Hidden stuff as a UI feature

This is one thing Windows Mobile 7 just killed. Putting stuff kind of off screen, near the edge, discoverable using touch but not buttons or anything. (Android’s version is the long-press which I fault for being a nonhuman vector. Short

Hidden stuff as a UI feature

This is one thing Windows Mobile 7 just killed. Putting stuff kind of off screen, near the edge, discoverable using touch but not buttons or anything. (Android’s version is the long-press which I fault for being a nonhuman vector. Short

Electronic cocaine and cyborg living

This piece reminds me of a Wired piece from 10 years ago with similar amazing results – apply current to brain – get amazing creativity, capability, focus, acuity The researcher in that piece was in Australia. But all this time

Electronic cocaine and cyborg living

This piece reminds me of a Wired piece from 10 years ago with similar amazing results – apply current to brain – get amazing creativity, capability, focus, acuity The researcher in that piece was in Australia. But all this time

What’s wrong with Samsung SmartTV

Apparently people actually have these. The product is really bad though. Nobody, nobody deserves to say “oh why does Apple get all the credit; we have had these for years”: 1. SLOW. Why on Earth does it take a minute

What’s wrong with Samsung SmartTV

Apparently people actually have these. The product is really bad though. Nobody, nobody deserves to say “oh why does Apple get all the credit; we have had these for years”: 1. SLOW. Why on Earth does it take a minute

Mall revival fail: aquarium, electric car charging

Big Format Retail is dying due to Ecommerce and New Urbanism. Seems rich with opportunity. // After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast

Mall revival fail: aquarium, electric car charging

Big Format Retail is dying due to Ecommerce and New Urbanism. Seems rich with opportunity. // After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast

The most underutilized mass tech platform

IMAP. Every user with gmail, yahoo etc has an imap account. You can have your app sync stuff into its own folders there and use the credentials to send alerts too. And the contact list is there. But those folders

The most underutilized mass tech platform

IMAP. Every user with gmail, yahoo etc has an imap account. You can have your app sync stuff into its own folders there and use the credentials to send alerts too. And the contact list is there. But those folders

The Mother of All tech-for-startups startups

This is really a trend — Codeacademy or Loosecubes or Founder Institute or AngelList are all startups for serving entrepreneurs which is great. If you think the future is about a new and different kind of work, these are the

The Mother of All tech-for-startups startups

This is really a trend — Codeacademy or Loosecubes or Founder Institute or AngelList are all startups for serving entrepreneurs which is great. If you think the future is about a new and different kind of work, these are the

Two cultures

Rich dad, poor dad. Note the trend seems to take off around the time the military draft ended. Brooks: The Great Divorce Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” describes the most important cultural trends today and offers a better understanding of America’s

Two cultures

Rich dad, poor dad. Note the trend seems to take off around the time the military draft ended. Brooks: The Great Divorce Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart” describes the most important cultural trends today and offers a better understanding of America’s

The Bloomberg Strategy for American Revival

Basically, “make New York the place where the best employees want to live and the best companies will have to be here”. Here is Friedman advocating this view as Strategy USA: There is a big gap in how C.E.O.’s and

The Bloomberg Strategy for American Revival

Basically, “make New York the place where the best employees want to live and the best companies will have to be here”. Here is Friedman advocating this view as Strategy USA: There is a big gap in how C.E.O.’s and

“In the past year, not a single citizen in India contracted polio.”

And more amazing Gates stories…Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9041726/Bill-Gates-I-wrote-Steve… Sent from HootSuite for iPhone http://ow.ly/7trFE Amol Sarva // Typed or dictated but not read.

“In the past year, not a single citizen in India contracted polio.”

And more amazing Gates stories…Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9041726/Bill-Gates-I-wrote-Steve… Sent from HootSuite for iPhone http://ow.ly/7trFE Amol Sarva // Typed or dictated but not read.