‘Smiles’ Archives
iTablet Beta Tester Breaks Embargo
Recently I was given just 24 hours to explore a first production build of the Apple iTablet -- and here are my first impressions and discoveries. First, it's more like an iPhone than a MacBook. The operating system depends on gestures, and expands the vocabulary. Your hand is going to be dancing. Second big news: it's not just an application [...]
Sarah Palin Snags Ziggy Honors
I had abandoned my plans to buy Sarah Palin's autobiography. You know how it is -- you hear about what is likely to be a great book and you get all ready to read it, but you don't quite pay attention to what day it's going to come out, and then all those critics get an early copy and before long everybody is already telling you about all the great [...]
Etch A Sketch and Google Announce E-Book for Kids
Search and advertising giant Google and Ohio Art, maker of the children’s classic drawing toy announced a joint venture today to produce the first e-book reader for pre-schoolers. Named the Etch a Book, the new reader will capitalize on the highly refined Etch a Sketch two knob interface which is already familiar to millions of parents and [...]
Please Don’t RT — You Could Trigger Server Reflux
When my youngest, Max, was 8, he could run off a string of complicated jokes like an old pro in the Catskills. Really, he could have become a regular on the Tonight Show. That good. We loved to talk about what was funny. I asked him what a really, really great joke would do. “People would laugh until they cried.” Exactly. It was then that I [...]
GM to Buy Back All Pontiac Azteks for Cash!
A few weeks ago I posted an open letter to GM CEO Fritz Henderson on the first day of GM’s entering into bankruptcy protection, offering my concern that Mr. Henderson’s reliance on great GM design to save the company might be a problem since GM had put so much ugly tin on America’s roads. I also noted that GM’s culture needed to change, [...]
Hoppin’
Over the course of almost this entire decade that will end in 2010, while I've been working with clients on their books, on other innovation projects, and on my own work, there has been one completely bizarre constant, often literally at my feet. Many conferences in my office have been momentarily interrupted when someone looked down and [...]
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