Soobrosa's Bookmarks: technology
- Bryan Appleyard: Steve Jobs - The man who polished Apple
- Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia?
- 2009-08-25 to bestof, business, myth, profile, technology
- Nicholson Baker: Kindle and the future of reading
- Can the Kindle really improve on the book?
- 2009-07-28 to bestof, books, business, e-book, experience, technology
- Marc McClusky: The Nike Experiment - How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
- Nike has discovered that there's a magic number for a Nike+ user: five. If someone uploads only a couple of runs to the site, they might just be trying it out. At five runs, they've gotten hooked on what their data tells them about themselves.
- 2009-07-05 to bestof, data, measurement, psychology, sports, technology
- Tom Vanderbilt: Data Center Overload
- The cloud, he calculates, consumes 1 to 2 percent of the world’s electricity.
- 2009-06-22 to bestof, data, informatics, infrastructure, it, technology
- Steven Johnson: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
- In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
- 2009-06-09 to bestof, communication, internet, media, technology
- Mark Milian: Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
- For one, they found that postcards often contained fewer than 150 characters. Second, they analyzed a set of messages sent through Telex.
- 2009-05-06 to bestof, history, mobile, standards, technology
- John Johnson Jr.: NASA's early lunar images, in a new light
- Pictures from the mid-1960s Lunar Orbiter program lay forgotten for decades. But one woman was determined to see them restored.
- 2009-05-06 to bestof, data, diy, grassroots, informatics, space, technology
- Joshua Davis: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
- The Antwerp Diamond Center vault was protected by 10 layers of security. We don't know whether 10 or 100 million USD went bust.
- 2009-03-22 to bestof, crime, profile, story, technology
- Bruce Sterling: Why Does Bruce Sterling Hate Web 2.0?
- Web 2.0 Is a Ponzi Scheme.
- 2009-03-17 to bestof, business, internet, society, technology
- Touching the future
- Computing: Touch screens are becoming an increasingly popular way to control mobile phones and other devices. How does the technology work, and where is it heading?
- 2009-03-09 to bestof, interface, it, technology, touch
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