Everyone reading this today should watch this clever “mockumentary”. You should because you are reading this through the internet. And the future of the internet is on the line. This short film shows how important “freedom of speech” on the internet is and how it makes a real impact in peoples lives around the world.
Webstock ’13: Mike Monteiro – How Designers Destroyed the World from Webstock on Vimeo. You are directly responsible for what you put into the world. Yet every day designers all over the world work on projects without giving any thought or consideration to the impact that work has on the world around them. This needs…
In a major yet unsurprising move, Microsoft has acquired Nokia’s device and services devision for around $7.2 Billion. Building on the partnership with Nokia announced in February 2011 and the increasing success of Nokia’s Lumia smartphones, Microsoft aims to accelerate the growth of its share and profit in mobile devices through faster innovation, increased synergies,…
How HealthCare.gov Was Supposed to Work and Didn’t The Obama administration has announced that the federal health exchange Web site, which has been plagued by software problems from the start, would be fixed by the end of November. This is a well documented and visually pleasing piece by The New York Times. For America’s sake,…
Over the last four months, I have: Produced and co-hosted over 25 episodes of Capsule. Joined Andrew J. Clark for an evening at The Menu Bar. Starred in the season 3 trilogy of Life, Code and Stuff: “Starting“, “Failure” & “Success“. Featured and explained my podcast setup on Vintage Zen. Not too shabby I might say.
This is how a Helsingin Sanomat journalist tried to save Nokia In the evening as the parents were going to bed, the drowsy four-year-old appeared at their bedroom door with a question: “Can I take that magic telephone [iPhone] and put it under my pillow tonight?” It was at that was the moment that the…
They’re (almost) all dirty: The state of cheating in Android benchmarks We started piecing this data together back in July, and even had conversations with both silicon vendors and OEMs about getting it to stop. With the exception of Apple and Motorola, literally every single OEM we’ve worked with ships (or has shipped) at least…
