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Our cloud:

– Flickr: pho­tos
– Drop­box: every­thing
– .Me: pref­er­ence and con­tact sync­ing between devices
– Net­flix: enter­tain­ment
– Gmail: duh.
– Google Docs: Misc docs and spread­sheets
– Insta­gram: photo shar­ing
– Pan­dora — music
– Spo­tify — music
– Teux Deux — to do lists
– Google Voice
– Google+

What about you?

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We’ll it has been a wild tech­nol­ogy week.

We’ve been catch­ing up on read­ing and video as quickly as we could. We had watched the twit­ter­stream for #wwdc live as Steve Jobs was ring­mas­ter for a num­ber of pre­sen­ters. You can watch the Keynote here.

It was excit­ing to watch where Apple would inno­vate. The keynote wasn’t so much about inno­va­tion as throw­ing down the gaunt­let as Steve Jobs often does – we’re post PC. Remem­ber when he intro­duced the hard 3.5″ floppy and then just a few years later declared it dead?

Apple is mov­ing us for­ward in mobile com­put­ing when we’re all long­ing to go there. We want our tech­nol­ogy every­where. We want it wire­less and small and easy to use. We don’t want to think about it — we just want it to work.

Apple has the soft­ware, the hard­ware and the imag­i­na­tion to take us there. This devel­oper con­fer­ence proved they’re work­ing on it.

 

 

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A bit of food for thought.
When it comes to the dig­i­tal net­works that now sur­round us, the fact is that most us can’t just GTFO, even if we wanted to. The sooner we move beyond the addic­tion metaphor, the sooner we’ll be able to see, with some clar­ity and hon­esty, the extent and impli­ca­tions of our depen­dency on our net­worked com­put­ing and media devices. What hap­pens to the human self as it comes to expe­ri­ence more and more of the world, and of life, through the medi­a­tion of the screen?

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Not addic­tion; dependency

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