The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy
February 2nd, 2010
Steve Job is considered one of the great showmen in the business (showpersons?), and the reputation is, I think, well-deserved. I’ve watched him live many times, and saw that the secret of his success on stage is no accidental talent. As one first hand, in-depth article points out, in U.K.’s The Guardian: Steve starts his…
January 27th, 2010
When we evaluate new technology I believe that the key equation is “push or pull.” It is the rare new technology product released to the public where the reaction is an immediate: “I want that.” I suppose Facebook and Twitter are recent examples of “I want that” being a very common refrain. It certainly didn’t…
January 27th, 2010
…except that you can’t use it as a phone (not out of the box, at any rate). And it’s not really a computer, because it runs on the iPhone OS. So yes, as Steve Jobs pointed out, there are currently 140,000 applications for that OS, but most of them are better described as “applets” rather…
September 2nd, 2009
There isn’t a whole lot of data on this ZDNet posting, but the news is larger than the data. Nokia is showing (off) its first netbook, the Booklet 3G, at a trade show in Germany. Here’s what I don’t care about the announcement: there are lots of competing netbooks on the market already most are…
July 20th, 2009
There’s something truly magical when you discover a phenomena that could be judged as very technologically small and yet becomes something very big (in the “real world”). Such an incident has occurred around Brushes, an iPhone/iPod Touch application that can create lovely illustrations, deep and emotional in nature, all for $4.99 on the Apple devices…