I attended the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco today for the fourth time — and took 27 photos so far. The only sour note of the day came in the morning, when Apple’s PR execs prevented Henrik, Carla and me from handing out 800 Ourmedia flyers to Macworld attendees in front of the Moscone […]
Odds, ends & photos from CES
Here are 14 photos I took yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Some brief impressions: – I heard on the radio that this week’s Consumer electronics Show is the largest convention, anytime, anywhere, ever held. Estimates ranged from 120,000 to 160,000 people pouring into Las Vegas, bringing $175 million into the local […]
Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005
Everyone else is making Best of 2005 top 10 lists, so here’s a quick list of Top 10 ways in which technology has impacted our culture during 2005, in no particular order. I didn’t check any other writer’s lists, so I probably missed some big ones. 1. The edges gain power. From the video and […]
Moblogged photo nominated TIME best photo
Michael Tippett of NowPublic notes that a ‘moblogged’ photo was nominated as a best photo of the year by Time magazine — the emblematic shot taken by Adam Stacey with his camera phone minutes after a terrorist bomb went off in the London subway. It’s pretty stunning that Gamma would reproduce the image without Stacey’s […]
New at Google Video
Lots of improvements to Google Video over the past few months, including (as they point out in an email): – A flash-based video player – A brand new home page (http://video.google.com/) – A larger format playback/viewing window with standard user controls – “More videos” tab on playback page along with “Related” and “Popular” videos links […]