Showing posts with label PC World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PC World. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Ev's Medium: Shaking It

Nieman Lab: 13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious
Huffington Post: Medium, Twitter Co-Founders' Latest, Has Big Goals For Even Your Small Updates
CNet: Twitter co-founders preview Medium, a new publishing tool
GigaOm: With Medium, Twitter founders want to ‘reimagine publishing’ — again
MSNBC: Twitter founders start new 'Medium' social publishing site
Network World: Introducing Medium, the next big thing in Web publishing
PC Mag: Twitter Founders Unveil New Social Products: Branch, Medium
The Atlantic Wire: Medium Isn't Going to Save the Internet
Red Orbit: New Online Platforms To Share Ideas In Elegant Ways
PC World: Twitter Co-founders Seek to Shake up Web Publishing With Medium
App Advice: Twitter Founders Introduce Medium For Non-Bloggers To Speak To The World
Tech Week Europe: Twitter Creators Say Medium Is the Message
The Guardian: Twitter founders launch two new websites, Medium and Branch
San Francisco Chronicle: Medium is latest work from Obvious Corp.
GigaOm: Medium is well done, but is it the future of publishing?
Wall Street Journal: Twitter Founders Unveil New Publishing ‘Medium’
CIO Today: Twitter Co-Founders Launch Medium, Say It's Evolutionary






Someone once asked Sam Walton if retailing can be reinvented again. Oh yes, he said, it can be reinvented over and over again. That might be extra true for publishing.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

A Lot Riding On Windows 8 For Microsoft

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A lot is riding for Microsoft with Windows 8. Overall I think it is going to be a milestone for them. Whether or not it will bring the so called "lost decade" to an end is for the market to tell.

PC World: 5 Things Windows 8 Can Learn from OS X Mountain Lion
Note that Windows 8 is a complete overhaul, while Mountain Lion is more of a refinement. Yet the Apple update adds lots of new features that would fit in nicely on Microsoft's OS. ...... In Windows 8, voice dictation is available as an accessibility feature, and as such, it's buried behind several menus and not intended for general use....... Mountain Lion makes voice dictation easy to use from any application--you just press the Function key twice, and start talking.
Valve's Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a "catastrophe"
Microsoft has a lot of ambition with Windows 8, and with a complete interface overhaul and functionality up the wazoo, it does have a chance to make a splash...... The most distinct aspect of Windows 8 is what's known as the "Metro UI," which allows users to have complete customization on their home page, including widgets, RSS readers, weather information, date/time, etc...... since this is such a revolutionary new platform, Microsoft wants to scrap out all remnants of the "old-school" look and feel. Instead of a Start bar, hovering your mouse over that corner of the screen will allow you to swap between the Metro UI and the traditional desktop. For the mobile version of Windows 8, the Metro UI will be the default interface.

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