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Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

March 12, 2010

Earlier this week OK Go parted ways with their record label in order to have more creative and publishing control over their music videos. Short version — EMI was not letting their videos be published through YouTube. Longer version and overview at FastCompany.
Since that relationship has ended, the following link to the YouTube video of […]

Tagged as: DRM, Entertainment, Friday, Marketing, Music, OK Go, publishing, Video, YouTube

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“I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”">“I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”

March 8, 2010

Ah yes, the Apple vs Microsoft rivalry is heating up again after this weekend’s ‘leak’ (strategic release?) to Engadget of all sorts of interesting Courier tidbits. But what wasn’t said? Are they really aiming at the same audience? Why did Microsoft name it after a font? …more

This post is an excerpt from one of […]

Tagged as: Apple, Courier, device, iPad, Microsoft, Netbook, Portable

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Predicting tech announcements is easy

January 29, 2010

In the days before Steve Jobs and the Apple crew paraded the iPad around the stage in San Francisco, I wrote a couple of items about the (then named) Apple iSlate / iTablet device. In one, I listed the 6 things I wanted to see in an Apple Tablet, the other, more relevant to this […]

Tagged as: Apple, Apple iPad, iPad, Lifestyle Technology, Opinioin, Technology

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How the Apple Tablet can really succeed

January 25, 2010

Given that Apple isn’t really paying attention to my musings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them better.
I’ve been following Apple’s tablet designs since the Newton Message pad. An interesting device, yet not very practical.
I’m completely smitten by my iPod Touch. It […]

Tagged as: Apple, Apple Tablet Predictions, fun, hardware, iPad, Lifestyle Technology, pdf, scorecard, Tablet, Technology

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The Tablet Cometh: Some thoughts on Apple’s announcement

January 22, 2010

Next Wednesday, Apple will host one of the most anticipated technology announcements of the year, perhaps of this still-fresh decade.
The reason for this level of attention is that everyone anticipates that Apple will re-launch a device that the industry has been trying to make work for 20 years — the Tablet computer.
As some pundits predict, […]

Tagged as: Apple, Book, Computing, ebook, iPad, iSlate, Lifestyle Technology, Magazine, Portable, publishing, Tablet, Technology, Writing