I’ve been playing around with an Android Galaxy Nexus running ICS and have been overly impressed. The operating system is polished and has a intuitive workflow. Increasingly, I’ve been thinking about the utility of using a phone as a desktop (after watching the YouTube video below). It seems that the fantasy is now a reasonable [...]
Worth the read. I think they’ve nailed it on several levels. “Global connectivity, smart machines, and new media are just some of the drivers reshaping how we think about work, what constitutes work, and the skills we will need to be productive contributors in the future. This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the [...]
This is interesting analysis on the future of web advertising. For an example of everything that is wrong with web advertising, one need only visit this ridiculous site. To view four paragraphs of content, a user is subjected to over 40 advertisements. That is a 10-1 advertisement to paragraph ratio. I haven’t seen anything worse [...]
Since the release of the Steve Jobs biography, there has been a plethora of speculation regarding the interface the upcoming AppleTV. For the most part, the speculators are missing the mark. Pundits argue that voice control would be difficult to implement in a TV because of the background noise from the TV itself. You would [...]
Apple just introduced us to the future of self service check-out. Scan the item, pay with your Apple ID credit-card on file via your iPhone and walk out of the store with merchandise in hand. You don’t need to interact with an Apple employee at all. There are several interesting questions associated with this new [...]
It has been several weeks since Facebook introduced their updated news feed that uses some unknown heuristics to determine which stories are the most important and promotes them to the top of your feed display. I’m not privy to internal Facebook metrics, but my gut inclination is that user engagement must be down across Facebook. [...]
Siri does not represent a foray into the realm of artificial intelligence, but rather a necessary stutter-step in that direction which can be more accurately referred to as Augmented Intelligence. Despite an ability to engage in limited natural language processing, Siri is only capable of augmenting the capabilities of an iPhone in ways that were [...]
It is certainly a brave new world when an activist group looks to profit from information disclosures and other potential attacks. Of course, one could argue that this paints these groups in a new criminal light as their motivation is no longer just political, but now financial. I wonder if they will start taking external [...]
@mtanji @fantom_planet The jokes write themselves at this point. Demonstrating incredible constraint on my end.
@MattDevost @Fantom_Planet There is a sticky keyboard joke in there somewhere, but I'm not going to mention it. well I know which one folks value more….betting YouPorn - “@mtanji: Experiment: Whose users have better passwords, Stratfor or YouPorn?”Copyright © 2009–2012
