October 2011
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Jobs, Xerox PARC and the Creation Myth - Gladwell
Here’s a great long-form article about the role of Xerox PARC in the creation of the Macintosh by Malcolm Gladwell.
http://www.gladwell.com/2011/2011_05_16_a_creationmyth.html
What strikes me most is how it’s extremely rare for a company to be everything – a hotbed of research, a strong product commercializer, etc. And like the Everything’s a Remix videos say, well, everything’s a remix and we...
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Jeff Bezos & Presenting Jobs Style
It’s interesting to watch Jeff Bezos introducing the Kindle Fire (and other new Kindle models). It’s clearly very Steve Jobs / Apple Keynote inspired. The slide design in particular.
We’ve grown use to Steve Jobs’s style. He’s made it look easy. It’s actually useful to see someone else try it. And as media presentations go, it was quite good, but these subtle contrasts were interesting to me:
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