31 July 2009

"Microsoft wasted away many years while it held the top position in the mobile handset business." - @Om Malik http://bit.ly/6QfVa

20 July 2009

...not “How do we keep making enough money to support our existing management and advertising divisions?” - @Gruber http://bit.ly/3nPJU

19 July 2009

simultaneously lacking in sleep and exhaustion, reading @Remiel. i feel a retweet coming on...
"our entire new economy is built around technologies that scale down well" - @Kevin2Kelly http://bit.ly/5JdTb
"The map becomes the territory." - @Kevin2Kelly http://bit.ly/5JdTb
"The map becomes the territory." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/5JdTb
Moore's Law says "when people believe in something, they'll put energy behind it to make it come to pass." - Carver Mead http://bit.ly/5JdTb
[link] Was Moore's Law Inevitable?: by Kevin Kelly - The Technium - 18 July 2009 http://bit.ly/5JdTb

16 July 2009

[link] Mission Impossible: The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack: by Steven Levy - 20 April 2009 - Wired http://bit.ly/MfusB

13 July 2009

"Media companies are in the service business, not the content business." - Andrew Savikas http://bit.ly/SJsvv
"What (artists sell) is not content. What you sell is providing something that the (customer) wants." - Andrew Savikas http://bit.ly/SJsvv

12 July 2009

ZuluKane.com: What Google Chrome OS Means for Computing http://bit.ly/2nBVTQ

What Google Chrome OS Means for Computing

a good overview of the argument for and nature of "cloud computing", specifically Google's vision there of - by Leo Babauta - Zen Habits - 8 July 2009 http://ping.fm/cucrc
ZuluKane.com: stealth wing (via BringTheRuckuss) http://bit.ly/13fP7Y
ZuluKane.com: hovering Porsche (via flickrolf) http://bit.ly/4Cq2h
ZuluKane.com: social classes in 1984 (via Wikipedia) http://bit.ly/7LzZf
ZuluKane.com: Sage Sunset by David Henderson http://bit.ly/yr17w
ZuluKane.com: mountain cat http://bit.ly/SV921
(adjusting and recreating all my feed settings. please pardon any duplicate posts this may generate.)
"The Dark Ages" (2007) is a fair overview of post-Roman Europe, better than the average History Channel documentary on @Instant_Netflix.