September 2008
38 posts
“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than...”
– Larry Ellison. I think he means fad-driven, but nevertheless, the wisdom holds. (via Valleywag)
“We don’t spend on advertising,” explains Judith Czelusniak, head of...”
– (via BusinessWeek)
Are you a super influencer? →
Is the shine off Google Chrome? →
Ahem, no. The web is rampant with the latest search engine shakeup news that Google Chrome is dropping dead because its market share leaked a tenth of a percentage point this past week.
How, I ask, can a browser that has existed for less than a month even have a core user base to lose? We’re far from determining Chrome’s stable market share and even further from understanding how...
“Safari, the only browser to escape Chrome’s impact…”
– Not so fast. Have you all forgotten about my beloved Safari for Windows, that other-other browser for PC users? Anyway, Chrome is based on the Safari webkit and so is more of a threat to Safari on Windows than anything I can really think of. No browser is safe, really. (via ComputerWorld)
Clinton's gift to Internet age: only 2 e-mails →
I wonder how differently a web-empowered President, like the kind we might find when the current generation moves into the Oval Office, will operate. (link via Charlene)
“The inclination to read a huge Victorian novel, the capacity to untangle a...”
– via a neatly argued piece against the digitization of liberal arts educations in The Chronicle of Higher Education. A dozen things to both agree and disagree with in that essay.
“If the work that really matters to you involves understanding a relationship...”
– Merlin Mann, who is abandoning productivity porn for creative purpose via Nick
Be a Software Curator →
Excellent advice for software developers and project managers alike: think of your product as a museum to curate, not a warehouse to stock. Limit the suggestions and feedback you acknowledge, incorporating only those refinements that add beauty and value. (via 37 Signals’ roundup of their Web 2.0 keynotes)
“spending more time online than is perhaps ocularly prudent”
– Yes, I do that, too. [Fantastic phrasing from an NYT article on the tireless tastemaking of all of your favorite design bloggers (Apartment Therapy, Cool Hunting, and the like)]
Sergey Brin writes a blog →
Feels more like a memoir: an earnest, heartfelt, eerie look into the very human mind of a bajillionaire.
“News media who played no part in the access to Gov. Palin’s account and...”
– Kurt Opsahl, Electronic Frontier Foundation (via MediaPost)
tumbledore:
Primitive Radio Gods - “Standing...
“At Frank Sinatra’s suggestion, Marilyn Monroe kept her life inside two filing...”
– I, too, would have taken any advice Frank Sinatra gave. [via Vanity Fair’s new exposé of Marilyn’s personal effects]
“I like to be an event,” he says. “Boredom sets in when people expect you.”
– That dapper gentleman who hawks potato peelers in Union Square. [via Vanity Fair].
“I think this is why so much of the work that comes from large companies is so...”
– Jonathan Harris (via christmasgorilla)
“A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable...”
– Mark Zuckerberg, on how Facebook newsfeed has coerced us into cyber stalking and being okay with it. [via NYT]
“are they ever going to come out with something that will make our computers...”
– Jerry Seinfeld in the new Gates/Seinfeld Microsoft ads. No matter your stance on the fiercely debated topic of operating system supremacy, you can’t ignore the fact that this ad will go down in history as strangely and befuddlingly iconic.
Chrome Is Google's New Web Browser →
tumbledore:
Download it tomorrow
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