by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Pay the Amazon Mechanical Turk six cents a person to 2,000 people to make the notes you need for your song and bingo you have a $125 song that you then own. Will they build this into GarageBand?
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
As Dave says, doesn’t it seem likely that Amazon will extend into the social networking business and / or buy Facebook. Scoble has the rationale.[Update: Twitter will do for-pay business services later in the year]
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Can we all start making our own gadgets? Interesting to see where this fits in with the fab-your-own movement.
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | Reading
Funny seeing Ciudad Juarez in the news so much: it is the basis for Santa Teresa in 2666. I hadn’t seen pictures of the US border fence before. Just shocking that we have to come to this (or the equivalent in Palestine). Haven’t we learned anything since...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Unusual for Nielsen to like any new-fangled navigation, but mega drop-downs are good. Anything “funky” that Microsoft introduces (like the ribbon in Office 2007) has been through a serious amount of user testing so should be seen as well worth considering....
