August 2010
3 posts
Web as a platform, or Twitter: a public shell
Recently, I’ve started tweeting “some band - some song #goodsong” when I like something I hear. It seems a convenient way of telling people I like a song without taking up their time if they’re busy (that’s the kind of banter the twitter protocol seems to be best for). I’d like to make an application that aggregates those songs, and maybe lets me upload...
“While they get paid twice as much, they are not twice as expensive. In fact,...”
– TangLikeAnAstronaut
21st Century Product Placement
Is Pixar’s WALL-E’s character of EVE, in reality, a product placement for Apple? It seems hard to deny she…
1. looks like an iPod,
2. is, by definition of her character in the plot, the height of futuristic technology, and
3. is created by Pixar, which is, like Apple, founded by Steve Jobs?
How many aspects of our minds, exactly, are shaped by Steve?