January 18 was the great internet blackout to both protest and raise awareness about two pieces of legislation facing a vote in Congress. You may have noticed that our blog and website were blacked out for the day.
We captured a few of the more interesting efforts that we came across.
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Market share is earnings by commodity. That’s not and has never been Apple’s vision.
Read MoreThere’s no question in my mind that the most appealing thing about Android as a platform is its overall market share. The more Android devices that are out there, in use, the more appealing the platform is for developers. But to think that market share alone is a primary motivation for all or even most of the developers who’ve turned the iOS App Store into a phenomenon is to miss the forest for the trees. It’s looking at the market from the viewpoint of a spreadsheet, reducing everybody and everything to numbers.
Windows Phone 7 actually stepped outside the Microsoft box in many ways. A breakthrough product for them. But way too late for the already wowed by iPhone consumer market.
The screen concept and tile based interface along with the idea of scrolling continuously (shown below) are actually pretty impressive. The interface stands out among mobileOS’s, distinctive. But that’s where the out of the Microsoft box thinking ends.
Why in such a super competitive mobile landscape would Microsoft name their mobile OS Windows Phone 7? Simply because the culture in the organization is still stuck in the days where technology buying patterns were determined by IT departments at corporations and Windows brought you job security. Microsoft doesn’t have brand equity as an innovative company.
Apple changed the patterns when employees started saying: “I want my iPhone. Support it.” After that happened there was no looking back.
Imagine if instead of Windows Phone 7 it was called Meteora or Voxbar or E-blips? Wouldn’t that compete better with iPhone or Droid?
Some smart naming could have made the Windows Phone a contender.
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We’ve gotten a bit festive in the studio/office these past few days.
Thought we’d add a shot of the entrance way to add a bit of color into your dreary dark winter days. We’ve been hanging stars and additional lights to fend the darkness of the long winter darkness.
But the tilt has occurred and we’ve just celebrated the winter solstice.
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The winter solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet’s polar hemisphere is farthest away from the star that it orbits. Earth’s maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26′. More evident from high latitudes, a hemisphere’s wintersolstice occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year, when the sun’s daily maximum elevation in the sky is the lowest.[2] Since the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, other terms are often used for the day on which it occurs, such asmidwinter, the longest night or the first day of winter.
Wonderful story well told.
Winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011.
Shot entirely on the Nokia N8 mobile phone.
Make stuff.
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The Apollo capsule on the USS Hornet
From Splashdown! The Ship That Picked Up the Apollo 11 Astronauts.
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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