One more thing ...

Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:53 PM EDT

If you like computer fruit, then you'll know the phrase: It's the sentence used by Apple CEO Steve Jobs to introduce a product surprise at the end of one of his keynote presentations.

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business, ceo, apple, aapl, steve-jobs

Why I don't play strategy games

Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:33 PM EDT

As you know, I've tried (in vain) to give Second Life a shot. Which is curious because I was never really interested in those popular strategy and simulation games, which are not so far away from Second Life, you might think. So why is that?

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entertainment, games, artificial-intelligence, second-life, virtual-reality, strategy-games

Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs

Seeded on Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:03 PM EDT (Boing Boing)

Is India going down the Chinese path of censorship now? Boing Boing brings a very disconcerting development to our attention, which hopefully will be explained away by some bureaucrat's incompetence.

india, politics, censorship, blogosphere

Playmobil movies

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 7:49 PM EDT (tomiland.ch)

Here's an unusual movie, produced by my nephew and his posse of playmobil toys. But watch out, it's a gory splatter piece!

entertainment, movie, playmobil, home-made

Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 7:45 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)

Surely, this is old news - nonetheless, it looks like an interesting, well researched account of what was happening in the US that led to the current administration ...

bush, elections, fraud, us-news

Crowdsourcing

Seeded on Thu May 25, 2006 4:35 PM EDT (Wired News)

Wired is always great at coining new terms - a case in point is crowdsourcing: outsourcing to a non-specified, dispersed crowd of people distributed across the globe and connected through the web. This also relates to the long tail, of course. Interesting.

business, outsourcing, innovation, the-long-tail

The Matrix of books unravelled

Seeded on Sun May 14, 2006 6:39 PM EDT (The New York Times)

If you are an wannabe bookworm like I am, you'll be interested to read this great essay about the wide implications of Google's book scanning project.

google, technology, copyright, matrix, library, creative-commons, copyleft, long-tail

Changing and growing

Thu May 11, 2006 8:43 AM EDT

It is interesting to analyse the State of the Union Address given yesterday by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, especially if read after US Vice-President Cheney's remarks at the 2006 Vilnius conference a few days earlier.

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russia, reform, strategy, putin, world-news, liberty, cis

Allons enfants de la piraterie ...

Mon May 8, 2006 10:47 AM EDT

These days, Apple's iPod is virtually ubiquitous in the streets of Paris, be it in a rather aggressive advertising campaign or with the music lover's gadget itself in evidence, which advertises itself cunningly to those in the know by means of its distinctive white headphones.

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business, france, music, apple, itunes, interoperability