iPhone Announcement at Macworld, January 9th, 2007
Google Phone “Announcement,” December 14th, 2009
If anyone needs their memory refreshed, Steve Job’s original speech below:
I especially like the “Cheap Cell Phones” advertising on this particular embed.
Yes, the rumors are true.
I am moving to San Francisco to become web editor of the S.F.Weekly, which, much like the L.A. Weekly is part of a group of websites known as Village Voice Media.
I am extremely thankful for all the support I have received from the technology sector in both Los Angeles and San Francisco and gratefully hope that we can continue to work together and grow under the auspices of my new role.
So if you live in San Francisco and see me around (I am that girl in the picture) come up and say hi; I always like to make new friends.
And in the coming weeks, be looking for me on S.F.Weekly.com, because it’s always fun to watch someone fail or succeed.
During the President’s health care speech two days ago, the shared experience that is the realtime Internet reacted to a perfect Twitter-fodder event — Joe Wilson’s “you lie” outburst — with a surprising amount of conversation about the real issue in the room, health care reform.
This realtime 24-7 Internet did not exist in 2001. We had the earliest versions of social media, instant messaging and blogs. But we had nowhere near the household use of many-to-many communication channels like Twitter and text messages. For the most part we spent 9-11 watching CNN. The Web in ‘09 is more about doing rather than watching. Twitter asks, “What are you doing RIGHT NOW?”
Here’s an exercise for today: Ask the people on your social networks what they were doing today in 2001. Get ready for lots of responses.
Read more in “What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media?”
Just when you thought the “two memes one shirt” phenomenon had hit its last iteration (how long before we see a “Three Wolves with Dead Kittens in their Mouths on a Moon” shirt?), The Mountain — the company behind the world’s first viral T-shirt — is apparently looking for a book deal.
The proposal for Sheep in Wolves Clothing, co-authored by Gregg Turkington and Michael McGloin, found itself in our inbox the other day and we thought we’d share some of the highlights:
Read more in “Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt: The Book?”
By Guest Author Jacob Nahin
Cream-colored walls. Cushioned sofas. The smell of succulent Indian food wafts through the air and reaches my nostrils. “It’s going to be a filling night,” I think. I was right.
Photo courtesy Kevin Winston
Digital LA, founded by Kevin Winston and known for its hip mixers and stacked panels, held its “Entertainment Goes Social Panel” August 13 at the Writer’s Guild of America in LA My expectations going into the event were modest, for no other reason than I like to go with an open mind. Besides, it was going to be a little difficult to beat the tweet-up with LA-tech noteables Daniel Egan and KW before the panel. I won an Xbox 360 at TwiistUp a couple weeks earlier and Daniel passed off the prize to me at a nearby Starbucks. ‘Turns out the best was yet to come.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone just announced the launch of “Phase One” of a Re-tweet API called “Project Retweet” on the Twitter blog.
Aside from the fact that this actually seems pretty rad (buh bye copying and pasting!) one of the most striking (IMHO) things about the post is how skillfully Biz has drawn the impromptu API mock-up.
Artwork by Biz Stone
It’s beautifully rendered and makes me wish (albeit briefly) for a hand-drawn sketch version of the popular micro-blogging service. Hey if this Twitter thing doesn’t work out, maybe Biz could hit up the art world?
I was joking about this last week and then it actually happened. Now I’m thinking www.bitchstolemytweet.com should be a place when people can register complaints:
For example, Michael Arrington (@arrington) “stole my tweet” about a LAWeekly.com article today and attributed it to Facebook, by making it look like @facebook had actually re-tweeted it.
Valley behemoth Facebook just bought 12-person startup and vanguard of the real-time web Friendfeed. Once again,Techcrunch’s Jason Kincaid had the scoop at least 20 minutes before tech badass Kara Swisher at All Things D got the press release (we too had to find out the Techcrunch way).
What does this mean for the info economy (i.e. the way we report news)?
Well, Friendfeed’s biggest evangelist, Robert Scoble, who confirmed to LAWeekly.com that he did not get the news before Arrington, had this answer to the question on everybody’s mind:
Is the Friendfeed platform going to fold into Facebook?
Read more at “Facebook Buys Friendfeed, Because Techcrunch Says So.”
I LOVE when they start talking about selling marijuana once CA makes it legal. It’s funny ’cause it’s true.
Video courtesy Rock Cookie Bottom.
