Seven Days in the Life of Young Microsoft. Maybe the search for the next great compelling application is really the search for human identity.

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How the historic company became known as a bumbling villain of internet culture

These are pictures that I have found all across the internet, and I do not claim ownership of any of these. Maybe someday I'll post my own once I get hold of the proper equipment to transfer pictures to a computer. Some photos are hyper-linked to their possible original sources — but be warned

Boot up your computer. If you’re the owner of one of the more than two hundred million Macs sold, what’s the first thing you hear when you start or restart your machine?

The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in publ

The default images on device screens frame the world itself as generic content

BellSouth's communicative Simon is a milestone in the evolution of the PDA

Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large. Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media. As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …

Twitter’s Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour, on the company’s new products

Mobile gaming is at an all-time high thanks to big-screen touch smartphones. But it was when the Sony Ericsson XPERIA PLAY was announced that gamers...

New messaging apps are celebrating the sound (and the nuance) of the human voice.

‎Show Tomorrow, Ep A single serving of Paul Ford - Mar 2, 2021

Pastebot, the excellent clipboard / data management utility from Tapbots, has just been updated to version 1.4 which, among other things, adds support for the much requested clipboard in the background. How that works, however, is a little different from what the developers originally had in mind. Due to Apple’s restrictions when it come to persistent

iOS 7, released today, is a deep reimagination of Apple’s mobile platform: using familiarity and the need for a reset as catalysts, iOS 7 represents Apple’s attempt to make iOS ready for the future. iOS 7 is, effectively, the epitome of a large company that knows it’s time to get rid of cruft and inconsistencies

Today’s open-world video games resemble gig economy platforms, with endless task lists to conquer

A case for universal music access

Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.

The annual Apple Design Awards recognizes technical and design excellence for iPhone and Mac apps. This year's ceremony recognized several great applications.

Tapbots’s long-awaited iPhone Twitter client just hit the App Store.

Tony Fadell doesn’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. His parents were neither engineers nor scientists, but his grandfather gave him a passion for both building things and for design. His grandfather recognized his love for computing and offered to match whatever the then 11-year old Fadell had to help him buy his first computer—an Apple II.