This is a beautiful little video (13 minutes = not so little) documenting the whole life of IBM reminds us how much this company changed lives of generations.
Quiz: What was IBM’s original name?
MOVING! IBM Centennial Film
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To Late MySpace
MySpace - the best destination for band/music pages on the planet (cannot argue this one people) has finally, after years of user complaints and plunging stats, stepped it up and redesigned the pages so they’re at least tolerable to look at. But dammit, it just might be too late. Seems MySpace is on the road to fold.
Avoidable.
You know, if someone listened to the rest of us pixel aesthetes who predicted the MySpace demise years ago, due to the impossibly tacky, unrestrained – a la bedazzled – design practices of the majority of their users, they might be gaining users faster than they are losing staff instead of the other way around.
Check out Professor Green’s MySpace page. It’s not just tolerable – good!
Oh, and listen to Professor Green from my fav new music app mFlow
Do you still use MySpace?
Google Might Want To Stick With Stick Figures
Google’s new book teaching the average person basic web concepts is really cute, but unfortunately, the text is probably too long for most people.
Yeah, we might spend most of our lives using these technologies, but if the info isn’t delivered in a way that we don’t have to try, we forget what we’re doing and start opening other ‘browser’ tabs.
But thank you, Google, for attempting to smarten us up by throwing in drawings by the famous German, Christoph Niemann, but honestly, we learn way more from those two bubble headed guys with stick bodies who never say more than 7 or 8 words per slide.
What do you think?
Facebook Seems To Be Screwing Over LinkedIn (and others)
Do you see what’s happening? Facebook has created a rich network experience, largely on the backs of 3rd party apps like LinkedIn, and are now systematically creating native apps that copy the 3rd party apps functionality. That alone is a little low-down, but now it seems that as soon as Facebook’s copy app is working well enough, the original 3rd party app gets banned from the site. Wait! What? That’s not cool.
If a huge chunk of the human race wasn’t spending an increasing amount of time on Facebook, and happy to be there exclusively, this might not be such a big deal. But they are, and from banning apps like LinkedIn, and replicating their experience, I see no other explanation than that part of Facebook’s strategy is the complete annihilation of all the competition. Who is their competition? Everyone with a viable online business model.
