http://gizmodo.com/5446712/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china
Good Job Google. For those of us who were starting to wonder if you had lost your way a bit, this is a really great thing to read about. There is a case to be made for “doing whatever good you can in a bad situation.” From an outsider’s point of view though, this seems like the move most in keeping with #6 here: http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
Gifts given and received by those of us in the technology industry can be a little on the strange side sometimes. They’re not your usual chocolates, scarves and gloves. We’d like to kick off with our own post-holiday follow-up and share a couple cool gifts we received this year. We know, they’re nerdy and a bit off the beaten path. But hey, we’re not (too) ashamed…
Joe’s Picks:
Game Boy Micro
Go back in time to 1989 when the first Game Boy came out. Remember how much fun those games were? Now, I play those same games on a device that doesn’t require its own briefcase to transport it in… The Micro is tiny, cool looking, and has a super bright screen. Love it. http://qcklnk.com/i Keep Reading
While thinking through our new app, Groundhog, and trying to finalize the set of functions, it occurred to me that we were asking the questions out of order. We were looking at a list of important functions, and trying to remove the ones that weren’t essential. Each of these items is important and useful, or else they wouldn’t have been on the list in the first place. That makes it difficult to decide.
Many of the best products in the world today have a limited and clear call to action. Some have really only one orienting button to push. For example, Google has the search button (ignore the silly “I’m Feeling Lucky” button). The iPhone has the home button. Twitter has update. Keep Reading
How many people do you know who are impeccable dressers?
How many people do you know with amazing taste in art?
How many who are witty, and wise?
How many who are well read, and smart?
If you know lots of people who are like this, congratulations. I know a few, but the vast majority I can’t exactly categorize this way. Don’t call me smug, or arrogant, I find fantastic admirable things about nearly everyone I meet if given the time.
But when I read things like this article about how google makes meetings more effective by focusing on data and not politics, I have to think about the source of the data… Keep Reading
Hey everyone! We’re back from our holiday break and ready to hit it hard in 2010. We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are as excited about the new year as we are!
Daring Fireball and so many others have been doing a great job covering and speculating the notion of the supposed Apple tablet.
Still, nobody is talking about what I’m most curious about. Will the tablet (if it exists) recognize stylus input? Everyone keeps talking about the reason why the tablet would exist, and the conversation usually revolves around media. I admit, the e-reader attempts on the market leave me wanting, and the idea of an Apple built book reader gets me pumped. But not nearly as much as a thin, sexy touch pad that I can write, and sketch on.
I don’t even need it to do handwriting recognition. I just want an all digital portable solution for notetaking in meetings, and on the phone. Furthermore, although almost all of my life is digital, I have to use paper for sketching. I’ve tried Wacom tablets in the past- and it never quite stuck. The distance from pen tip to screen just never translated into the kind of freedom I need to really make sketching useful. But having a pen leave a trail of digital ink behind sounds really fantastic.
I know The Steve was very degrading about the notion of stylus input for the iPhone- and I agree. But maybe, a larger screen, and a slightly different feature set will make pen based input work. I hope…
We’re taking some time off between Christmas and New Years to re-charge, enjoy friends and family, and plain get caught up. But no worries- if you have an urgent need between Dec. 24 and Jan. 4, you can e-mail us at info@pasteinteractive.com and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Have a wonderful Holiday, everyone, and we’ll be back on Jan. 4th!
Last year for some special clients and friends I gave out some Netflix Gift Subscriptions. While many of them were readily snatched up and quickly used, several weren’t.
A few weeks ago Netflix emailed me and said if they were’t used by a certain date, they would be automatically applied to my account. Great. Simple. Easy.
Only one problem. Once this happened, I found out that you can only apply one gift subscription at a time to your account. So as of the last week, all 11 subscriptions began ticking down in value as if they were being used, but couldn’t be applied to my account. Keep Reading
Usually when you read an article about Steve Jobs, this Henry Ford quote is not far behind:
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
It’s great. A few simple words sum up the perception we would like to believe about such an enigmatic man. But what an at-first-glance, shortsighted, and under-accurate approximation of the truth.
The quote initially summons the stereotype of an egomaniacal perfectionist who believes he knows better than the users themselves what they want. The old adage “The customer is always right” flies right out the nearest window. In fact, Ford isn’t even asking the customers- rather, he’s assuming he already knows the answer. Keep Reading
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus.
