Can’t wait to buy a new iPod? Wait, cause Apple is about to launch a new family of iPods. Yesterday Apple has distributed invitations to a September 5 event in San Francisco, but as usual gave no clues as to what it would be about. I got an invitation from Apple Holland to join them to the usual parallel event in London, where the Steve Jobs keynote will be streamed live on a big screen, but pity, I can’t make it this time, due to other obligations. ‘The product announcement is likely to include a full line-up of revamped iPods… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Coming soon: VWApple iCar?
According to different sources, like AP this morning, Apple and Volkswagen are discussing the possibility of building an “iCar” that would feature products by the producer of the ubiquitous iPod personal music player. Several Newspapers and magazines – try to Google iCar on Google News – Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn have met on several occasions in Cupertino and are planning to meet for further discussions. Said Hans-Gerd Bode, spokesman for Volkswagen. Bode stated that there are ‘scores of ideas’, but not too many concrete plans right now. According to market experts a compact car upgraded… >> Lees verder . . . >>
The Gmail video is ready
Right on top of my Gmail this morning: a red link, indicating something new: ‘Watch our video’. The Gmail asked US a promotion video for THEM, and WE did it. Ended up pretty neat, I must admit, as it was a pretty neat idea to begin with. A simple one, as all good Google ideas are. All we had to do was to print out a PDF of the red Gmail envelope showing the ‘M’, and then record a ten second clip of a funny, cool, hilarious or creative way in which this envelope was passed from the left to… >> Lees verder . . . >>
How To Blow Up Flappentappers?
I’m a bit reluctant to try it myself, cause there’s a fat chance, even in The Netherlands, that a Swat team will burst trough my front door within the next ten minutes after Googling: ‘How to Blow Up ATM Machines‘. Since you’ve arrived here: learn another beautiful Dutch word, this one for ATM: flappentapper. Slang, made up from slang: flap is slang for paper money, tapper is like in a beer tap. In Dutch @ DutchCowboys Anyway’ interesting court case, started today in Sydney’s Central Local Court. In Australia, as in America, defendants, while innocent until proven guilty, are mentioned… >> Lees verder . . . >>
Journalism in 1940
Educational film from the Prelinger Archives, made in 1940, as an educational film for high school students.I like this phrase et the end of the film: ‘There’s no better way to get this experienthan on a small town newspaper’.And: ‘If you don’t like to write, you won’t be happy in journalism’.
In The Forbidden City where iPods are made
Fascinating article in The Wall Street Journal: Where iPods are made. I don’t know if any of the Dutch newspapers are affiliated one way or another to the WSJ (maybe Het Financieel Dagblad?) because I’d like to see the story translated for the Dutch audience. Fat chance that any other reporter or press agency will get a chance to interview the president of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, as ik took The Wall Street Journal five years (!) of requests before Jason Dean was finally allowed to interview Terry Gou for three hours. In short: Hon Hai has a workforce… >> Lees verder . . . >>
I just love steampunk
I just love steampunk. No, it’s not music, though it could be that there’s a new subculture emerging – a mix of punk, rock, pop, jazz, Goth and classic music – that calls itself steampunk. While I haven’t discovered that genre, the shortest definition of steampunk I could find is ‘making modern artifacts in a Victorian coat’. There’s no entry for steampunk in my 2004 Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary, but of course Wikipidea has a lot about it. According to Wikipedia steampunk is a sub genre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early… >> Lees verder . . . >>
The iPhone definitely unlocked
His fame will survive much more than fifteen minutes since George Hotz from Glen Rock, New Jersey, developed a way to make the iPhone, the hottest gadget of the year, available to pretty much anybody, anywhere. It took him the whole summer, though I don’t know what summer was like over there, as we had some rain, and rain, and, well, lots of rain. According to al the news flashes racing over the internet last night (night in Europe), the hack of the 17-year old makes it possible that a whole new niche industry will spring up, buying iPhones, to… >> Lees verder . . . >>
The Fake Steve Jobs Is Busted
For about a year and a half I’ve been enjoying the work of an anonymous blogger who was acting as Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, one of the world’s most famous businessmen, and certainly on of the worlds best salesman.On ‘the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs’, Jobs came out like a difficult and egoistical leader. ‘Fake Steve’,” attracted also many famous readers, the real Mr. Jobs as well as Bill Gates acknowledged reading the blog, though the latter probably enjoyed it more than the main subject of the blog.Turned out the writer wasn’t living in the valley, nor is he an… >> Lees verder . . . >>