“LAST STEP IS SMASH CAGE, LIGHT BARN ON FIRE. DO THAT, YOU WIN.” – FAKE GRIMLOCK
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Notice, the animal in the top cartoon is a chicken and the animals, stuck in the barn are pigs.
Reminds me of a story about the difference between a contribution and a commitment.
You know, I could have sworn we already had a Linux-based, mobile-optimized operating system, with a HTML/Javascript-based application development environment.
I guess purgatory isn’t the same as open source.
At the beginning of the month – before I knew anything of today’s Amazon Fire announcement – I announced that Amazon (along with Mozilla and Samsung) were going to be tomorrow’s tech innovation leaders.
Scanning through the Amazon Fire page I was immediately struck by how it neatly integrates everything Amazon has been working on to date; eBooks, streaming media, frustration-free packaging, Amazon Prime – it’s all in there. (I’m sure local.amazon.com will be there next week)
Undoubtedly, this is a Sputnik from Amazon to Apple. The iPad was once the most vertically integrated, commerce-oriented, mobile device. Today, it’s the Amazon Fire.
Every single interaction with the Amazon Fire is a commercial one. Even just browsing the web..
Which means the Amazon Fire is also a Sputnik to Facebook and Google. There’s no need to encourage web publishers to include +1 and ‘Like’ buttons on their websites when every single request goes through your servers. There’s no need to get called on the carpet for dropping more cookies when someone logs out when – again – every single request goes through your servers. There’s no need to announce redesigned, more marketer-friendly page layouts when – lastly – every single request goes through your servers.
Many years ago, I smiled when I was crunching server logs and all the traffic seemed to come from northern Virginia. Tomorrow it may come from a small handful of EC2 zones. Maybe Amazon will be generous enough to forward the geolocation data in the Silk browser requests.
Yes – I have one on pre-order.
This is an update to John Utell’s 2009 post with the same title.
If the Google embedded Calendar URL something like:
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FChicago%22&mode=week….
The iCal feed is
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
Now you know.
(It should be – https://www.google.com/calendar/GOOGLE-USERNAME%40gmail.com – If only Google cared about good URL design)
Now at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
First off – sleep pods were part of the dystopian future I was promised so I’m super excited they’re a reality.
Airports are a great first deployment for these – lots of people with hours of unexpected time on their hands – but the potential deployments are fascinating.
“I’m on vacation, and I’ve deleted your message —really” – Dave Thomas
Now, imagine you’re going on a multi-week vacation. You visit the USPS and ask them to not just put a hold on your mail – just burn every piece of it.
Bold.
Proud.
Vacation.
It’s consistent with my view that the more important/busy/valuable/highly-paid you are – the less direct interaction with technology you’ll have.
As you may know – I’m working on an email-based project that’s sending me into the bowels of email.
In my research tonight, I discovered ‘Sup’ – an email client that is clear and explicit about it’s point of view.
Makes me want all projects included a Philosophy.txt file along with the README.txt and License.txt. It’s far more useful and people-oriented than humans.txt