about a year since my last post on the Kindle, and sadly, nothing has really changed. I still see the device as popular among my more venture-savvy friends and colleagues, particularly if they travel frequently. Overall, however, I find the prospect fairly uncompelling.
To restate my comments from a year ago:
I think the problem [...]
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Just for reference, the “Uncanny Valley” is not some cute comment on life in Silicon Valley – it’s a popular concept in computer animation that refers to the challenges inherent in trying to produce “realistic” computer animation of human characters. I wrote a blog post on the concept back in 2006:
Playstation 3, Uncanny Valley & [...]
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There is a great two-page spread in today’s New York Times Magazine:
New York Time: Bodies of Work
I’m reproducing the slideshow here, linearly, so you can see all 6 of them together. Very interesting, particularly the different stats for each. Amazing.
I feel like I’m looking at a Chihuahua, a Great Dane, and a Greyhound and trying [...]
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Just putting the finishing touches on my slides for the keynote tomorrow at the O’Reilly Graphing Social Patterns East conference in Washington, D.C.
Blog post about the schedule is on the official LinkedIn blog. My speaker profile is up on the conference website.
Extremely excited to be here… many thanks to Dave McClure for the arrangements. If [...]
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Last year, I wrote about upgrading the AppleTV from 40GB to 160GB. As I’ve starting converting my entire video library to MP4, I’ve quickly run out of space on the AppleTV again. The software on the AppleTV continues to be a generation ahead of the software included on Mac OS X (10.5), so I was [...]
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Quick post, but wow. Carly Smithson voted off. Thought it was going to be Brooke for sure.
American Idol is a game of figuring out where the votes are coming from, and figuring out where votes from the last eliminated singer will go. Multi-party politics, except that individuals can have multiple votes, and most [...]
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This is a quick fun post, courtesy of the LinkedIn corporate blog. Mario put together a post that has images of the LinkedIn team at 500K, 2M, 5M, 13M, and 20M users.
See if you can find me in the photo:
This photo is also the first to feature “Paper Reid,” a gift from the Product team [...]
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