Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
That’s the thing about Apple marketing. They don’t talk about how many gigabytes of memory or how many CPU cycles or how many apps (much). They aim for your heart, and show you how technology can make your life better during its most important moments.
Gina Trapani ~ <a href="http://smarterware.org/6190/lessons-from-apple-on-advertising-and-aesthetics" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lessons from Apple on Advertising and Aesthetics</a>
Gnip's jud valeski on Chrome.
My favorite kind of technology is the kind that quietly gets built, then one day you wake up and it’s changed everything. Google Gears has that potential and if Chrome winds up with meaningful distribution (or Firefox adopts Gears) web apps as we know them will finally have mark-up-level access to local resources (read “offline functionality”). This kind of evolution is long overdue. -- Gnip Blog
Google Health is an important initiative, if only because it shows users how completely broken medical record-keeping is right now.
(Via -Google Health: Great idea, but scary as all get out | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone.)
