Category: General
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Social Networking’s Sunset
Fascinating piece from Axios on the implications of Meta redesigning Facebook and Instagram to be more like TikTok: The era in which social networking served as most users’ primary experience of the internet is moving behind us. That holds for Twitter, Facebook’s chief surviving Western rival, as well… Instead of the focus on what your […]
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Wired Magazine 1997: The Long Boom
Twitter user Hiermonyus Burps linked to Peter Schwart and Peter Leyden’s July 1997 cover story for Wired magazine, “The Long Boom.” The cover of the magazine had a bright yellow happy face declaring a 25 year boom of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment and saying, “You got a problem with that?” To whit: We […]
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Explainer Video: Neural Information Retrieval Search
How neural information retrieval search works and why it’s the future of search and data applications.
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How Toyota Does R&D
“Another thing about Toyota R&D, they have regional design houses, with the aim to ‘localized’ parts design as much as possible”
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Quality Augmented Reality Impossible with Current Technology
From TweakTown: Apple is indeed interested in the Augmented Reality (AR) market, but Apple CEO Tim Cook recently delivered a bold affirmation that the technology to spin the illusion of high-end AR just isn’t here yet. Until that technology hurdle is solved, Apple will likely be out of the AR race, and Mr. Cook affirms […]
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NBA Launches Augmented Reality Game
The gam “requires users to flick shots at the hoop using the phone’s inbuilt accelerometer.”
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Unilever’s Six Buyer Personas for Axe Body Spray
“The Insecure Novice: He has absolutely no clue what he’s doing, and things get awkward fast – the geeks and nerds”
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The End of the On-Demand Dream
“That dream was about price and convenience.”
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Zenefits CEO Resigns, New Focus: Integrity
Zenefits CEO Parker Condrad resigns over compliance and regulatory issues.