Entrepreneur, author, analyst. System-wide versioning in Lion was announced today. That’s awesome. I’ve been wanting that in every application I’ve used (in particular working on my book). To have it across all of them is just flat out cool. And the resume feature really reinforces the truth that Macs just get the hell out of the way and [...]
Good analysis of what’s going wrong over there. Fits nicely with what I wrote in October of last year. Sign up for my newsletter.
Fundamentally redefining capitalism in non-narrow terms. A full spectrum understanding of cost, debt, capital. The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business “Constructive capitalists aren’t merely seeking to be better than rivals in yesterday’s terms. They are fundamentally redefining what success means, to encompass the well-being of people, communities, society, and future generations; to [...]
von Ahn is the guy behind reCAPTCHA (digitizes books through those captcha gateways), and before that the Google Image Labeler (which turns labeling Google’s image index into a game). Now he’s building Duolingo, where users translate content online while learning languages. Essentially, von Ahn has mastered the art of building interfaces to large databases that [...]
For the first three years Jony was having a pretty miserable time designing Newton PDAs and printer trays,’ says Clive Grinyer. ‘It was a bad existence.’ The design team was eventually forced to surrender the Cray supercomputer it used for simulating new gadgets. Even the designs that did get built were met with a lukewarm [...]