Facebook's S-1 document is the hottest read since Harry Potter put down his wand. We gaze into this word cloud and parse the language to find hidden gems. READ»
Great user-interface design doesn't kill complexity, it clarifies it. But even so, there's a fine line between empowering users and infantilizing them. Last week, Bloom's president railed against "the urge to make everything into one ...READ»
The close integration between hardware and software has become an iconic Apple trick. Is Microsoft borrowing this idea for tablets running Windows 8? READ»
Google's Android OS has made great strides in seizing marketshare among smartphones, but the fragmentation of devices has finally caught Google's attention--for its Honeycomb tablet OS, hardware specs will be much tighter. It's a lesson from Apple.READ»
Growing pains: Internet startups feel them too--and in a big way, when they're valued in billions. Among Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, and Zynga, who will first become a man? (Yes, we push the bar mitzvah metaphor, but we didn't start it!)READ»
We've been connecting our iPods up to our car stereos for a few years now, and BMW plans a next-gen iDevice interface that may even let you control apps while you drive. Does that sound safe? At first thoughts, perhaps not, ...READ»
Windows Live just got refreshed, and as it's Microsoft's social-interconnection front end, the company felt the need to explain how it's improving user privacy. At great length. Because, you know, "people care very much about" it. ...READ»
With lots of Google TV and other Web TV news hitting at the moment, I asked yesterday where Apple was ... and today there's a well-timed patent filing showing some new tweaks to Apple TV. These include an iPhone "simulator," ...READ»
The New York Times created an infographic to illustrate how complex Facebook's privacy controls are. 50 settings, 170 options, one massive headache for Mark Zuckerberg.READ»
Life is happening. Relationships are ending and new ones beginning. Jobs are being lost and new ways of generating income are being found. Things are changing. We are being called to find solutions and create new ways of living.READ»
Your approach to the great unwrapping:Did Santa pay you a visit yesterday? If so, how did you react, with glee or with gravitas?How you reacted points to how you are likely to react to the gifts awaiting you in the new year.A ...READ»
"Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account?" Google asks, and privacy advocates and techy-minded people will quickly answer "YES!" Now Google's Dashboard lets you see, but not delete, what's stored about you ...READ»
Ford is doing things with navigation that you never expected--namely, bringing it to the masses, with voice control. The new Taurus, redesigned as the company's flagship for 2010, now sports the kind of nav you'd never have expected ...READ»
It's well known that your brain can automate certain tasks like walking or playing the guitar. But new research out of the University of California, Berkeley demonstrates that our brains might be just as apt at controlling PCs. That ...READ»
The actual business is not understood today, because the business is not managed
You may wonder, how can a business incur billions and billions of dollars in losses, without being aware of the possibility and actuality of loss. ...READ»
Innovation requires an environment that is open to new ideas. That's all well and good, but innovation is more than blue sky. In order to encourage new and novel solutions, you have to ask the right questions.
Many ...READ»
