The Future of Computer Applications: Help Me or Entertain Me
In the introduction to his book, Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, wrote that life is about entertainment. He might seem the last person you’d imagine as focused on entertainment, until you realize that Linux started as a hobby.
Entertainment is increasingly the center of our lives, and we also want work that challenges [...]
Faster – Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future
A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, which focused on the stressful nature of blogging. Using our friend Marc Orchant’s death and Om Malik’s heart attack as examples, Matt Richel built a case for web journalism as the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )12 Future Apps For Your iPhone
With the new iPhone SDK, it’s just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications. We expect a lot of popular web 2.0 apps to offer an iPhone version. Native Twitter, Facebook and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster than their in-browser versions and will take advantage of the [...]
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