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Jef Raskin, my father, (below) helped develop the Macintosh , and I was recently looking at some of his old documents and came across his February 16, 1981 memo detailing the genesis of the Macintosh.
I am a disagreeable person, which is to say that I cannot stand to be in a room full of people agreeing with me. It gives me the creeps. I cannot resist the urge to play devil's advocate, to argue the
Mikhail Gorbachev should never have become the Soviet premier. When he was six years old, his grandfather was taken in the middle of the night, a victim of one of Stalin's purges. And he grew up in St
Two Great User Interfaces On his Surprisingly Free podcast last week, Jerry Brito had a great interview with Chicago law professor Joseph Isenbergh about the competition between open and closed system
If you looked at the banners hanging in the lobby of Moscone West last week, you would have found a very important but perhaps somewhat subtle statement staring you right in the face. At first glance,
"Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way." – The New York Times , October 30, 2010 Advertisement Advertisement How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitt
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Google evangelist Tim Bray, whose Twitter jihad against Apple’s “curated computing” dissected here earlier, says : Kontra genuinely loathes Google right down to the ground. This, incredibly, is the same man who started his Google “evangelism” gig with the words “ I hate it ” referring to Apple and…
Wii U lo It looks like the product of a fevered fanboy wetdream. A 6.2-inch touchscreen, surrounded by dual analog sticks and oodles of buttons. Like the portable hardcore gamers wish Nintendo made. B
Today’s was a jam-packed keynote. Apple announced a lot of news; there is much to talk and think about. But the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing iTunes as your digital hub, sa
Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper’s core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapa
In an otherwise elegant and well-integrated operating system, the notifications user interface in iOS 4.x feels like a wart — a tacked-on afterthought that offers a bare minimum of usefulness. Competitors have jumped all over this weakness. An early Microsoft Windows Phone ad implies a strategic…
Back when invitations to MLKSHK’s closed beta were making their way through Twitter, many people I follow created an account, clicked around for a while, and never returned again. Now that the site is
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Barack Obama came to Washington just six years ago, having spent his professional life as a part-time lawyer, part-time law professor, and part-time state legislator in Illinois. As an undergraduate,
It takes only a couple of minutes from the moment we enter the gas station for someone to recognize him. A biker in a leather jacket and a black knit cap spots him as he approaches the register, does
From the moment Sarah Palins acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologueto which soon was added thin-skinned and…
‘It just works.’ It’s a common phrase that Apple and its loyalists use — we all have a general understanding of what it means, but how do you achieve it? I asked [Marco Arment](http://www.marco.org/)
J. Murphy / City Limits T hree years ago , in a New York Times article detailing her bid to become head of the American Federation of Teachers union, Randi Weingarten boasted that despite my calls for
Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of
Pull the iPhone out of your pocket and look at the home screen. Likely, you’re seeing some well known brands on the web: Facebook, Flickr, and Google to name just a few. You’ll also see companies like
1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame of
We were promised an "ownership society."* It was President George W. Bush's campaign slogan when he ran for reelection in 2004. The comforting term invoked responsibility and stability. It connoted a
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