I’ve watched these events with a sense of excitement, anticipation and a fair dose of Apple fanboy joy over the years. From the live blogs to the live streams that they now broadcast, there have been memorable presentations, notably in 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone. What seems to have happened, for me at […]
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Amazon’s Scout robot
This looks terrific. Amazon has been developing its Scout robot in-house for some time after making a small acquisition of a company who originally developed them. They look identical to the original machine, albeit with the well known Prime logo. “Currently, in Amazon’s trial, the robots are always accompanied by human assistants. Those assistants — […]
A meditation on the open web
I’m a big believer of the open web and I love what WordPress do. Take three minutes to watch the video – it describes Facebook and Instagram perfectly.
Pioneers of the World Wide Web
This is a terrific podcast from The Economist, celebrating 30 years of the World Wide Web. 30 years! Kenneth Cukier gets in the Babbage time machine and travels to 1989, when Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the famous memo that laid the foundations for the world wide web. Kenn speaks to some of the other key […]