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Amazing Rant on the Future by ex Apple UI designer
In our last post on “Why cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote?”, our simple message was to dump on certain media bombast projecting the future as a mere extension of current trends. We chose to share a video on Microsoft Vision 2019 that impressed in “Minority Report” style as an evolutionary leap into the future, good enough to shame the extrapolating bots.
Alas, things have prompted a relook on our choice since then. Not the message but just the particular example.
We happened to stumble upon an absolutely BRILLIANT, enlightening curve ball of a post by an ex-Apple UI wiz Bret Victor. … Read the rest
Tags: Apple, Bret Victor, Design, dropbox, Evernote, Future, information, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, SIRI, Tech crunch, UI, Vision, zukmo
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Why Cloud the future of Dropbox and Evernote ?
Here at Zukmo HQ, we are happily jumping through hoops each day trying to solve the problem of information overload which will be an exponential bother in the future. However, the thing bothering us today is the information overload about that supposed future.
Recently we have been noticing online media outlets of certain stripes going viral with their semi promotional trend castings. Overwhelming our embedded tubes are glorified mirages of their slanted visions and thunderous sound bites from their decaying wisdom teeth. So, we decided to pull the wool over the crystal ball and tell it like it might be … Read the rest
Tags: Content, dropbox, Evernote, Future, information, Microsoft, parody, SIRI, techcrunch, Vision, zukmo
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Want free WiFi? Head to the G.Y.M.
Apologies for the corny headline. This has nothing to do with working out.
But it is good news for all those laptops that are backing up online…
G.Y.M. is short for Google, Yahoo & Microsoft. The three companies seem to be in the midst of a flurry of FREE WiFi announcements. Here’s stuff that came through from G.Y.M. in the last 48 hours:
Google announced free WiFi at 47 airports – through the holiday season and into January 2010. They even have a FreeHolidayWifi web site on this. In what could easily be spun as a “limit the joy … Read the rest
Tags: airports, amazon, free wifi, freeholidaywifi, google, Microsoft, Online Backup, times square, yahoo
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All Clouds are not Equal
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Some time ago, we’d written about David Chappell’s talk on Windows Azure, and why it was different. I’d also mentioned that I’d share the slide deck once I got it from David. Here it is.
(the ppt is cued to slide 27 which is where the fun stuff begins – the comparisons with other platforms. As we said earlier, the ‘neutrality’ with which this was presented was refreshing)
Read on…
The Windows Azure Platform a Perspective Chappell
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, … Read the rest
Tags: amazon, appengine, azure, David Chappell, force, Microsoft
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The last place you’d expect to see an Apple logo
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Check out the LiveMesh (a Microsoft service) site.
Guess who’s logo prominently features in the homepage?
Apple.
Yes, Apple!
And an Apple Mac, at that. Can’t see it clearly in the screenshot below?
Go ahead, check out the Live Mesh site.
I see this as another example of Microsoft’s new ‘approach’ that we spoke about earlier. Of course, they’re doing it to highlight the cross platform sync capabilities of their application – but a few years ago, you’d have expected Microsoft to pretend that a Mac didn’t even merit ‘consideration’ for their sync application.
The … Read the rest
Tags: Apple, LiveMesh, Microsoft
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A bold initiative from Microsoft Azure
Last week, I attended a Microsoft Azure event in Bangalore.
When I received the invitation to the event, I was surprised to see that Microsoft had arranged for a non Microsoft person, David Chappell, to speak at the event. I’d have thought that they would have arranged for someone from the Azure product team.
Now, David’s a well known speaker, and he’s really good at keeping things simple. And, he certainly helped make the event interesting.
But there was a larger reason behind getting someone from outside of Microsoft…
Neutrality!
More often than not, vendors ‘pretend’ to be neutral … Read the rest
Tags: azure, David Chappell, Microsoft
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